I will be finding out the sex of my illegitimate child?

I am with humanity, and I find many of Israel's actions condemnable. The attack on the aid convoy is no different from what the Bosnian Serbs did to aid convoys trying to reach Sarajevo in the 1990s. Israel may have had some justification to search it for arms, but not to prevent it getting through as they intended.

Israel has no more right to access Gaza's coast than Turkey or any other nation does, so this may be tantamount to piracy. However the bigger problem is the underlying one of denying the refugees the right to go home for decades. That is utterly unacceptable by any sense of justice, and Israel is wholly guilty of that.

LyssQ: "Actually, the nation-state Israel was created by the English (as in UK)." No, it wasn't. It was recognised by the UN, the result of a civil war in Palestine between mainly immigrant Zionists and local Palestinians.

During British Mandate times the UK tried to limit Jewish immigration so as to allow a Jewish homeland but not a Jewish state, as it had been promised to the Palestinians. However this led to heightened tensions as the immigrants didn't mix with the locals, forming a separate community which competed. This community changed its goals from a having a homeland to having a Jewish state and tensions rose, becoming violent.

It was the flood of European Jewish refugees after WW II that meant the UK couldn't control the tensions, and the USA demanded the UK (under threat of economic sanctions) let in huge numbers. This completely destabilised the situation on the ground, and it headed towards civil war. Various plans for segregated, cantonised and separate states were drawn up, but agreement could not be reached.

UK forces were tied up in the decolonisation of India, so there was not enough manpower to quell the fighting in Palestine. Zionist terrorists attacked British forces, including bombing the King David Hotel. With the Mandate period nearing its end, the UK handed over to the UN, and British forces withdrew.

It was then that it broke out into open war, with the Zionist forces eventually gaining the upper hand. Most Palestinians fled the fighting or were ethnically cleansed, ending up in refugee camps. A cease-fire was arranged, and the the cease-fire lines were established as temporary frontiers pending a solution.

The UN recognised Israel as a state and demanded the refugees be allowed to go home. However, Israel has maintained these cease-fire lines as its national borders, and has refused to let the refugees go home. Refugee-owned villages, houses and property has been confiscated by the state of Israel, without compensation.

The dispossessed Palestinians have intermittently fought for 62 years to regain their homeland, and the problem continues. Both sides target civilians, and there is much bitterness. It's a mess, and will continue to be so as long as the strong can dispossess the weak.

Edit: The Guy: Your reference to the Falklands is a mere off-topic distraction; this is not the Bad History section. Perhaps you may wish to consider this about the end of Mandate Palestine before you bandy about unjustified accusations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Paper...

Those israeli's wud be mad at everyone for so many questions being raised against there nation. But the truth is a large majority of them don't want to kill anybody.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.