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The settlements are illegal as per international law. Even Israeli courts have declared them as illegal. There is nothing anti-semitic about this. The settlements are being created in Arab majority regions. And as per the two state solution agreed upon by past Israeli PMs as well, the West Bank...

Maybe NEwt doesn't know that even Israel wasn't a country 100 years ago, and I think even Israelis (the average sane ones atleat) agree on existence of Palestinian people. Who else are they fighting against in West Bank and Gaza for the past 60+ years then? Besides, there is almost unanimous...

Yes it is expected to look more or less like that. There might be a few adjusments here and there on the boundaries ofcourse. It would be a terrible shape but that's what you will get when you divide the land into Arab and Jewish majorities. When India was partitioned, Pakistan was in no better...

East Jerusalem is a Arab majority area and has mainly Muslim and Christian places of religious importance. Other important Christian places of religious importance come in the West Bank region. Palestinians include both Christians and Muslims and have a stake in Jerusalem. When we talk about...

Guyana becomes 7th South American state to recognize Palestinian independence The country's foreign ministry says decision comes in keeping with Guyana's support of the 'legitimate aspirations of the people of Palestine for the exercise of their right to self-determination.' Following...

@alon9 What do you think about the settlement expansion in the West bank? I know that there are very strong opinions for and against this among Israelis as well as overseas Jews mostly tilting towards an anti-settlement expansion stand

Although the parable was cuite balanced I want to clarify one point here that is quite often misconstrued. The partition of historic Palestine was based on Jewish majority and arab majority regions. The pre-1967 lands that were handed over to Israel were infact Jewish majority. These hews...