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ORIGINAL: jlf1961 I must be the odd man out. I have friends that are Israeli and friends that are Palestinians. Now I am not going to say what each side is doing is the right thing to do, but I can see where each side has their justification for the actions their peoples have taken over the years. Here is the problem. I have come across people who are so blindly against Israel that they wont even look at sources that prove there are two sides to the problem. IN 1948, the UN established TWO homelands in Palestine. Now the problem is that only one side accepted this and that was Israel. Immediately after the formation of the Nation of Israel, it was attacked by its Arab neighbors. In fact Israel was attacked by several countries each time in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1974 and the goal of those attacks was to erase Israel from the map. Now there is hypocrisy involved in these attacks on Israel for its recent activities. In the case of each person that have made anti Israel or anti Semitic arguments, their own country has a history of ethnic oppression of indigenous people, which in many ways is still going on. They seem to rejoice in the deaths of Israeli civilians and mourn the deaths of Palestinians who die in the reprisal attacks. I wish to point out a given historic, albeit borderline on myth, reason that the favoring of one over the other is not only stupid, but makes no sense. The Jews, Palestinians and Arabs claim one patriarch as the father of their races, that patriarch being Abraham. The good news is that the genetics of Arabs and Jews have been pretty extensively researched. The classic study dates to 2000, from a team lead by Michael Hammer of University of Arizona. They looked at Y-chromosome haplotypes - this is the genetic material passed from father to son down the generations. What they revealed was that Arabs and Jews are essentially a single population, and that Palestinians are slap bang in the middle of the different Jewish populations (as shown in this figure). so there is some scientific proof to the common patriarch belief. But what I cant wrap my head around is how people can condemn the Israelis for doing things that are in their own national history. People on both sides are dieing, and that is a tragedy. What is worse is that genetically, they are all related to each other. Well, as long as we get rid of the Jews, blacks, Mexicans and Asians....what harm can there be?
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