''I read about some Palestinians, who realized that deliberate killing civilians is an evil without excuses, and stopped their participation in terrorism.''
It was wrong for them to give up anti-Israeli activities. If they thought it wrong to kill children (which it is. Usually when Palestinians kill children it is due to an accident rather than being targets)they should have just fought the imperialist army of Israel instead. The fact that Palestinian land is being stolen every year, yet they desert their people doesn't really speak highly of them.
''For a huge majority of Palestinian Arabs, though, the Jewish state does not have a right to exist''
Israel doesn't have the right to exist. It is completely wrong to steal the country of others just because it was the land of the Jews, according to the Bible, over 2000 years ago.
''Islamic law demands that lands once occupied by Muslims remained Muslims''
Define ''occupied''. If you mean that the land was subjugated by the Palestinians (and I come to their religion later), you are wrong. If you mean land in which Palestinians live, you'd be right in saying once ''occupied''. The lands now held by the Israelis are the homelands of the Palestinians, it is their land just as Ireland is the land of the Irish, Germany the land of the Germans and Poland the land of the Poles. The fact that this land was subjugated and occupied by an immigrant people (the Zionists who moved to Palestine), doesn't change this, just as the fact that China's occupation by Japanese didn't make it Japanese land, or France's occupation by NAZI Germany didn't make the country German. The only main difference is that Israel was more vastly settled by an invader group changes nothing. The Jews in the area should be Jewish citizens of Palestine, as a few ''cultural Zionists'' (a somewhat OK form of Zionism that died out) wanted; they wanted Palestine, Israel to them, to be the hub of Judaism but they wanted to live within Palestine and use their European knowledge to benefit the Palestinian community. In short, they wanted a religious land to live in, but they also wanted to be citizens in the country which holds this religious centre.
Also, by the way, not all Palestinians are Muslim. Many are Christian and Jewish. In fact, one of the communities that have suffered the most from the Israeli occupation are Palestinian Christians; their traditional areas are now mostly Muslim due to the influx of Muslim settlement. Though this doesn't destroy their community, per se, it does change the face of Palestine. Many Christians are actually members of PLO, same with Jews. The conflict isn't really ''Jews vs. Muslims'' as people often seem to think, it is really ''Zionist vs. Palestinian''. You do have some anti-Jewish groups, like Hamas, but they are a symptom of trouble caused by Israel (it is a bit revealing that the Islamic world had usually been nicer to Jews than the Christian world, traditionally). PLO are not anti-Jewish.
''That's why Arab movies never show Israelis as kindly-spirited individuals they are, and resort to vicious images to prove "their high level of Arab nationalism".''
TV shows in PLO-run areas have Jewish Palestinian characters who are against Israel. In fact, you are really just pulling things out of your behind to passive-aggressively support the apartheid regime of Israel. In fact, I doubt that you have seen many ''Arab movies''. And, the lack of sympathetic Israeli characters is very understandable; the fact that you like to see Israel as civilised and progressive doesn't actually make it so. I wonder how you would feel if you were in the situation of the Palestinians?
''we will know that Arab World became ready for peace.''
Lets just talk about Palestine, shall we? Not all Islamic countries are enemies of Israel. Egypt hasn't been for years. Why should Palestinians accept all the demands for peace? They keep giving and giving. They have been making all sorts of compromises for years and years and things keep getting worse. Look at Jerusalem. That was, declared by the UN, to be a part of Palestine. The Israelis took it and made it their capital. The world has really done nothing to reign in Israeli aggression, they just give it a slap on the wrist. Jerusalem, incidentally, is considered the capital of Israel by the Israelis, yet most of the world, including the UN, considers Tel Aviv to be the capital... which does nothing to alleviate things at all. If Israel was an Islamic country, it is a fair bet that many nations would have descended on it by now.
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