what excatly is the israel and palestine conflict about ??...............besides what is the west bank???
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The West Bank is a landlocked landlocked area about the size of Delaware that has a population of around 2.5 million people. \n\nThe Israeli-Palestine conflict is about a number of things, with no two groups of Israelis or Palestinians quite agreeing on what they are. There are religious tensions since Israel is a Jewish state, and Palestine is an Islamic state. There are political tensions that have emerged (perhaps reemerged) since the end of the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, especially over the question of Israel's right to have settlers live in the West Bank in colonies. There are also economic tensions with Palestine's high unemployment rates.\n\nFor some further reading about this, try these books that you can check out from your local library (or have your library borrow for you through Interlibrary Loan):\n1. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mark A. Tessler, isbn 0253208734\n2. The Palestine-Israel Conflict : A Basic Introduction by Gregory Harms & Todd Ferry,  isbn 0745323782\n\nand there are lots of journal & newspaper articles about the conflict, too, though many tend to be pro-Palestine or pro-Israel.
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It is Arabs who have a war running against Jews. Hence the name the "Arab-Israeli Conflict." "Palestinian" is an identity taken on by this particular group of Arabs in the 1960's. Or in their own words: \n\nThe Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. \n\nFor tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan. \n\n--Zahir Muhsein
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The Jew-Palestine conflict is more about land than religious beliefs.  The fight goes back to biblical times - to the story of Jacob and Esau (brothers).  Jacob stole Esau's birthright (blessings, land, etc) by deceiving their father.  \nEverything was passed to Jacob (from whom the Isrealites descended), including the land that now belongs to Isreal.  The Palestinians descended from Esau, and believe that the land rightfully belongs to them.  This is why extremists don't recognize Isreal as a valid State.  \nThis is of course a very simplified explination of this incredibly complicated situation.
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Israel is without a doubt, the fruit of Jewish Fundamentalism, it was created in 1948 because some Extremist Jews (A.K.A. Zionists) who used terrorism againt the Indginous People, the Palestinians, were rewarded for thier terrorism and for thier belonging to the "holocost people" with a state of thier own by the United Nations in a resolution that divided Palestine up without precident in 1948 when the British could not maintain thier occupation any more. \n\nIt's simple. Iraq invaded Kuwait, it got its ass kicked and still is suffering the consequences of that dumbass move, Israel must withdraw from Palestine, it's realy the same story no matter how you spin it.\n\nP.S. Iraq used to claim that Kuwait was part of "Historical Iraq" just like the Israelis claim that they lived there 3000 years ago. \n\nMy friend, Israel IS the problem, Israel MUST conform to "HUMAN NORMS".\n\nThere is just no other solution. The Middle East would be peaceful without Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.\n\nIt's realy as simple as that, remove Jewish extremism, and you'll find the cure.\n\nCheck this website out, it's AWESOME!
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The conflict started when Palestinians (who were not called that then, because they had no nation EVEN THEN) were just tribal people.  After the Holocaust, the United Nations gave the unwanted land to the Israeli's for their own Nation.  On the FIRST DAY it was attacked by 7 nations and Israel won the war.  Since then, the other nations (except Jordan who has "backed off" until it is now neutral) have had it in for Israel, claiming they took over Palestine (when in fact, there never was a Palestine.)  They are just anti-Israel and are carrying on the fight to kill Israeli's and nothing else.  Its just pure school boy, immature hatred for someone thats different.  Israeli's are just "tired" of getting on busses and having their loved ones die instead of come home.
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Because when Israel was created by the British pull out somewhere after ww2. The land prior to that was known as Palestine the land was annexed and given to the Jews and renamed Israel.. The Palestinians still consider it their land  so they created the PLO to try and take it back .\n\n      I am a neutral person and I know depending on who you ask the other side is responsible. I believe there is a great deal of fault on both sides of the conflict.\n\n     I did a UN tour in Israel and am in no way an expert but I am  neutral .I can say that neither side is Innocent..\n \n     I sent you a site to at least show the chain of events leading up to today.It covers this century.. I hope it helps. The real conflict has been going on since biblical times\n\nhttp://www.masada2000.org/historical.html
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The Arabs have waged a nonstop campaign since Israel's establishment to destroy it. The existence of Israel is a big insult to Islam.\n\nThe British carved Palestine into Jordan with the remainder staying under British control. The UN voted to further divide the remaining British mandate into a Jewish state and a second Arab state. The Arabs would not tolerate any Jewish independence.
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No one ever talked about "Palestine" until the mid-1960's. Until then, all the Arabs ever talked about was annexing the land into Syria/Jordon/Egypt.\n\nBut I have good news. There is a Palestine. It's called Jordon.\n\nEDIT:lol @ Global's non answer. All he needs is a few quotes from the fake "Protocals of the Elders of Zion" and he'd be all set.
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Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without ending the deep tensions between the two sides. The territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 war are not included in the Israel country profile, unless otherwise noted. On 25 April 1982, Israel withdrew from the Sinai pursuant to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Israel and Palestinian officials signed on 13 September 1993 a Declaration of Principles (also known as the "Oslo Accords") guiding an interim period of Palestinian self-rule. Outstanding territorial and other disputes with Jordan were resolved in the 26 October 1994 Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace. In addition, on 25 May 2000, Israel withdrew unilaterally from southern Lebanon, which it had occupied since 1982. In keeping with the framework established at the Madrid Conference in October 1991, bilateral negotiations were conducted between Israel and Palestinian representatives and Syria to achieve a permanent settlement. In April 2003, US President BUSH, working in conjunction with the EU, UN, and Russia - the "Quartet" - took the lead in laying out a roadmap to a final settlement of the conflict by 2005, based on reciprocal steps by the two parties leading to two states, Israel and a democratic Palestine. However, progress toward a permanent status agreement was undermined by Palestinian-Israeli violence between September 2000 and February 2005. An agreement reached at Sharm al-Sheikh in February 2005 significantly reduced the violence. The election in January 2005 of Mahmud ABBAS as the new Palestinian leader following the November 2004 death of Yasir ARAFAT, the formation of a Likud-Labor-United Torah Judaism coalition government in January 2005, and the successful Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip (August-September 2005), presented an opportunity for a renewed peace effort. However, internal Israeli political events between October and December 2005 have destabilized the political situation and forced early elections, scheduled for March 2006.\n\n\nhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/is.html\n\nhttp://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/\n\n\nQuote from Charles Krauthammer - The Weekly Standard, May 11, 1998\n\n"Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store."\n\nThe people of Israel (also called the "Jewish People") trace their origin to Abraham, who established the belief that there is only one God, the creator of the universe (see Old Testament). Abraham, his son Yitshak (Isaac), and grandson Jacob (Israel), are referred to as the patriarchs of the Israelites. All three patriarchs lived in the Land of Canaan, that later came to be known as the Land of Israel. They and their wives are buried in the Ma'arat HaMachpela, the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in Hebron.\n\nThe name Israel derives from the name given to Jacob (see Old Testament). His 12 sons were the kernels of 12 tribes that later developed into the Jewish nation. The name Jew derives from Yehuda (Judah) one of the 12 sons of Jacob. So, the names Israel, Israeli or Jewish refer to people of the same origin.\n\nThe descendants of Abraham crystallized into a nation at about 1300 BCE after their Exodus from Egypt under the leadership of Moses (Moshe in Hebrew). Soon after the Exodus, Moses transmitted to the people of this new emerging nation, the Torah, and the Ten Commandments. After 40 years in the Sinai desert, Moses led them to
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There is no Palestine.  The "Palestinians" want the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people.  They are a terrorist group.  What is Israel's problem with them?  Simple...they kill Israeli's and are trying to take the country away from the Jewish people.
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War must be declared upon a country. Israel does not yet accept the Palestinian state as an independent country.
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Who care's about palestine???
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The best way to learn about "Israel" is to check the following website "http://www.intifada.com/"\n\nYou will be introduced to how "Israel" occupies an entire Arab country called Palestine and how it likes to treat the people it occupies. \n\nYou be the judge.\n\nP.S. To the person who responded after me. It seams you've been indoctrinated by Zionist ideology, to say that Arabs occupied Gaza and the West bank is like saying the Jews Killed Hitler, that's such a racist remark i can't believe you said it. Ofcourse the Palestinians have been there for thousands of years Even Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister is Polish and not Israeli, he came as an immigrant from polland and so did many other Israeli Prime Ministers and leaders. It's not a religious war, Muslims and Christians are both fighting the Jewish Fundamentalist Terrorists for thier country's Independence, the Independence of Palestine, Two days ago, a Jewish Terrorist and His Terrorist wife tried to blow up a Church in Nazareth, don't try to hide that away from us, we get the news. Ever heard of www.pacifica.org ? Well check out it, you will thank me for showing you the light of truth for once in this short decietful life. Shame on you for defaming the Palestinians like that, it's a true shame that you would deny a people from thier country and give it to some people who think they were "Chosen" and given a "Promised Land" I mean, for God's sake, that's blasphemy. God would never promise a land to people who go around bombing the original inhabitants. God is just and full of light, he is not a Zionist god, He is the All-Just Creator of the Earth and Heavens, the King, the Owner, The Lord, The Just, the All Capable, and the Mericful, the God of All Creation.
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Actually, this war in Iraq is an extension of the first Gulf war in 91' because Saddam did not abide by 17 UN resolutions.  You could also say that the hatred Arabs have for Israel stems from WWII when the Holocaust occurred in Nazi Germany.  It was realized that the Jews had no homeland of their own and that is when the Jews obtained Israel.
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because is did cease to exist when the UK led the movement to make it into Israel.  Before that, there was a Palestine.  saying it never existed and erasing it from the maps does not mean it never existed
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actually it's israel and arabs\n\nin fact it's like the story of indian americans (palestinians) and the cowboys(israelees)\nthe guys with more guns always win
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Israel is a country in the middle east that was created by an UN declaration in 1947, and which declared its independence in 1948.\n\nThere has never been a country called Palestine- the omans renamed the province of Judah to Palestina after the Bar Kochba revolt to punish the Jews- since they knew from Jewish history that the philistines had been a foe of the Jews.  The are passed through various hands- sometimes retaining the name, at other times being renamed.  During the time of the Ottoman Empire it was acually divided into numerous administrative districts and had no single name.  \n\nAfter the British displaced the Ottomans- the area was known as the Trans-Jordan and ruled by a British mandate.  The area of Transjordan included Syria, Lebonon and Jordan, as well as the are then xcalled British Palestine.\n\nThe UN mandate divided the area into two states- one for the Jews, the other for the native Arabs who had taken the label "Palestinians" around 1920 or so.  Unfortunately- when Israel was declared five Arab armies invaded Israel- and when unsuccesful in destroying Israel occupied the land set aside for the Palestinians and turned them into refugees.\n\nIn the modern era Israel has active Peace Treaties with Egypt and Jordan- and the active conflict in the region is between Israel and the Palestinian Authority that has been given limited control over the Gaza and Westbak, and which will be the government of a future Palestinians state.