I'm aware that the Israel/Palestinian conflict has been going for thousands of yrs but how did it start?

Question

So as a far as I know, according to the bible, the Jews were direct descendents of Abraham and God promised them the 'Holy Land' but then things turned out differently after the Romans took over. How do the Arab play a part in the beginning?

Answer 1

Before I answer, let me say this. The source of my answer is found in The Holy Bible. Whether a person is of Christian, Jewish or Muslim faith The Bible has been proven in genaology and historic facts by archeaology, so if faith is short, science confirms this. The Arab/Muslim people are children of Abraham through his eldest child named Ishmael. Abraham and his wife was quite old and childless and at Sarah's (Abraham's wife) request he took an Egyptian maid servant as a wife and they concieved Ishmael. Sarah later concieved Issac. As they were growing up Ishmael being the eldest and quite rambuntious was described as being overbearing and rough with Issac. Sarah troubled Abraham greatly about sending the child and mother away so they could raise Issac in peace. Abraham finally gave in and sent them away. The mother and child were near death from thirst on their trek back to Egypt and an Angel of The Lord appeared before them and declared that it was God's will that they should not perish. Water sprang forth to save them and the Angel prophosied that they would bring forth a nation that would always be a thorn in the side of Issac's nation. The Ishmaelites were a nomadic nation that were great hunters and lived off the land. The Ismaelites are now the Arabic people that embrace the Muslim faith and that is why the Koran has the first 5 books of The Old Testament in their pages for they too are children of Abraham.

Answer 2

Under the Ottoman Empire jews ,christians and muslims lived in harmony for hundreds of years.
In the 19th century a movement grew among European jews called Zionism which was the establishment of a jewish nation in Palestine based upon Jerusalem. This was in response to the periodic persecution of the jews by European nations.
During WW1 when Britain was fighting Turkey for control of the Middle East it was in financial trouble and needed to raise huge loans on the global banking system which was controlled by jews.
In order to get the money they promised the Zionists to found a homeland for the Jews in Palestine if they won the war.
This was known as the Balfour Declaration and never had any legal standing in British or international law.
It stated that the Jewish National Home should have no detrimental effect on the civil or religious rights of the Palestinians.
It should be noted that several powerful members of the British government at the time were jews.
After WW1 the British were granted a mandate by the League of Nations to administer Palestine and they allowed in a number of jews each year on a strict quota basis.
The behaviour of these jews upset the christians and muslim arabs and there were riots which were brutally suppressed by the British.
After WW2 the number of jewish immigrants increased dramatically especially from Europe. Most of these were illegal as they exceeded the quota.
The British tried to keep them out but failed.
These illegal jewish immigrants formed terrorist organisations and carried out many atrocities against the British administration and the christians and muslims.
The worst of these was the bombing of the King David Hotel in which over 90 people died..
Britain after WW2 was exhausted militarily and economically and wanted to get out of this situation so the new United Nations passed a resolution to divide Palestine in two, one for the jews and one for the christian and muslim arabs.
The christians and muslims were not consulted about this and rejected the proposal.
In 1948 one week before the deadline for the British leaving the jews attacked their Palestinian neighbors ,siezing as much land as they could. Those Palestinians who resisted were massacred the rest fled for their lives to the refugee camps where they have lived ever since.
The State of Israel was declared in 1948 and many of the terrorists became ministers in the new government
The claim of the jews is based entirely upon a belief that their sky god promised them the land thousands of years ago but if all races behaved in the way they have then total chaos would reign throughout the world.

Answer 3

It is all stems from a typical family squabble, sibling rivalry, believe it or not -- the descendants of two women (who each had a son by the same man) who could not get along.

The Israelites (Judah is only one of the twelve tribes) and the Arabs are both descendants of Abraham. The Israelites are the descendants of Isaac and the Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael. There has been bad blood between them ever since Ishmael and his mother were sent away (as a result of her being very cocky and mocking of Sarah, who could not have a baby). The Arabs cannot forgive the Israelites for having been chosen to receive the blessings of the firstborn.

This rivalry has manifested itself in different ways throughout history, but the root is that one brother feels cheated by the other. Even though God was the One who made the decision to choose Isaac as the heir to Abraham, Ishmael's descendants have not forgiven Isaac's descendants.

After all these years there are no signs of abatement, unfortunately. That is why I think that it will take God Himself to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Answer 4

Jewish people began migrating to Palestine while the British controlled the area after WWI. The British actually tried to inhibit this migration. The Jews launched an insurgency and eventually the British compromised by allowing the Jews to establish their own state shortly after WWII. The West Bank and Gaza Strip didn't fall under Israeli control until after the 6 Days War.

Answer 5

Early Civilization:

Palestine was originally inhabited by many peoples over time, though most were of Indo-European descent. Indo-European is a grouping of many peoples based on their language. Indo-Europeans originated in Central and Western Asia.

We know that humans were originally hunter gatherers and that only during the 5th and 6th Millennium BC did civilization start to emerge. Civilization being the classification for people who have urban centers and depend on plant and animal domestication.

We know that the first Civilization started in Egypt, Palestine and Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq).

Ancient Palestine:

A unique culture and religion did begin to develop in Palestine around this time period. This culture could be tentatively termed Israeli or Jewish, though not exclusively so.

The Israelites or Jews (I will use those terms synonymously) along with other Semitic Palestinians lost independence to the Egyptians in the 2nd Century BC and later to the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians and Greeks (in that order) between 900 and 300 BC.

The Romans eventually conquered Palestine from the Greeks in the 1st Century BC when Pompey the Great conquered them. Funny story: Pompey entered the Holy of Holies the most sacred area of the Jewish Temple and bewildered because it was completely empty!

The Roman empire split into two halves in the 4th Century AD. The Western Empire based in Italy and the Easter Empire based in Greece. The Western Empire was destroyed in the 5th Century AD, the Eastern Empire lasted until just 40 years before Columbus.

Palestine remained (for the most part) in control of the Byzantine Empire (Easter Roman Empire) until the 7th Century AD when Muslim armies burst out of the Arabian Peninsula where Islam had just been founded.

Islam, Arabs and the Middle East:

Until the founding of Islam the Arabic and Palestinian peoples had very little contact with each other. The Arabic Peninsula had remained ruled by native tribes up until this point. It had never been conquered by a foreign power. It was relatively isolated on the international scene.

However, the Ancient (pre-Islamic) Arabians did trade quite a bit with the Persians, Egyptians, Ethiopians and Indians as they were strategically located near the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

Between 630 and 730 Muslim armies had conquered the entire Persian empire (Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, Afghanistan, India), Egypt, North Africa all the way from Egypt to Morocco and Spain. The empire was larger and had more people than the Roman Empire did at its peak.

Fighting between Muslims and Jews was not a serious issue during the Muslim occupation. The Jews were much happier and less prone to revolt then under the Romans or Greeks for example. The Muslims were quite tolerant towards other religions at this time.

Muslims and Jews lived side by side in relative peace although the entire area became more and more Islamicized and less and less Christian and Jewish.

Modern Times:

The huge Islamic territory quickly fragmented into several competing Islamic kingdoms starting in the 8th century AD. This is common for quickly gained giant empires (refer to Alexander the Great). These Islamic empires in one form or another continued to rule Palestine until World War 1 when Palestine and other Ottoman Turk territories were seized by the Western Powers (England, France, the United States, etc). The Islamic kingdoms had slowly decreased in power over time as Europeans were rapidly increasing in power since the 1500s. Almost the entire Islamic world was controlled by the West after WW1.

England then made a very controversial decision and declared Palestine the land of the homeland of the Jews in WW1. The native population still clung to its Jewish roots, but the Muslim population and culture now far exceeded that of the Jews. England now allowed the Jews to do whatever they needed to claim the land for themselves and indeed the English had to supply troops to help the Jews fight insurrections by Muslims on several occasions. After WW2 Israel officially became a nation.

Since that time fighting has continued between Israel (Jews) and Palestinians (Muslims). I don't want to go too far into the conflict and controversy existing now as it is a religious political propaganda mud slinging contest of the worst kind. But suffice it to say the creating of Israel by Britain and continued military and financial support for Israel by the US and UK has created much instability in the region and almost all surrounding countries have been brought into the conflict (Syria, Lebenon, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, etc.).

Answer 6

the conflict started when Truman, after WWII, decided to put jews in their own state, however, the palestines were in the area where they put the jews, the gaza bank, and current locations, and this is how the conflict started

Answer 7

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