QUOTE(MillenniumArmy @ Dec 21 2004, 07:39 AM)
If i know my historical facts accurately...
If you look WAY back into history, God gave Abraham a test. He told him to bring his son, Isaac, to a place to sacrifice him. Abraham really hesitated but since it was the lord that spoke to him, he reluctantly obeyed him. As he was lifting his knife up to kill his son, the lord stopped and said that he passed the test of faith.
As a reward for this, God said that All of Abraham's sons and generations of descendents will be given this land (aka Israel). So Abraham's son had lots of ionic bonding with his wife and spawned 12 sons. One of those tribes' descendants were jews and another tribe were the arabs. Those two tribes hated each other really badly. I dont remember exactly the names of them.
My point is that it's really no one's fault; they're both descendants of Abraham and they act hostile towards each other. Yes, the Israelis seem to be the one that get's blamed but their arguments for their actions are reasonable as well.
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your bible memory is rusty...
first of all, abraham's son - Izhak - was Yaakov's father.
Yaakov was who had 12 sons (and 1 dougther).
Yaakov also got a middle name from god - Israel.
all 12 sons had chiledren and those become a nation, Israel, but one year it was such a bad summer that they had to go to Egupt to live.
they helped the king (parro) and in reward he let them live there till they can go back.
when the parro (am I spelling it right?) died, the new one saw that the Jews (the Israely Nation) living in Egupt started getting all the good jobs and being important, and he afraid that Egupt will become a Jew nation.
so he made them all slaves and told soldiers to kill all new born males.
after some years (I'll skip the heroic story) god 'attacked' Egupt for not letting the Jews going away and than Moses led them in the Desert back to Israel.
there, they fought the arabs who come to live there and claimed the land back.
many years later, somehow, Jews scattered around the world.
than in Germany, history makes a comeback and hitler don't want the Jews - that started getting all the good jobs in germany and being important - to be in germany.
so he started killing them and WW2 started.
when the war ended, most Jews decided to come back to Israel, but when they came there 90% of who lived there were arabs (palastine) and not Jews.
Palastines didn't wanted them there so instead of living together they started a war.
they made a mistake by doing that - since they lost the war.
later on they tried making the Jews run away from Israel with Terror attacks and failed.
today, organizations such as the hizballa tell the palastines they can take israel back if they blow up at the streets and kill jews, so they do it.
both sides become foes again and everybody hate everybody.
how sad.