The Palestinian question in simple terms!

[slinkycat]

Excuse my ignorance, but I have only recently started to take an interest in the above subject.
My take on it is that the Palestinians are right to be peed off about the occupation and annexation of their land, and the fact that so many were exiled to make way for a Jewish state.
What is the way forward? An acceptance on both sides for two states?
would like to hear any opinions on this TIA

[beso]

There are two sides with strong religious convictions. There will be no peace while they continue to believe on their imaginary friends.

[ichkeria]

It isn't that simple. Palestine was under British mandate until the end of WWII - in that time it contained both Arabs and Jews. When Britain withdrew, the UN decided to partition the territory. In the ensuing civil war the state of Israel was created and the Arabs were largely marginalised as a result of the fighting. Egypt and Jordan also pinched parts of the territory (subsequently to lose them in future wars).
Of course there are many Arabs also living in the state of Israel.

[heathfield]

You should look at the background to this with the Palestinians arrival in Lebanon. Scroll down and read from ''League of Nations Mandate''...

http://en.wikipedia.o...ki/History_of_Lebanon

[Zeuhl]

With so many Americans, Russians, Argentinians, Poles etc etc who as Jews want to move to Israel the future looks bleak.

It is still a relatively small territory and the Jewish immigrants - especially the religious-extremist trigger happy ones - will keep moving in and pushing out the indigenous population as long as they can get away with it.

[slinkycat]

Sorry for not getting back before, and thanks for your answers. Bill thats largely how I see it, the Palestinians were pushed out. As you say ichkeria the land contained both Palestinians and Jews, but the Palestinians seem to have come off a lot worse.
For anyone who is interested I would recommend a book by a Palestinian doctor called Izzeldin Abulaish, its a true story from a Palestians point of view, he lost three daughters in a rocket attack, its very sad but inspiring.

[atalanta]

One really REALLY big problem here is that most of the Palestinians, especially some of the supporters of terrorism, and many of the Arab states believe that the only solution is for the Palestinians to have the whole disputed area. They do not include the jews in their plans for the future of the country. That means, although they do not say it out loud, that they are in favour of a massacre of all jews. That's genocide.
The world will not go there again.
If you are talking only of the West Bank, that problem was caused directly by King Hussein of Jordan in the 6 day war of 1967. Golda Meir told Hussein plainly that if he did not attack Israel, he would be left alone. He chose to attack ( he was lied to by Nasser of Egypt) so the Israelis regarded the bit of his country to the west of the Jordan as fair game, and took it all, to give themselves a defensible border instead of having a country which was actually only 9 miles wide in the middle bit.
I am not jewish, but I have lived there - as a diplomat, hence neutral but fairly well-informed