"Why do Palestinians hate us?"
 

This is why.

"peace cannot be made without strength"

That is not peace, that is complete control.

If I am the neighborhood bully I can keep peace by saying I will beat the living daylights out of anyone that questions me but is that really peace? For me, peace is usually compromise and acceptance, not that.



For why the Palestinians hate us part:

http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/2ee...6!OpenDocument

I'm not happy with this give away of my money.... not at all.

But the Palestinians are living in poverty because they chose to, time after time. Remember the west bank greenhouses? Remember the millions and millions we gave Palestine before Hamas took over?

That is one view - the other is that they are strong and therefore will not be attacked - maybe that is the point that is trying to be conveyed. There can still be strength without "complete control."
Strength to defend oneself is obviously also very important.

Arafat died a billionaire.

Kept it in Swiss and French banks.

Yeah. The Israeli's bulldozing their settlements and cutting them off with walls and road blocks, often to the point of preventing farmers accessing their farms and shopkeepers accessing their shops, that had fuck all to do with it.

With a reach like that you could box Muhammed Ali.

What you don't think the Israeli tactics have had an effect on the day to day functioning of trade and commerce?

And his wife continues to live off of those riches.

Yes, but it's taken 50 years of escalation to get to this point. 50 years of lost opportunities for the Palestinians that were fighting a losing battle to drive the Jews out, instead of thriving along with them.

I don't think thriving along with them was an option

Oh but it was, and they did, until about 1967. And many after that.

Give proof of how they thrived along with them. 800,000 Palestinians were displaced in 1948, I don't know how many people would suddenly just say "Don't worry about stealing our homes, we just want to be friends now". I mean, c'mon, how would you react to people taking your property without notice to install a new state and then place you in horrible refugee camps.

This money is going to build walls which will further enclose the Palestinians. The problem is not solely the Palestinians, they are not going to be as efficient as making money but they can support themselves if given the room. The problem is that they don't have the room to farm.

What does this have to do with anything? So, you will have a few people that will take advantage of situations like this but that has very little to do with the poverty being the Palestinians fault. Something like this will happen in similar situations to any group of people.

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/20...-stranglehold/

Arafat didn't become a billionaire by being an oil tycoon or something. He became a billionaire by stealing palestinian aid money. The west put its blinders on (just like you are doing) and pretended it didn't happen and continued to send money. Arafat's assistant said 900M of aid money was simply missing.

Something like this will happen in similar situations to any group of people.

From all of history, name two.

Eh-heh. I get different information from that story than you do.

Blaming the "other" is standard practice in unsuccessful cultures... and almost guarantees continued failure.

Can you see any examples of "blaming the other" in your own culture? Have you ever heard anyone say "The niggers|jews|spics|rich people|poor people|drug dealers|cops are responsible for all the problems we're having!"

Wow, it doesn't sound very intelligent does it? The Palestinians are TAUGHT that the others are responsible for their failure. TAUGHT TAUGHT TAUGHT. With fucking Mickey Mouse ripoffs on national TV.

This is more responsible for their failure than ANYTHING ELSE. And here it spreads to you and Dana. Wow?

Israel was a desert. But the people focused on being productive instead of simply focusing on hate. And now the desert blooms. The same could happen in Palestinian territories. It is ONLY a cultural problem.

Wake up and smell the fucking coffee already.

Why don't the local Arab nations assimilate the Palestinians? They all say the Palestinians' plight is so horrible, why not help them, instead of spewing the "Isreal must go" retoric, and keeping them in refugee camps?