Do Israelis want peace with Palestinians?

Question

I've talked to Iranians and Palestinians they do want peace it's just that they have no say in how their government is run just like the rest of the Arab countries.

But Israel is a democracy so why do they keep on voting for a government that puts their lives at risk?

Unless it's like Britain where thousands of peole are against the war in Iraq but no matter who we vote for they'll stay (unless you vote the BNP :P) Then if that's the case can British people really judge Israelis? Most are very nice :)

No rude comments please just sensible opinions.

Answer 1

I was born in Israel but left when I was 26 because I could not stand to see the inhumane way the Palestinians were treated, they are looked upon and treated worse than animals. I can assure you that the Israelis have no intention of agreeing peace because they will only be happy once they have stolen all the Palestinians land, this is why the Palestinians are going to the U.N. to try and get statehood, though of course the Israelis poodle (U.S.) will veto their application.

Answer 2

The Israelis have always had governments who were concerned with security and keeping the nation safe. You must remember they have had several wars with their next door states since the day they became a nation. Yes they want peace but they want it on a basis of being recognized as a nation and having the right to exist. Some of the Palestinians still deny this recognition of the state of Israel and this is a problem. The areas occupied by the Palestinians are not their original areas but areas from other countries which Israel has captured during a war.



The Israelis are not putting their lives at risk by voting for a strong government with people in the party who are very vocal about keeping the nation well armed and a strong defence. This has served them well since their beginning. The Palestinians need to get their act together and realize that if they shape up and formed a decent government and voted for peace they would have more trade, more jobs and live better. Takes time but they have wasted years in fighting and not taking the better way. They have squandered millions in aid and still haven't really advanced their peoples lives.

Answer 3

"Mr. Netanyahu ! Tear down that wall !"



I dont know how democratic Israel is when it occupies another people, is compared to South African apartheid and has religious parties in its seat of government ruling the country with the secular parties.



Well, you describe the U.S. as well. Protests and demonstrations did nothing about Iraq.



Israelis wont agree to Palestinian demands and vice versa. They wont budge and this is a stalemate for 20 years since before Arafat, so how can they negotiate an independent state together. Thats why Abbas is going to the U.N. What else can they do at this point?



I dont know how the problems will be resolved. I somehow dont have faith that a full state will be approved because then they would have sovereignty and throw out the checkpoints and border guards, stop the Heritage site plan and archeological digging, bulldozing Arab homes, destroying olive and lemon groves, end the sea and land blockade of Gaza, allow Gaza to move goods and money in and out, the usual institutions of any free state.

Answer 4

Except for this current administration, Israel has voted for those who seek peace for over a decade.



In fact, it was Israel who withdrew from most of the WB and Gaza as a starter for peace talks with the PLO/PA. The result was MORE incitement against and attacks on Israel than before.



Here is the kind of "peace" one finds in the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza:



Last Friday, apparently one or more members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, the terrorist wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's "moderate" Fatah party, broke into the West Bank home of Udi and Ruth Fogel. The Jewish couple were stabbed to death along with their 11-year-old son Yoav, their 4-year-old son Elad and their 3-month-old daughter Hadas. Photographs taken after the murders and posted online show a literal bloodbath. Is Mr. Paulin satisfied now?



Unquestionably pleased are residents of the Palestinian town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, who "hit the streets Saturday to celebrate the terror attack" and "handed out candy and sweets," according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. The paper quoted one Rafah resident saying the massacre was "a natural response to the harm settlers inflict on the Palestinian residents in the West Bank." Just what kind of society thinks it's "natural" to slit the throats of children in their beds?



The answer: The same society that has named summer camps, soccer tournaments and a public square in Ramallah after Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian woman who in March 1978 killed an American photographer and hijacked a pair of Israeli buses, leading to the slaughter of 37 Israeli civilians, 13 children among them.



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576200270134133028.html

Answer 5

They want to maintain the status quo -- to continue building settlements and confining the Palestinians in prison-like ghettos.



Israel can't actually annex Palestine, because the combined population of Israel-Palestine is 6 million Jews and 6 million Palestinians, and such a combined country would be the end of a Jewish-ruled state.



At the same time they don't want to grant the Palestinians full independence.



So their choice is to keep the status quo.

Answer 6

probably the same reason as in the UK that u vote for a different party = the same party under a different flag with ever so slightly different policys

Answer 7

Yes.