In order to achieve peace in the Middle East the U.S. must stop completely supporting Israel.

Sorry for the confusion;I meant that the United States needs to stop supporting Israel 100%.Not that it needs to stop completely supporting Israel. 1."First of all, much of the alleged oppression is grossly exaggerated and inflamed by Palestinians,Arab sympathizers,and liberal sympathizers who don't quite understood all of the details." While it is true that pro-Palestinian propaganda exists, the oppression of the Palestinian people is not as exaggerated as you have argued. Palestinians must use specially marked Palestinian roads which are much less convenient and advanced than the Israeli roads.(1)These roads often contain roadblocks,prohibiting goods and people from crossing. I already mentioned the separation wall and how that is contributing to Palestinian humiliation and even more difficulty of travel.Curfews have also been ordered by the Israeli government in many areas as well, basically a house-arrest for all the citizens.(2) It is actually our media which has exaggerated pro-Israel propaganda.For example:(3) 2. "Well,actually there is a bit of a misnomer here. There was no such thing as a "Palestine"prior to the 1940's." Palestine actually has existed since it went under Roman rule. It was known as Syria Palaestina, and although that means "Philistine Syria" in English, it was later known as "Palestine."The Palestinian National Authority did not develop until 1994, when Israel was already a state, but the Palestinian people have existed for much, much longer than their representative government. The Arab people living there go back a ways….all the way back to 538 B.C. when the Persian king Cyrus conquered Judea. At the time there were also Jewish people living there.Jews and Arabs, therefore, lived alongside each other for a long timeThese Persian people,Arabs,as you said(yes,Palestinians are Arabs)have been therefore been living there since around 436 BC.The Arab population increased when Palestine came under the rule of the Ottoman Empire in 600 AD(10)The fact of the matter is, that by the time Israel was declared a state,these people had a nationality.Though their country was unofficial, they had and have lives,history,and culture.This was invaded by the Jewish Zionist movement, causing higher numbers of Jewish immigrants to Palestine in the late 19th century. 3. "Seriously, why would the US want strife and enmity with a region saturated with oil, when the US. Consumes more oil than any other nation?" I wonder the same thing.This was what I was saying when I stated"The United States is only promoting this by supporting Israel 100%.With the Iraq war, its relations with the Arab people are getting worse and worse."However, it is NOT the Middle East that is instigating the poor relations with the US,it is the US.Instead of invading Iraq and wholly supporting Israel we should instead be trying to befriend the other Arab nations instead of completely ignoring them and refusing to negotiate(as we have done with Iran)(11)and maybe do some beneficial things for Palestine which,rather than tear Israel and Palestine apart, would bring them together.For example, what Japan, another large oil consumer, has done:www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/837937.html "And then of course there is the media itself, which tends to be slanted towards Palestinians themselves." Uh,what country are you living in?Isn't it logical that, with the gravity of the situation in the Middle East and our involvement, that there would be a slant in our media towards our ally, Israel?(4)This is ESPECIALLY true, with the huge Jewish lobby that exists in our nation.(5)"The Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticize it is to be immediately dubbed anti-Semitic,"he said."People are scared in this country, to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful -- very powerful." (8) Barack Obama actually stated once that"no one has suffered more than the Palestinian people"(9) Once he realized how he had infuriated Jewish Americans, however, he slightly changed his stance, but he is criticized highly for his stance on supporting the Palestinians.This shows the power of our Jewish lobby and the bias that exists toward Israel in our nation especially. 4. "Straight from the horses mouth: "Since we cannot defeat Israel in war,we do this in stages.We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more.When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel." -Yassar Arafat" I hate to reiterate my points, but this quote only enforces what I said. Arafat is saying that because they are not strong enough to defeat Israel in war, they must resort to other methods. This is what I was saying.I don't think it's a "profound ignorance of international affairs", but fact, to state that Israel's army is clearly stronger than the Arab nations' armies, since it has the United States' support.Its strength was shown in the 1967 Six Days War. Please clarify how exactly it is a lie that Israel is stronger than Palestine and therefore terrorism is not something that will logically happen in this situation. When peoples' basic needs are not met, they tend to revolt.This is true everywhere. 5. "You have it backwards.Israelis were expelled from their homes by the threat of force." Actually, I think it is you who is misinformed.The Green line is not being followed by the Israelis. (12) In addition to this, there are definitely Israeli "settlements" inside the West Bank. Often, Israeli people are even paid to move into these settlements. (1) They are colonizing the Palestinian West Bank. These settlements are illegal.(3)And they have developed gradually. It is clear that Israel is intentionally slowly taking the West Bank and Gaza from the Palestinians."At first, other than the Jerusalem area, settlements were built mostly in relatively unpopulated areas.…However, when the right-wing Likud party came to power in 1977, settlement building began in earnest in the West Bank…A large city, Ariel, was built deep in Palestinian territory and the trans-Samaria highway was created to connect it with Israel. At present (2002) there are about 210,00 Jews living in the West Bank, a small number in Gaza, and another 200,000 or so Jews living in areas of Jerusalem and environs annexed in 1967."(13)Although there have also been Jewish refugees of much smaller numbers, the amount of Palestinians who have fled, been massacred, or have become refugees and are living in refugee camps is astounding. After the war of 1948, there were around 726,000 Palestinian refugees according to the UN. "This number has grown to include over 4.6 million displaced persons, about 3.7 million of whom are currently registered as refugees with the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)." (14) (1) http://www.youtube.com... Part I of this : http://www.youtube.com... (2) http://www.jmcc.org... (3) http://findarticles.com... (4) http://www.mathaba.net... (5)http://www.altpr.org... (6) http://www.hillaryclinton.com... (7) http://www.barackobama.com... (8) http://www.rense.com... (9) http://www.latimes.com... (10) http://www.salaam.co.uk... (11) http://www.wsws.org... (12) http://www.vtjp.org... (13) http://www.mideastweb.org... (14) http://www.mideastweb.org... My apologies, i had to remove some quotes as well as my final argument because my argument was too long.