What is the origin of the Pashtun/Hazara conflict?

Question

I know that they're two different ethnic groups in Afghanistan, but I don't understand the reason they have a conflict in the first place?

I do know that Pashtuns are Sunni and Hazaras are Shiite. That conflict is a whole nother kettle of fish, which I do understand to a base degree. I'm strictly interested in the ethnic aspect.

Answer 1

THe Hazaras are Shi'ites ad the Pashtun are Sunnis - thus difference in beliefs. Not sure how accurate this is but the Hazaras claim that they were driven ou of town to live in mountains by the Pashtuns.

Answer 2

In the late 19th century, a group of European Jews known as Zionists decided to form a Jewish state in Palestine. Palestine at the time was over 95% native Muslim and Christian Palestinian Arabs. These Zionists decided they would have to get rid of the Palestinian Arabs in order to make way for the Jewish state. Some Zionists were wealthy and influential and managed to get backing for the plan from Britain, spelled out in the "Balfour declaration". When Palestine fell under British rule after WWI, Britain supported the Zionists, helped them set up militias, establish government institutions while forbidding Palestinian Arab development of governing bodies, and brutally repressing Palestinian rebellion. The people of Palestine were never asked if they wanted this invasion, and neither they nor their leadership ever agreed to it. The official doctrine of major Jewish organizations such as the Jewish National Fund was to deny Palestinians employment in any businesses they set up and placed covenants on land they purchased making it belong to Jews and worked on only by Jews in perpetuity. Palestinians were being denied employment by immigrants, discriminated against in their own land! By 1947, however, the Zionists had only managed to purchase between 6% and 7% of the total land area, Palestinians still owned most of the rest. Because of the Nazis, the number of Zionists had grown to about 1/3 the total population. Getting rid of Palestinians by buying up their land and evicting them and denying them employment in Zionist-owned businesses wasn't working, in fact, it just made the Palestinians resent the newcomers more. After WWII The British empire was breaking up and they turned the matter of Palestine over to the UN. The Zionist lobbied for all of Palestine for their state, and the UN was dominated by European countries which felt somewhat guilty over the Nazi holocaust. In November 1947 the UN recommended, over the objections of the Palestinians, a division giving about 54% for a Jewish state, around 45% for an Arab state, and a small international zone encompassing Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Again, the people of Palestine were never asked what they wanted for their country, the foreigners and new immigrants, many of them illegal immigrants, had much more say than the native people. As noted, the British had helped the Zionist form a quasi-military. They began attacking Palestinian villages and employing terrorism against Palestinian urban centers and laying siege to the cities, exploding terrorist bombs in markets and hotels. The Palestinians tried to put together a militia, but it was woefully behind. Palestinians, their leadership fragmented and destroyed already by the British, were left largely defenseless. When they did mount a defense, the Zionists used it as and excuse to execute those who had fought even after they had surrendered. Zionists would take over a village, round up the villagers, tie up the men and gun them down in front of the women. Not just those who fought, women and children also were gunned down. The Zionists had already destroyed dozens of villages by the time the Arab armies entered the war, immediately after Israel declared itself a state in May 1948. As the war progressed, the Zionists consolidated their plans to "clean up" Arab villages, and began systematically to expel the Palestinians. Zionists went around in some cities with loudspeakers telling people to leave or threatening massacres, in others they just ordered people out of their homes and to march away. As a result, about 750,000 Palestinian Arabs became refugees. With the majority who probably would have voted against the creation of a Jewish state driven out, Israel declared itself a democracy and a "light unto nations". Israel demolished some 400 villages to prevent the return of the refugees, confiscated the land, property, silverware, jewelry, furniture, tools and businesses and much of the funds left by the people fleeing for their lives, turning them over to be used only by Jews. In 1956 and again in 1967, Israel attacked Egypt. The result was that Israel now occupies the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank including East Jerusalem. They exiled some 300,000 more people, and demolished over 100 more villages. They imposed a harsh military rule on the Palestinians living under occupation, using imprisonment without trial, torture, beating to quell any expression of Palestinian nationalism or dissent, and confiscated more land to build Jewish-only settlements. They require permits for Palestinians to live in their own homes that permit can be revoked permanently. Some of the Jewish settlers are fanatic Zionists who vandalize Palestinian property and destroy their farmland, shoot and occasionally kill Palestinian civilians. The Israeli army guards and protects them, and often lets them kill Palestinians freely. It's because the Zionists want all of Palestine.