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bobbyr5
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I just feel the morals and ethics of the middle east aren't right compared to any western country.

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thepunisher93
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God does love the Jews. As I said before, they are his chosen people. The only reason there is so much conflict about them is they ARE Gods people. the bluerabbit, you have no reason to be ashamed. You are a Jew, a person chosen of God. Accept Him into your heart, and begin a new life in Him. God saved your people from total destruction scores of times in your history. The Red Sea parting, Jericho falling, are just two examples of that. How can you say God doesn't love you? Picture this frequently occurring battle scene: Thousands of Taliban, Arabs, or whatever attacking you, the Jews. All of them die in the battle that occurs. You lose 10 people, and 20 are wounded. How can you say that God isn't in that and that He doesn't love you?

bro this is not a thread to preach, if you want to preach, make a thread about it.
Jake297
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You're probably right. I'll leave with this: I still support Israel and I will to my death.

TomSJr
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IF you are truly a born-again follower of Christ Jesus, then you KNOW what the Bible says
about Israel and that you are to support her:

Psalm 122:6 KJV: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Genesis 12:3 KJV: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Zechariah 12:2-5 KJV:
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God.

Isaiah 60:12 KJV
12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee (Israel) shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Psalm 83:1-18; Zechariah 2:8; Numbers 24:9; Isaiah 41:11-12; Joel 3:1-3; Ephesians 3:6;

So, if you are against Israel, God is already against you.
PRAY FOR ISRAEL.

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In the biblic quotes you wrote above, I noticed you put an emphasis on Jerusalem, not Israel. In the light of history, one might argue about your motives for praying for Israel. Do you pray also for the Israeli people?

nichodemus
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I do not support what the IDF, nor what Hamas is doing. But I do empathize with the rest of the Israeli and Palestinian civilians who have to live through this. Just not the settler Israelis though. And I don't buy into the "It's not their home, they just took it" argument for the Israelis anymore. It would be overly harsh and cruel to blame the younger generations of Israelis, who were simply born into land that was taken by force by their forebears half a century ago.

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Nationalism in general is not an especially good thing, as it reduces the scrutiny people put their leaders under, and reduces the voice of dissenters.

twillight2
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Israel: fundamentalist nationalist bigot lawbreaking country which by the foundation-contract still yet not exist officially.
The whole place is a threat to east and west currently.

First step should be they recognise Palestine as country, what is the very minimum to fill the founding-contract. Until that - the place is illegal.

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Israel: fundamentalist nationalist bigot lawbreaking country which by the foundation-contract still yet not exist officially.
The whole place is a threat to east and west currently.


That's just being more than a tad bit zealous and unfair. There are plenty of Israelis revolted by the idea of occupation of the territory supposedly given to the PLO to control.
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@Twilight2 may i ask you, what you base your opinions? Because i think that you "feel its that way", and not realy informed about whats going on. Israel is a scholar country, there is no religious prosecution, most of the peolles are scholar, full rights for gays, marring befor the age of 18 is phorhibited, and so on. Israel is not a fundomentalist state.

And if you will pass your strong anti-Israeli attitude, you will notice that Israel help every time another country is in trouble. We send rescue teams and doctors to every disastear worldwide. We give from our knowledge of desert farming and river cleaning to every country who face same diffucilties.
And you blame us for being a threat to the world?

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Ok, jumping in randomly here.
Twilight12, I think you're taking this a bit to far. You really can't say any of that truthfully. Israel as a nation is not threatening anyone but Palestine right now as far as I can tell. I can't tell you anything on the laws of the nation, but it seems from what dan said that everything you said wasn't entirely accurate. In addition to this, there isn't really anything about the existence of it that is illegal. And I don't quite think there's really anything that could qualify them as the extreme nationalist you seem to make them out to be. Im sure that Palestine is recognized as a sovereign nation by the Israeli government. Now, I don't really know much about the situation over there, but from what I've read/seen/heard, that's what I gather. If I'm wrong on any of this, please correct me.

nichodemus
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Israel is not a fundomentalist state.


Not a fundamentalist state, though there are fundamentalist idiots....as will be in all countries.

In addition to this, there isn't really anything about the existence of it that is illegal.


Technically, you can make a case of it being illegal, based on its founding history.
danielo
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UN voted yes. End os the story @nichodemus.

The reasons that the Palestinian state was never built is because the arabic nations around Israel decided to take these lands for themselves. Eygpt took Gaza and tried to take the entire Negev, Jordan took the west bank (2 provinces called Judea and Shumariya/Shomron), and Syria tried to take the north. Israel fought them, and won. If the arabs countries whould just help the palestinian state to prosper, our present whould looked diffruntly. They were greedy and they paid the price.

And befor we begin with it - Israel choosed USA, the arabs choosed USSR. Excet feom Jordan, who allied with the UK. There were english officers in the Jordanian legion who fought Israel in Israel independence war. So the claim of "Israel cheated" is vailed as well.

nichodemus
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The UN is not an infallible organization. After all This is the organization that stepped aside when massacres and genocides happened ( East Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Darfur etc), and authorised programs like OFFP. The same organization that was so polarized in the Cold War. Its essentially a group of some 200 countries voting on whatever suits them. It doesn't mean it is right, it just means the majority like what they vote for.

danielo
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So what is a legit way to be called a "country" WHat a country need to become real? just be there? surviving the 20 centurey when conquering and seperating became ilegal and just, well, exist?

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Supporting Israel? it's a yope for me. my reasoning will be in the last parts as i present my opinion on the matter in conjecture with everyone's recent comments

Not a fundamentalist state, though there are fundamentalist idiots....as will be in all countries.


definitely not one of those fundamentalist state, though i'm pretty sure that fact isn't proven by throwing in random facts like "Israel is a scholar country, there are no religious prosecution, most of the peoples are scholar, full rights for gays, marriage before the age of 18 is prohibited, etc, etc". I'm pretty sure that some of those facts are even wrong, such as most of Israelis are scholars, which i seriously doubt; nevertheless that is not in the scope of the discussion isn't it?

you will notice that Israel help every time another country is in trouble


I seriously doubt this. It depends on how you classify a country as being "troubled" and even if you use your own definition, i'm pretty sure you only help those that are on the same line of thinking as you are. You don't help your arab neighbours when they are in turmoil ( currently, your Syrian neighbour is pretty troubled), or some countries around the world as well ( do you help the countries afflicted by the 2004 tsunami anyway?)

In addition to this, there isn't really anything about the existence of it that is illegal.


I wonder what the other arabian neighbouring states will say about this statement....................

The reasons that the Palestinian state was never built is because the arabic nations around Israel decided to take these lands for themselves


Hmmmm..... the neighbouring arabian countries at some point controlled the Gaza and the surrounding lands we now call as "Israel". So, i seriously doubt that your lands are yours to begin with. But, i also doubted that the lands on Israel are "theirs" to begin with. Even the roman empire controlled Israel at some point, so if we use this line of reasoning, then Israel should be controlled by Italians, which is pretty far-fetched and obviously wrong.

UN voted yes


only presented a majority opinion, not a true "fact". Also, your neighbours don't really support the idea of your existence. unless you can make those around you "accept" you, then you will never be a truly legally existing country. That's my opinion on my matter

So what is a legit way to be called a "country"


Technically, you need three things to start a country:

1. Teritory
2. People in it as your "citizen"
3. some sort of law or bereaucracy

You have all three and presto! you created a country. you have no problem with number two and three of the country creation criterion. But you have a very huge problem with number one :teritory. Traditionally, as how i was taught in politics (mine is called PKN, which is pretty equivalent to it), you can only hold terries that you have a very good reason for it to become your terries. for example, my country consisted of lands that was once under the VOC and the Netherlands colonialization government, which was also my country's land to begin with since the first kingdoms appear and even beyond that. From that line of reasoning, I can build a strong case of why my country have all the terries from "Sabang" to "Merauke". However, in your so called state of "Israel", your lands were colonized by semitic people at first, but was quickly jockeyed by other kingdoms and proto-states also in your vicinity that existed in the classical age to near your point of conception. as of such, i have two problems with your teritorials. one, because of your historical past, multiple countries have multiple claims on your terries. they can also build a strong case as to why they "deserved" to have your terries, especially palestine. As of such, your claim on your teritorials can become pretty obsolete according to multiple countries. Mine only have to deal with 2 countries for the validation of our terries; Instead, you have to probably deal with more than 4 countries due to your past. Second, with the same root with your past, is that maybe your land has been "assimilated". that is, your native culture has been eroded away and have been diluted with other non-native culture. this happened various times in the americas plus australia.


Personally, i support the existence of your country. i don't support your palestine excursion campaign though, and i certainly do not support the blockade of the Gazan palestine terries
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