Frost over the World-Israel special: Salam Fayyad-9May08

As Israelis celebrate the 60th anniversary of the creation of their state, Sir David Frost looks back at the events of 1948 and the ongoing Palestinian/Israeli conflict. He talks to some of the key players in the region - in this part of the show to Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority.

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[mowgly3000]

@montezoma jews were the canaanites

[gossieuk]

I think Israel's offensive against terror is a self fulfilling prophecy. Israel cannot know peace and cannot enjoy a secure and deserved homeland for their people whilst the upper echelons insist on maintaining the occupation. What a gesture of goodwill it would be for Israel to start recognising the Palestinians right to life and freedom as humans. Israel is immensely powerful and is backed by the powerful. They have nothing to fear but the hatred they instil in the minds of their victims

[montezoma]

And jews took the land from canaanites.

All this biblical mythology doesn't qualify as an argument to who own the land.

[Bevan30000]

Peter, Do you have nothing better to do than read Youtube comments from months ago.

Finally, don't make claims like that with out referencing them because otherwise nobody will pay the slightest attention to you.

[petersz98]

Actually the Zionists rejected the Peel Plan on the grounds that the Jewish state would have been too "small". Get your facts right. Britain eventually rejected it as well as it would have meant loading people on to trucks and pushing them over an arbitary drawn line on a map because they were on the wrong side of it.

[jonomcfato]

This land was promised for the jewish people many years back and the romans, a long time ago invaded cannan (israel) and took the land naming it palestine, so that no jewish people could latter claim the lost land.

[KalAshtuk]

No I'm not going back on what I said. What has happened is that your arguments are so weak that I am arguing your case for you. There is an argument for the creation of a jewish homeland, which is the persecution faced by the Jews, but there is no real argument for its creation in Palestine. The only place where it would have been just for Israel to be created is Europe since this is where the worst and most of this persecution occured.

[KalAshtuk]

But you can't say "the muslims" as though they all fit neatly in on box. No religion works that way. What I see is one people being kicked out of a land they have lived in for generations by another. The religious link to the land is not important because it is subjective and requires dicrimination against any other belief. The historical link seems controversial because it seems more logical that Palestine has a link with ancient Israel as much as the immigration that created modern Israel.

[Bevan30000]

The Palestinians belived they could drive the Jews into the sea in 48,67,73. This was done with military and diplomatic backing from the Arab states, thus the Arabs States are responsable.

About the Jewish immigrants, which you keep mentioning. The majority were immigrants, which built infrastructure, schools, agriculture etc, these immigrants infused the land with capital, creating jobs in difficult economic times. Arabs from all around the middle east immigrated to Palestine to cash in.

[Bevan30000]

So you're going back now on what you said, that Israel was created because of the holocaust. Suddenly cracks are starting to show in you knowledge. This is because you've been brainwashed and told lies.

Fact is the Jewish connection to Israel is not just religious, its historical, spiritual and tangable, Jews have lived in Israel longer than any Palestinian.