Violence is the core issue.
Reader comment on item: Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement
in response to reader comment: land is the main issue

Submitted by Zeva (United States), Aug 26, 2008 at 13:55

"...the core of palestinian issues is the land (west bank and Gaza strip) , therefore every related issues will be solved by violence ."

Really. So how come when Jordan and Egypt controlled the West Bank and Gaza, "Palestinians" said nothing and did nothing. Islamic violence is pathological. Any excuse will do and the Muslim leaders are really good at making up excuses.

There is not now, nor has there ever been an independent Arab or Muslim country called "palestine." It was made up by the US State Department and Arafat in 1964. Israel has always existed in the same place whether or no the world wished to acknowledge it. Before Arabs existed and before Islam was invented there was the independent state of Israel.

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