Here's how it happened....
Several empires going back to the Egyptians have owned the land in dispute. During the thousands of years when the Egyptian, Roman, Ottoman, and British empires owned that land, there were some nomadic people living on it. In essense they were squatters who had no claim on the land. Then in 1947 the British (the rightful owners) divided the land in half and generiously gave some to the squatters so they would finally own something, and some to the Jews so each could make their own country. Actually the British earlier gave part of the land historically known as Israel, to create Jordan.
The land was divided and the Jews who had recently been nearly eliminated moved in only to find they were being victimized again by thier neighbors who turned out to be terrorists. The Palestinians began their attacks 3 days after the Jews moved in and haven't stopped since.
In 1967 the surrounding arab nations launched an unprovoked attack against Israel and got their asses kicked. As the winner of the war, Israel is entitled to take all of the lands and property of those who lost (to the victor goes the spoils), but they only took a small piece as a "buffer zone" against their cowardly, scumbag terrorists who wanted nothing but to murder Jews.
Ever since then, the Palestinian cowards have targeted women and children because they lack the backbone to face men. They murder people and then cry when justice comes for them and claim to be victims. Every single attack against the Palestinians has been in retaliation for Palestinian attacks or in defense. In 1996, the Palestinians were offered all of the land they lost when they attacked in 1967 and a chance to become a recognized country if they could just not kill Jews for a week. They couldn't do it. The Palestinians do not want peace. In fact they don't want anything but to murder the people who employ them, allow them to vote, let them live in their country, etc.
Israel has been far far too kind and gentle with the Palestinians. No other country would be as patient or kind-hearted. America would never allow Mexicans to blow women and children up in shopping malls in southern California because the land used to belong to them. We'd blow the shit out of 'em.
If I were in charge of Israel, there would be no more fighting within 1 year. I'd tell the Palestinians if there were even one more attack whether it was a rock thrown at an Israeli soldier or a suicide bomb, I'd give each and every one of them 1 week to evacuate that country and to move elsewhere or to be destroyed. And then I'd roll the tanks, jets, etc. into that area and take all of the land and be done with it. I'd tell all the surrounding Arab nations if they got involved, I'd take their shit too.
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