Originally Posted by hkbajwa

It may not be much to talk about, but there is no nation on the planet that would concede even a square foot of territory without serious reservations and without ensuring that their sovereignity is not threatened. It is not a small matter.

Besides if it's just a matter of the size of NJ then it could have placed on the territories of one of the nations that supported its creation.

Be that as it may, Israel is a reality and the muslims are just going to have to learn to live with it. However it is not easy when all they see is Israel with overwhelming firepower , suppresing the palestinians. If the palestinians resort to terrorist means, i do not find it at all suprising. When you have no weapons, several million refugees, at the mercy of an outsider, constant encroachments upon your land, attacks upon your sovreignty in helicopters, and nobody in the world willing to accept your legally and fairly elected government, can you blame some misguided youths falling for the rhetoric of religious power brokers?

While i do not find it acceptable to hate an ethnicity or religion, let's not pretend that the palestinians have no reason to dislike the jews. This is not a matter of who's good and who's bad. It's just a statement of fact.
When muslims in the rest of the world rant about jews, that is more a function of their own lousy situations. Muslim countries have a ton of problems and sometimes it's just easier to blame somebody else. What they should do is stop whining about the jews and start working on their internal problems.
However for the palestinians, the jews ARE an internal problem.

Note i said jews and not israel as i equate the two. The reason being that i have heard that the Israeli constitution does not allow for anybody being a full israeli citizen unless they are jewish. Is that true? If so i foresee another problem. if no then ma bad