BREAKING NEWS: Israelis and Palestinians TEAM UP IN A PEACE PROTEST

[Nick Young]

Is this a sign of peaceful things to come?


Hundreds of Israelis -- Jews, Arabs, and Palestinians marched through the center of Jerusalem calling for an end to the current round of violence and calling on people to support coexistence and a solution to the occupation.

The event, which began on Facebook, organized for people to come from Tel Aviv and Haifa as well.

Representatives from Jerusalem's Hand in Hand school - a bilingual Hebrew Arabic school which promotes coexistence, spoke at the event as well as representatives from other peace interest groups including the forum for Israeli-Palestinian bereaved parents for peace, reconciliation and tolerance.

Hadil, an Israeli-Arab from mi'ilya in the western galilee, said she came because of her belief in the importance of Arabs and Jews standing together. Although she added that despite the good nature of the event, it doesn't attract all the people it should.

"Sometimes Arabs think that the peace the jews talk about is not the same peace Arabs talk about - some Jews also think this and don't come."
ALL ABOARD THE PEACE TRAIN!!! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6mKMV0d2cs)


http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israelis-and-Palestinians-come-together-for-Jerusalem-solidarity-march-426245

[BurningHammer]

Hundreds
Probably needs more to have a better result.

[Jameerthefear]

https://vid.me/VTfo

[Nick Young]

Maybe they should bring the march to Gaza, to show these people that peace is possible!

[Canelo_Griffin]

Does this mean we can stop funneling billions to Israel? :cheers:

[Derka]

If the Palestinians learned to embrace nonviolence, they'd win.

Israel can't play the victim so long as they can keep pointing to suicide bombings, rockets being fired into Jewish neighborhoods and rocks and molotov cocktails being thrown at IDF troops.

That won't happen though. Too many radical elements are more interested in fighting the fight now as opposed to ending it and Israel will all be too happy to oblige them on that front.

[Nick Young]

If the Palestinians learned to embrace nonviolence, they'd win.

Israel can't play the victim so long as they can keep pointing to suicide bombings, rockets being fired into Jewish neighborhoods and rocks and molotov cocktails being thrown at IDF troops.

That won't happen though. Too many radical elements are more interested in fighting the fight now as opposed to ending it and Israel will all be too happy to oblige them on that front.
I hope you realize that Israel has no interest in winning the Victim Olympics vs Palestine. All they want is to stop getting randomly bombed and attacked.

[NumberSix]

I hope you realize that Israel has no interest in winning the Victim Olympics vs Palestine. All they want is to stop getting randomly bombed and attacked.
This. Israel isn't trying to win some PR battle to attain "victim" status from random radical leftist cultists.

[fiddy]

I hope you realize that Israel has no interest in winning the Victim Olympics vs Palestine. All they want is to stop getting randomly bombed and attacked.
Israelies should stop stealing Palestinian lands and building settlements on top of it?

[Nick Young]

Israelies should stop stealing Palestinian lands and building settlements on top of it?
Isn't all of Israel Palestinian land in your eyes and the eyes of most Palestinians?

[NumberSix]

Israelies should stop stealing Palestinian lands and building settlements on top of it?
Just for the sake of argument..... Why is it Palestinian land? Why not Ottoman land? Jordanian land or Egyptian land?

[fiddy]

Isn't all of Israel Palestinian land in your eyes and the eyes of most Palestinians?
For me personally, yes.


Just for the sake of argument..... Why is it Palestinian land? Why not Ottoman land? Jordanian land or Egyptian land?
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prеsstv is censored?! Come on Jeff :roll:

[Nick Young]

For me personally, yes.


Where do the Israelis living in Israel and who were born in Israel go once Palestine retakes all of the land that the Israelis are illegally occupying?:confusedshrug:

[NumberSix]

For me personally, yes.
So, if you went back in time to 1900 when there was neither a Palestine nor an Israel, you would tell all the Jews there "this ISN'T your land" and you would tell the Arabs "this IS your land"? Why exactly?

[fiddy]

Where do the Israelis living in Israel and who were born in Israel go once Palestine retakes all of the land that the Israelis are illegally occupying?:confusedshrug:
Wont happen, and im pretty sure you know it. Whats your point?



So, if you went back in time to 1900 when there was neither a Palestine nor an Israel, you would tell all the Jews there "this ISN'T your land" and you would tell the Arabs "this IS your land"? Why exactly?
Ottomans are not arabs. "All the Jews" did not live in modern day Israel at that time.

[NumberSix]

Wont happen, and im pretty sure you know it. Whats your point?



Ottomans are not arabs. "All the Jews" did not live in modern day Israel at that time.
I didn't ask about the ottomans and I didn't say "all the Jews". I asked about all the Jews that lived there at the time. Why is it not their land?

[fiddy]

I didn't ask about the ottomans and I didn't say "all the Jews". I asked about all the Jews that lived there at the time. Why is it not their land?
Because the Ottoman caliphate was stronger the Jews?

[NumberSix]

Because the Ottoman caliphate was stronger the Jews?
So, then it was the Ottoman's land? Ok, when it stopped being the Ottoman's land, why in your opinion should the land belong to the Arab Palestinians but not the Jewish Palestinians?

And by the same reasoning, if strength is what made it the Ottoman's land, why doesn't strength make it the Jews' land? What exactly is the argument for the land belonging to the Arabs?

I don't even necessarily disagree. I honestly don't have a strong opinion on who the land "belongs" to, but you do. I just want to understand your reasoning as to why you feel so strongly that the land belongs to the Arabs and only the Arabs.

[RidonKs]

peace demonstrations have been happening for years

if they weren't enough to topple netanyahu, they won't be enough to make him change policy

[fiddy]

So, then it was the Ottoman's land? Ok, when it stopped being the Ottoman's land, why in your opinion should the land belong to the Arab Palestinians but not the Jewish Palestinians?

And by the same reasoning, if strength is what made it the Ottoman's land, why doesn't strength make it the Jews' land? What exactly is the argument for the land belonging to the Arabs?

I don't even necessarily disagree. I honestly don't have a strong opinion on who the land "belongs" to, but you do. I just want to understand your reasoning as to why you feel so strongly that the land belongs to the Arabs and only the Arabs.
After WW1 France and Britain agreed to established a Palestian state in the former lands of the Ottoman empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement


Then:


The 1948 Palestinian exodus, also known as the Nakba (Arabic: النكبة‎, "al-Nakbah", lit. "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm"),[1] occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war.[2] The term "nakba" also refers to the period of war itself and events affecting Palestinians from December 1947 to January 1949.

The precise number of refugees is a matter of dispute[3] but around 80 percent of the Arab inhabitants of what became Israel (50 percent of the Arab total of Mandatory Palestine) left or were expelled from their homes.[4][5]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus

[iamgine]

The new generation jews and arabs need some american education.

[Goro]

Good news. Hopefully within the next 1000 years there can be peace.

[NumberSix]

After WW1 France and Britain agreed to established a Palestian state in the former lands of the Ottoman empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement


Then:




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus
Why are Britain and France the authority on who the land should belong to? Your sole reason for believing that the land belongs to the Arabs and only the Arabs is based on what Britain and France agreed to 100 years ago? This is how we decide who owns land? These are matters for Britain and France to decide?

So what if Britain and France decide that Bulgaria belongs to the gypsies? Is that legitimate?

[fiddy]

Why are Britain and France the authority on who the land should belong to? Your sole reason for believing that the land belongs to the Arabs and only the Arabs is based on what Britain and France agreed to 100 years ago? This is how we decide who owns land? These are matters for Britain and France to decide?

So what if Britain and France decide that Bulgaria belongs to the gypsies? Is that legitimate?
You are not really worth my time.

[Nick Young]

Wont happen, and im pretty sure you know it. Whats your point?

I'm asking you a question. Where do you think the Israelis should go if Palestine retakes the land that the Israelis are illegally occupying?

[fiddy]

I'm asking you a question. Where do you think the Israelis should go if Palestine retakes the land that the Israelis are illegally occupying?
Wherever they came from prior to 1948. Theres no such thing as Israeli, i dont think those people have their own ethnicity.

[Yoda]

Strong the force is with these protestors.

[Nick Young]

peace demonstrations have been happening for years

if they weren't enough to topple netanyahu, they won't be enough to make him change policy
Yes. Profound insight. Clearly Netanyahu is the foundational root of all this violence.

[Nick Young]

Wherever they came from prior to 1948. Theres no such thing as Israeli, i dont think those people have their own ethnicity.
Where do the Arab Christians and Muslims who were born in Israel go? Where do the people who were born in Israel to immigrant parents go?

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

This world will be a place of peace and prosperity soon.

Be it five decades or less.

[RidonKs]

Yes. Profound insight. Clearly Netanyahu is the foundational root of all this violence.
his party is a significant barrier to peace. my presumption is that israeli-arab peace demonstrations are not going to effect the palestinian leadership which operates on very different principles. the democratic inclination of israel can't be ignored even as its undermined the same way it is everywhere else.

[pauk]

Love that, hopefully it cultivates.

[fiddy]

This world will be a place of peace and prosperity soon.

Be it five decades or less.
The religious nut case strikes again.


Where do the Arab Christians and Muslims who were born in Israel go? Where do the people who were born in Israel to immigrant parents go?
Not gonna happen and even if it did, not my problem.

[imdaman99]

All we are saying, is give Peace a chance.

[brownmamba00]

Israelis should do something about the moron they elected for president instead of fake ass ''peace'' protests

[Nick Young]

his party is a significant barrier to peace. my presumption is that israeli-arab peace demonstrations are not going to effect the palestinian leadership which operates on very different principles. the democratic inclination of israel can't be ignored even as its undermined the same way it is everywhere else.
Yes. Netanyahu is the one truly to blame in this mess.

[Nick Young]

Not gonna happen and even if it did, not my problem.
What do you think should happen? Would Israeli Muslims be allowed to stay in Israel?