Sea_JayUK wrote:
You HAVE to be kidding, Israel is one of the only countries which lays a claim to an historic land. Most (if not all) civilisations have been moved from one coutry to another, changed and adapted and evolved into new cultures... Why should israel 'go back' to A land it lost an awful long time ago.
You HAVE to be kidding. There are other nations that want to go back to the Middle East. That is one of the reason that Israel keeps getting attacked by terroist. Here are two sources for you to look at instead of assuming that Israel is the only one that wants their homeland back.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0776421.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_StateSea_JayUK wrote:
-=NHB=- Bananahands wrote:
Why are you arabs so brain washed. You know for a fact that hezbollah kidnapped and also killed Israeli soldiers. Thats an act of war and you act suprised when Israeli respons in an appropriate manner. If someone kidnapped even one American soldier I would feel no regrets about bombing their country until he or she was released. You have to protect your own. Lebanon is letting Iran and Syria ruin their country not Israel.
Hezbollah is not a country, I believe it is you who has been 'brainwashed' to believe that this is so.
Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese goverment.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/ … index.htmlCNN wrote:
It (Hezbollah) has become a social/political movement, holding 14 seats in the 128-member Lebanese parliament, according to the parliament's Web site.
As I stated in another post on this subject, if the Green Party was to go into Canada, kidnap and kill some of their Monties. Canada would hold the US responsible because the US government did not keep the Green Party under control. Why is it that when it comes to the Middle East there is a double standard? For that matter, why is there a double standard for Muslims compared to the Jews. Israel is attacked daily by Hamas, or Hezbollah, most of the time by both of them. When ever Israel defends themselves, they get look down upon. Also, do not bring history into this issue. Abram, the father of both the Palastines and Jews, claimed most of the Middle East as his own. Therefore both groups of people have claims to the land.
@ the person who stated that Jersulam is the 3rd holiest city for Islam, and the 1st for Judism. Not a lot of people know that the Muslims will not let Jews go near the Dome of the Rock, but the Jews allow Muslims near the Wailing Wall. Also, Islam since it was created has tried to belittle and get rid of the Jews. That is one of the reason why the Dome of the Rock is located where it is. Before Islam claimed that as a Holy Place, Jews stated that this was not only the place of the orginal alter for the First Temple, but also the place where Abram was going to offer his son to God. This would have made the spot a Holy Place for Judism before Islam, and taking the Bible as a historical text, not a literal historical text but one based on history, we know that Judism first claimed this as a holy site. We can ever go outside of the Bible, because we know that the Jews has not one but three temples where the Dome of the Rock is before Muhammad was born. If anything, Islam does not have the right to the Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary or the Dome of the Rock. Also, the site is not as Holy to Islam, the Rock that is located within the Dome of the Rock is the Holy relic.
Another little known fact is that according to the way the Temple was set up for the Jews, they can allow Gentiles (non-Jews) to worship at the Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary. This would allow Islam to keep the Dome of the Rock, but Islam will not allow it.
According to
Wikipedia according to the story in the Qur`an:
Though the location is not historically certain, a Qur'anic verse says that Muhammad took a night journey on a winged horse from a sacred mosque (probably Mecca) to the farthest mosque (al-Masjid al-Aqsa), which later came to be associated with Jerusalem
Wiki then goes on to say:
Since Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Qur'an, many neutral historians point to the concept that the caliph decided on the location of the mosque - which started out as a tiny wooden shrine - to show what he perceived to be Islam's superiority over Judaism. Building a shrine on top of Judaism's holiest site - the Temple Mount - would seem to point to the caliph's belief in this idea, although many, if not most Muslims, disagree on the grounds of their religious traditions in the ensuing centuries.
(This backs up my earlier statement stating that Islam has always tried to belittle Judism.) Another
Wiki article states that the location of Temple Mount was not considered a Mosque until 715, and that the term used in the Qur`an was poetic, not literal.