Is There Middle Ground for the Middle East--what would make a compromise?

I am happy to see this thread back in action again !! I really hope that all read what Mycernius has written above, and this immediately following paragraph before I go into my basic post here:

I originally opened this thread based on ideas and hopes which I have towards a future social state, and the conversation between two members' discussion in the 'All Things Japan' forum area. The theme of this thread, as well as it's topic and discussion area, is focused on what would make a compromise in the Middle East. That would surely require some embedding on some points, but please keep in mind that discussing history will lead to nowhere, and that just complaining about the ills or wrong doings of this or that local government in the area, will probably end up in circular patterns of debate. I would hope to see more synergizing here !! What WOULD make for a compromise?

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I have not been much of a fan of the general Israeli government for some time now. To a larger degree, I have taken the ills caused by that general government to be real, and to be problematic. That said, however, I tend to feel that the US/UK push to give a nation-state to the Jewish people was about as altruistic a movement as any great political move towards a certain people, down on their luck, could be. If such altruistic emotions had been equally shared by the local nations of that time, things may well have gone more smoothly.

Now, however, it is clear that there is far too much tension. While not all elements of tension may be eradicated, a good compromise would be nice.

I would say that as a first step, the concept that any of the land belongs to any single national/tribal group should have to be balanced by the concept that all the planet is that to which we 'belong.'

As a second step, the divisive concept that the three religious belief-systems are non-inclusive would have to be balanced by the concept that none of the three can definitively claim validity over the others in the final analysis.

As a third step, all the general governments would have to relinquish a much larger degree of sovereignty to the UN.

The vehicle to promote and activate these changes would be a well balanced, objective and open-minded education system that would be equal to all populations of all the nation-states involved. I hope to look at these too.
 
We're sitting in front of our computers, in relative peace, comfort, obviously we view problems as people who live in comfort and peace, but the war-torn Israel can't allow himself to show any signs of weakness, or willingness to make a compromise, otherwise there will be no compromise, but simply a retreat on their behalf.
 
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Derfel said:
the war-torn Israel can't allow himself to show any signs of weakness, or willingness to make a compromise, otherwise there will be no compromise, but simply a retreat on their behalf.

Yes, as goes the general homo sapien patriarchal social groups template of problem solving. (as is similar in most animal templates too) How long would it take an education program to radicate that template?
 
its all very easy for you people to judge on this or that mars man when you dont have friends and relatives dying in israel on a daily basis. nor have you lived there. you dont know how badly they want us dead and that their culture is rotten to the core right now with hatred for us. it has nothing to do with israel taking land did the hebron massacre
The Hebron Massacre of 1929
which took place in 1929 have something to do with stealing land from them or antisemitism?
 
Israel can protect themselves as much as they want from the 1967 borders. If Israel wants peace then what it shouldn't do is annex more land on a daily basis in the Occupied Territories against international law.

We live in on Earth where land is dived into countries. We have borders. Israel is the only country in the world which has not defined its final borders yet. That is why Israel keeps annexing more land. against international agreements and law.

Israel can exist as much as it wants aslong as Israel pulls back to 1967 borders and give freedom to the Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories.

The other alternative is to annex the entire Occupied Territories.

Perhaps some of the Arabic speakers on this forum could come with a few inputs here. As far as I know, "Intifada" is an Arabic word derived from the root nafada, meaning "to shake". It means to shake off .It doesn't mean to destroy Israel rather to fight for freedom, break free from oppression.

http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/faqs/35.shtml
 
Should Israel pull back terrorist activity would still remain intense, antagonism is a plant that cannot be weeded out, now how does pulling back benefit him in that case? It doesn't, and as long as it doesn't Israel won't pull back.
 
Perhaps some of the Arabic speakers on this forum could come with a few inputs here. As far as I know, "Intifada" is an Arabic word derived from the root nafada, meaning "to shake". It means to shake off .It doesn't mean to destroy Israel rather to fight for freedom, break free from oppression


Yes ...that is right ..It doesn't mean to destroy..

you can say ( he is shaking off dust )

and thanks for reply ..
 
Pugtum san, please. I ask you to really think about it in depth, as I ask all others joining in to do as well ! We are looking forward in time, to a point at which there is an agreed upon compromise in effect. We are talking about what steps must be taken to achieve such a goal. We are not, I repeat are not talking about what may or may not be happening at this moment, because we know, for a fact, that at this moment there is no all encompassing compromise of such nature that understanding and inter-state relationships are functioning.

Why is it that so many of you posting here cannot get the concept across? Really...our discussion here is not about history. That will lead us nowhere. (now can you can't the number of times I have said that? And what? you still do not believe me? Ok, then the only thing I can say is to wait another some 40 years (as seems to be the case with some) or another 20 something (for others) and you'll have learned exactly what I mean !!!)

If pugtm, you were really concerned about anyone dying due to the instability in that region, then you would be interested in a compromise by which there would be no fighting other than average crime rates...as experienced by any country in the world, basically. And that would go for all the other posters here who live in that general area !!

centrajapan said:
We live in on Earth where land is dived into countries. We have borders.

Ok gentlemen and ladies (though few are posting here at the moment) here is another question (the first one [asked just above, which was ignored] will come up again, you can bet on it) Why is it that a single planet need to be divided into territories? And, uh, should we be sure to mark ours with our waste liquids? (just so everyone will be able to smell the difference?)

Why do we need to superimpose an out-group in order to maintain our in-group? AND How long would it take an education program to eradicate this template?

I hope to get some thought going on this...rather than just a bunch of uneventful, non-unifiable attempts at justifying the present situation.
 
Derfel why do you always see things from your point of view, or how israeli people are being torn out by war?? we are the ones who were mostly slaughtered!!
we had 1200 civilian deaths last summer alone...in one month of fighting...

still i would take a compromise and have a peaceful solution if possible....( again i say this is not of cowerdice, i am more than willing to fight - but this is out of the persue of greater good to human kind )
killing is in no way good...
personally, this may insult some people on the other side, but i dont even want israel to exist...i believe this land is ours and no one else's....
israel doesnt want arabs around either...
but the fact is we are here...and they are here...
so what will we do about it???

either two: fight and drain life, kill, slaughter, hurras, crush, spill blood, make life hell.

or solve this peacfully by compromise from both sides.

please dont say what is not nessecary...no one knows how war feels till he live through it....i have no fear for nothing...but i have great sorrow and grief everytime i remember the image of a child dead right before me....

plus i think it is time for israel to compromise, the palestinians compromised a lot in Oslo and camp david...so much!
now they are left with 20 % of historical palestine...and even this israel isnt willing to grant them!
israel should compromise if they wanted peace...if they didnt then you should all record to history that israel was the side that ruined peace.
 
scorpion da black said:
... israel should compromise if they wanted peace.

Rather than this, it would have to be, without any doubt whatsoever, ALL parties involved compromising. It is not up to only the general government/hard-line religious belief-system's adherents of Isreal, but of each and every other nation-state in the region ! Otherwise, it will never, ever happen ! Enough of time has passed to show that to be the case.
 
mars man sama
there is a difference between intuition and hopes...

i hope there will be peace, but my intuition says blood will fill our days to come.
 
Yet, we are basically discussing neither 'hopes' nor 'intuitions' here. Here, we are discussing steps for a compromise. Therefore, in order to do that, we have to lay out concrete propositions which, if implemented, would lead to a compromise.

Would you not agree, that two people simply standing around with guns pointed at each others head shouting at the other to lay down their weapon first, in a heated sense of anger and desperation, would really lead to any quick compromise on the situation other than that of the situation itself? Surely not ! We have to try to see what steps might be needed for a compromise...or are you arguing against a more productive compromise than mutual hatred and distrust?
 
ALL parties involved compromising

MarsMan. Palestinians have already compromised. They are willing to make a state divided into 3 of 20% of historic Palestine. What more is there to compromise? The other alternative is to merge the country into 1 and give equal rights to everyone whether they are Palestinian MUslims, Christians or Jews. Both Semitic Jews and Zionist Jews.
 
steps that should be taken to start a positive relation between paletine and israel:

- israel backs to 1967 lines
- palestinians pulls all arms from militias and only keeps it in hands of military to be made.
- palestinians rerbuild their infra structurs and ports...and increases welfare, because when welfare is found, hostility is decreased.
- palestinians should adobt a healthy educational system that preaches greater human values...education wipes away ignorance and gives chance for problems to be solved by conversation not by hands...kind like educated people in this forum who are ready to have a healthy debate.
- israel should back out all military forces from frontlines with palestinian territories, and focus on giving the same educational awarness to stop the hatered, rather than have more zionist extremists.
- building the fundimentals of commercial relations between israel and palestine...economy can heal politics...when welfare is found due to trade people will pay less attention to differences and fighting.

these are some steps that can be taken
 
I heard there are more university graduates among Palestinians than among any other people in the Middle East.

The Real Face of the Palestinians on JSTOR

There is already an academic boycott in many European countries of Israel. As weak as the Palestistinians are they have one triumph card. They are the gate keepers of the Middle East.
 
very true, palestinians are some of the brightest of all students...
and they have the greatest willing ness to study hard even with many majors.
this due to the feeling of valunrability.
palestinians has no goverment to take care of them and protect them and their rights...so they feel like they have to be strong to face the tides...strong to take theirs.
and education is that streangth.

that shows just how amazing these people are.
from all lebanon i salute them.
 
I still say you guys are really missing the point. We have no choice here people, but to understand the fine nuances of the fuller concept which lies within the word 'compromise.' We are not talking about 'offers' by one of the minimum of two, we are talking about a compromise of which all parties have agreed upon and stand firmly dedicated to. At the moment there is no compromise at all, and there hasn't been one from the very founding of that nation-state, Israel.

Gentlemen, it is most clear that the borders of the original nation-state of Israel had been meaningless. If that had not been the case, they would surely still be in place, but, then again, that is not my point. My point is that we do not need borders !!

centrajapan said:
The other alternative is to merge the country into 1 and give equal rights to everyone whether they are Palestinian MUslims, Christians or Jews. Both Semitic Jews and Zionist Jews.

This is getting close to what is needed, but still not enough.

I like the gest of your proposals, scorpion da black san, that is going in the right direction too. Still, I would argue that the education program will have to start first. As I had drawn out by analogy in a post above, the parties have to simultaneously be educated so as to act in equal, sychronized steps together in a balancing act.

For this reason, the education system will have to tackle the very fabric of the common person on the street, it will have to go above present relgious belief-systems in authority, and will have to be spread evenly between classes and sexes.
 
I still think you are missing the point MarsMan. The question I ask you is why is not Israel willing to compromise? Terje Rød Larsen who was an UN broker in the ME said the reason why Americans show less sympathy towards the palestinians is because they don't know what it is like to have their country taken away as Americans together with Israelis are conqurors. One is trying to conquor the other is resisting. So what is the natural step for a compromise? Stop trying to conquor more so that we don't need to resist.
 
So, let me see here, then, centrajapan san, are you talking about something historical in nature?
 
Yes I am. Not only historic but because of historic parallels there are more similarities between that culture and any country which is new. Israel is a new world country. They might have old ancient scripts used to their own advantage which says it is theirs but Israel is still a new country. The flip side of it is that no old culture is static. NO culture is. So if they both start to understand better the dynamics of the old and the new things might work better than they do now.

If you take other examples of new world countries. Australia, USA, it was a fairly rough fight to get to where they are now. The struggle against Israel-Palestine could be very well compared with USA, Australia in many ways but due to the struggle being 2-400 years later and on a different place this battle is differnet from the previous.
 
OK, so then what can be applied from the knowledge of the portions of history that can be agreed on by all parties involved, so as to cause the rise of a desire to put history behind them, and work for the future by concrete actions in the present?
 
i am afraid the same fait that the red indians faced upon the creation of america awaits the palestinians after the creation of israel.
every new world state has to demolish the previous nation and its people to be.
 
i am afraid the same fait that the red indians faced upon the creation of america awaits the palestinians after the creation of israel.
every new world state has to demolish the previous nation and its people to be.

OK, so how would that be used in working on reaching a compromise, then?
 
that depends on the will of the main strong nations as US, Uk, france...etc.

would they allow such replacment of nations to happen again?or will they push into compromise.
neither Israel nor Palestinians seem willing to compromise...will they fairly be persued to do so?
and i used the word fairly because if the great nations choose to push one side to compromise and not the other, more trouble and greater havoc will happen.
 
face it mars man this thread is going nowhere just lock it up for good.
the war will end when either we are gone or they are.
 
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