Israel was built in the same location as Palestine in the 1940's after the economy of Palestine collapsed. Palestinians have a right to live there because that’s where they lived.

I have written something like that above, yes. They weren’t in a ghetto originally. But the majority voted for Hamas in 2006 who never wanted to negotiate with Israel but instead wipe Israel (and of course it’s Jewish inhabitants) from the face of the earth. They threw out Fatah, drove off the EU border monitors and…

Thanks for the link. Basically what I had read about it. Still, planning an invasion (or “invasion”) with many dead is still no PR stunt but something much more sinister to me. And the Israeli military seemed to be surprised by this but I can’t imagine this, considering the numbers of spies they must have in Gaza.

I’m not calling this a PR stunt, people died. But BBC reports that tensions on the Gaza border have been rising for weeks and the opening of the embassy in Jerusalem is a welcome occasion to stage a martyr’s march (if people marching were aware of that). Hamas has been forced to cozy up to their rivals from Fatah, so…

And what of the Israelis? Do they not have the right to live on the land of their Hebrew/Israelite ancestors?

You need to be more detailed than “various treaties”, because that’s a pretty vague and general list of things I could look at. On that note, I’ll be the first to admit that the signed treaties aren’t worth the paper they are written on, because the US government hasn’t upheld them as well as they should. The constant…

Ever think that if that photo was taken in the US, it would just be a dude in a Chevy. SHOOT HIM HE HAS A CAR-IT HAS A TRUNK! THE HUMANITY!

The Native Americans deserve this land more than any of the settlers that arrived here just as the Palestinians deserve their land.

No, it isn’t. But it is antisemitic to say that Israel doesn’t have a right to exist. Which is basically the same as Palestinian activist claiming to “retake the land”. Looking at the conspiracy theories that Hamas is peddling (for example the notorious “Protocols of the Elder of Zion”, once invented by the Ochrana to…

The latter, but I can see where it’s confusing. He’s asking the Gazan “don’t you realize the Israelis are using the fact some of you are flying swastikas to discredit all of you?”

I’m confused. Is the Gazan an Israeli using a kite with a swastika to make the Palestinians look like Jew-haters, or the Gazan is a Palestinian using the kite to incite the Israelis?

The Native tribes were fighting over territory when European settlers got here, so which tribe was the land rightfully owned by?

The flaw in your argument is that there is some sort of hard line where you can say “THIS group owns this land”. There isn’t any such line. If the Native tribes could fight each other over…

While I generally speaking agree with you that what the IDF has been doing is wrong(and counter-productive for Israel’s own interests) and that it’s capable to think that and still think Hamas is also bad I do think you’re making some unfair comparisons here.

Well, as long as the media outlets of the world just copy the wording from Hamas announcements, there will be just the usual “the Jews did it”. Israel has built a wall around the Gaza strip, not completely unjustified, since it was a hotbed of terrorism against Israel. And Israel has said, that attacks on the wall are…

So you acknowledge you are spending time defending nazi sympathizers in a comment section.

What about this kite? You think they care about human rights?

How dare they kill people by . . . trying to garner support and sympathy from media outlets and the rest of the global community? 

The results are in...

Agreed. The current pope (and other recent popes) have been downplaying a lot of the bigotry traditionally associated with Catholicism (perhaps the best thing that can happen to a religion is to lose temporal power). I think the Church is fairly clear that anyone who “knows the truth” and chooses not to believe (which…