Also, 57% of Americans thought that Hamas had used “excessive” force, whereas 44% thought that Israel had used “appropriate” force.

Regarding a resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, a surprising number of people were opposed to the two-state solution so often voiced by US leaders.

When asked whether the US should support the establishment of a Palestinian state, 45% answered negatively while just 31% answered positively, and 24% were undecided.

source:Ynet

Here is more info-presented on an FYI basis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King-Crane_Commission

Highlights of the King-Crane Commission

NOTE: The neutrality of this wikipedia article is disputed-see link for discussion details regarding what is in dispute.

EXCERPT:

Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Kurdistan

One feature for which the report is still remembered today was an early statement skeptical of the viability of a Jewish state in Syria. The logic of the commission went along the lines that the first principle to be respected must be self-determination. Since the commission had a very “maximalist” view of Syria – what would today encompass Syria, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and the Gaza Strip – it pointed out that a majority of Syrians were against the formation of a Jewish state. Therefore, the only way to establish a viable Jewish state would be with armed force to enforce it. This was precisely what the Commission wanted to avoid, so they dismissed the idea, saying that Zionists anticipated “a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants to Palestine”. That said, there would be nothing wrong with Jews coming to “Israel” and simply living as Jewish Syrian citizens, but noted “nor can the erection of such a Jewish State be accomplished without the gravest trespass upon the “civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.” Iraq had three former Provinces of the Ottoman Empire Mosul, Baghdad and Basra and they wanted to put them together to make Iraq.

Almost 60 percent of Europeans say that Israel is a larger threat to world peace than North Korea, Iran or Afghanistan, according to a poll scheduled to be made public Monday by the European Commission.
Although Europeans have been consistently critical of Israel in recent surveys, the poll appears to show a severe souring of attitudes toward the Jewish state.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/10/31/poll_ed3_.php

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Israel is viewed quite negatively in the world, possibly because the poll was conducted less than six months following the Israel/Hezbollah war in Lebanon. On average, 56 percent have a mainly negative view of the country, and just 17 percent have a positive view, the least positive rating for any country evaluated. In 23 countries the most common view was negative, with only two leaning towards a positive view and two divided.
Unsurprisingly, the most negative views of Israel are found in the predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East, with very large majorities in Lebanon (85%), Egypt (78%), Turkey (76%), and the UAE (73%) having negative views.

Large majorities also have negative views in Europe, including Germany (77%), Greece (68%) and France (66%). Indonesia (71%), Australia (68%) and South Korea (62%) are the most negative in countries in the Asia/Pacific region. Brazilians (72%) are the most negative in Latin America.

The two countries with mostly positive attitudes about Israel do so in modest numbers. Forty-five percent of Nigerians and 41 percent of Americans have positive views of Israel’s influence in the world, while nearly one-third in each country has negative views.

http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbccntryview/backgrounder.html

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According to a public opinion poll conducted for the US National Security Council and released on April 11 [2004], 54 percent of respondents said they thought American sanctions should be imposed on Israel if it continues its violations of human rights in the West Bank and Gaza and if it does not dispense of its nuclear weapons. Forty-five percent of Jewish Americans polled also answered positively to this question as did 72 percent of Muslims (Al Quds).

http://www.palestinereport.ps/article.php?article=331

The King-Crane Commission Report, August 28, 1919

http://www.hri.org/docs/king-crane/

In my opinion, there is an empire extant today, which cannot be seen on maps. It can be given various names, but is notably characterized by its philosophy — always tending toward racism, to say the least; viewing humankind as beasts competing for limited resources in a “survival-of-the-mightiest” world; Malthusian (actually plagiarized from earlier times by the East India Company to propagandize for their crappy geopolitical games; and anti-development (God forbid the darkies should live in an environment allowing them to become educated and figure this shit out.) and its methods — Divide and conquer, or “let’s you and him fight” (and we’ll buy up what’s left after), etc.

The empire has no respect for the General Welfare or the “pursuit of happiness” (in the sense the founders of the U.S.A. regarded it).

Somewhat separately:

Land of Israel (Biblical) and Land of Israel (political)? It is confusing that both are called the same thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Land_of_Israel#History_vs._Promises

Also:
Israelites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites

Gary

We do know about Bush Sr and Barrick, don’t we?

Couldn’t we PLEASE let the Baluchistanis control their own resources? (Along with the people in African countries, et al.)

Anyone not familiar with Kissinger’s NSM 200 should become so. The essence is that the darked skinned people and some other non-English speakers can DIE because we blessed ones are claiming their natural resources.

“Majority of Americans support Israel during crisis, says poll
Posted: 02:05 PM ET

From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
An Israeli soldier sits on his armored personnel carrier Tuesday, after pulling out of Gaza.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new national poll suggests that six in ten Americans sympathize more with the Israelis than the Palestinians in the recent fighting in Gaza, and most believe that Israel’s initial decision to take military action against Hamas was justified.

Sixty percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Saturday say they sympathize with Israelis, with 17 percent backing the Palestinians.

The poll was conducted while Israel was still taking military action in Gaza, so it does not reflect how Americans feel about the recent cease-fire in Gaza. But 63 percent of those questioned do think that Israel’s initial military action was justified, with three in ten saying it was not justified.”

Since 1948, after three generations the descendants of the Arab refugees are still called “refugees” and are supported by UN “refugee” funds! With the highest birth rate in Arab countries this population has now grown to about four million. In negotiations, Arab leadership requests the “right of return” of this mass of millions into the tiny land of Israel. The settlement of millions of Arabs in Israel would immediately eliminate Israel as a Jewish state. This is the real aim of the Arab countries, to achieve by supposedly “peaceful” means what they could not achieve by unceasing violence in whole scale wars and daily terrorism.

The responsibility for keeping the Arab population who are descendants of the Arab refugees, rests only on the shoulders of the Arab countries that created the problem by attacking Israel in 1948.

Quote from Ralph Galloway, a former head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in Amman, capital of Jordan, in August 1958:

“The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as open sore, as an affront to the United Nations and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.”

http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html

After the Romans conquered Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago, Jewish people were expelled and dispersed to the Diaspora, and the Land of Israel was ruled by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire, and by the British Empire.

Throughout centuries Jews prayed to return from the Diaspora to Israel. During the first half of the 20th century there were major waves of immigration of Jews back to Israel from the Arab countries and from Europe. In 1948 Jews reestablished their sovereignty over their ancient homeland with the establishment of the modern State of Israel.

It was only after the Jews re-inhabited their historic homeland of Judea and Samaria, that the myth of a Palestinian nation was created and marketed worldwide. Jews come from Judea, not Palestinians. There is no language known as Palestinian, or any Palestinian culture distinct from that of all the Arabs in the area. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs indistinguishable from Arabs throughout the Middle East. The Palestinian National Charter adopted by the PLO states this fact in the first article .

The area called Palestine included the territories of present day Israel and Jordan. Under Lausanne agreement of 1923 Turkey transferred all claims to Palestine to mandatory power Britain. In 1922 Britain allocated nearly 80% of Palestine to Transjordan. In 1947 UN partitioned this remaining land into two states, a second Arab state, Palestine, and Israel. The great majority of Arabs in greater Palestine and Israel share the same culture, language and religion. The Arabs in the area began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. Virtually all the Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the West Bank of Jordan River have complete autonomy under the rule of the Palestinian Authority.

you have no right to assume ANYTHING about what opinions I hold regarding this piece of information.

Please do not get so rattled when people present FACTS.

A fact is a Fact.

Let people connect the dots for themselves.

This info is presented as an FYI (For your info).

Thanks.