Ever feel like you could use a tutorial on the conflict in Israel? Maybe you know someone that would appreciate a quick rundown? The wait is over... To get our weekly digital edition free: https://www.facebook.com/JewishStandard/app_100265896690345 Make sure to like The Jewish Standard for the highest standard in interesting Jewish stories from around the world. To help produce videos like this, visit https://www.prageruniversity.com/donate_login.php Sorry Robert, but all the CAPS LOCK does is enhance your ignorance of history. If you do a little research, you'll find that the Jews were is this region for thousands of years...long before the term "Palestinian" was coined. If you are so sure that "Palestine", the country, goes back through most of recorded history," I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions about that country of Palestine: 1. When was it founded and by whom? 2. What were its borders? 3. What was its capital? 4. What were its major cities? 5. What constituted the basis of its economy? 6. What was its form of government? 7. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat? 8. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation? 9. What was the language of the country of Palestine? 10. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine? 11. What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese Yuan on that date. 12. And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur? And here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people you mistakenly call "Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War? I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day "Palestinians" to the Biblical Philistines: substituting etymology for history won't work here. The truth should be obvious to everyone who wants to know it. Arab countries have never abandoned the dream of destroying Israel; they still cherish it today. Having time and again failed to achieve their evil goal with military means, they decided to fight Israel by proxy. For that purpose, they created a terrorist organization, cynically called it "the Palestinian people" and installed it in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. How else can you explain the refusal by Jordan and Egypt to unconditionally accept back the "West Bank" and Gaza, respectively? The fact is, Arabs populating Gaza, Judea, and Samaria have much less claim to nationhood than that Indian tribe that successfully emerged in Connecticut with the purpose of starting a tax-exempt casino: at least that tribe had a constructive goal that motivated them. The so-called "Palestinians" have only one motivation: the destruction of Israel, and in my book that is not sufficient to consider them a nation" -- or anything else except what they really are: a terrorist organization that will one day be dismantled. In fact, there is only one way to achieve peace in the Middle East. Arab countries must acknowledge and accept their defeat in their war against Israel and, as the losing side should, pay Israel reparations for the more than 50 years of devastation they have visited on it. The most appropriate form of such reparations would be the removal of their terrorist organization from the land of Israel and accepting Israel's ancient sovereignty over Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. That will mark the end of the Palestinian people. What are you saying again was its beginning? A lot of you people don't understand the history of the Israelis go pick up your Bible and see how the nation of Israel got started and how they have lost their land over the hundreds of years they live there. This is extremely biased and full of missing bits of information. All this man did was describe what is happening today without any backstory from the pre isreal era. So in essence Gabby, you can't provide one example. Israel has the right to defend itself. Hamas is using civilians as shields. Another sick perversion of Islam of which you have no objection. No Hamas is not using Islam as it's basis , you can't say that it's like saying Your a Christian and you killed your family and you claimed Jesus told you to do it , You can't blame Christianity for that , just like you cannot blame Hamas for killing people , Look I am going to make this simple for you , Not every Muslim is a terrorist

• published: 28 Aug 2014
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