[sarujin]

This is an interesting issue, My views on it though may be different too alot of other peoples (so please don't get too offended).

Well the land around there 2000 years ago, used to be all jewish, but then they were driven off by the arabs (history shortened to basic). So thats why the jews have gone so long without a homeland. So after world war II, the UN and US decided to give the Jews a homeland again. Of course they put it where Israel is today, but the problem is it was un-defencable!!! So thats why Israel took more land in the 6day war (not sure of date), slowly they have given some land back. Then it is now todays situation..

So today you have both countries fighting over areas of land like the gaza strip, etc. Other countries like Lebanon and Jordan occasionaly have attacked Israel as well. But I believe no matter how many peace talks and concessions there are, there can never be peace there. Why do I think this.... Name me a war, where there has never been a winner (ie a stalemate has happened) and peace has occured??!!!! The closest i know of is North and South Korea, and still look at the issues between them!!

So what I believe the rest of the world should do, is keep a watchful eye on it (too stop the conflict spreading into other countries), and let the two countries fight it out. Its now their problem not the rest of the worlds!!

sarujin