Palestinian Territories

Palestinians in the West Bank have a number of major problems. Some of these include:

• Aggressive Israeli Settlers who are allowed to brandish weaponry and intimidate Palestinians with no permitted recourse.
• An inability to refuse the directives of an Israeli Soldier concerning quartering soldiers in his house, examination of his property, his person at a checkpoint, or his person concerning a court summons.
• Numerous vehicular checkpoints constraining free Palestinian movement
• Palestinian "Liberation" Militant Groups which function like thugs and harass both Palestinians and Israeli Settlers and Soldiers.
• Ineffective and corrupt government under Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters
• Confiscation of certain parts of their property for Israeli Security reasons
• Being subject to Israeli Law and Israeli Military Courts even though they have no representation in the Israeli electorate.

Answer 1

Because :

Ibrahim (Abraham)is Muslim

Dawood (David) is Muslim

Suleiman (Solomon) is Muslim

Musa (Moses) is Muslim

Isa (Jesus) is Muslim

All the prophets are Muslims because sent from the same and the Only GOD (Allah) who got the same Curriculum.

Answer 2

The typical Pro-Palestinian view centers on the idea that Israel is a modern colony in the Middle East (as opposed to a return of a people to their lost homeland). In the narrative, prior to 1900, less than 10% of the population of what would become Mandatory Palestine was Jewish and the Fellahin or Settled Arabs were the majority. There were also a large percentage of Turks, Circassians, Bedouin, and Druze, but the Settled Arabs were still the majority. Zionist Jews or those Jews who desired to create a Jewish State cleverly manipulated the Great Powers, especially the United Kingdom into giving them the right to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in large numbers without consulting the rights of the Fellahin. Additionally, Zionist Jews purchased large swaths of land from Turkish nobility without consulting the Fellahin who lived on that land for centuries but did not properly own it. As a result, numerous Fellahin were forced off of their land during the Yishuv period, Yishuv being the word for a Zionist Jewish settlement in Mandatory Palestine. The Jewish population in Palestine continued to rise until 1939 when the Fellahin successfully petitioned the British government to close off Jewish immigration. The Fellahin, who now identify as the Palestinians, have a right to that country based on this history.

However, Islam fundamentally opposes this view. Israel is a unique case and the Qur'an actually says that Allah is behind the creation of Israel. These views are established in 5:20-21 where Allah commands Moses to take the Holy Land for his people, in 17:104 where Allah claims responsibility for gathering the Jews to Israel, and 26:59 where the Qur'an gives the Land of Israel to Jews as inheritance. There is no point in the Qur'an that even alludes to Muslim control or right to rule any place in the Levant region. Unfortunately, as many Muslims would like to advocate the argument in the first paragraph of this answer, they conveniently ignore what their own book says.

20And, when Moses said to his people, "O my people, remember the favor of Allah upon you when He appointed among you prophets and made you possessors and gave you that which He had not given anyone among the worlds. 21O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back [from fighting in Allah 's cause] and [thus] become losers."

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104And We said after Pharaoh to the Children of Israel, "Dwell in the land, and when there comes the promise of the Hereafter, We will bring you forth in [one] gathering."

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59Thus. And We caused to inherit it [the land] the Children of Israel.

Issues of Moving Parts

This question has a number of moving parts, which makes it difficult to answer. For example, if I ask "Is the sky blue?" there are two things for which I need a definition. Thankfully the definitions for "sky" and "blue" are almost universally agreed upon, making the question answerable. The terms "steal" and "Palestine" are far more nebulous.

As for theft, theft requires proper ownership. The first view of ownership is the literal definition of possessing something. Therefore whatever persons, companies, organizations, or governments own something with proper title as viewed by recognized governments are those who have "ownership". (This is like any typical sale.) The second definition is the perceived Color of Right of Title, which is to say that a certain person, organization, or government should have proper title but does not have it on account of an illegal activity (such as theft). (This case would come for example if A owned a book and B stole it. While B has physical possession of the book, A still retains ownership since stealing, the act of transfer and acquisition, is illegal.) Understandably, most Israelis claim that no illegal act took place and therefore title properly belongs to them. Palestinians and their sympathizers often (but not always) argue that their land was stolen and therefore, they retain proper ownership.

This difference in opinion is very important to acknowledge. If Israel is correct in its assertion that it came into existence as an independent State with rights to the lands of that state, then there is no theft. If the Arabs are correct in asserting that the land was theirs originally and it was stolen, then the question stands.

As for "Palestine" this term is typically interpreted one of two ways. The first way is to refer to all of the land in the British Mandate of Palestine which includes the Modern State of Israel (except for the Golan Heights), the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. The second way is to refer to exclusively those territories which the Palestinian Authority claims will serve as a basis for a future Palestinian State: the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestinian Territories). Understandably, it changes the argument fundamentally if 78% of the territory in question is exempted from the discussion.

Legal Discussion

According to International Law, Israel exists as a legal and viable state with de facto borders along the 1949 ceasefire lines. The lands acquired in the Six Day War of 1967 are considered occupied-in-trust and should be devolved to Arab States as soon as a long-term peace deal is viable.

As for the 78% of Mandatory Palestine which is now the State of Israel, this came about through Israel's acceptance of UN Resolution 181 and its border defense against Arab aggression to counter international laws that they did not like. As a result, the acquisition in the 1947-1949 of war was not an illegal act since self-defense is not a criminal act unless it is grossly disproportionate to the attack and the war was a relatively balanced affair as well as being resolved at the moment that each Arab state was willing to engage in an armistice. Just to clarify, this means that the 1949 borders of Israel belong to Israel and since there was no act of theft it is impossible to say how an act of theft occurred in this instance.

As for the Palestinian Territories, there is more of a discussion to be had. There are two general ways that Israeli Jews have acquired land in the West Bank in contravention to International Law. The first is urban expansion of Jewish residences beyond the 1949 boundaries (especially in Jerusalem) and the second is the establishment of settlements in the West Bank and formerly in the Gaza Strip. Israel has maintained the West Bank for over 40 years, which was far longer than originally contemplated in UN Resolution 181. Therefore, there is a question about whether Israel has the ability to negotiate urban planning in cities that were wholly or partially divided due to the armistice. Unfortunately, some areas of a city may gentrify, populations move and reorganize, and it is natural for Jews and Arabs to live in areas that they did not live in 40 years ago. This has resulted in some Jews buying Arab houses in up-and-coming districts and re-zoning in order to accommodate changes in the city.

As for the settlements, these are usually taken by a legal showing that the Palestinians living there do not actually own the land that they live on and that the Israeli Jews were able to purchase the land and construct on it. This is probably the most indefensible of the Israeli positions. The International Courts have clearly ruled against such settlements.

they never did, many thousands of years ago, Jews were held in Egypt by Pharaoh as slaves, at that time, no one occupied Israel. So after the Jews escaped they went to the land of Israel. A while after Arabs came to the middle east and killed all the Jews in Israel deleting the Jews history, the Jews fought and came back to Israel and it was taken away again and this continued, in 1890 the Jews were also kicked out which also deleted the history of them. In the 19's the UN later gave Israel to the Jews and Israel become a state in 1948.

So that means the Jews had Israel first and the Arabs don't have the right to try and take Israel away from them.

• The Jews were never held by the Pharaoh as slaves. They came to Egypt as refugees when the prophet Joseph (Yusuf), son of Jacob, was minister of finance in Egypt. They were enjoying their stay in Egypt to the extent that when they escaped Egypt they had enough gold to make the cow of gold that they worshiped in absence of Moses.
• The land of Palestine is called as such historically even in Greek history books and was never called Israel as claimed above. Israel is a second name of prophet Jacob.
• Palestine land was never empty from people especially that most of their lands are fertile and good for agriculture besides their good harbors. Could you believe that a land is empty while on the boarders of the Ancient Egyptian civilization lands.
• Arabs didn't come to the middle East. They are already an original part of the middle East even before the time of Prophet Abraham (or Ibrahim in Arabic).
• when Arabs (or Muslims) took control of Palestine, Jews were very little minority while the majority were Christians. No single Jew was killed by Muslims when they got control of the lands. Simply because they didn't fight. Christians agree to give the church key to the Caliph Omar on condition they guarantee the freedom of worship and it was.
• How the Arabs deleted the history of the Jews in Palestine. If this is correct could you explain why didn't also delete the history of the Christians?. if true, then how they deleted it? and if really deleted then how do you know there was something and was deleted?
• Did you hear about Muslims killing any civilian in any country the took control of. Read the history about Muslims in Spain.
• check the history to see how Sultan Abdel Hamid of the Ottoman empire gave refugee to the Jews expelled from Spain when Christians got control of it. This explains why relatively there many Jews in Morocco. How claimed that they were killed again?
• in 1948, the UN didn't give Palestine to the Jews. UN agreed to partition Palestine between the Palestinian original people and the Jews who mainly immigrated from Europe to Palestine.
• Check the history of Palestine and the records of the Jewish immigration waves that came from all over the world to know who are the original people.
• Despite the above, the call is for all people living now in these lands to live together in love and peace under one country and one flag with equal rights to all its inhabitants irrelevant to their religion, culture, or language. Otherwise, no other solution except the partition into two independent states.

Answer 1

In the olden days of 1364, Palestine was a large nation of Jordan, Syria and Israel. Then Israel ran away which made the Palestinians unhappy. 500 years later the Israelis were treated very badly and needed a place to stay, so the Palestinians let them stay with them. Little did they know, Israelis would flood into their land and have the UN on their side, which allowed them to become a free nation in 1948. So basically the Palestinians were unhappy because they had to share their land.

Answer 2

Palestinian Arabs ... particularly those who don't live in Israel ... are unhappy with Israel largely because the entire concept of a Jewish country in that otherwise totally Muslim region is unacceptable to them. Had there been any whose resolve on the matter might have wavered during the past 60 or 70 years, government policy, government propaganda, and the educational system have united to firm it up.

Answer 3

The Palestinians were initially unhappy with the State of Israel because they believed that the land that had physically belonged to their parents and grandparents should have been there's for inheritance. In their minds, it did not make sense that a group of German, Polish, French, English, and Russian speaking people should claim land that their ancestors had not even visited for centuries. Even by the time of Israel's Declaration of Statehood, less than half of the land within the UN proscribed borders of Resolution 181 was owned by Jews. Therefore, the idea of Jewish State being even more physically expansive than the land already taken was alarming.

During the Jewish-Arab engagement (the term is nebulous because it was a conflict fought by militias as opposed to proper armies) of 1947-1949, both Arab and Jewish soldiers committed acts against civilians and tried to assist in the removal of the "undesirable party". This resulted in numerous Palestinian towns being attacked, rapes occurring, and murders on numerous occasions. Fear of further attacks and incitement by Arab Mullahs drove many Palestinians away from their homes. After the conflict, Israel, in order to maintain its Jewish character, has not permitted any Palestinian refugee to reclaim land inside of Israel. Palestinians are very angry both at the Jewish malfeasance during the Jewish-Arab engagement and the continuing lack of their Right to Return or (although less desirable to most Palestinians) compensation for their lost property.

Those Palestinians who did not flee were naturalized as Israeli citizens, but they shoulder a lot of hurt over the Israeli actions in the Jewish-Arab Engagement. In addition, they feel (similar to the Blacks in the United States) that even though they have equality on paper and politicians who represent their interests, there is a clear prejudice against them in the job market, housing market, and as concerns education. A famous example was how on Jerusalem's 40th reunification anniversary, there were massive rainstorms and badly constructed Arab sewers of East Jerusalem which had not been modified since Jordan controlled the region flooded up and out of many people's toilets. The same did not happen in the Jewish neighborhoods which did have more modern construction. This angers a number of Israeli Arabs who self-identify as Palestinians.

Finally, Palestinians are angry with Israeli treatment of the Palestinian Territories, namely the blockade/starvation of Gaza and the direct military occupation of the West Bank. These military activities prevent Palestinian self-realization and governance. Furthermore, the military occupation of the West Bank is accompanied by a proliferation of settlements (economically incentivized by the Israeli government) and illegal settlements (by lack of Israeli governmental opposition to such moves). This is seen by many Palestinians as a Jewish land-grab and a denial of their Right to a State as well.

Note: This is not to say that even if all of these grievances were atoned for in some way or another that Palestinians would suddenly accept Israel as there are numerous Palestinians and Arabs who have vowed to never accept Israel as a valid state for many different reasons. However, the above are the most prevalent and common grievances cited by Palestinians concerning Israeli treatment.

Since this question is emotional, there are a few different answers.

Answer 1: Everybody

Sadly, every country in the world except Canada and Israel supports Palestine.

The Palestinian people are wrong. They have no proven claims to the land while the Jews have thousands. Jews have been living there for thousands of years and the Arabs,who later the called themselves the Palestinians, came to the land only a century ago for work.

Answer 2: Muslims

Iran is the ally of Palestine and wants to save Arabs from the genocide that is being done by Israel.

Allies are all the Muslim countries which is over 50.

The land always belonged to Palestine but the Jewish people complained that they don't have a home country, so the United Nation let them choose Palestine and they claimed as theirs and instead of sharing land with Palestine's people they want to wipe them off. Jewish people live in so many places but they get kicked out google it and you'll see how many times they were exiled because of their life style.

Answer 3: No Nation

Regardless of whether the Palestinian claim to the former British Mandate of Palestine is proper, the true face of every nation comes to bare as concerns how they propose to deal with the problem. No nation has ever provided (or intends to provide) mass asylum for the numerous Palestinian refugees and their children. With the exception of Jordan to a certain degree, Palestinians are systematically denied the right to integrate in the countries where their camps. In the meantime, their rulers see fit to spend large sums of money to support militaristic parties and radical agendas. The people who actually wish for the best interests of the Palestinians should be those who assist them by including them and actively negotiating with Israel for a lasting peace.