Can an educated unprejudiced person help me?

Question

I want to know and understand what is going on between Arabs and Israelites. Who started it? How long has this been going on? What do they want?

So now the iserial has been supported by the usa Arabs are getting back what they've been giving to Iserial for a while now?


I feel that it is all terrible. I've seen pictures of dead arab babies. I've seen pictures of mawled Iserial children. There is nothing that will help it is there?

Ignorance was Bliss

Answer 1

Israel has been the homeland of the Jewish people since Biblical times. Following the Holocaust, the land was officially designated as a Jewish state. It was a barren area with little going for it. The wandering Arabs who had lived there had done nothing to develop it in any way. There was no oil on the land and it appeared to be impossible to make it habitable.

The Jewish settlers set about to make the land productive. They brought in modern methods of irrrigation and built universities, cities and thriving businesses. When the Arabs saw this, they wanted the land back. Israel tried in every way possbile to accommodate their neighbors but nothing satisfied them. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and the only ally the US has in the region. They are surrounded on all sides by terrorists.
Israel gave up large tracts of land and bulldozed their own settlements to give the Palestinians their own country. However, this did not satisfy the terrorists. Time and time again they have sent suicide bombers and missiles to kill innocent civilians. Israel even built a wall to try to keep terrorists out, but the raids kept coming and they were on constant terror alert. Now Hamas and Hezbollah, two of the terrorists groups, have kidnapped Isaeli soldiers. Israel has had enough. They are now doing what the US should be doing - destroying the headquarters of the terrorists. These are the same terrorists that attacked us on 9-11 and have attacked Britain, India and other countries.

Answer 2

This is something that has been going on since Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions have existed at the same time.

Who started it? Well, that is really hard to say. Jews, Christians, and Muslims have been at war, in some form, since they were able to recognize they all believed something slightly different.

Who is at fault? Not a person or a particular group. Religion, and human nature tied to religion are at fault. Instead of living peacefully, they are fighting over land which has been deemed holy by someone that has been dead for hundreds of years. Their faith is in what someone wrote, or a book.

What do they want?

Well...
The Jews want a "home" they can call their own once again.
The Muslims want the Jews out of the land they claim as their own home.
The Jews will *very* aggressively defend their home, to the point of offesively defending their home.
The *extremist* Muslims want the Jews removed from the planet.

This whole thing is currently about land in Palestine. However, even if the Jews were to remove themselves from Israel, there are Muslims that would still want they wiped from the face of the earth.

I hope I am not *way* off, but that is how I see it.

By the way, the person asking the question did not ask what the U.S. has to do with anything. The U.S. supporting Israel isn't why there is war. Even if the U.S. weren't supporting Israel, there would be war. Can't anyone bring up the problems in the Middle East without blaming the U.S. The U.S. doesn't control what Israel, or Palestine does. They react or not, but they don't control their faith.

Answer 3

The conflict goes back thousands of years. If you believe the Bible as a historical text, God told the Jews to go to the promised land, kill everyone there, and take the land for themselves. They did, making a home for themselves, and pissing off the locals in the process.

Move forward about 5000 years. The Jews and muslims have both conquered and lost the land many times over that time, and each claims it as their own. Jerusalem (built by the Jews) now has certains buildings and monuments that are important to the Jewish and Muslim faiths.

During the years leading up to WW2, and during the war, many Jews moved to the area now known as Israel. Needless to say, the Jews and local Arabs didn't get along very well. So, after WW2, the U.N. thought that the Jews needed a homeland, and they wanted to stop the fighting. They proposed to divide the land, giving some to the Jews and some to the local Arab inhabitants (now called Palestinians).

The Jews accepted the U.N. proposal, and declared themselves an independent state in 1948. The next day, multiple Arab countries invaded (including Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and more). The Israelis won the war, keeping all of the land within the proposed U.N. borders, and conquering some more. In 1967, and 1973, the Arab countries again launched sneak attacks trying to destroy Israel. Israel won these wars also, and in the process conquered even more land from the invaders.

Israel, in a move to try to prevent future wars, eventually gave back some of the territory it had captured from the invading countries. However, ever since the Israelis captured territory from the invading countries, the inhabitants of that land (Palestinians) have tried to get the land back. Since their native countries (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt mostly) abandoned them, the locals turned to terrorism against Israeli civilians to try to get the land back.

And that is pretty much where we are today. Israel captured the territory from an invading country, so it is rightfully theirs. The locals (Palestinians) having lost the wars, decided not to move out of the land, and instead to live under Israeli rule. Some live peacefully and even work in Israeli cities. Others are sore loosers, and since they have no army, use terrorism to try to get the land back.

Answer 4

From the way I understand it, the Arabs do not want Israel there because they are not Muslim, they have had issues with all of their neighbors trying to wipe them out. Since they were given Israel after WWII. Most of the Arab countries have stated at one time or another that Israel has no right to exist, therefore anytime they feel threatened Israel attacks, even at times when diplomacy would work better, they are quick to fight. Who started it was both sides have started their fair share. No one is innocent. We must remember though that most muslim countries have stated that the U.S., England, Russia, and all other non Muslim nations do not have a right to exist, and that all non muslims do not have a right to exist. Israel wants to be left alone, although at times, Isreal wants more land. The Arabs want the world to be muslim so they start with the closest non Muslim country. If they succeed they will continue until either they are eliminated or we are eliminated. I beleive Israel feels the same way, they will continue until they have all the land.

The resolution is to move the UN to that area of the world. In the beginnign the UN will not do anything as they haven't so far, but eventually the paper tiger will have to get some teeth and put a stop to it, for their own survival. It will take concessions on all sides, because as I said before they are all guilty.

This latest round is being caused by the kidnapping of 2 Israeli soldiers. The Israeli's beleive that if you take one Israeli it is worth 10,000 of yours. They beleive the soldiers are already dead, and are taking out revenge on their behalf. They are bent on the fact that the terrorist group of Hezbola will be eliminated in this round.

Answer 5

The problem at hand in the middle east between the Jews and Arabs has been on going from biblical times. Look it up in the Book of Geneses; when Abraham slept with his wife's Egyptian maid; and had a son. Abraham's wife eventually had a son of her own. Tradition mandated that the oldest son receive the father's in heritage. Since Abraham wasn't married to the maid, she and her son had to leave and every since then; the rival has been in place.

On a religion bases; the Muslims (Arabs) have three holy cities: Medina, Mecca and Jerusalem. Basically the Palestinians want every Jews person off what is now called Israel (Palestine). The Jews are there to stay. So the fight continues. The Jews say God promised them the land and the Palestinians say you left and its ours.

Answer 6

Israel was granted the right to exist by the UN in 1947 on land that used to be under British control known as Trans-Jordan. On the very day that Israel came into existence, it was attacked. The Israelis defeated the much larger Arab armies and over the course of 3 or 4 wars got more land. On this land, conceded by the Arab Nations that attacked Israel, were over one million refugees, these were the Palestinians. Israel later went on to give most of this land back in exchange for peace, ex. the Sinai Desert helped in the Oslo Accords, the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. However, they still had Gaza and the West Bank.
Israel was in the process of handing Gaza and much of the West Bank over to create a new nation called Palestine when Hamas and Hezbollah, two terrorrist organizations, captured Israeli soldiers. Now, Israel is bombing Hezbollah HQs in Lebanon and Hamas HQs in Gaza to get them back. If the UN were to force Lebanon to make Hezbollah return the soldiers, the conflict would be over, however, they focus on condemning Israel instead. The problem is that Hamas and Hezbollah hate Israel and want to "wipe it off the map." However, Israel simply wants to exist.
The most interesting thing is that the Arabs don't hate Britain, the country that controlled the entire region for over a hundred years, but instead hate Israel, occupying very little land for only 50. The problems of Jews and Arabs goes back many thousands of years, but this is it in a nutshell.

Answer 7

Yikes! You're probably not going to find an unbiased opinion on this subject!

The conflict dates back to the middle of the century, and there are all sorts of twists and turns along the way. The most recent actions involve the capture of a baby-faced Israeli soldier (in an attack which killed two), and the attack by the terror group Hizbullah, helped, prodded, and financed by Syria.

Israel has responded very strongly, including civilian targets in its attacks, which (not suprisingly) has resulted in the deaths of a number of non-combatants, including children.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Syrian-made rockets continue to shoot into Israel everyday.

I'm not unbiased here (used to be strongly pro-Palestine, but became more agnostic after it was clear the Palestinian leaders were looking for some sort of "victory" over peace). But it seems that Syria is pulling a lot of strings here, resulting in a lot of vicious killing on both sides. Stopping Syria should be the priority of the UN and the US right now.

Answer 8

Geographically, the Gaza Strip (the area they're always fighting for) forms the westernmost portion of the Palestinian territories in Southwest Asia, having land borders with Egypt on the south-west and Israel on the north and east. On the west, it is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea.

The Strip's borders were originally defined by the armistice lines between Egypt and Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, which followed the dissolution of the British mandate of Palestine. It was occupied by Egypt (except for four months of Israeli occupation during the Suez Crisis) until it was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. In 1993, after the Palestinian-Israeli agreements known as the Oslo Accords, much of the Strip came under limited Palestinian Authority control. In February 2005 the Israeli government voted to implement Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip beginning on August 15, 2005. The plan required the dismantling of all Israeli settlements there, transferring the lucrative hot house industry to Palestinian control to spur economic development, and the removal of all Israeli settlers and military bases from the Strip, a process that was completed on September 12, 2005 as the Israeli cabinet formally declared an end to military rule in the Gaza Strip after 38 years of control. The withdrawal was highly contested by the nationalist right in Israel, particularly the religious nationalist tendency, and some supporters of these tendencies now consider the Gaza Strip to be an occupied part of Israel. Following withdrawal, Israel retains offshore maritime control and control of airspace over the Strip. Israel withdrew from the "Philadelphi Route" that is adjacent to the Strip's border with Egypt after an agreement with the latter to secure its side of the border. The future political status of the Gaza Strip remains undecided, and is claimed as part of any prospective Palestinian state.

Answer 9

This is as accurate and unbiased answer as anyone can give you:

No one knows who started it: both sides blame eachother

No one knows how long its been going on for: some say its been going on since the end of WWII but in truth its been hundreds of years longer than that.

No one know what either side wants: Some one who sides with the Israelis would say that the Arabs are just trying to kill them and they are just defending themselves. Someone who sides with Palestine would say that the Israelis are trying to dominate the Palestinians and the Palestinians are just trying to survive.

Thats about as much detail as you can get into understanding the conflict without picking a side. If you really wish to understand what is going on you should hear bothsides out completely and then decide for yourself what is fact and what is distortion of fact.

Answer 10

it goes way back in time 1000bc at least, the isralites were always been attacked by neiboring factions the area that is israil is actually the best place to own because your arimies have a better are to march, it is the highway from the middle east to asia and europe. israle has been attacked by romans, egyptians, greecks and lots of arab nations but israil always fought bavck and won and since after world war 2 israel the nation we know today was formed but the land originally belong to arabs. and the muslim jihad (holy war against nonbelevers like jews and christians) has to do with it i heard there is something sacred in israil