Why are most people blaming Israel for what is going on in the Gaza Strip & elswhere?

Question

I am just curious because many people are supporting Palestine but not Israel.

Thanks.

Answer 1

As stated previously...It is because people are ignorant and narrow minded. They think that all Israel does is bomb innocent people..that cannot be further from the truth. The truth is!.... Israel has repeatedly since it's foundation in 1945 being the victim of anti-semetisim throughout the arab world and it's people who will never and i mean NEVER recognize Israel as a state because they are JEWS and arab and jewish conflict goes back a long long time. So we have already established why arabs hate the israelis...but now why does Europe hate what Israel is doing in Gaza at the moment? well..easy..because the same people in Europe who are protesting against Israel are the same hippie ******* who are fighting to get rid of Israel as well..and beause of that stupidity, they inevitably support the terrorist organisations which the world is trying to get rid of, therefore making them stronger.

Answer 2

I think VASH got it right on why Israel is at fault as far as the root of the problem goes. I would like to add this to point out why Israel is at fault consistently:



A recent statistical analysis by three academics (one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one at Harvard and one from Tel Aviv University) found that an overwhelming majority of lulls in violence since 2000 (when the second intifada began) ended when Israelis killed Palestinians, sparking renewed tit-for-tat violence. According to Nancy Kanwisher, Johannes Haushofer and Anat Biletzki, "79 percent of all conflict pauses were interrupted when Israel killed a Palestinian, while only 8 percent were interrupted by Palestinian attacks." The pattern was "more pronounced for longer conflict pauses. ... Of the 25 periods of nonviolence lasting longer than a week, Israel unilaterally interrupted 24, or 96 percent."

Answer 3

I'll delve a bit heavier discussion than I usually do. I usually reserve spiritual for R&S but I'll shoot.



People don't quite understand the will of G-d. It is easier to blame Israel as a religious entity than it is to try to understand the will of G-d. They blame and hate on Israel because they hate G-d. Gematria for Sinai is hate and that's where G-d's law was given from. If they have issue with what Israel does, what Israel stands for, where Israel resides, then they also have issue with G-d. That is an abstract concept. Don't blame me for telling you this! I didn't make the rules, I just follow them and hey you asked what I think.



Back to more concrete thinking, people don't quite understand history in that Israel is also indigenous to the Middle East, specifically to Israel and is exactly where she should be. People seem to think that because there was a Palestine region in the Middle East that all these Palestine people belong there and that Jewish people don't. There never was a Palestine people separate from the rest of the Arabs. Jordan got 80 percent of the former Palestine region and a significant percent of the Palestinians are actually Syrian or Egyptian or from other areas in the Middle East. Israel did absorb many of the indigenous Arabs. Approximately 20 percent of Israel's demographics are Arabs. The rest of the Arabs moved there from other parts of the Middle East either to fight fledgling Israel and later settled in the West Bank or to take advantage of its early booming economic growth and left Israel back to their originating countries (this time as refugees and not being absorbed back.). They were not indigenous they were taking advantage of the situation. The PLO invented this massive Palestinian people to try to claim rights to Israel and put forth a propaganda campaign to sell it to the international public. People bought it. Arabs were always good at propaganda and lobbying for public sympathy. People just read too much of that propaganda.



The hater's hate and blame and then the gullible ones fall for the Arab propaganda.



Israel always had issues with putting forth propaganda and when people are faced with believing the truth or continuing to believe a lie, for many of them it's easier to believe a lie.

Answer 4

From what I've seen, most people are supporting Israel. However, people are blaming Israel because they are bombing and killing innocent children, women, and other civilians. They bombed a school that was supposed to be a safe haven, claimed that rockets were being launched from that site (using images from 2007) and later admitted that it was a mistake. But that doesn't bring back those children and their families who were killed in that bombing when they thought they were in a safe place.

Besides that, Israel has it in their power to end things. They have the military might, the Palestinians don't. Only they have is Hamas and some rockets. The Israelis who live near Gaza could move to other parts of Israel and be out of the line of fire, the Palestinians in Gaza don't have that option. They can't leave Gaza.

Also, Israel has been restricting humanitarian aid to Gaza for a long time. People have been living without the basic necessities of life. They attacked a UN truck that was carrying humanitarian aid, so now the UN is restricting that aid to protect its workers.

I'm not saying that Israel is the only one at fault here, but they have so much more power than the Palestinians, and they are using it to harm hundreds of innocents.

Answer 5

No matter what anyone believes, Israel appears to be the scapegoat of many problems in the world. It seems easier to just blame Israel and maybe even destroy Israel, rather than face all the other country's/militants against them. People have and will say "just get rid of Israel and that will solve the worlds problems".



Certain people just limit themselves to seeing Israeli forces bombing an outmatched Hamas, killing civilians and destroying bulidings that perhaps had no militants there. Hamas DOES have rockets/guns/weapons that are deadly---not little whiffle ball bats.



Or, when it comes down to who started(and started only--not anything else) the whole deal---- people just say it's Israel and their reason is that they stole the land. So evidently, Israel "deserves" to be punished for this--- whether they just sit idle and do nothing while having rockets launched at them, or not.....and IF they do something back, they are automatically the bad guy because way back when they "stole" the land.



I would like to add, it doesn't seem like Israel is messing around. War is war, and if you get in the way of their objective(not always avoidable!) or just happened to be in the wrong place---you might be killed. Israel wants this to stop and they don't really care what anyone else thinks(should they)?



I would like to see an effort by Hamas, to get away from civilians OR VICE VERSA, to try and prevent as many civilian casualties as possible.



I FEEL FOR BOTH SIDES---- I really do.

Just my opinion....

Answer 6

Because most people have a conscience, and what Israel is doing (killing innocent women and children with phosphorous bombs, denying journalists access for unbiased reporting) is unconscionable.

Answer 7

Because if I forcefully take over your house, and killed your sisters in process, now you live in your backyard with your family. I also placed blockade on your family, now you can only eat grass. Your parents are dying from illness with no medicines because of the blockade. You have no right to throw stones at "my" house. Or you "terrorists" will suffer more!



Is it clear?

Answer 8

Most people are blaming israel because they are the ones at fault here. If they never invaded palestine lands then this would have never happened. Israeli soldiers have killed almost 900 palestine civilians, 80 % of them being women and children in the past two weeks...now you tell me?...whose fault is it that those people were murdered?

Answer 9

For askmeanything:

Truly and honestly the best answer I've seen on this topic anywhere...

Answer 10

Isreal's revenge is getting too violent and is in a scale of invasion.



U.N. should unarm Isreal so that both sides can talk with each other.

Answer 11

darling,what palestinians?No such a thing...they BELONG to Israel.

Now if you brain/pride works a bit you will get it

Live free or die

Answer 12

Idiocy knows no bounds. They just read the press clippings put out by the Arab papers.

Answer 13

They are ignorant, that's why. All who support Palestine are supporting TERRORIST DOGS.