How is this going off the rails..? He only says that Isreal should NOT give the land away to make peace.
Who could argue with that...?

Bill

hey bill,how did they get the land in the first place.

Give Bill a break. His home and land were given to a neighbor who used to pray there, and had a hard time at the hand of neighborhood watch. Instead of fighting that decision, Mr. Nigh nobly opted to allow his neighbor to take everything he had, while he lives in the shadow of the house, in dire poverty. The neighbor often shoots at Mr. Nigh, and often will not allow him to leave the small dirt patch he is held on by coercion. What a generous soul!

They purchased it from Turkish landholders. Legitimatly I should say.

Is the boy thinking the Jews are running out of predicaments?

As to how the Israelites got the land in the first place, do you mean 1949 or way back when -- when they slaughtered every man, woman and child they could find, and claimed that God told them to do it.

Geez, give the guy a break. He's merely old and senile.

Why does anyone care what Jon Voight says to the government of Israel? Or what George Clooney says to the government of China?

Shirley Temple was an official of US State Department.
The others are just well known clowns.

John Voight lives in Weird City; he also must be one of Dubya's 28 percenters. Why is it that some celebrities think that just because they're in the movies, they have wise and profound things to say to the world? Too bad this cretin didn't shed a tear for the 750,000 people whose land Israel was until it was taken away from them in 1948. And no wonder Angelina won't speak to him.

Let's try to separate the artist from the art. They are mutually exclusive, particularly in cinema. To say that you'll never watch Midnight Cowboy again the same way is difficult to defend. Look at Woody Allen and his relationship to his step-child. Look at Pablo Picasso and his treatment to the women who loved him. Look at Paul Gauguin and his poor treatment of his family. This could go on and on and on.

Why doesn't anyone speak of 1929 Hebron Masacre? Why doesn't anyone speak of George Antonius or George Habash? Xian and probably eventually even Muslims will unite against the favored benefactor of all their troubles and tormentors. i.e. Us and Libya about to make landmark military agreement. Or maybe just pragmatic fellows like the Christian educated Hindu peace emmisary Ahrun Ghandi is correct and Jews are at the center of all ill and violence throughout history.

Sorry, you're a World War off. The Turks hadn't"owned" the land since the end of the Ottomans, 1919.
The land was stolen,pure & simple, by the then hegemon-de-jour, the British with their Mandate from the even then defunct League of Nations.
Anyone who claims "god gave the land" should be locked up or at least heavily medicated as delusional, possibly deranged.
Israel was established by Europeans in guilt at their own centuries of anti-Semitism which culminated in the Final Solution.
The Palestinians just happened to be the Inconvenient Truth of the time which, being one of Imperial Hubris, didn't think them worth a pitcher of cold vomit.

It is now clear why Angelina Jolie told interviewers she did not get along with her dad. If you think back on it, you might recall that this is the man who made *Coming Home,* starring Jane Fonda, who had so distinguished herself by traveling to Hanoi and appearing, all smiles, with the Vietcong. But when *Coming Home* lost out to *The Deer Hunter* (with those memorable scenes of torture by Vietcong captors), Fonda spoke out against that film's depiction of the enemy. One assumes Voigt had similar gripes. But his position on Israel's right to Palestine is redolent of the Dominionists, marking him as, guess what, a Dangerous Lunatic!

Sounds like he belongs to Pastor Hagee's Christians United for Israel sect. http://www.cufi.org
This is the same Pastor Hagee who endorsed McCain and caused such a furor, if you recall.
I heard an interview with Hagee on KPBS yesterday, and he was ranting on and on about the same subject.

First of all the zionist movement started in the late 19th century and land was bought from absentee owners. That is when Jews started returning to Palestine. Not just after WW 2. After WW 1 Britain was given a mandate over palastine and it was about that period of time that the Balfour decaration was made suggesting a homeland for the Jewish people. There has always been a presense of Jews in Jeruselum. In 1948 there were to be two states created only the Arabs rejected that. In the war that followed Jordan occupied the west bank, not Israel. It is true that during that war some Arabs left and others were forced to leave by the Israeli's.Israel is a very small country that made a desert bloom.
Point two tell me what ancient peoples did not slaughter and destroy the peoples of the land they conquered? This is no excuse but it happened then and is happening today as well. Rwanda is not so far away.

Give 'em Mississippi, (it's last in everything anyway), pay their way over there. In 30 years (or less) it will be the most prosperous country on the North American Continent. They get peace, we get peace, Bin Laden can go back in his cave in peace (unless he's never emerged from his cave) and everyone gets oil at a cheaper price. I know, I know, it's holy land for everyone! One of history's really quirky happenings. I wish I new the answer

Only in america and a few 3rd world dictatorships would a wacho get so much press.

Then John Voight speaks with the voice of a hugh segment of the american population. These nutbars who will bring down us all.

Hey, I am not the Bob who wrote that they bought it from the Turks. I'm the other nutcake who wrote that we should give the Israelis the state of Mississippi.

Not a bad idea, Bob. Since Americans are willing to do anything for Israel, including being soft on their spying, allowing them to commit all kinds of atrocities in the Middle East, funding them in the billions, and enabling them to run the country practically -especially US foreign policy- maybe Mississipi is not enough. What about California?