Israel Conflicts

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All three major religions in Israel can agree that Jerusalem is the Holy land. These religions are Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In the area surrounding Jerusalem, however, Arabs and Jews cannot agree on the land that they are now not so equally sharing. During the first century, the Romans were in charge of Palestine, and the Romans forced the Jews to leave and not come back. This dispersion of Jews outside of Israel is known as diaspora. For thousands of years, Palestinians had been living in Palestine before the Jews decided to inhabit Palestine as well. The Palestinians did not support this new decision of the Jews. This decision to go back to the homeland came from the movement of Zionism, which was the Jews way of saying they wanted …show more content…
At the time, Britain wanted to take down the Ottoman Empire, and promised these Palestinian occupants independence if they rebelled and fought for them against the Turkish Soldiers (Ottoman Empire). The Muslim and Arab people did, and Britain gained control over Palestine. While Britain was in control, the Jewish people began to move in. Palestinians became hostile, not wanting to share the land they had been settled into for decades with the newly immigrated Jews. Attacks between these two groups of people began to increase, and that is when Britain stepped in. The British realized that the Israelis and Palestinians could not live in peace together. This is when the Jews began to inhabit other pieces of land, and then the holocaust began. This genocide of Jewish people left the British feeling guilty for blockading any escape route to freedom from the holocaust, and also gained the Jews more support towards a dedicated Jewish state. The British felt obligated to give the Jewish people part of Palestine, but they know they cannot work out the violence between the Palestinians and Israelis. Since the British cannot fix this problem, they hand it over to the United Nations. To solve this, the UN decided to create a document called The Partition …show more content…
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict comes from the hope of achieving power over the other group, and ultimately taking over Palestine. In 1959, a group of Palestinians met in Kuwait and created a political group whose main goal was to liberate Palestine from Israel (Dufort). The Palestinian Liberation Organization, also known as the PLO, was officially created in 1964. Three years later, the 1967 war erupted when Egypt, Syria, and Jordan mobilized their armies on the border of Israel. With the development of the PLO, it became a prime time to attack. However, the outcome of this war was not in the favor of the Palestinians, and Israel was able to conquer more land. After numerous tries of the PLO attempting to get Israel to surrender, the other Palestinians became irritated that they still had not progressed in trying to liberate Palestine as a single state. Meanwhile, the majority of Israel’s political parties are pro-zionism, which means they support the creation of a single Jewish state. This makes it extremely hard for the Palestinians to gain a political leverage because most of Israel believes they should have their own state. In 1987, The First Intifada erupted, which shed light on the Palestinians, and gained them international support. During this time, things were tense