History of palestine?

Question

what led to th Israeli-Palestine conflict and y is America supporting Israel?

Answer 1

The Palestine problem became an international issue towards the end of the First World War with the disintegration of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Palestine was among the several former Ottoman Arab territories which were placed under the administration of Great Britain under the Mandates System adopted by the League of Nations pursuant to the League's Covenant (Article 22) .

All but one of these Mandated Territories became fully independent States, as anticipated. The exception was Palestine where, instead of being limited to "the rendering of administrative assistance and advice" the Mandate had as a primary objective the implementation of the "Balfour Declaration" issued by the British Government in 1917, expressing support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people".

During the years of the Palestine Mandate, from 1922 to 1947, large-scale Jewish immigration from abroad, mainly from Eastern Europe took place, the numbers swelling in the 1930s with the notorious Nazi persecution of Jewish populations. Palestinian demands for independence and resistance to Jewish immigration led to a rebellion in 1937, followed by continuing terrorism and violence from both sides during and immediately after World War II. Great Britain tried to implement various formulas to bring independence to a land ravaged by violence. In 1947, Great Britain in frustration turned the problem over to the United Nations.

1947-1977

After looking at various alternatives, the UN proposed the partitioning of Palestine into two independent States, one Palestinian Arab and the other Jewish, with Jerusalem internationalized (Resolution 181 (II) of 1947). One of the two States envisaged in the partition plan proclaimed its independence as Israel and in the 1948 war expanded to occupy 77 per cent of the territory of Palestine. Israel also occupied the larger part of Jerusalem. Over half the indigenous Palestinian population fled or were expelled. Jordan and Egypt occupied the other parts of the territory assigned by the partition resolution to the Palestinian Arab State which did not come into being.

In the 1967 war, Israel occupied the remaining territory of Palestine, until then under Jordanian and Egyptian control (the West Bank and Gaza Strip). This included the remaining part of Jerusalem, which was subsequently annexed by Israel. The war brought about a second exodus of Palestinians, estimated at half a million. Security Council resolution 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967 called on Israel to withdraw from territories it had occupied in the 1967 conflict.

In 1974, the General Assembly reaffirmed the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, national independence and sovereignty, and to return. The following year, the General Assembly established the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The General Assembly conferred on the PLO the status of observer in the Assembly and in other international conferences held under United Nations auspices.

1977-1990
Events on the ground, however, remained on a negative course. In June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon with the declared intention to eliminate the PLO. A cease-fire was arranged. PLO troops withdrew from Beirut and were transferred to neighboring countries after guarantees of safety were provided for thousands of Palestinian refugees left behind. Subsequently, a large-scale massacre of refugees took place in the camps of Sabra and Shatila.

In September 1983, the International Conference on the Question of Palestine, which was widely attended, adopted inter alia the Geneva Declaration containing the following principles: the need to oppose and reject the establishment of settlements in the occupied territory and actions taken by Israel to change the status of Jerusalem, the right of all States in the region to existence within secure and internationally recognized boundaries, with justice and security for all the people, and the attainment of the legitimate, inalienable rights of the Palestinian people.

In December 1987, a mass uprising against the Israeli occupation began in the occupied Palestinian territory (the intifadah). Methods used by the Israeli forces during the uprising resulted in mass injuries and heavy loss of life among the civilian Palestinian population.

The Peace Process
A Peace Conference on the Middle East was convened in Madrid on 30 October 1991, with the aim of achieving a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement through direct negotiations along 2 tracks: between Israel and the Arab States, and between Israel and the Palestinians, based on Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) (the "land for peace" formula). A series of subsequent negotiations culminated in the mutual recognition between the Government of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian People, and the signing by the two parties of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements in Washington, D.C., on 13 September 1993, as well as the subsequent implementation agreements, which led to several other positive developments, such as the partial withdrawal of Israeli forces, the elections to the Palestinian Council and the presidency of the Palestinian Authority, the partial release of prisoners and the establishment of a functioning administration in the areas under Palestinian self-rule. The involvement of the United Nations has been essential to the peace process, both as the guardian of international legitimacy and in the mobilization and provision of international assistance.

Answer 2

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.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...
US was the first country to recognize official the new Jewish state...They are said to be the only democracy in the Middle East,which is totally false...

Answer 3

The 2nd question is easier to answer: During the Cold War, US presidents assumed (and turned to be right) that Israeli governments were likely to back the West, since there were/are many Jews in the US, Britain & France, who were/are likely to back Israel if it takes their side. Unfortunately, this thing carries on despite the fact the Cold War is over. The name Palestine as a reference to what is known today as Israel (and Palestine, according to some people) was imposed by Hadrian, or maybe another Roman emperor, as a way to opress the spirit of Jews, who were rebellious at that time.

Answer 4

The United States supports a government that notably has been our ally all along and certainly has contributed to our well being in all ways. however, the others have not and continue to take from us billions in taxes, for we built the Palestinean housing on the Gaza Strip for four billion, in taxes and all they did was make war and destroy it and they have had every chance to build their own state and when offered they did not want it even when we and Israel were going to pay for them to have their own State they refused? That makes no sense. Except when you think about what they do and what they want? Who straps back packs on with bombs here? We dont live like that, you know Cairo Egypt doesnt either, nor does Canada, etc., There is something wrong with a people that has been given everything and just wants to make up reasons to go to war? There are two things to consider?
One are they able to take care of themselves and organize? Yes, but for what reason? And who do they answer too? Who is behind the scenes with the Palestinean movements? AHaaa So there you have it. Who was supporting them before and now.
The Russians, and the other Arab countries. Yes and why to destroy democracy in Israel the first step to destroying democracy in the US. Because without Israel there will be no America so face it. Why should the Jews apologize for organizing civilizing and paying taxes, and being smart enough and work hard for what they have. We dont apologize for that either do we? so go figure it out because it is not that simple as they make it seem. go to www.history.com

Answer 5

If the Arabs , led by Lawrence of Arabia had not wrested the land from The Ottoman Empire there would have been no land for the Jews to have settled in , the Ottomans would certainly not have tolerated the Zionists.
Now the descendants of those Palestinian Arabs have no Palestine to call thier own.

Answer 6

That started in 1947 "the partition of Palestine". The borders of historical Palestine (before 1947) are the mediterranean from the west, and Jordan river from the east. Palestine (27,000 km2) was partitioned into to states (the Jewish state). (Israel) got 56% of Palestine's area, the other was called (the Arab state) it got the rest. Jerusalem was with the UN. Ask yourself this question: " woul you accept to give a part of your land to a foreigner??". They just seized the land according to (Billfor) promise -Britain's foreign minister- who promised the Jews to mount them in Palestine. Then, in 1948, Britain withdrawed from Palestine and let the Zionist gangs (Haganna,...) do their business on the coast of Mediterranean sea in Palestine, they were killing people with no regret. Many Palestinians fled to neighbour countries (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan). Then in 1967, Israel went into war with The Arab countries. Israel won the war in 6 days which leaded them to occupy Siina peninsula (Egypt) , Golan hights (Syria) and the west bank (the part of historical Palestine which was ruled by Jordan). After that, the entire lands of Palestine were seized by Israel. You know, each occupier has his own policy to make the native people suffer, I will mention some of which:
1) Building Jewish settlements on the lands of Palestinians, by seizing more lands and demolishing houses.

2) Killing people, taking them us as prisoners....let's not forget about how Israel "TUTOR" them, (soo creepy to remember).

3) Trying to wipe the history and culture of Palestine through demolishing historical sites and holy places. Interfering with school curriculums.
The most prominent policies of Israel against Palestinians after 2000, are:

1) Building the racist seperation wall.
2) Tearing down houses, cutting down the trees and seizing lands to build settlments.
3) The most cruel are (Israeli barriers) in The west bank (5000 Km2 now) there are 400 Israeli barriers. We wait on those barriers for hours and hours.
And so on, the most things I remember are the ones which old people tell me especially my grandmother about crimes of Israel.
Now, Israel is killing Palestinians on daily basis using internationally forbidden weapons. But when the Palestinians try to defend themselves and fight back, the whole world call them Terrorists. Israel doesn't even accept the UN's orders. That's why there is a conflict between us and Israel.
Why don't we think about if the Jews stayed in Europe, there would be peace over there. One incident changes the fate of a whole nation (Palestine).

Of course, America is supporting Israel by money and internatinally forbidden weapons. and with " hummer, F-16, Caterpillar".

Answer 7

In 1516 the Mamluks were defeated by the Ottoman Turks. The first three centuries of Ottoman rule isolated Palestine from outside influence. The discovery of sea routes to the East began to erode the importance of the Middle East to commerce. In 1831, Muhammad Ali, the Egyptian viceroy nominally subject to the Ottoman sultan, occupied Palestine. Under him and his son the region was opened to European influence. Ottoman control was reasserted in 1840, but Western influence continued. The Ottoman tax system was ruinous and did much to keep the land underdeveloped and the population small. When Alexander W. Kinglake crossed the Jordan in 1834-35, he used the Jordan's only bridge, a survival from Roman antiquity. Among the many European settlements established, the most significant in the long run were those of Jews, Russian Jews being the first to come (1882).

It is important to note that there was a Jewish population in Palestine continuously. Even after the Jewish state was ended by the Romans, Jewish communities continued to exist. All of the successor governments tried to eliminate the Jews at one time or another, but none succeeded as numerous accounts testify over the centuries. When the Zionists started the modern "return" to Eretz Yisrael in the 19th Century, they were joining Jews who never left.

In 1918, a Yiddish book by David BenGurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Eretz Yisrael in the Past and Present, was published in New York by the Poale Zion Palestine Committee. The authors note that long after the destruction of the Second Temple — and even after the defeat of Shimon Bar Kokhba, leader of the Jewish revolt against the Romans in the second century C.E. — large masses of Jews still tilled the soil of Eretz Yisrael.

In the wars and uprisings, many cities were ruined and many communities destroyed, but the farm population could not be wiped out so easily. Under foreign oppression, city dwellers — the propertied and educated classes — chose to leave their homes and migrate to freer countries such as Babylonia. The Jewish peasant, however, like peasants the world over, would not leave his land so quickly, for it was land developed by his sweat and that of his parents.


The conclusion of the book contains historical facts that establish the "denationalizing" of Eretz Yisrael. The authors ask us to remember that after Bar Kokhba's fall, "Rome and Byzantium held on to Palestine for 500 years (136 C.E. to 636 C.E.), but neither the Romans nor the Byzantines made Palestine their national homeland, an organic part of their national existence." Likewise, the book says, the Arabs and Egyptians, who reigned over Palestine for about 880 years — from 637 to 1517 — "never had organic ties to the land." During their rule, it continues, the cradle of Arab nationality remained in the great expanse of the Arab peninsula. And when it came to the Turks, who ruled from 1517 to 1917, the authors tell us that they "were even less integrated into the country than the Arabs." After a 400-year reign, Turkish culture and the Turkish language remained as foreign in Palestine as they were 400 years earlier.

"The denationalization of Eretz Yisrael resulted in a state of affairs where the country lay in ruins and desolation," the book says. "And the land waits for the Jewish people to come and repair and restore its old home."

Answer 8

You seek to justify the actions of todays terrorists by misrepresenting history. Just as you pretend to have a question to lure people in to your editorial, you pretend terrorism is a just means to an end no civilized human cares about. The 'Palestinian' people ceased to exist centuries ago. There is fallow land for miles and miles on Saudi Arabia's west coast that would be a wonderful homeland for their displaced Arab brothers in Israel, if anyone really wanted peace.

Answer 9

Ofcourse I pity to their inability to get hold of a respectable place in their own land. But Palestines have given birth to modern terrorism. Terrorist acts started from them.

Answer 10

Fighting over a piece of Land called west bank -Gaza strip Americans support Israel coz the feel Palestinians are like alqaeda (suicidal)