One of Gaza War's Big Winners: Al Jazeera

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How long has the Gaza war been going?

fh of MD 6:21PM April 05, 2009

I live in America and I see what has been going on for a long time. Israel, Lebanon, Gaza, West Bank, Syria have been fighting each other with no end in sight. A perpetual war of minds. What would stop this seems to be out of reach for everyone. Hammas and Hezbollah have come out of nowhere and don't seem to know who they are themselves. To show the unequal attitude for one soldier they want hundreds in return. If that's their mentality you will never have enough to give them to make things equal. Saudi Arabia has ignored the truth of not only itself but all the Arabs that live in the Middle East. I have not seen the Arab kingdom truely make an honest effort to help their people in the Middle East. They pray to Allah everyday and nothing changes. I believe that Saudi Arabia can solve the problem in the Middle East by being honest, not only with the Palestinians but with Allah also.

Gene Anderson of CO 8:15PM March 12, 2009

I agree with Deborah, until there is unity in the palastinian teritory there will not be peace.

Bill Willard of CA 9:30PM January 27, 2009

There have been many occasions when
Israeli leaders have begged the Palestinians to stay and let us build this land together,but no the
Arab leaders just started the rumor that Israelis would kill all the Arabs.Also get out of Palestine so that are armies can finish the job of driving out the Jews.
The leaders of the Palestinian people line their pockets, Just check out Yaser Arafat and his large horde of money he pocketed,which had been intended for the refugees. May Allah strike
these evil men down.

Johnathon B of WI 4:46PM January 24, 2009

Some years ago the conventional wisdom was that the conflict in South Africa was unsolvable. The animosity between whites and blacks was too deep and strong we were told.That dynamic was changed by means of Truth and Reconciliation. Israel must acknowledge what all informed people know which is that there is voluminous documentation to prove that Zionist/Israeli leaders always planned to take over all or most of Palestine and to expel as many Arabs as would be necessary. Without admission of that truth and accepting responsibility for the harm done to the Arabs there will be no peace.

Henry Clifford of NY 11:40PM January 23, 2009

The thing that is sad but true is
that the Arabs believe their own
delusions, that is the lies that
have been fed to them by their so
called leaders for decade after
decade. What nonsense murdered,
raped and dispossessed. The first
thing is to learn the TRUE history
of your land not the poisonous propaganda. The Jewish settlers bought the land, from absentee land owners, who lived in their palatial
palaces in Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. What bothered your despotic
rulers is to have a democracy in their midst especially run by socialist and communist. This was
anathema to your rulers so the drumbeat started kill the Jew, they are apes and pigs. Oh you forget so easily the machine gunning a school bus filled with
little children, by your brave fighters. Are you one of the brave
fighters??

Johnathon B of WI 9:46PM January 23, 2009

Johnathan B, when you watched Palestinian celebrating 9/11, you know how Palestinians have felt for the past five decades when Americans ``celebrated'' the creation of the state of Israel on the backs of thousands of murdered, raped and dispossessed Palestinians. What goes round has a nasty habit of coming round. Sad but true

Suhail Shafi of AL 6:13PM January 23, 2009

The entire world should treat Israel for the criminal state that it is, boycott its economy, indict its leaders for crimes against humanity, and expel it from all international bodies for its barbaric crimes against humanity. A nation that forces an entire population to the brink of starvation and bombs civilian areas, including UN stations indiscriminately in order to protect its own ( false ) sense of security does NOT deserve to be treated like a member of the civilized world.

Suhail Shafi of AL 6:08PM January 23, 2009

If Fatah wants to regain the Palestinian initiative, it needs to unify with Hamas and it needs to give Israel a deadline for ending the occupation. Then it needs to announce that the Palestinian Authority will be a Palestinian Resistance Authority and Palestinian forces then need to figure out what kind of resistance will and will not bring achievements for the cause not of statehood but national liberation. The form national liberation takes ought to be a binational state, since Palestinians and Israeli Jews are all in one state today, just in that state as bound to each other in radically unequal ways.
I don't think anyone believes that a two state solution is possible anymore, since the West Bank has been so taken over by Israeli settlements, and it's extremely difficult to imagine removing those settlements without a civil war erupting in Israel.
I think the history of Palestine is a saluatary reminder of the limits of partition in the post WWII period as a means of creating nations out of the ruins of colonialism.

Deborah of KS 4:40PM January 23, 2009

The Palestinians danced in the streets with the murder of 3000 innocent Americans. So how can these
people now blanket themselves in
morality. They scream for the extermination of the Jewish people,
also Americans. How can they be deported from Gaza, when the Arab
countries, have never accepted them.
Instead of using money given them
their corrupt leaders pocket it or
buy arms in lucrative kick back deals. There must be a revolution
in the streets and build a Arab
nation like the glory
of the medieval days, when science
and the arts were supreme.

Johnathon B of WI 2:46PM January 23, 2009