The Jews occupied what is present day Israel prior to the ottoman empire. The Ottoman Turks conquered the Jews and they fled... mostly to Europe. Following WW2 they wanted their own homeland so that they could defend themselves from aggression like that experienced under hitler. Some in England agreed and since Trans-Jordan or palestine was a British mandate following WW2 the Jews were allowed to purchase land from the nomadic palestinians and establish their own state on this land. The palestinians sold the land not realizing the full ramifications of the Jews creating a nation. The palestinians now want the land back and the Jews gone.
2006-11-27 00:40:53
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answered by Sam 2
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At the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a dispute over land and borders.
It started in 1948 when Israel was created,by a UN resolution,in Palestine,which at that time was under a British mandate.The Arab countries around didn't accept the decision and the next day they attacked the new created state.Israel won this war.In 1967 Israel attacked Syria,Egypt and Jordan in a pre-emptive war.They occupied and annexed to Israel Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank of the Jordan River (including East Jerusalem), and the Golan Heights.Those territories are being illegaly occupied by Israel(there are resolutions that declared the illegal occupation of those lands ). Millions of Palestinians ended up living in UN's refugees camp in Lebanon
There are 3 UN resolution that ask Israel to end the occupation on the Palestinians territories and the other territories that they occupied in 1967 ,but the Israelis refuse to do it...
Since then Palestinians are living under Israeli occupation and they are refused even the elementary rights any human should have... And there are millions of Palestinians living in UN's refugees camps...Israel refuses to let those people come back to their lands...
2006-11-27 22:33:41
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answered by Tinkerbell05 6
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Several hundred years ago, the Muslims kicked the Jews out of Israel. After WWII Europe, not liking the Jews (Stalin and Hitler both kickked them or sent them to prison and the other countries put them in the poorest places), they recreated Israel and the Jews were sent packing. The only problem was there was some Muslims living there. With some terrorism by the Jews and a 6 day war that the Jews won against the neighboring states (including capturing bits of Lebanon called the Golan Heights and a part of Egypt called the West Bank. Some of these people originally lived in these areas before Israel taking them and some were forced out by the people of Israel and some people immigrated there. They all call themselves Palestinians even though there was no state or country called Palestin. It's just was a name of a region of the Ottoman Empire that was defeated in WWI and quickly broke up after that. Desgraced from the brutal loss, the Arabs created the PLO to dislodge Israel (and spreading the lie that there was a Palestine state). A president of Egypt made amends with Israel and was quickly assasinated. Egypt retaliated against the Arabs by becoming a staunch alley of Israel along with Turkey (another Muslim country). Right now, Egyptian soldiers are in the West Bank by request of Israel.
2006-11-26 18:52:10
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answered by gregory_dittman 7
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When the U.N divided Palestine (in 1947) to give the Jews a homeland, many Arabs (Palestinians) were forced off of their land.
2006-11-26 18:21:11
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answered by Anonymous
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Probably has a lot to do with the "Eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth" mentality.
2006-11-26 18:53:01
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answered by luosechi 駱士基 6
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I'm think it's safe to say that religion has something to do with it.
2006-11-26 18:21:39
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answered by iamjohnbeck 3
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when the states of Israel was created ........... hundreds of thousand of Palestinians lost their home OVERNIGHT
2006-11-26 18:28:03
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answered by AlfRed E nEuMaN 4 preSIDent 4
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