On balance, I would probably say it leans towards being pro-palestinian, but there is a broad range of opinion
I think the consensus of opinion here is pro-palestine, we could do a poll on it? I think the pro-Israel lobby is more vociferous so they get over represented..
I would refuse to fit into either camp. I would go as far as to say that its immoral for outsiders to be cheering on either side, as if it were a football match. Its only encouraging extremism on both sides. I don't blame Israelis or Palestinians who do it because they live in the thick of it, but people from the rest of the world shouldn't be joining in.
The best camp for an outsider to be in would be the pro-two state solution camp.
I agree with that Cheetah - though at the same time I recognise the enormous wrong that has been done to the Palestinians - and that is from a position of justice and humanism - not partisan.
Many outsiders, especially many Muslims
reflexively join in simply as the cause involves some Muslims. In the Mumbai Terror attacks, Muslim terrorists from Pakistan slaughtered, along with Indian Hindu kaffirs,Brits & Americans, 5 Jews (they let their co religionist Turks,who were also in the hotel they attacked, go free-simply due to fellow feeling with other Muslims). They attacked along with 5 Star Hotels, the Jewish Chabad House, the only Jewish centre in Mumbai.
What do Pakistani Muslims have to do with Israel? They're themselves living in a nation which was formed as a separate Muslim state simply due to Muslim demands. Now they demand Kashmir as it is majority Muslim. They find nothing immoral or contradictory in living on stolen lands and planning to steal more lands from non Muslims, while sympathising with their co religionists who've lost some land in Israel, even feeling ready to butcher Jews in India due to their sympathy.
Their grievances against the Israeli occupiers have little to do with either justice or humanism, its a
purely theological grievance. From their point of view, its perfectly just to steal land from kaffirs, but a horrendous outrage if kaffirs steal so much as an inch of land from them. The whole Muslim Ummah, even Pakistanis, feel obliged to obliterate themselves killing Jews in Mumbai, far from the epicentre of trouble in Israel.
Israel should stop any further illegal settlements, and try a two state solution, but if withdrawing from Gaza gets them 6000 rockets, why would they make further attempts?
As the saying goes, "If Arabs laid down their arms there'd be no war. If Israel laid down its arms, there'd be no Israel." If Israel has to beat the s*** out of them to make them behave, its unfortunate, but there's hardly an alternative.
Topic: Palestinian Media Watch