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The Israel-Palestine conflict for dummies (an unbiased view, seriously) [video]

Posted by / January 30, 2015

Unless you live in a cave, you know there is some kind of conflict between Israel and Palestine. Unless you’ve studied history or political science, though, you’re probably confused about the exact nature of that conflict. Here’s a historical, objective “crash course.”

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  • Mike

    This vdeo does not take into account the teachings of the Quran which order Muslims to kill Jews and Christians.
    Thus the struggle IS a religious struggle. The Muslims continue to call for the elimination of Jews (see news reports from Iran,Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, etc).

  • James M. Hamilton

    Vdeo? Take time to learn to proofread, Mike. Then provide us with evidence of your claims regarding the Quran, which for some reason I doubt you’ve read in its entirety. (I readily admit I haven’t, but I’m willing to trust the reports of scholars who have.)

  • s

    James. Spelling corrections? Really. Maybe you should use that time you used to proofread your post to do some reading or maybe even google before you type… and technically it’s “Qur’an”. The Old Testament has it’s fair share of righteous brutality, so I’m not trying to pick on a specific religion here, except to say that some have seemed to evolve past it, and some haven’t.

    http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=1&verse=1

    2:191 And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers.

    2:193 And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah.

    2:216 Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not.

    2:244 Fight in the way of Allah, and know that Allah is Hearer, Knower.

    5:33 The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom.