Drem wrote:But to not understand why Palestinians are angry is insanity to me
I never said that and you know it, so don't twist my words to fit your needs.
Drem wrote:My view on this issue of course is coming from probably very jaded Palestinians that own a restaurant here in my city that are around 60/70 years old and my own personal research. I don't really know any serious Jewish people
So maybe you should try to get a whole picture first. I have Palestinian friends (shocking) and we have normal discussions and agree on many topics because we don't bring dirty politicians into arguments. I'm in full support of dual state and equal rights for everyone in Israel, just like the majority of Jewish people are. In fact I am a supporter of a modern theory that says that the majority of Palestinians are Israeli Jews who were converted/assimilated into Islam ages ago; and so any action we take against them is an action against our own people. Even if this theory is wrong, they are still Ishmaelites and our brothers anyway, brothers that are much closer to us in tradition and culture than Europeans, and we should live in peace not fight for the gain of a small elite. Problem is there is a great propaganda machine pinning both sides against each other, and in large people will believe everything their leaders tell them. Once both sides mature enough to raise better leaders there will be peace. Or Machiah will come first and there will be peace, whichever comes first.
Drem wrote:I'll say it for the third or fourth or fifth time or whatever. Israel is like the British coming over to the USA right now and giving it back to the Indians.
Israel has been there officially since 1948 but the first aliyah was in 1890's, so the modern Israeli people are 4th official or 8th unofficial generation of people there; not at all like the example you are bringing. Demanding Israelis to leave now is like demanding the return of California or Texas to Mexico.
Drem wrote:And that's assuming the Jews were even there first, which they weren't. ... The Jewish didn't earn it, it was handed to them on a silver platter
Check your history, that is wrong
For the rest it is something I cannot explain to you, Israel to Jews is our connection to G''d, our connection to who we are, it is our covenant, every day we say "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither". I know you are going to start complaining that I am bringing religion into this, but without our faith we are now Jews and I cannot keep religion out of this.