Many of your answerers are simple,ill informed, leftist automatons that spew the "stolen land "propaganda that their marxist masters willed them to believe.
The truth.
modern israel is sited on the anicient holy land of the israelites.
The land was stolen from them by the arabs.
The jews bought the derelict land back from them and made it habitable.
The jews were displaced again by the arabs.
the jews bought the land for a second time .
They suffered persecution at the hands of the arabs.
Britain adminstered the resettlement of the jews into modern israel and tracts of waste land know as palestine after WW2.
Since 1947 israels neighbours have made numerous efforts to displace the jews entirely from israel.In all these conflicts,israel has been victorious.
Most of the occupied land aquired during these wars has been returned.
Some land that israel feels vital to the security of its people has been retained..
Recently ,the gaza strip has been handed to the palestinians as a gesture toward a lasting peace.Palestine responded by planting rocket crews in the gaza strip and indescriminately shelled israel.Palestine routinely sends women ,children and retards to bomb buses and restaurants in israel.
Arabs consider the jews to be the most loathsome of the "infidels" and refuse to recognise israels right to exist completely.The geopoliticical argument over occupied land is merely propaganda designed to obtain western sympathy.
Israel,is the only democracy in the arab states.Israel does not fund or harbour terrorists.Israel provides for all its citizens ,not just elites.
Palestine neither has the military means nor political will to continue the fight with israel.Terrorist attacks upon israel are encouraged and funded by syria and iran who recognise israel as the greatest threat to their authority within the middle east.Israels neighbour,lebanon is a classic example of this.Most lebonese people and half its government want a permanent peace with israel.unfortunately ,iran and syria fund and arm the hezbollah who make up half the lebonese government and intimidate all those who stands in its way.
answerers,please read up before answering.You are being played by the arab fundamentalists.
Just read laughing mans post.
eloquently put.
and damned accurate without bias.