What are your reasons for supporting Palestine?

Question

I am a Muslim, so I automatically support my Muslim brothers and sisters in Palestine but I have noticed that the majority of the Palestinian supporters here are not Muslims. I really appreciate your support for Palestine, even though I am not Palestinian but I am grateful to all the Palestinian supporters. What is your reason for supporting Palestine?

This question is intended for the Palestinian supporters, but Jews can answer as well.

Answer 1

They're the TRUE people of that region

Answer 2

I'm a Unitarian and I am utterly appalled by the racist character of the current regime and it's brutality towards it's neighbors and it's relentless efforts to drive out the original inhabitants. There isn't a shred of evidence for any ancient jewish state,and obviously a plebiscite should have been held in 1947 to determine what the majority of the residents of Mandate Palestine wanted; I doubt they would have wanted a racist overlord neo-colonial state of brutish character. I support the Palestinians because I love them as a people and a culture,and because I respect the rights of all people to political self-determination.  

Answer 3

Because it's the right thing to do.

There's going to be a day that all the Jews of Israel will seek refuge in Palestine.

Remember these words.

Greetings.

Answer 4

i think palestine people suffering alot from jews cruelty and their condition is miserable thats the reason alot of people having soft corner in their heart.i doesnt hate jews but its history how the christian suffered from them they are so selfish and proudy people i been in israel i found they dont like no nation except them.

Answer 5

how can one support something that is not around?

i have nothing against the people who call themselves palestinians, who are not violent who dont cause trouble and problems, they deserve a homeland , where they came from , syria.

Answer 6

It's easier to support something imaginary then to actually do some research.

If your reason for support is because you are a Muslim than you are clearly brain washed, have you ever bothered to learn about the other side? I certainly have.

Answer 7

YES

Answer 8

I think it's extremely dangerous to "automatically" support anyone, especially just because they are part of a group (that perhaps you happen to belong to). We are ALL brothers and sisters. There are many Jews, Muslims, Christians, and others who do good things, and, sadly, many who do bad things.

I personally think there has been a lot of violence and misunderstanding on both sides, and don't condone any of the Palestinian acts of terror starting with Munich Olympics. But I think that Israel really started the conflict with the 1948 war (although it really goes back further), and has since been using its superior financial and military means to force its will on it neighbor. So the Palestinians have generally been getting the short end of the stick.

Answer 9

Every group of people has a right to govern/be governed as they wish.  It is not the right of someone else to impose their form of government on others.  If Palestine wishes to be a separate country, I'm for that.  If the Kurds wish to be a separate country from Iraq and Turkey, I'm for that.  If South Ossetia wishes to be under Russian rule, that is THEIR business, and Georgia and the "west" should support that--it is their right.  Just as it was in 1776, when the new world colonists wanted to be free from British rule.

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

Answer 10

This is a  handcuffed question, so

1.Again, there is no palestine

2.The "supporters" support out of hate for others and not love of yours.

3.THIS IS ISRAELS SITE, GO ASK THIS ON THE RAMADAN SITE.

Answer 11

Iman Al-Hams. She is and will always be in my heart, forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iman_Darwee...

Answer 12

Where to start!

The Zions ferocious acts upon Palestinians are 'just' unforgivable.

Zions filthy way of treating Palestinians on their own land, slaughtering the innocent souls and.................are just unacceptable.

There'll be a judgment day, for sure.

Im not Palestinian either.

Neither many of my friends (also Jewish)

who condemn Zionism and their murderous way of life.

Answer 13

i dont support palestine,support who? there is no such country, Palestinian Arab nationalism is largely a post-World War I phenomenon that did not become a significant political movement until after the 1967 Six-Day War and Israel's capture of the West Bank.Palestine was never an exclusively Arab country, although Arabic gradually became the language of most the population after the Muslim invasions of the seventh century. No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine. When the distinguished Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said: "There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in history, absolutely not."

Prior to partition, Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity. When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted:

We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic and geographical bonds

Answer 14

The non-muslim supporters are simply misguided and ill informed,I suppose since you automatically support your fellow muslims you support the janjaweed.

Answer 15

Palestine for ever.

jews out of the stolen land.

Answer 16

I am non muslim, non religious and support Palestine.

Kitty NYC hit the nail on the head for me, as each and every point was accurate.  Others said zions acts are unforgivable, and I believe that too.

In my own words, I will say that I simply believe in justice.

The zionists have no right to do what they have done.  

Answer 17

As a Catholic I am appalled by jewish "stewardship" on the Holy Land; we need to reestablish the old Christian-Muslim Associatins,study the original King-Crane Commission Report (online) and take it's recommendations seriously. This disaster should never have happened; Muslims and Christians have dwelt there in harmony for centuries. I love and respect the Palestinians and Islam,which I regard as a cousin religion.

It is interesting to note the level of denial with zionists. They persist in insisting that the Palestinian Territories do not exist as a legal governing body. Is this stupidity or ignorance or both,well,who can say. But they certainly do not come across as very intelligent. And - as we all know - negotiation leads nowhere with people that slow to understand realities. I say it's time for a revolution.  

Answer 18

Well those scarves that everyone has started wearing originated from there ha :p

Answer 19

Because their cause is righteous.