What is the real root cause of the Israel-Palestine animosity?.?

Question

What is the real root cause of the Israel-Palestine animosity?.Please only non partisan answers wanted.

Answer 1

Its occupation for sure. Occupying other people by force is losing policy in the past and now and has no future.
No one could NOT change his mind unless he has no mind.

Answer 2

It is slightly more complex than just land or religion.

Many Jews went to British Palestine in the late 1880's and into the 1930's, buying land that was not being used by the Arabs because it was "useless" -- swamps or just barren land, and the Jews created farms and made the land profitable and therefore making the local Arabs jealous.

In the mid-1930's The German Nazis funded the "Grand Imam of Jerusalem" into making inflammatory speeches against the Jews and to fight against the Jewish settlements.

When the UN granted independence to Israel in 1948 the surrounding Arab nations attacked the new Israel and told the Palestinians to leave their homes until the Arab nations wiped out the Jewish "occupiers". The trouble is, the Jews won the war of Independence and the Palestinian Arabs who had left Israel after being told to do so by their leaders were not allowed to return, again by their leaders, NOT by the new Israeli government.

The Arab leaders have maintained an anger against Israel amongst the Palestinians because of this expulsion but forgetting to say that it was the Arab leaders that have created the situation.

In more recent Israel has, out of paranoia, has acted rashly and sometimes "overreacted" in their actions.

Answer 3

I don't think you will get a single non-partisan answer.

The root cause is that in the 1890s, Zionist Jews from Europe proposed creating a Jewish state in Palestine. Waves of immigration from Europe (many fleeing European anti-semitism, pogroms and later the rise of Nazism) alarmed the local residents (known today as Palestinians because they lived in a place called Palestine, but then generally called Arabs), especially after they heard of the plans to take over their land. Some became fiercely anti-immigrant. Britain, which acquired a "mandate" to administer Palestine after WWI, favored the establishment of a "Jewish national home" against the wishes of the people living there. The Zionists had had many ideas about how to get rid of the Arabs, e.g. "denying them employment," at first buying them out was main tactic. By 1948 Zionists owned between 6% and 7% of the land.

By 1947, the Zionists were about 1/3 the population and had developed a national army while the Palestinians hadn't, their efforts at independence had been crushed by the British with Zionist help a decade earlier and their leadership was in disarray.

In 1947, Britain turned the conundrum it had created over to the UN, which proposed a partition. The Arabs rejected it. The Zionists "accepted" the partition plan, but nevertheless conducted significant military operations outside the borders of area allotted to it under the plan. They conducted a campaign of terror and massacres, the first major one was at Deir Yassein, as mentioned before outside the area allotted for the Jewish state, and a month before several Arab states entered the war. (Palestinians used terror too, but not as much or so systematically) and forced around 750,000 people from their homes (the Jewish population was then around 650,000), emptying cities and demolishing well over 400 villages. A cease-fire was finally negotiated (after the first UN negotiator Folke Bernadotte was murderd by Zionists), the resulting armistace line, or "green line" became known as the border of Israel.

Israel confiscated the land, property and funds left behind by the Palestinians, now known as Palestinian refugees (they and their descendents are the largest single group of refugees in the world). Having forced out most of the people who didn't count, Israel then declared itself a democracy, a "light unto nations," a shining example of western enlightenment.

In 1967 Israel conquered the remaining parts of Palestine, and the people there have been living under military rule, meaning in practice they have no rights. Israel continued to confiscate land, destroyed thousands of homes (including whole villages) and built Jewish-only settlements, plus for many years forbid any expression of protest, subjecting Palestinians under occupation to imprisonment, torture, exile, and arbitrary killing (see http://www.btselem.org ).

Furthermore, Israel was in control of the government functions, such as issuing permits to build houses, and dig wells, also began requiring permits for Palestinians access land belonging to them or to live in a particular parts of the occupied territories. It regularly denies or revokes such permits to Palestinians (while freely allowing access and development by Jews) in those areas it particularly wants to keep, to maintain or establish a Jewish majority, thus denying oppurtunities to native Palestinians to develop the resources of occupied territories, to build homes and prosper.

Well, the animosity is due to belief by Palestinians that their land was taken and is being taken from them illegally by force, and that Israel is trying to take more (e.g. by denying permits, destroying homes) and belief by Zionists that Palestinians should leave and let them have the land.

One could say there is a religious dimension because the Zionists (excluding Christian Zionists who believe that the recreation of Israel is a prerequisite to armageddon and the return of Christ for a 1000 year reign) are all Jews and the Palestinians are mostly Muslims with a substantial Christian minority and a few other sects such as Druze and Samaritans and probably even some Jews.

Answer 4

In 1948 the State of Israel was founded by jewish terrorists on land which they took from the Christian and Muslim Palestinians by murder and ethnic cleansing.
All the troubles are related to that simple fact.

m i - has got it right .The Palestinians are paying for the anti-semitism of the Europeans.

Answer 5

8 000 years of animosity thats what. Does anyone think this is going to stop ?

Answer 6

Abraham did not wait for God to do what he said he would, and so he sleep with his wife's servant producing Ismael. Several years later He had his son Issac by his wife, putting Ismael out the door as the illegitimate son.

Answer 7

The cause of most wars, land. Who owns it and who is strong enough to keep it.

Answer 8

Ownership of the land followed by religious differences IMO.

Answer 9

land dispute and religious fundamentalist its the simple laws of physics 2 objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time same thing with religion or so they believe

Answer 10

sibling rivalry.