Finding common ground on Middle East conflicts

Agreements about the Middle East are difficult to find. People are passionate about Israel, Palestinians, human rights, ethnic homelands.

[Bob Burns]

You left out the one part that keeps all the other parts from working. Hamas-Hezbollah-Iran. Curious why you left out the elephant in the room. Hmmmm? Exposes you as mealy-mouth BSers? Pollyanna airheads? Deaf dumb blind and stupid?

[Bob Burns]

Residents of cloud coo-koo land? Looking for applause from the PC crowd? Posturing fools?

[LF in San Carlos]

Eight principles and two actions, both require Israel to sacrifice security and sovereignty. Where is (1) Arab recognition of Israel as a historical Jewish Homeland,(2) cessation of arms smuggling into Gaza, and (3) cessation of Palestinian incitement against Israel and Jews? All were part of the Oslo Accords. Funny how Jews in the US will compromise Israel's interests in order to appear cooperative. Where in the world are Arabs doing the same?

[LF in San Carlos]

Patriot wrote:

How many billions of dollars per year does our country give to Israel? And do we get anything back in return? Are those billions of dollars per year a loan? If so, what are the terms of those loans? And, are we really in any position to be loaning money to another country, let alone GIVING it to them?
And does it have anything to do with all the Israeli Nationals who work at the highest levels of American government in Washington? So many questions...

PATRIOT(really?!): Then you also oppose giving billions of US tax dollars to the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, and the UN? And you oppose the billions sent to Gaza where Hamas takes it to smuggle more weapons from Iran instead of rebuilding houses.

[Xanthippe]

If Hamas and Hezbollah were to recognize Israel's right to exist, and stop shooting missiles into Israel, and stop sending suicide bombers into Israel, what do you think would happen?

I think there would be an immediate, positive response on the part of Israel. I do not think there would be a mass genocide or mass oppression in response.

If the Israelis disarmed, though - that'd be the end of Israel.

Seems to me that the ball is in the Palestinians' court - and has been since 1948.

[woot]

the US should just tell the Israelis and the Palestinians i.e the proxy for the Arab world that we're leaving the Middle East and when they want to really resolve their issues to give us a call. This way the charade of negotiations can stop and they can kill each other and then negotiate when they realize there are consequences that they alone are responsible for

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-380...

[David P]

The group using the word "evict" has already prejudiced itself by revising and replacing the historical facts.

This is pure spin, absent from the so-called "poll" are opinions which have been completely excluded from your group. You represent a skewed and narrow view that does NOT incorporate idea's of a very large majority that run counter to any of your 10 points. The group is a false representation of American Jewish opinion, you've taken the opinions of a minority few and falsely universalized it.