Now a review of your arguement:
The question: Do you support the Israelis, the Palastinians, or neither?
BZ wrote:
The Palestinians are people, like you and me. They fight for land, just like most people do when someone takes their home
Notice the "when someone takes their home" part. The addition of that implies that the Palestinians have had their homes
taken from them. If you just take that, then that makes the Israelis bad guys who stole the land from the Palestinians, and they are being noble and trying to reclaim what is theirs.
Now, when I point how that they only had their homes taken because they launched an attack on Israel first. Wow, now they don't seem so noble, and the Israelis don't look so bad for taking it. BZ now has to make the Palestinians not look bad for this unwarranted aggression:
Yes, and they battle on. Israel has always been a sought after land...Jeruselam more specifically. Remember the Crusades, Sentenal
So now that he has said people have always fought over Israel, its not as bad.
What then, BZ, is your point? You have effectively argued in a circle. First, Palestinians are fighting to reclaim their homes. But wait, they are only doing that because beforehand, they had fought to take other's homes. But they only did that because thats what everyone does.
The way I see it, the arabs had brought this situation on themselves by not leaving Israel alone. Now they have to pay for their mistakes.