Explain what is the conflict about between Arab - Israel?

Question

arab - israeli coursework

Answer 1

The reason for the conflict between Israel and the Arabs is that the Arabs, plain and simple, refuse to accept a Jewish state in their midst. They invented this whole idea of a "Palestinian people who deserve a state" just to use as a tool to dismember Israel.

Arab violence against Jews has been going on long before there was an occupation, long before there was a refugee problem--indeed, long before there was a political Zionist movement. Need I present painful examples? Perhaps even further back, where I hope everyone will agree that the Zionist movement did not yet come into being:

In the centuries after Muhammad there have been periods when the Jews were able to live in relative peace under Arabs, but their position was never secure. They were generally viewed with contempt by their Arab neighbors, and their survival was always predicated on their abject subordination and degradation to them. Mass murders of Jewish "protected people" started in Morocco as early as the eighth century, where Idris I wiped out whole communities. A century later Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews (setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later in Nazi Germany), and synagogues were destroyed throughout Mesopotamia in 854-859. In Tripolitania, Jews were considered the property of their Arab masters, who would bequeath the Jews to their heirs upon death. In the 12th century, after anti-Jewish riots, the contemporaries commented that their population had 'greatly declined.'

As to how to solve the problem, the only way would be for Israel to defeat the Arabs overwhelmingly, and then dictate the terms for peace. Otherwise, the Arabs will never stop trying to destroy Israel.

Answer 2

I'm not sure I can give you all your answers, this subject has depth and isn't very simple. It takes months to study. I just wanted to give you an Israeli point of view:

The land of Israel was given to the Jews and we originally reigned here. The present conflict started with Jewish settlement growing in Israel, for a number of reasons. {*btw, There has never been a time in history when Israel was completely barren of its Jews.} Arabs saw this could potentially hurt their economy and their Muslim surrouding. {*Correction: Israel isn't in their Koran. Jerusalem, though, is their third holiest city, because of Abraham in the Bible.} So the Arabs started fighting, pulled a couple pogroms (1920-21, 1929, 1936-39). The Brits tried to make peace- the "green line" (to split the land), round table meeting, etc. Didn't work. Fighting escalated to the War of Independence in 1948, where Israel won against 7 nations (apparently, Iraq wanted to join in, too). And since then, about every decade or so there's another excuse to start war with us. lovely, isn't it?

*Jews and Muslims are originally brothers (Isaac and Ishmael) and there have been times where we've worked wonderfully side by side. Same goes for Christians (Jacob and Eisau).

Answer 3

ok you requested for it Abraham had a son by a slave woman named Ishmael and his spouse Sarah had a son named Isaac, Abraham's son Isaac is the daddy of the Jews and Ishmael is the daddy of the Arabs. there has been conflict over the Holy Land ever because. so a lengthy way as 1967 to 2006. At no time will you get extra useful options ask the Arab, ask the Jew. This has been happening because this time and neither has settled the score yet. in case you doubt this answer ask them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

The reason seems to be obvious: some people think that some other people feel themselves better than...

I think that religion and - maybe - economical reasons are not the main reason for the battle between nations. Your imagination about the neighbouring country/folk is the main factor.

Recalling 2nd World War: what were the common opinions about our enemies? What were the Russian / Jewish / German / English / American people like?

I guess that this is a very important factor affecting in all regions of the world today.

Answer 5

Problems in the Middle east date back to Biblical times. Keep in mind, that entire region is where nearly all the events in the Bible, & Koran took place. You also need to understand Islam is like a "spin-off"(please pardon the expression) from Judaism. It began with one of, I believe, Abrahams brothers or sons. There are so many differant groups, religious and otherwise, over there that believe this or that city, village, river, or mountain, belong to them because of events that took place over 2000 yrs. ago.

It's also important to realize that all the problems are not religious in nature. Over the centuries, many differant nations, tribes and ethnic groups occupied the region. In 1949, I think, Great Britain decided to make a large chunck of the region a "homeland" for all the Jewish people around the world, many who had been refugees in Europe. Soon Israel felt the need to occupy more territory, claiming it to be historically and heridically theirs.

Answer 6

There has always been unrest in the area - much of it historically recorded since the 1890's.

If you really want to study this issue, the very best book written about the subject is "From Beirut to Jerusalem" by Thomas Friedman. The book was written in 1989 and to this day remains as the definitive history of the area. Thomas Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize for his work in Beirut in the '80's and this book "From Beirut to Jerusalem" won The National Book Award for non-fiction in 1989.

If you are only going to read one book on the subject of the Middle East, then this book is it.

Answer 7

Arab-Israeli conflict is a long-running conflict in the Middle East regarding the existence of the state of Israel and its relations with Arab states and with the Palestinian population
Israelis describe various reasons for what they perceive as unjustified hostility against Israel. One of the primary reasons cited is anti-Semitism.
Some pro-Israeli opinion cite traditional interpretations of sharia (Islamic law) which requires, among other things, that Muslim territory encompass all land that was ever under Muslim control, as a source for the Arab-Israeli conflict. Since the territory of Israel, prior to being the British Mandate of Palestine, was once part of the Ottoman caliphate, some Islamic clerics believe it is unlawful for any portion of it to remain 'usurped' by non-Muslims. By contrast, pro-Arab opinion points at the pronounced religious tolerance of the caliphates, where Christians and Jews coexisted "harmoniously" with Muslims and were granted limited self-autonomy. Resentment of Israeli Jews, this argument concludes, only emerged as a result from and after the rise of the Zionist enterprise in Palestine.
Palestinians claim they have International law on their side. For example, they cite UN General Assembly Resolution 194, which calls for refugees wishing to live in peace with their neighbors to be allowed to return to their homes, or to receive compensation if they don't wish to return. They also cite UN Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for Israel to withdraw from territories occupied during the Six-Day War, the Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids an occupying power from confiscating occupied land and transferring its own population to that territory, and UN Security Council Resolution 446, which declared that the Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are illegal
There are so many reasons, beginning with the initial occupation of Israelis in Palestine, which WAS occupied by 250,000 (more or less) Arabs, descendants of the Ottoman Empire, in 1882, that the origin of the conflict is lost in the rhetoric of both sides. continues to today.

Answer 8

In 1948 the promised land or state of Israel was formed for the Jewish people . It was formally Palestine.The palestinian people failed to accept this and so the conflict was born

Answer 9

It goes all the way back to the sin of Abraham when he had a child with Hagar, that was the Beginning of most of the worlds strife. Ishmael and Issac always had hate and strife between them and the blood lines have never had peace since that time

Answer 10

thats a long story , but you can bet us british started it, we were the ones that made all the promises then bailed out and left it to the americans to try to sort out