A Plan of Attack For Peace

Can anyone inform me on the novel Exodus by Leon Uris. What is the plot? Thank you.

you are right Mead the called israel is not the only responsible for the palestinian grievence britain, US, france al helped to give birth to this country that's why they must now show their tough love to their spoiled child. don't bother your mind with possible solution for the middle east. israel will never live in peace she threw herself in the hell when she chose this land. she is surronded by arabs. maybe she is more powerfull as far as military is conserned but she seems to be as afish struggling to live in the ocean. we try to foret that it exist but every few years it reminds us killing a number of palestinians. we don't have weapons but we have people. each one of us is a bomb directed to isreal. how can we make peace with the killer of children, women, families at once. so don't try to clean the hand of isreal from our blood. you blame hama of throwing tese stony rockets to justify the massacres israel did and now she wants peace. shall we shake hands and kiss them? believe me i am not against the jewish or against the two states but israel has gone too far in this war and if the arab governors will try to forget we the people will not and will transfer this hate to our children. everyday i made my children watch the horrible pictures of the war and teach them to hat isreal

Listen to yourselves!I am ashamed that I live in a country of such uneducated fools! This Arab-Jew-Christian conflict has been going on for thousands of years and will continue to do so.It is a classic good against evil.I'll let you decide which is which. On one side you have a group who wants to live in peace,one who allows freedom of religion,womens rights,freedom of speech and prospers greatly.On the other side,well they still ride camels,live in the middle ages in poverty,treat women like dogs,and want every one on the planet dead who opposes their false religion and refuses to live by their rules. You tell me which one serves a real God and lives in reality! am deeply concerned over the plight of the innocents being shelled in Gaza. Civilian casualties are always upsetting in any war.
However I find it equally upsetting and difficult to justify the continued relentless violent political positions and military aggressions that Hamas inflicts on Israel. This has been going on for way too many years. I am frustrated. Please do not confuse Hamas' indiscriminant launching of munitions on unspecified non-military targets as an act to defend a country. Thess are aggressive, disruptive, offensive military attacks, pure and simple.
First I ask this; what would your government do if 50-60 rocket/ mortor rounds a day flew in from the border of a country ruled by a hostile organization like Hamas? Let's not forget the public Hamas position; that Israel should cease to exist.
Next I ask.... How do you weed out the Hamas fighters that do not wear uniforms and fight from positions in heavily populated civilian areas? Further no one except Israel is attempting to arrest them for their violent militant activity? Hamas has done little control let alone stop this crap.
In my opinion Hamas has very poor leadership. They need to face the facts. They are facing an overwhelming dominant enemy who used its vastly superior army to establish a nation. Israel is not going anywhere soon and Hamas does not possess the military ability to do anything about it. Hamas' rockets are like shooting bullets at a battleship. That is why their army does not fight out in the open. Hamas can't win.
They need to face reality. Try thinking for a change. Negotiate....Hello!!! Israel has what you say you want. They have officered most of it too you. Make a deal. You can get your own country. Why don't you try showing the world how good you are by developing a strong successful nation without the aggressive militant stuff?
Smart leaders who are facing defeat or significant losses negotiate. Dumb bloodthirsty headstrong radicals put their own populations in harms way in order to fight to the bitter end.
Fatah will get their piece of the pie through smart negotiation.
Hamas???..It???s time to wake up!
Palestinians???.don???t forget to vote for true leaders

Its a mistake to pretend that "both sides" are equally responsible for the failure of diplomacy. If Israel wanted peace more than it wants the Palestinians land, it would not have STARTED the so-called "settlement activity" in the first place... this "activity" from the inception was intended to make it impossible to return of any of the lWest Bank and seized by Israel's military invasion of 1967 to the Palestinians, and of course, it has accomplished that purpose. If Israel ever came to want peace more than the land since then, it would have at LEAST stopped FURTHER settlement activity...it SHOULD dismantle the settlements entirely, and withdraw its own citizens to its own territories... but it has never done either of these things, or declared any willingness to even consider doing so.

There has been one consistent aggressor in this conflict over land since 1947: Israel, which seized MOST of Palestine in 1947-48, and the rest in 1967, driving most of the indigenous inhabitants into refugee camps or exile (or both), based on ethnicity... what we came to call "ethnic cleansing" when it happened in the Balkans. So long as all violent resistance to this aggressor is dismissed as "terrorism", while the aggressor's own violence is falsely called "self-defense", there will be no justice in Israel/Palestine. No justice, no peace.

It is incredible how you are deforming the reality, the truth is that this is not a religious issue, it is the story of a people whose land has been stolen by Israel with the benediction the so called free world. Hamas members & all Palestinians have the right to fight for their land, even though you persist to call them terrorists. This right is granted by all international laws & conventions.
The worse is that Israel did not respect the peace treaty with Hamas who respected it, they have killed several Palestinians, & also imposed an inhuman blockus on Gaza strip, and now they are killing children & women, still with the benediction of the so called free world.
Palestinians were given two alternative to die slowly or to under a coward war.
With your lies, you are participating to Gaza genocide & history will never forgive you, because it is written with the blood of innocents.

The Zionists rely on the Bible, the Torah, for their imaginary right to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people and to subjugate them. This is a pathetic joke! The Zionists have always been heretics and rejected all the fundamental tenets of our faith, and yet they have the nerve, the arrogance, the audacity, the chutzpa, to pretend to base their behavior on our holy Torah ( by Rabbi Y D Weiss) Throw away your zionist cuvinism that make your eyes blind, STOP Israel Attrocities at Gaza NOW

Dropping leaflets over Gaza to warn people that they should escape and keep away from Hamas, while killing civilians anyway, is a WAR CRIME! When do we stop supporting the Israeli suppression and genocide of the Palestinian people?

Why can't all of you see that what happened in Gaza is not a war, it is in fact a genocide. And why most Americans support this uncivilized act by Israel? women and children are dying there, for god's shake!!

Peace-Justice-Excellent!

Does anyone in here know the definition of irony? This article is attempting to discuss (quite poorly I might add since it seems to be based on opinions stated as fact) a resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict that could be acceptable to both sides. Yet even in the discussion portion of the article, where I'm guessing not many people are weighting in from Israel or Palestine, no one can agree or let alone admit what the problem is. Not to mention the fact that half the people in here are calling other people stupid when it's readily apparent that most of those people are barely literate. I'd like to leave you all with a scenerio regardless of what side you're on. What do you think the U.S. response would be if a radical arm of the Canadian military lined up on our northern border and started firing rockets into U.S. cities? I know exactly what our response would be and so do all of you. And for that matter, the idiots on the UN Security council know what they're response would be if someone did that to their country. This whole thing is stupid and has been for the last 1000 years.

"What if Israel defended its citizens the way the British, the French, the Americans and the Russians did? When German rockets hit British cities during the World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill retaliated by bombing German cities, killing thousands of German civilians, and promised to continue until Germany's unconditional surrender.

"The United States did the same following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The French did much worse in Algeria and the Russians showed no concern for civilian life in Chechnya or Georgia.

"The IDF, on the other hand, has gone to extraordinary lengths to minimize civilian casualties, despite the reality that Hamas deliberately fires its rockets from densely populated civilian areas and hides its rocket launchers in schools, hospitals and mosques".

So writes Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359815127&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

the creation of the state of israel is the biggest political mistake of the 20th century. jews are a religion not a nation. The mistake must be reversed. Israel must be hand over to the UN so the religious sites can be used freely by all religions and the jews, arabs and cristians of the region forced to live in peace under the UN umbrella. Untill we reverse the mistake it will be a never ending war that threatens to engulf the whole world in it...

Some like to go back in history just far enough to make Palestinians look like the victims. check this link out to see the history of the land hundreds of years ago. http://www.masada2000.org/historical.html

Israel accused of Gaza 'genocide'


The president of the UN General Assembly has condemned Israel's killings of Palestinians in its Gaza offensive as "genocide".

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann said he had never believed that the UN Security Council would be able to stop the violence in Gaza and that Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, had practically told the UN to "mind their own business" by continuing the offensive.

"The number of victims in Gaza is increasing by the day... The situation is untenable. It's genocide," d'Escoto said at the UN in New York.

Trie Israel is the real terrorists. I have been stating forever that this whole conflict is over Israel taking over Palestinian land. They would not be confined to Gaza if their land had not been confiscated and turned into illegal settlements. These settlements are being set up and are in total violation of international law. Some Americans as well as groups aimed at the Israeli goal support this kind of underhandedness. As I see it, regardless to Olmert's claim of what he is trying to achieve as far as Abbas and Fatah, it's just Israel's way of tring to take over the Gaza strip and further push Palestinians to the brink..