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| This is not just dirt, this is holy Land, and in the religious sense of the word....it does mean more than dirt. |
you are correct, it's the center of the three religions, but Christians do not fight for this land anymore. Besides, if it's holy, it doesn't mean it should belong to all who feel that it's holy for them. According to the Bible, Eden, where our first ancestor Adam lived, is located in Iraq. That doesn't mean that Iraq should belong to the Jews, to Christians or to be an international country. If there is peace, everyone can visited everywhere, if people fight over this land, it will be a waste of human lives, and for what?
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| There have been millions over the centuries that were willing to die for that dirt. |
These lands were occupied by many different nations, but they mostly did so because this land was a very vital strategical point - a path to north Africa, an opening to two seas. The Greeks, for example, didn't conquer the land because it was holy, they wanted to extend their empire further to North Africa.
Many battles were fought on that land, but there were many battles fought on other lands, it's just that the history (thousand years B.C.) of other lands haven't been documented much in detail if at all, or perhaps these lands weren't much inhabited back then.
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| the neighbouring Arab countries have taken in 100's of 1000's of them since 50's . They do not want or need more refugees. |
taken back and don't forget that most (if not all) of these refugees originally came from these Arab countries.
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| They do not want or need more refugees. As well the Palestinians in the camps lack for money, skills etc. to make a life elsewhere. Not too mention the Israely forces do not allow them to travel. For all intents and purposes they are in extremely large prisons. |
Some of them are, others are far from being in such a situation. Do you have ICQ? If you do, have you wondered why there are HUNDREDS of Palestinians who use it everyday? (and it's only in ICQ) That must mean they have computers, electricity and internet connection, and if they can allow that, I believe they can allow other things that make their life quality a little bit higher than what people describe here. I've contacted some Palestinians. One works in a Bank in the Palestinian territories, the other one is a computer engineer who works in Israel... and how can he work in Israel if IDF doesn't allow them to travel? Some are allowed. I don't know who is and who isn't and why, and I hope that those without weapons are allowed and I believe they have reasons to disallow people from going places.
There are schools and universities in Palestinian territories. They can get the proper education and go abroad and study there as well as work there.
Now things get better, meetings are committed (even today Sharon and Abu Mazen had a meeting), Hamas agreed to cease-fire. Only Al-Aqsa martyr brigades disagreed. I cross my fingers and fully hope that the diplomacy will succeed, there will be understanding, trust and obedience at both sides, and that the peace plan will be realized. It's better for everyone.
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