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The territory which Israel won in the 67 war, West Bank and Gaza is where the Palestinians live under Israeli occupation. This has been a 35 year occupation. Recently Israel has settled over 100,000 Israelis in the area with preferential access to water and other utilities. This is against the Oslo agreement. The Palestinians in these areas have no autonomy, can not develop an economic structure, there is no future for these arabs. They are desperate, hopeless and angry. If it weren't for Arafat, they might have already begun to have independence and autonomy. Barghouti sees co existance with Israel. Arafat wants death to Israel. Palestinians need a future. Remember that up to 30% of the Palestinains are christian. They are arabs who converted to christianity as far back as the middle ages. They are not all moslems. How can the Old Testament dictate to the world that Israel belongs to the jews, it can have no more legal standing in a world court than the Koran dictating that the world belongs to the moslems. There is no place for theology to dictate revision of geographical boundaries in todays world. I am glad that the Israelis have their own country. But the natives of that land who have been there hundreds of years are not cattle to be herded into a pen. They need a right to an autonomous life as well.

They need a right to an autonomous life as well

Arafat turned down the Barak Peace Plan and unleashed the armed, homicidal intifada. He's turned the West Bank into a corrupt armed camp fiefdom and the schools into terrorist incubators. As a result, the Israelis elected an inflexible and unyielding military leader to defend themselves.

Where do you go from here? Someone has to represent the Palestinians in negotiations, but the PLA and Hamas are terribly compromised. The Arab States use the Palestinians as if they were brainless pawns, which they have been. The only way we get peace is to replace the Arab regimes that promote Palestinian obduracy; starting with Iraq, and ending with Saudi Arabia, if necessary.

"They are desperate, hopeless and angry."

Typical, Liberal VICTIMHOOD crocodile tears!

They are reaping what they sowed by attacking and LOSING!

Why have you joined the endless chorus of the "Victimhood Singers?"

Sure, I know a few former so-called "Palistinians" living right here and they are Christians and they are decent people that I respect. They are fighting here today with the Enviro-NIMBY-Terrorists to keep and control the land they bought here (after losing their's over there) with normal investment backed expectations and they are losing again, here, TOO!!!

The Liberals are making them "Victims" and driving them off their land RIGHT HERE and using our government to do it in your name! What are you doing about that?

Because the Old Testament contains the commands of the One True God, while the Koran is full of a (false prophet) and a dead man's lies. In the end the whole world will see God's rule come to earth, so realize that there is a powerful God who has the last say in all.