First I'm going to examine just a few quotes from your first post. I won't bother making responses to all of your posts, because that would take way too long.
"The palestinians are the weaker people, and people have the tendency to think that the stronger nation is always at fault, but in this case, it's the complete opposite."
Although Isreal is a nuclear power, they are the minority in the middle east. Not only Arafat, and the Palestinian people are involved, but nearly all the countries of that area with the exception of Turkey and Jordan are supporting Palestine and are willing to back them up to the fullest.
Since these people are called Palestinians, and the land used to be called Palestine under the British Mandate, people believe that it's there land, but it in fact isn't. They only started calling themselves Palestinians after Israel had already become a country (1948), so people would believe it's their land, when it's not.
That was a misconception that aided in the United States taking hundreds of miles of land from the Native Americans. Just because a certain group of people don't have an official country or government to follow under, doesn't mean that they don't have any rights what so ever to the land. That's what this is saying. It's totally one sided.
"The reason the Palestinians live in poverty has ABSOLUTLY nothing to do with Israel"
I can't really say much here, because it's very close to the truth.
It's 100% Yasser Arafat's fault.
Wow, that goes way beyond politically incorrect. To blame a whole conflict which has been going on for decades only on one man is ludicrous. I must admit that Arafat has made many, many mistakes, and may have bad intentions, but this quote shows how biased this article is, and how it should be disregarded. Heh... like Isreal's leader is a perfect saint, who never did anything wrong in his entire life and only cares about what's right for the Palestinians.
No offense Heyyoudvd, but those facts that you have may be true, but those aren't all the facts. Whoever wrote that article was biased towards Isreal, no doubt. I'm sure there would be just as many reasons for the Palestinians to keep the land. Sure you could say that the Jewish people had the land first, but if a person leaves their seat on a bench and returns to find it occupied do they automatically have the right to push the person out who took it?
Anyway, as much as I supported Palestine in this thread, I personally think Isreal has the right to the land, but you have to look at both sides before you make your decision off of some biased article.