Why is there so much war in the eastern mediterranian shore area?

Question

Why is there so much war there? Seriously I really don't know. What's going on with Israel?

Answer 1

this is why:

No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism

Joel Beinin

(Joel Beinin, an editor of this magazine, teaches Middle East history at Stanford University.)

Books Reviewed

Benny Morris, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, second edition, 1994).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).



Haganah militiamen expel Palestinian Arabs from Haifa, April 1948. (Agence France Presse)

On July 11, 1948, Aharon Cohen, director of the Arab Affairs Department of the socialist-Zionist Mapam party in Israel, received a carbon copy of a military intelligence report. Israel, a state less than two months old, was embroiled in a war with neighboring Arab states that would last until 1949. The document in Cohen’s hands analyzed the reasons for the flight of 240,000 Palestinian Arabs from areas which had been allocated to the Jewish state by the November 1947 UN partition plan and another 150,000 from the Jerusalem region and areas allocated to the Arab state. Cohen was upset to read the report’s conclusion that 70 percent of these Arabs had fled due to “direct, hostile Jewish operations against Arab settlements” by Zionist militias, or the “effect of our hostile operations on nearby (Arab) settlements.”[1] One month before Cohen received this report, Mapam’s political committee had issued a resolution opposing “the tendency to expel the Arabs from the Jewish state,” in response to Cohen’s warnings that such operations were taking place.

Over the course of Arab-Jewish fighting between 1947 and 1949, well over 700,000 Palestinians were made refugees, the majority of them by direct expulsion or the fear of expulsion or massacre. The largest single expulsion occurred after Israeli conquest of the towns of Lydda and Ramla in the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv corridor during July 9-18, 1948. Some 50,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes in these towns by Israeli forces whose deputy commander was Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel from 1974-1977 and 1992-1995. Some two dozen massacres of Palestinians were perpetrated by pre-state Zionist militias and Israeli forces, the most infamous of them on April 9-10, 1948, at the village of Deir Yassin.

Answer 2

There are not so many wars.

The conflict with Israel and Palestinians has been going on for the last 50+ yrs with no end in sight.

The Iraq war is a bit new

and now the major skirmish between Israel and Hezbollah(Lebanon). They had minor skirmishes before, but nothing major in a long time.

The main reason for the war in Iraq is the dumb *** in oval office.

As for the other two conflicts I would say that 90% of the blame goes to Israel because it has vastly superior power when compared with Hezbollah and the Palestinians.

Answer 3

simple. the inclusion of religon in goverment. Our forefathers knew it, 4th generational warfare theorist knew it, and we know it: there is no place in goverment for religon as it polarizes and can never be proven leaving only strife and conflict.

We should all think about that when we address prayer in school, ten commandments, on dollars.

I am a Christan. Thomas Jefferson so argued this point, he was thought an atheist. Much to his disappointment, from the Decleration onward, homage to God has created our own conflict. Ltet's all pray it too doesnt end in the same way the Middle East has evolved..or disevolved.

Answer 4

The "crises" in the Middle East started so far back that no one really remembers except the historians and archeologists. There has been strife between the tribes all across northern Africa and into Turkey since homesteading was invented.

A big problem is that they are all related back in the dim-and-misty, and everyone knows how family fights are - they go on forever.

The tension between the Israelis and Arabs has been there since Ramses was Pharoh in Egypt, and between Arab and Arab before that. Ninevah was leveled due to a fight between tribes, etc. etc. You can name tons of cities and towns that have been affected through the millennia.

Answer 5

Good Question.... its going on for thousands of years, it will never stop, as long as muslims, christians and jews don't learn to live in peace and I don't think they ever will. There will be always fanatics, its sad but true, The US should not get involved whatsoever, its a lost cause. Look at their more than 3000 year history.
Sorry thats the only answer I have,

Answer 6

Israel and the Palestinians want the same Holy Land. It's been going on for centuries and will never end. They absolutely hate each other. That's what's going on.

Answer 7

Mankind has been warring within his ranks since before we started recording history. No reason to change things now as we just don't want to grow up.

Answer 8

i don't know but Israel needs to like back the hell up they got everything wrong , there attacking because lebannon took 2 of there soldiers which was a misunderstanding and now Irsrael is killing everybody and bombing everything

Answer 9

Because they have always fought...that is the only way of life they have known in mellenia...they fight with each other if there is no outsider to fight with...better to let them fight with each other than to be one of the parties...next time you see two middle eastern countries fighting, do not try to negotiate truce...one of them might decide it is time to start fighting with you!

Answer 10

Israel is tired of being bombed for no reason