If the Palestinians laid down their arms there would be peace. If Israel laid down its arms there would be no Israel. Think about that carefully for a moment.

If the Palestinians laid down their arms Israel would walk all over them and they would be "ethnically cleansed". It's not nice when innocent people get killed but at some point you have to say enough is enough and start fighting back. Bending over and taking it might be what you would choose, but it's not a realistic option for most people.

Ideally we would wipe religions like Judaism and Islam of the face of the world and that would be one less thing for people to argue about, but I'm sure there would be something else!

Agree with the statement "If the Palestinians laid down their arms there would be peace. If Israel laid down its arms there would be no Israel". If the Palestinians laid down their arms, Israel would ethnically cleans them and there would be no more Palestinians hence peace would follow. If Israel laid down its arms there would be no more racist zionist state, allowing Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Christians, etc to all live together in peace in a democratic Palestine.

The majority of Palestinians are not armed but it is not true that those who are armed are the impediment to peace. Read some books about this such as Chomsky's Fateful Triangle; is is Israel, the US and the UK who always oppose peace in the Middle East at the UN. They were joined only by South Africa before the end of the official racism of Apartheid there. What do you mean by "No Israel"? Do you mean that people would live together without the official racism of a so called Jewish State? What's wrong with that?
No one is pretending that any race is "innocent" but this does not give you the freedom to exterminate them. Do you think that if the Warsaw Ghetto resistance had laid down their arms there would have been peace there?
But the higher you build your barriers, the stronger we become
BBC: Gazans cut through Egypt's border barrier:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8664316.stm

There are also a few photos with the Sheffield report.

If Israel wanted to "ethnically cleanse" the Palestinians, it would - it would take more than a few Palestinian Kalashnikovs, home-made rockets or suicide bombers to stop them. Israel has plenty of military ability to get rid of the Palestinians entirely but it hasn't.

On the other hand, if the Arabs ever got the upper hand, there is no question that they would ethnically cleanse every Jew from the country, as they have from all the Arab countries since the Second World War. Almost every Arab country had a significant Jewish minority 70 years ago but now none remain after continuous Arab hostility, expulsions etc.

@reality check^^^^ is following the line of CAMERA. A zionist pressure group,designed to reject any critisism of israel, no matter how legitimate. Please scroogle CAMERA.

@Ed

To understand why Jews from Arabs countries left for Israel see:

IRAQ:

 http://www.inminds.com/jews-of-iraq.html


Over half a million other Jews came from Islamic lands. Zionist propagandists claim that Israel "rescued" these Jews from their anti-Jewish, Muslim neighbors. One of those "rescued" Jews-Naeim Giladi-knows otherwise. In his book, Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah & the Mossad Eliminated Jews, Giladi discusses the crimes committed by Zionists in their frenzy to import raw Jewish labor. Newly-vacated farmlands had to be plowed to provide food for the immigrants and the military ranks had to be filled with conscripts to defend the stolen lands..

Quote:

"About 125,000 Jews left Iraq for Israel in the late 1940s and into 1952, most because they had been lied to and put into a panic by what I came to learn were Zionist bombs.. The terrible truth is that the grenades that killed and maimed Iraqi Jews and damaged their property were thrown by Zionist Jews."

YEMEN:

Rabbi Goldstein gives a historic overview of zionism and the creation of the zionist state:

 http://www.inminds.com/rabbi-goldstein-judasim-and-zionism.html

Operation Magic Carpet - How the zionists got the Jews from Yemen to come to their zionist state.

We have a sentence in the Torah which says that God says he will take us on the wings of eagles to the Holy Land when its time to come. The Yemenites had never seen an aeroplane in their lives - suddenly a message has gone out that the wings of eagles are here, the Messiah has come. The zionists had put the actual text of the sentence in old Hebrew on the planes - "these are the wings of eagle". The Jews of Yemen all rushed in because this was the salvation - they had never seen such a thing.

When they got to the zionist state they were taken in to camps, they were taught a different life to the life they had lived before, an immoral life, an irreligious life - and they protested. There are cases still going today - this was in 1949 and 1950.

One of the main scandals that was known was that their children, their babies were stolen from them during health checks, and all of them, or a lot of them seemed to have died suddenly - no body knew where the graves were. In reality they were sold at the time 1949-50 for $5000 a baby to America, to Mexico to all sorts of childless couples. It came to light when these babies who were not really registered as dead reached age 18 they were suddenly called up to the army. They were told their babies had died 18 years ago, but now they are supposed to be serving in the army...

So virtually entire Jewish populations of dozens of countries abandoned their homes of centuries just because of some Zionist propaganda and bombings? Either these Jews must be exceptionally crafty (the Zionists) or easily frightened (those who fled) according to this story.

I'm afraid that is an implausible re-writing of history to make it fit an anti-Zionist narrative.

I think history shows that it takes a very high degree of persecution for entire groups of people to abandon their homelands en-mass. It isn't done at a whim or just because of some propaganda or a few incidents.