Originally Posted by
Falu
Looking at your 3rd answer, one can only assume you're not very familliar with the topic:
While Israel is mainly secular (secular-jews), it will not agree to be just a secular state, it cannot risk one of it's primary purposes of establishing a nation for Jews to be safe in by allowing another minority to eventually become bigger than the Jewish population (notice when I say Jewish, I don't mean religious Jews, I mean it from an ethnicity point of view, for example, I'm an Atheist-Jew, like you're an Atheist-American, Jews are a people, not just a religion).
This, imo, is completely understandable; Wether you'd like it or not, anti-semitism, is well engraved in the minds of many people around the world, mainly due to them being ignorant (as most people are).
Palestinians would never agree to this aswell, as:
1. Unlike Israel, most Palestinians (and Arabs for that matter), are religious, about 99.5% are Muslims, alot of them devout, secularism does not exist.
2. Islam > Democracy.
These reasons are also understandable, though I cannot support religion personally.
@ Soulcrusher,
You're a great example of brainless propoganda, every time I see one of your many posts on the subject, you refuse debating with logic, the notion of thinking objectively seems to be unfamilliar to you.
Pictures of children suffering are meaningless without the information behind them, throwing crude slogans (which are nothing more than that) is not appropriate for a legitimate discussion.
To you I advise trying to take a step back and look at the facts, I'm not saying Israel is right and you are wrong, I'm just saying there are 2 sides to every coin, and you ought to atleast recognise that.
I don't wanna go to personal levels, but you ought to try and communicate on the matter in a more intelligent way.