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Survey: Half of Israeli Jews oppose having Arab neighbors
Aviad Glickman
Published: 30.11.10, 14:44
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31. NOBODY in eurabia wants to live next to arabs...
Trumpeldor ,   eurabia   (11.30.10)
32. I think there was a comparable poll
Youssef ,   Beirut   (11.30.10)
in Germany back in the 30s where people were asked if they would like to live next to Jewish neighbors. Congratulations, you just passed the comparison test !
33. #18 JAKE, you also live in fantasy world
chris ,   wales   (11.30.10)
So living in Canada is also ill mannered becuse you have described Canada simlar to Israel? so you would be happy to have your daughters,sisters dicriminated against? Pull the other one Jake,if your Canadian then you have a very selective point of view. can you reply here and tell me what attracts you to the Arab Regimes? It because The Jews have been discrimnated against throughout their EXISTENCE,Hat they are not going to Tolerate it now! is that Bad now is it?your thought and views betray your agenda Jake. let me make it clearer to you Jake,Even if the Arabs did not hate Israel,they,Israelis, have enough reasons to not want them as Neigbors.
34. Actually, Chrissy, #19, I HAVE LIVED AND I LIVE NEXT TO...
John ,   Europe   (11.30.10)
...a member of a nation that way my goi-nation (I am a Jew) was in war with. I live in a county in Europe that had wars not long ago. And yes, my neighbor is the member of the "enemy" nation. And what, I should kill him because he is the member of the nation who was the enemy? You IRA? Or similar peace loving organization? Or your Irish ass does not understand the fact that one day, if you have 2 nations on one territory, as a neighbors, you will have to relinquish your hate and start judge people by what they have done? If you don't understand that, do not curse and spit when Brits storm you in Belfast or anywhere, just because you are Catholics and Irish.
35. happy to be without any religion
Berk ,   Amsterdam, Holland   (11.30.10)
I get tired of all religions! A better world starts in your own heart. Take your own responsibility...
36. Life is short, there is no reason for most
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (11.30.10)
people to make it even shorter...
37. salma #27
David ,   Haifa Israel   (11.30.10)
the truth hurts thug?
38. I agree with Gee # 15, Glad he is from Israel
Rami of Nazareth ,   Israel   (11.30.10)
Too bad majority of posts are more of the radical/hateful side...
39. Brad #13
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (11.30.10)
Are you a racist? Yes moron you are one. How do you know that one or more of neighbors aren't Jewish? Do you check? In short you have no idea. As for the percentage of Jews in jail around the world - the reality is that it is one of the lowest in the entire world. Over 99% of the people in US jails are either Christian or Muslim. Jews comprise of far less than 1/100th of a percent. Hum very telling who is the criminals in America. As for the slurs and incitement - it is you not us. Very telling. Why does a racist moron come to an Israeli news site?
40. # 10
Hakim ,   Palestine   (11.30.10)
Then keep your sorry ass in the U.S.A .
41. to 29
n   (11.30.10)
Have you ever heard the expression "Good fences make good neighbours"? Maybe if Hezbollah behaved itself you would have an easier time with Israel as a neighbour.
42. #38
chris ,   wales   (11.30.10)
I don't find much hatred except from those who are against Jews. Mine are realistic and based on Reaity. Some Jews want to put their head in the sand and rasionalise the Facts. I agree with 15 also except it unrealistic in Islamic Arab culture..Don't you think so? on the whole,Israelis have good reasons to dislike Arabs,Not to hate maybe,But dislike which is a natural reaction from someone who is sick and tired of Seeing their Nations Demonized to the same degree as the Nazis did..You have to take on board that most Nations hate Israel exactly because of the Arab world's Potrayal of Israel. Sating the facts is not being a radical or Hateful. If you live next door to a Criminal who wait for the opportunity to plunder your house and rape your daughters and wife,You would have plenty of reasons to Dislike that Criminal! as an Outsider,I can see the damage the Arabs have done to the Image of Israel around the world,This is very concerning in light of what happened 70 years ago..don't you see the point? Rami,are you JEWISH OR An Arab?
43. One Thing Very Much In Favor of Harediem
emanon ,   USA   (11.30.10)
At least your haredi neighbors aren't going to blow themselves up, on accident or otherwise.
44. # JOHN IN EUROPE
chris ,   wales   (11.30.10)
Who said anything about Killing anyone except you broght it up..and your Geography is very poor because Irealnd is not in wales,vise versia. I am a Christian who will live and die Defending Israel and Jews against The Hate Jews/Hate Israel Mob..It like the 30's all over.. Israel does not have to relinquish anything because the hatred comes from one side. he Ira situaton cannot be compared to the Arab-Israeli situation. The Ira as bad as they where,never made a cliam on Britain,never asked for Ireland to free of English people..I Never supported them but they where Kindergarten cmpared to the Arab Terrorists. You can never compare these two situations. Again,Would you live the rest of yur life under the oppressive Arab,or Islamic regimes?
45. salma
zionist forever   (11.30.10)
Salma 1) The Jews were living in this land long before the arabs ever left the Arabian Peninsula and they have been living here continuously for over 3000 years. 2) The reasons the Jews hate the arabs so much is because the arabs have never given us a reason to like them. The Balfour Decleration proposed creating a binational state which is what the jews had wanted ( the jewish state idea didn't come around till the early 30s ) The arabs rejected a binational state .. why? In 1947 the UN proposed 2 states and whilst the jews said yes the arabs said no and chose war and the arabs have continued to make war against israel since then. If you people are willing to accept 2 states today in 22% of mandate Palestine why were you unwilling to accept 2 states in 1947 in 45% if mandate palestine? 3) The arabs living in Israel have never shown any loyalty to the country and don't even define themselves as Israelis they call themselves Palestinians. When the arabs have no loyalty to the state and ally themselves with enemies would you want anything to do with them if you were a jew? Basically the arabs have made themselves undesirables and unless the arabs through their actions make themselves liked then the jews will never make them feel welcome.
46. #BERK,It false religion that is the problem
dan ,   uk   (11.30.10)
no use throwing the baby out with the bath water. You might think you can avid Religion but You cannot avoid truth and reality,GOD..and you can't Compare two religions because they are opposed or blame both..One is correct while the other is false.History proves and shows us that the Bible is not only a relgious book..and we can't attack good religion because there is bad religion. Do you stop using A Dollar because there are fake dollars?Religion itself is not bad,it those who abuse it and those who use their particular religion to demonize everyone else..The Bible does not do this.
47. oath of allegiance
alexi   (11.30.10)
An oath of allegiance is required and quickly for all israelis, current and new. Anyone who refuses to take the oath ioses benefits or is unable to become a citizen. Any current citizen who is denied benefits and commits one criminal offense will lose citizenship and will be expelled from the country within 90 60 days. This oath is necessary and fundamental. Those of the arab ciitzens who refuse to take the oath and commit 1 criminal offense will be asked to leave voluntarily or be expelled within 90 days by the state. The state can no longer afford to have a dagger pointed at its heart. The arabs except for most druse and some bedouin work to harm israel.it is time they are held to account.
48. Signs of a divided society
Ilan ,   Ariel   (11.30.10)
Shinui ran on a platform of hatred to the religious and did quite well. Yisrael Beiteinu doesn't like Arabs, And the Arab view of Jews is a mirror image of theirs. The Hareidi parties don't like the secular. The liberals boycott the settlers and the National religious see Tel Avivians as smug draft dodgers.
49. Re #8
Andrew Brehm   (11.30.10)
There are several reasons for that. First, we didn't know that you would try to murder us. Second, most of us, fleeing Arab countries, didn't have a choice, Third, some of us lived in "Palestine" before you arrived. Fourth, since the world appears to have a problem with us, we thought it would be best if we all came to one place and hope that the world would leave us alone there. Fifth, the Quran (you said not to use the Torah) said that we must live in the holy land and would be assembled there before the end of time. And who are we to argue with Allah?
50. Re #10
Andrew Brehm   (11.30.10)
Or, alternatively, you keep your "sorry ass" in Arabia. Jews belong into Judaea.
51. Rami of Nazareth
JUDAH THE LION   (11.30.10)
Jew are welcome to live in Arab localities to be tortured,harassed,under home arrest,not freely to travel,to be spat at,accuse to be spy,and then to be killed.NO WAY,NO WAY. Forget it mate.When water and electricity mix, we will live with Arabs
52. Rami
R ,   Israel   (11.30.10)
Rami, you give me hope. I don't care what religion my neighbors are as long as they don't force it on me. I don't care what their taste in music is as long as they don't force me to hear it at 80+ decibles (which hey do, Damn.)
53. To: No. 13
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (11.30.10)
You can have all the Arabs you want as neighbors. Since you spelled it as "neighbour," I have no choice but to interpret that you are not, in fact, from the United States, but rather from a Commonwealth country. So, you are a fraud a priori and have misrepresented yourself. That renders everything in your post at No. 13 entirely irrelevant.
54. #8 Of course, it is not very kind
Raphael ,   Netanya   (11.30.10)
to shun neighbours on ethnic basis. Howevere, you hypocritically forget that over 50% of israeli Jews are offsprings of refugees from arab countries. 1400 years experience of living among arab bullies stirred a deep motivation to get rid of this coexistence.
55. to # 51: obviously u know nothing about Israeli Arabs
Rami of Nazareth ,   Israel   (11.30.10)
u are welcome to visit us in Nazareth, like many israeli jews do and decide to come back...
56. To Salma
pini ,   usrael   (11.30.10)
Listen honey i know you know that jewish people have been living in Israel FMK Palestine for hundreds and thousands of years, I understand that in the 1930's jewish people were a minority there and after WW2 many more jewish people came to this country to build it up. We could have lived side by side but your arab brothers pursuaded your parents to do differently and now you and your fellow pallys suffer because of it, it is truley unfortunate but this land as the home of jewish is a reality and we will all have to get along now or live unhappy lives. What do you say?
57. Salma ...
Y.G ,   israel   (11.30.10)
Cute. You challenge us not to use Torah, yet see nothing wrong with proclaiming all of Palestine a 'Muslim Waqf' and murdering anyone who sells land to a Jew. You do not belong here: this is not your land. Live with it. Go to Jordan and live: you're Jordanian anyway (or Syrian or perhaps Egyptian). None of you belongs here.
58. To: No. 34
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (11.30.10)
"one day, if you have 2 nations on one territory, as a neighbors, you will have to relinquish your hate and start judge people by what they have done" Fair enough. The "Palestinians" have done some pretty despicable stuff. Let's see -- Airplane hijackings; Terrorism on an unparalleled global scale against Jews both in Israel and the Diaspora; Suicide bombings; IED devices; Hurling boulders and cement blocks at the automobiles of innocent Jewish civilians; Kidnapping of Israeli soldiers; Thousands of rockets fired into northern Israel by Hezbollah; Thousands of rockets fired into southern Israel by Hamas. In sum -- no, you don't have to kill your enemy. Just recognize them for the terrorist scum that they are and acknowledge that, since they have shown no inclination or desire to change their deplorable ways after nearly seventy years --- Israel has every right to mete out to them EXACTLY the punishment they deserve. Haven't six wars -- all started by Arabs and won by Israel -- been enough? How about nearly seventy years of terror? How about the expulsion of Jews from East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the dynamiting of no fewer than forty-eight synagogues in Jerusalem alone? And then the ersatz "Palestinians" have the nerve to bitch and moan and whine, whine, whine? Oh, I don't think so. They have sown the wind for nearly seventy years; they lose the right to complain when the time comes to reap the whirlwind.
59. To: David at No. 12
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (11.30.10)
I doubt very much that Salma is a refugee. She is most likely a displaced person, coming from a family that VOLUNTARILY left in order to make way for the mythical Arab armies to throw the Jews into the sea. Sigh. Oh well. Her problem, not mine. She tries to paint a very different picture, but it is what it is, and she is what she is -- a voluntary quit. She has no right, title or claim to a single centimeter of Jewish soil. All she knows how to do is wallow in self-pity. Ignore her. She isn't going to change. She's an Arab -- she is genetically predisposed to stupidity.
60. Rami of Nazareth 55
JUDAH THE LION   (11.30.10)
The Arabs in Nazareth can do nothing to the JEWS,as Nazareth is part of Israel I know very well Israeli Arabs are UNTRUSTWORTHY,and G D forbid if they can have chance to destroy the Jews & Israel,they will be the first one. I also know how the Arabs have treated and behaved to the Jews in Arab land. BEEN TREATED LIKE S=-== ELECTRICITY DONT MIX WITH WATER.
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