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Originally Posted by aabukar  What i would like to do is excercise the habit "seek to understand to be understood" here so would please please anyone of you explain to me and give some logical reason and historical evidence that Israel is a country. |
Unfortunately, this is one of those situations where multiple different groups of people have valid claim to the same territory. The ancestors of the modern Israelis (Israelites/Jews) were driven from their homeland by the ancient Romans. They believe they have a valid claim to the land as it was their ancestors' homeland, and they're probably right.
In the meanwhile, Palestinians believe they have a valid claim to the land as they've been living there for over a millenia. They're probably right.
To make things more complicated, since Islam is an offshoot of Judaism, a lot religious sites are holy to members of both religions, and both have some valid historical claim to them.
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Originally Posted by aabukar and just why whenever Israel does something "internationally illegal" a country like USA would use the "VETO" right in UN to prevent the world from taking an action? |
The US presumably takes an action like that because it considers the action to be in its best political interests. Personally, I consider that very shortsighted, but it's probably the reason.
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Originally Posted by aabukar This is a question that have been trying to answer since i was in my fourth grade ... how come people with basic common sense believe in Israel and support it? am i missing something here ? |
If you can't see some justification for the existence of Israel then yes, you're missing something. That land is the historical homeland of the Jewish people.
This, of course, does not mean that the Palestinians don't
also have a claim to it, and therein lies the problem. If the two religions didn't rub each other up the wrong way so much, they could probably just combine the two nations and be done with it...