There once was a family who escaped from persecution in their homeland, and made their way to a great and open land where they were told they could take land and build a house. they decided after a few years to actually do this, and so build the house they did. it took a long time to establish the house, and they came upon many obstacles while building; but they finally managed to construct the house. they lived in this house, and prospered; the numbers of their family grew to be many, and the family added onto the house, making it even bigger. one day though, vandals came and burned the house, destroying much of it. many in the family managed to escaped the fire, but they were split up and scattered throughout the surrounding country not knowing who was alive or dead. they lived split up in their now much smaller groups for a while with families in the cities surrounding their home, planning to return to the home once it was safe and the vandals gone. but the vandals stayed, and the house was not safe to return to, so they lived amongst the other families for a long period of time. so long in fact that the house was taken over by the police and given to some foreign landlords, who let it out to renters to live in, even though they had no legal claim to the house. this went on for many years, until one day the family decided that they could no longer live amongst their neighbors, as they had overstayed their welcome upon the charity of others. the family decided to return to their great house, and to rebuild it to its former glory, but upon arriving there found to their dismay many strangers living in it, and the police claiming the rights to it. having no place to go they were determined to regain the house that they had built so many years before, and went to the police asking for the rights back. the police were inclined to return the house to them, but only if the landlords would allow it. the family struck a deal with the landlords, paying them a great sum of money for their house and land back, and then moved in. suffice it to say that the people who were currently renting living quarters in the house were not pleased by the news that these virtual strangers were moving back in and taking away the only place that they had, and so they resisted, fighting with the family who owned the house. it was a horrible mess, with many injured and much of the property damaged, and in the end the family decided to let the renters stay, but partitioned them off to a separate wing of the house; the east wing to be exact. the tensions remained high for many years, with scuffles and skirmishes happening periodically, the renters feeling abused by the family, and the family feeling that they always had to be on alert for fear of the renters causing problems. this unstable situation carried on for many years, with the problems becoming more frequent, and the damage more dire. the renters, jealous of the house that they felt was their property threw rocks and started fires, and even killed a few of the family members. in response to this, the family put restrictions on the renters such as less rights to travel through the house, less access to heat water and electricity, and eventually the issues became so bad that the family built a wall separating the renters off from the rest of the house. note that the family did not have to allow the renters to stay in the house, as legally the house belonged to the family, but they allowed the renters to stay because they felt that the renters did have some rights in the place. the renters decided that they could no longer tolerate what they felt were injustices to them, and so mounted a full scale attack against the family, breaking windows, setting fires to the rooms and generally causing a huge problem for the family which then shifted to murder of various family members. the family fed up with this violence went to the police for help, but the police turned their back on them saying that while they were the owners of the house, the renters had a right to be there, and since they were there nothing could be done about it. and so, with nothing left to do, the family decided to take matters into their own hands, against the wishes of the town they lived in, the family started to tear down the section of house in which the renters lived and both the renters and the city rose up against the family, but the family knew that if they did not get rid of the renters, nothing would change and more people would die. and so it started by the demolition of the living quarters of the renters, and when that did little more than provoke more murders, the family finally fought back, killing some of the renters and injuring many more in their attacks. and still this miniature war continues on even today.
who is right and who is wrong? the family is israel and the renters are the palestinians.... anyways, it is probably clear that i think that israel has a right to the land of israel, and that in war atrocities happen. you cannot have peace without justice, and justice cannot be reached without the enforcement of law and power.
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