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Quote by: Dagda It is not the fault of the normal people for the terrorism of a few. In fact, the military ocupation further enphisises the propoganda of the extremists and helps them recruit. Perhaps if the Israel government lessened a military presence on Palistinian land this would be a step toward better relations.

That is naive at best. What happen with the disengagment of Gaza? The militants used it as a base for daily missile attacks against Israel. Israel needs to remain proactive until there is a final peace agreement and independent Palestinian State.

Israel and Palestinian situation isn't the other border dispute. Iraq and Iran have border dispute issues. Syria still considers Lebanon part of it. Iraq considers Kuwait part of it. The Kurds consider parts of Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey part of Kurdistan. Pakistan and India dispute Kashmir. Egypt and Libya dispute their border. And I am sure there are more I am not familiar with.

If you will read my comment carefully, I said happily not peacefully. Anyway, the creation of Israel only inflamed the issue.

One in the same!

One attrocity does not make another alright. Anyway, last time I checked, no Roman soldier was muslim

True, none were Arabs either, but the Romans were the ones that changed the name from Israel and Judea to Palestine and the Arabs took over Palestine for te Romans/Byzantines and decided to call themselves Palestinians 500 years after the name change.

and the Romans only finnished of a process that had been begun 300 years previously with Alexander the Great of Macedonia.

Again get a history lesson. The Maccabes expelled the Greeks and the Israel entered the Jewish Golden Era for roughly 100 years. The Romans then took over. Roman rule at first wasn't that bad, but it soon turned worst. During the Roman era Jews made up 10% of the Roman empire population. The Jews then made 2 huge errors. The reason the Jews were scattered across the world and the reason why so few Jews were around even before the Holocaust. The 2 Jewish revolts. If they would have weathered the storm may they could have held out for the fall of Roman and then for the fall of the Byzantine Empire.