Palestinians lived in Palestine (Felasteen) for thousands of years.
After WW2 the Jews wanted to live there. They didnt want to live in Europe any more and also said that God had given Palestine to them at some point in Ancient history (who are the fundamentalists here?).
Enter the British after WW2 who took Palestine by force and decided to hand it over to the Jews. At the time they said 'A land without a people for a people without a land'
The only problem with that statement was that actually it was a land with people. This did not deter the Jews who thought of a great scheme to slaughter the Palestinians, this they did with horrific efficiency, one village at a time, and Jewish settlers moved in.
Many Palestinians fled with their lives and left all they owned, their land and houses, now living in terrible conditions in refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and all over the world. Those that stayed were confined to a life of brutal oppression on the strip of land they had left.
Many have chosen to continue working to get back their homeland. They are the ones the media calls terrorists. Funny world isn't it?
2006-07-08 22:30:01
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answered by Mum 1
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I don't know all the ins and outs but basically both the jews and the muslims believe the land of Isreal / Palestine was given to them by god. the jewish race was not in possesssion of the land of Israel for centuries, the palestinians were there, (they both claim 'god gave us this land'). After the 2nd world war there was a large political movement -'zionism' to regain the jews their land, because of the holocaust and the dreadful things that happened to them, they got a lot of sympathy. Well, due to good old western imperialism and the collapse of the ottoman empire a lot of middle eastern land was 'up for grabs' - the indigenous people not really having a say in what happened to their land, it was 'given' to the jews to create the modern state of israel. The muslim palestinians were a bit pissed off at this, understandably, and were given a small amount of land but the Israelis have unfortunatly invaded and occupied much of this land since, as they believe 'god gave us this land'. The muslims believe that god gave them the land. Violence and bloodshed have resulted, and it doesn't look like it's going to end any time soon either. I may have got some of the detail wrong but that is what I understand the issue to be.
2006-07-08 10:07:32
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answered by Jude 7
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The Palestinian Israel conflict is truly a religious conflict. This began when God promised the land Abraham was dwelling in to someday be his land and his children's land to many generations. There were other peoples dwelling in the land as well. They did not worship the God who intelligently designed everything. They instead worshiped idols (statues). See book of Genesis and Numbers in Bible. There are many more details. However, basically the Jewish people who worship the same God as Christians (we've incorporated their holy scriptures into the Bible and we've added the new testament, because we believe the Messiah was Jesus) conquered the land thousands of years ago and Israel was made a state in 1948. Though one of the tiniest places on the map, it is still the hotpoint of history and current events and will be even in the end times when Jesus returns. Now you can see why Palestinians who are Muslims and worship a different god than the the Jews and Christians (who both worship the God of Abraham and Jacob) would want to jet bomb America in 2001, as we are a nation formed on Judeo-Christian beliefs. Even are laws are based on the ten commandments (thou shall not murder etc) of the Jewish and Christian faiths. The Christian New Testament part of the bible says that we should "pray for the peace of Jerusalem (in Israel)", and those who do will be blessed.
May God bless you as you search truth.
2006-07-08 10:08:08
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answered by nikki 1
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In The first years of 20th century,there were a very small number of Jewish in Palestine,which was under control of Turkish.After 1st w.w The English army protected a very large amount of Jewish immigrants to Israel.Before The2 ND ww finished,European countries decided to get rid of Jewish,taking Holocaust as false cause,to make a country to them on the lands of the Palestinians.Feeling oppressed ,the Arabs rejected the decision of UN to divide Palestine into 2 countries ,Palestine and Israel.Then war 67 happend by Israeli army and took more lands from Egypt,Syria ,and West Bank.Till now ,Israel is insulting Palestinians ,taking their lands,homes,gardens even their tombs by military force.The conscience of the World have died completely.
2006-07-08 10:04:47
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answered by Ahmad 4
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This issue is going beforehand. in case you study the e book of Genesis in the Bible (or the Koran) you'll study the heritage of Israel and Palestine/ Jew and Arab. Abraham is the ancestor of both. He had 2 sons: his first born Ishmael (with a maid named Hagar) is the "father" of the Arab countries; the 2d son Isaac (together with his spouse Sarah) is the "father" of the Jews. this can be a relatives feud of the astounding proportions. The Arabs lay declare to the relatives inheritance and land in protecting with Ishmael being the first born, the Jews lay declare depending on the actual undeniable actuality that Ishmael is adversarial to the regulation, making Isaac the rightful inheritor. The heritage is going from there. maximum of it very ugly and extremely unhappy that we people ought to correctly be so unkind to at least one yet another. the actual undeniable actuality that Hitler and a mess of others have performed to this issue for his or her very own benefit is merely extra data that mankind has a techniques to evolve beforehand we finished the holiday from human to humane.
2016-11-01 11:18:28
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answered by ? 4
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Israel claimed that Palestine is fot them and truely it's for Palestine and who denied that ofcourse he is an enemy to all Arabs thats what I know .In Jerusalem their is the Alaqsa mosque which is a spiritual mosque for all muslims and if you want to know more read the story of the prophet Mohammad and you will know the fact .Actually Israelian people used to live in Saudia Arabia in Mecca since prophet Mohammad was alive and since he was GOD's messenger for Muslims ,He treated them in a good way but always they used to deceive him cause they knew that a prophet will come after the prophets Mosses and Jessus called Mohammad so ofcourse they erased Jessus and Mohammad from their book!!!!!!
2006-07-08 10:05:03
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answered by fatush1234 2
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the Palestinians and Israelis have been arguing for over 4000 years over who is the rightful descendants of Abraham and who is entitled to the land. in Truth they both are but the Arabs (Palestinians) were born to a servant not to Abraham's wife and were never officially recognized as heirs. ever since Sarah (Abraham's wife) ran off the servant and the born child the descendants have hated each other
2006-07-08 09:55:11
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answered by Daniel N 1
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jew hate muslims 2. muslims hate jews 3. they have and always will fight since ancient times they have been enemys and will remain enemys to the ends of time modern zionist jew created a false isreal nation killed and evicted the palestine that occupied the land palestinian cant get over it jew think it belongs to them palestinians think it belong to them so they fight
2006-07-08 09:51:14
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answered by abramelin_the_wise_mage 3
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It's a family landwar. And the europeans became the referee among them.
2006-07-08 12:50:55
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answered by doorseeker 1
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because they have not stopped killing eachother long enough to forget forrgive and move on.if we all stopped selling them guns and gave them tools instead,and if they put there energy into developing rather than destroying there might be hope for them(over simplified wishful thinking)
2006-07-08 10:55:14
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answered by paintball puppy 2
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