I agree with the "both sides are being immature" sentiment, but the fact is that the world powers promised the Jews, quite some time ago, a nation of their own in the Middle East. The Jews took it, and it became Israel. They've had to fight for it ever since. I think Israel has, by now, established that they are a cohesive force and deserved to be recognized as a nation by all. They, as a nation, deserve the land that they've held for nearly a century. The Palestinians can spend their time fixing up the huge area they already have, rather than insisting upon the tiny portion that the Israelis have committedly improved for decades.

This kind of oversimplification really gets on my nerves. The assumptions are hugely incorrect.

First, not all Israelis are Jews. Second, there are Palestinians who are Israeli citizens. Third, deserving of property implies that there is such a scale that is used universally.

Lets start with false assumption #3: On your hypothetical scale, which of us deserves the land your house is on? I think you only _deserve_ 1/4 of it and should be restricted from access and changes on the other 3/4. You paid for it? So what? According to this system, you don't DESERVE it. In fact, due to low incomes and high unemployment, Mississippi isn't deserving of it's land, so lets reallocate it off to laborers from California and Texas. Who cares if they're not actually living there.

Now, assumption #2: Most Palestinians are not terrorists or Muslim fundamentalists or bad people. Nor are they saints who valiantly sally forth to martyr themselves for a noble cause. They are everyday people like you and me who want basic things like jobs, food, clean water, safety, and a stable environment. They have an equal right to participate in a democratic government. However, they have failed to create any semblance of a stable democratic entity. The cannot trust their own leaders which only serves to exacerbate a bad situation.

And, finally, the first assumption. Not only are not all Israelis Jews, but not all Jews support Israel. In fact, the ultra-religious Jews don't believe in a country of Israel because only God can provide that--not some elected party. On the other side, you have Jews who are devoted to their own nations--like the USA.

So, before this gets too long and deep for a CD post, let me summarize by saying that this issue is not so simply divided and that in the end its not a matter of who deserves land but how we can protect the rights of Palestinians, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Druze, Israelis, and other peoples involved in the Middle East conflict.

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hello everyone i think the israelis should win but that is just because they got it first so that is why they should have it palestine just stole it israel will win hahahahahahahaha

its obvious that the UK screwed the Israelis and Palestinians over. but some key things must be took into concept. Palestinians never owned the land they so claim to have today. when the Romans conquered the holy land they renamed it Palestine. then the turks took them over, then the Ottoman empire owned it, and the after ww1 great Briton owned it. so when the UK pulled out and the Israeli population formed their country and when the Palestinians and nearby countries got their ass kicked when they denied to recognize then as a country and tried to take them over, Israel became a nation through a military victory. so whether they deserved the land or not, they do know. and now to say that the local Arab population that lived there who were nomadic during most of history say they've always had an nation their dubbed Palestine, when we know they did not start calling them self's "Palestinians" to the 60s, you look and sound pathetic. an other thing to point out is that if the local Arab population really wanted to have their own land during the time they were owned by numerous other nations, why did they not rebel? or ask for independence? like the Jews did during Roman control. so obviously most of the Arabs were content and happy with the rulers who lead them till a Jewish state came into being. this is not about who really owns the land. the spoils go to the victors, its really just a group of people with no religious tolerance and who scream in the name of god! before they blow 20 innocent people.

Although both sides are acting stupid and immature about the whole thing, the fact that Israeli Jews are trying to have peace talks while the Palestinians are constantly declairing war means that they are slightly more mature. But in my own opinion, both sides should learn to live in peace and harmony and STOP saying that they deserve more land than the other. But if I had it my way, I would treat both sides like 2 year olds and just take all the land away from both of them until they learned to share equally. And I'm not trying to dis any Jews or Palestinians, but that is just the fact. I mean, I'm Jewish and I love the mother land, but both sides are acting immature and like 2 year olds and should therefore be treated as such.

okay seriously why don't we just break up the land into two seperate parts last time they were unfair

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huh i think isreali shoulld win because they are jews hahahaha and who doesent like a jew??

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I am just wondering how many people care honestly I think we should just leave it up to them. They started it and now it is their problem well yea

even though i do feel sympathy for the palestines, Israelis are a much better ally and asset to our interest (american). selfish? yes. necessary? definitely.

The way this debate is phrased is dubious, to say the least. Israel deserves ALL of Israeli land, but that begs the question as to whether or not it is their land in the first place. Personally, I think under rational circumstances it should be split up evenly, however I can sympathize with the Palestinians who got forced out of their territory by a 2000 year old Zionist sense of entitlement.

I don't believe that either side is completely right or wrong but I think it is important for anyone who has an opinion about this topic to watch this video

Seeing as the people now known as the Palestinians lived on that land before it was partitioned into Israel, it seems that asking who deserves more Israeli land is bias towards Israel.

The Palestinians have been treated horribly by Israel on land that never belonged to Israel until after world war 2. In America at least you always hear how the Israelis are under attack yet just trying to defend their land. Israel has sectioned off areas that belonged to the Palestinians, it works to make a nation where ones ethnicity and religion determines ones rights and opportunities in life.

Both sides have committed crimes and done bad things, but that doesn't represent all the citizens of each respective group. The US gov is overly bias towards Israel as are the corporations and media. In America we only hear about the atrocities that the Palestinians commit, never Israel.

The Arabs have a right to be angry, their land was taken away and their people are mistrusted throughout the western world because of their religion and ethnicity. The Palestinian people are treated as second class citizens in their on their own land and grossly misrepresented in much of the western world.

While I'm going to be extreme and say that the Palestinians deserve all their land back, that will never be accepted(by the US and Israel) and thus the Palestinians should get their own nation and half or so of the land that currently makes up the area of Israel and Palestine because it really was theirs to begin with.

For starters the question is slanted and being slanted is not a proper way

to start a debate. The responses to the question are generally slanted,

not the question itself.

Maybe you should have asked it like this:

"Who deserves more land in Israel/Palestine?" or

"Who deserves more land Israelis or Palestinians?".

Nothing legitimizes a strategic land grab by world powers against a relatively defenseless state. The Palestinians are refusing to negotiate ON ISRAEL'S TERMS: Israel refuses to negotiate with Hamas, the democratically elected ruling body of Palestine. Israel is the second most militarily aggressive country on Earth, next to the United States.

As for the suicide bombings? Israel has the most advanced army on Earth, what the hell else is Palestine supposed to do to fight back? They're the last resort of an oppressed people.

Well its kinda sad when you think about it they took faMILIES OUT OF THIER home and left them to die for 9 years

the palastinians deserve the land more because they need to grow crops and have a place to live. the Israelis dont need as much land because there are more arabs than israelis andthe arabs need more homes to live in.

the palastinians deserve the land more because the land is to big for the israelis

the arabs are to big for the land they own in isreal even though the arabs have egypt and other surrounding countries the arabs are still to big for this land they own they need more land in isreal for the arabs who have no home

i think the land of isreal should be split evenly between the arabs and the jews they should get it evenly because the arabs and jews have about the same amount of people but i also think the arabs should have a little more land so that the arabs can have more houses for their big population