You're jocking, right?

Are you claiming that Islam (including the rich oil countries) control less land or less money than Israel?

Now who's kidding who.

I don't support everything that the Israeli government does.

I don't think this woman student should have been deported to back to her home in Gaza.

Having said that, how many students on this planet are denied the education they want? How many students on this planet are unable to complete their education because they are being deported? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?

If deporting one student is sufficient to de-countrify a country - than all the countries in this planet should be de-countrified. Not just Israel.

mohawk “By the way, Jews owned less than 7% of the land in Palestine at the time when the partition was proposed.”

How much land was owned by Palestinians? (I assume it’s something more than 0% but less than 93%).

How much land was owned by foreign people living outside Palestine? How much was land owned by no-one? (Governmant land)

Did you know that 50% of Palestine was unpopulated desert?

Mohawk: “As for the alleged massacres of Jews by Arabs, that is simply an outright lie. You can't make up anything you want and then pretend to be a "man of truth".”

Here are some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_lands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Quarter_(Jerusalem)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Etzion_massacre

Iraq: In 1941, following Rashid Ali’s pro-Axis coup, riots known as the Farhud broke out in Baghdad in which approximately As a result of Farhud, about 180 Jews were killed and about 240 were wounded, 586 Jewish-owned businesses were looted and 99 Jewish houses were destroyed.
Egypt: In June 1948, a bomb exploded in Cairo’s Karaite quarter, killing 22 Jews. In July 1948, Jewish shops and the Cairo Synagogue was attacked, killing 19 Jews.
Libya: A series of pogroms started in Tripoli in November 1945; over a period of several days more than 130 Jews (including 36 children) were killed, hundreds were injured, 4,000 were left homeless, and 2,400 were reduced to poverty. Five synagogues in Tripoli and four in provincial towns were destroyed, and over 1,000 Jewish residences and commercial buildings were plundered in Tripoli alone
The pogroms continued in June 1948, when 15 Jews were killed and 280 Jewish homes destroyed. In 1967, during the Six-Day War, the Jewish population of 4,000 was again subjected to pogroms in which 18 were killed, and many more injured. The Libyan government “urged the Jews to leave the country temporarily”, permitting them each to take one suitcase and the equivalent of $50.
Morocco: In June 1948, soon after Israel was established and in the midst of the first Arab-Israeli war, riots against Jews broke out in Oujda and Djerada, killing 44 Jews.
On January 10, 1961, a boat carrying Jews attempting to flee the country sank off the northern coast of the country
Syria: Rioters in Aleppo in 1947 burned the city’s Jewish quarter and killed 75 people.
Yemen: In 1947, riots killed at least 80 Jews in Aden

Palestine:
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1929: Friday, 23 August, Arabs started to attack Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The rumours and subsequent violence quickly spread to other parts of Palestine Mandate,
with the worst killings occurring in Hebron and Safed.
Other murderous assaults took place in Motza, Kfar Uriyah, and Tel Aviv.
The Hebron Massacre refers to the mass murder of sixty-seven Jews on 23 and 24 August 1929 in Hebron,
then part of the British Mandate of Palestine.
In total, 67 Jews were murdered in Hebron; 59 died during the riots and 8 more succumbed to their wounds later.
The remaining members, save one woman who refused to go, were placed on trucks and delivered to Jerusalem and all their property was seized by the Arabs.
Most of dead were Ashkenazi men, but there were also a dozen women and three children under the age of three.
Seven of the victims were yeshiva students from the United States and Canada.
Dozens of people were wounded, including many women and children.
Several cases of rape, mutilation and torture were reported.

The 1929 Safed massacre took place on 29 August during the 1929 Palestine riots.
Eighteen Jews were killed (some sources say twenty) and eighty wounded.
The main Jewish street was looted and burned.

1936-1939 The dissent began in Jaffa when the followers of Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, who was killed in a 1935 shootout with the British,
initiated a general strike in Jaffa, Nablus, and then launched attacks on Jewish and British installations.
85 Jews were killed during the first days of the strike. This led to an Arab revolt against the British.
In it more than 5,000 Arabs, 400 Jews, and 200 Britons had been killed.
As a result, the British restricted Jewish Immigration to Palestine to only 15,000 a year between 1939 and 1945
(The timing couldn't be worse. Millions of Jews were seeking refuge from Nazi Germany occupied territories)

1947 - 1948: The Jewish quarter in Jerusalem has had a rich history, with a nearly continual Jewish presence since the eighth century B.C.E.
At the turn of the 20th century the Jewish population of the quarter reached 19,000.
In 1948 during the Arab-Israeli War, its population of about 2,000 Jews was besieged, and forced to leave by the Jordanian Legion.

Gush Etzion (Five Jewish Kibbutz in the west bank)
On 12 May 1948, the Arabs captured the Russian Orthodox monastery, which the Haganah used as a perimeter fortress for the Kfar Etzion area,
killing twenty-four of its thirty-two defenders.
On May 13, a massive attack involving parts of two Arab Legion infantry companies, light artillery and local irregular support commenced from four directions.
The kibbutz Kfar Etzion fell within a day, and the Arab forces massacred the entire population of Kfar Etzion, soldiers and civilians alike,
the total number of victims of the final assault and following massacre reaching 250.
Only three men and one girl managed to escape. (This Massacare is far greater than the infamous Dir-Yassin)
The next day, the three other kibbutzim in the aria surrendered, the same day as the declaration of independence, their defenders imprisoned by the Arab Legion.

Mohawk: “so-called scary monolith you refer to as "Arab armies" 10 to 1. For every 10 Zionist fighters, there was one Arab fighter”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

Israel: 29,677 initially rising to 115,000 by March 1949. This includes the entire military personnel count—both combat units and logistical units.

Egypt: 10,000 initially, rising to 20,000
Iraq: 3,000 initially, rising to 15,000 – 18,000
Syria: 2,500 – 5,000
Jordan: 8,000 – 12,000
Lebanon: 1,000[3]
Saudi Arabia: 800–1,200
Arab Liberation Army: 3,500 - 6,000

These numbers include only the combat units sent to the former British Mandate of Palestine, not the entire military strength. Also, these numbers does not include Palestinians militia, which mounted to Around 70,000 beginning of December to total withdrawal on 14 May 1948.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%E2%80%931948_Civil_War_in_Mandatory_Palestine

Tell us what that "peaceful solution" looks like in your opinion.

The Israeli government continues to claim it wants peace, but then it keeps building more colonies on Palestinian land, demolishing Palestinian homes willy-nilly and expelling Palestinians from East Jerusalem.

You never answer that simple question: WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER "PEACE"? DESCRIBE IT!

It's a simple question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Quarter_(Jerusalem)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Etzion_massacre

The Samaritans were considered sufficiently (religiously) Jewish for the Israeli government of 1967-8 to attempt to absorb and resettle them in Jerusalem. And, yes, they are different from the present Jews. They were the original Jews who didn't end up in the diasporas in Babylon and Persia (where the Judaism we know as such was created) or those after the Bar Kokhba revolt who fled the Romans to live in other Semitic (i.e. Arab) countries around the Mediterrean and Mesopotamia. And to answer Letto below, yes, they are racially different (whatever that means) from European Jews; they actually are of the same mostly Semitic descent like all those who lived in Palestine before the European Zionist immigrations.

The real question in this thread (started by Diogenes57) is:

Would there be peace in the Middle-East if the West Bank will become clean of Jews.

The Jewishness level of Samaritans is simply a knee-jerk diversion by Rainborowe.
I don’t know if Samaritans are Jews or not. From my perspective, it's up for them to decide.

Funny how you cherry pick with which poster to engage.

Are you afraid of being annihilated should you actually address facts that YOU are incapable of defending?

As for your shilling, it's evident that you have no basic concept of the history of the conflict. Everything you keep regurgitating here can be summarily dismissed as spin and half-truths, both of which are the very essence of propaganda.

So why can't you engage in a debate based on facts and sticking to the subject instead of jumping back and forth and cherry picking the events you care to discuss? And then you wonder why you're ridiculed and never taken seriously.

Are you simply incapable? I think so. Your "knowledge" is what we call "shallow and superficial".

You might be more successful on websites like CNN or Fox. See if you can shill there.