carbajal07's Blog

    Many have told me to go back and read my history about the conflict between Israel and Palestine and I did just that because I only know one side to it and I want to be well informed. So I read and I asked and here is what I found out.
    At the beginning of the the 21st century the Ottoman empire was in control of most of the Palestine and the land that is now known as Israel, Gaza strip and the West Bank Jordan River and so forth. Okay,so after the WWI Palestine was under the control of the British who made promises to Arab and European and French Zionist how Palestine would be shared. Well this went on to having letters exchanged and well in the end Britain promised the Arabs that they would get their Independence after the war and at the same time the Jewish believed that in 1917 the Balfour Declaration stated that Palestine was the national home for the Jews. Okay so so far we have the British government playing mind games with them. But on top of that Britain signs a secret agreement with the French on how these two countries would be divide the Arab parts of the Ottoman Empire. So basically here is Britain trying to be sneaky or at least thats what it looks like promising everybody something.Well all of these promises only lead to problems between the Palestinian and the Jewish community. The Arab community was the majority since it was an Arab land. The Jewish community had "settled" there. Its kind of like what the Americans did to the Native Americans. So the Jews tried to create their homeland in the Palestinian homeland. Somewhere between 1936 to 1939 the Palestinian people rebelled which is only normal. Here are people trying to take their  homeland away or trying to claim something that is not theirs.Anyways the rebellion wasn't violent not until there was talk about splitting the country in half.
    In the end of WWII  under Resolution 181 they end up splitting Palestine into two parts 56 percent went to Israel and that was including the most fertile pieces of land. The other 44 percent went to the Arabs. Well in my behalf I think this sucks because this land was an Arab land and it was taken out of their hands just like that because it had not won its independence yet. Which by the way Britain promised them they would have their independence after the war. Right after the U.N casted its vote the fights began. Even thought the European (Jews) were small in number their military was well trained, well armed,and organized. The Palestinian people were not. Once Britain withdrew from the Jews quickly claimed their independence and took all the land assigned to them and more. By the end of this whole thing Israel took 77 percent of the land and the other countries had no interest in Palestine becoming an Independent country they as well took the rest of what was left . Egypt too the Gaza strip and Jordan took east Jerusalem and the west bank. Palestine was no longer even on the map.
    The Palestinian People were left with nothing. At least 150,000 were left in Israel and 700,000 were left trying to get away from the war found them selves in refugee camps forbidden to ever return home or they left to neighboring countries like the Gaza strip or West bank which by the way only lead to them later being ruled by Jordan and Egypt.
    Since then the Palestinian people find themselves in economic struggle dislocation and dispossession. Others live under the rule of Israel with strict military regulations and they aren't allowed to travel in or out of their area without permission if they are to do so they risk being arrested or expulsion.
    I could keep going on and on how the Palestinian people have struggle and continue to struggle but some people tend to be closed minded and then start writing me how Hezbollah and Hamas are this and that and they do this and that when they are their own organization just like Bush is our problem. Is you want to learn and be open minded read about it look up the history behind Israel and Palestine.

I have a question.Why are there still troops in Iraq? Didn't the U.S already do what they went there to do why are they still there? They got Saddam what else is left? To have dirty soldiers take advantage women there. Don't get me wrong not that I have anything against them, I have my cousin and my best friend and some friends out there not in Iraq but they are stationed in other parts of this world to serve our country. So I'm not saying all of them do those things but why waste money on keeping them there when there is nothing there for them. Those people have the right to run their own country not because America got its independence from the king did the Americans turn into crazy people. They created their own form of government and they created what is today America. Why don't we allow Iraq to start their own country? While America is at it why don't they take another dictator out of it. Why don't they invade Cuba? But they won't they are way too smart for that in the Middle East there is something there that they want Oil. As long as they remain there, there is a step closer of being able to get to it. I mean don't get me wrong but could someone explain to me why America is still there?

 How many times will i have to read lies. I'm tired of reading about how the U.S supports the Israeli's. How they say that the Palestinian people are terrorist and how they killing the Israeli people.How many times did Israel not invade their homes, how many time did Israeli troops take the Palestinian out of their homes and they stayed their until they used up all their food and water. The media does not tell you that it does not tell you how the Israel came and kicked the Palestinians out of their land. Bush says how the U.S will stand by Israel and fight terrorist. Let me ask a question, How would we as Americans react if Korea or lets say any country invaded us and took our land and you had their military staying in your homes eating up your food, not allowing you to go to certain parts of the country? Would you as an American just sit there and not fight back, or would you retaliate and try to get them the hell out of here no matter what it took? This is the situation for the Palestinian people but the media won't tell you that. It won't tell you how many children and families the Israeli soldiers kill they won't tell you how they are demolishing people houses so that it can all be just Israel. They won't tell you how the Palestinian people can't even go pray in their Mosques. The Palestinian people are not the enemy they are just like any other human being trying to fight for what is theirs. Just like we fought for our Independence.Its the same for them. Don't make Judgments with out knowing.As long as the U.S supports we are supporting killing children and destroying people's homes. If whoever reads this does not believe me google "free Palestine" or "Israel attacks Gaza." You'll find disturbing images of children and women being killed but they won't show you that or tell you that just couple weeks ago Israel attacked Gaza thats why it came to no surprise about that bomb that hit Israel yesterday. For everything there is cause and effect.