Funny how Amnon Dankner was so upset at the proposal that some Israeli-Arab towns would be handed over to Palestinian rule. ("Those Arabs know that they are better off under Israeli rule. They don`t want to live in a Palestinian state.") Yet the fact that Jewish towns in Judea, Samaria and Gaza would be surrendered to Palestinian occupation, doesn`t bother him in the least...!
People seem to look at the situation in the Middle East as if Israel and the Jewish people have existed only since 1948, and that Jews have been living in Jerusalem and in YESHA only since 1967. What everyone seems to be forgetting is that we didn`t come here all of a sudden after the Holocaust. The Jewish people are the ones whose history is intertwined with this Land, and whose future is no less so. Jerusalem is 3000 years a Jewish city - not just 30.
On the holiest site to the Jews sits a muslim mosque for a number of years.
When the Hebrew people got Israel back in 1948, they sent a peace message to all the Arab nations around it, but that didnt stop them from attacking Israel the day after it was founded.
Every single war between Israel and the Arab nations was initiated by the Arabs.
In the wars Israel took control of territories with Arab population and eventually that draged the tragic situation of today.
There are 22 Arab nations, they are bigger than the US, while Israel is smaller then New Jersey. nevertheles they dont want anything to do with the palestinians, and they never did. Infact, they had ways to get rid of the palestinian trouble. For example in Egypt the soldiers brought machineguns, and killed hundreds of people, and by doing so ended any resistance from the Palestinians, same goes for Jordan. If Israel would ever do something like that I wonder what the world would do, but no one seem to care of what the others did.
I dont think that there is an Israeli that does not want peace, but its kinda hard to achive it when from the other side there are groups that murder your women and children and call it 'Holy war'.
The terrorists in Lebanon hide and attack Israel setalments in the north also from areas with civilians. Israel has to react and sometimes civilians are tragicly hit. But Israel's purpose is not attacking civilians, never been , never will be. Too bad alot of people try to give us a really bad image, without knowing a single fact.