So together we have gone over the problems since the 1800's but it gets a lot more violent and a lot more problematic after the second World war. The division of land that was not worked out by the people but instead dictated by the UN and heavily by the president of the United States Harry Trumann.
They decided that the Jews would get 57% of the land in Palestine and the Arabs 43%, to which many people disagreed.
They decided this despite the fact that the population of the Arab people vastly out ways the population of the Jewish people, and it created anti-Americanism in the Arab population. With this decision the Arab populous complained that the united States was pro-Zionist which was a religion attempting to be founded by the Jewish population, and they quickly decided to change there opinions to not sound racist. From then the American government backed the formation of Israel. The Arab population did not accept or recognize Israel as a country and because of that the surrounding country's attacked, to no success, the Israeli army combined with assistance from the Americans and the British defeated the attackers. When they won they forced out all non Jews, meaning that over 750, 000 refugees were kicked out and had to find other places to live in Lebanon or Egypt. As the refugees were forced to leave the Israelis also took their property, money and for many their lives.
Israel didn't stop there though they continued to push and attacked other surrounding country's to take more land and important resources. To which many country's rebelled and attacked Israel but failed, so to end the fighting Israel gave small portions of land back to their owners to keep peace. However Lebanon decided to attack Israel and when they lost, Israel decided to take control of most of Lebanon and it was a long fought war, a 22 year long massacre between the two country's. Throughout their 22 years there were many political problems and assassinations and massacres, it was nothing short of a bloodbath. That puts us in the year 2000.
What I have to ask after all that is that violence cant be solved by more violence, if Israel had decided to deal with this issue politically instead of with war then many wouldn't have died or lost their possessions and homes. War just creates more war if people could just discus their decisions instead of having a metaphorical pissing contest then many lives would be saved and the world would be a better place.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/middle_east_crisis/
http://www.globalissues.org/article/119/the-middle-east-conflict-a-brief-background
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/103/middle-east
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Middle_East
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ReplyDeleteI was really fascinated with this stuff you talk about and I don't really know much about this situation but I feel bad for all those refuges and I agree with you on that if it was done the political way there would be a lot less death then war had. I hope I will keep learning more about this topic and will become smarter in this field.
It's amazing how dated and intricate the conflict in the middle-east really is. To think that the middle-east has been in a state of war and conflict for over two hundred years! Through everything that has changed since then, from nation's leaders coming and going, the dawn and evolution of new technologies, etc, and yet war remained the same. Do you believe that if Israel hadn't received the support of the United-States and Great Britain there wouldn't be the same conflict we see today, or would other pressing issues and conflicts not involving Israel have led to the same place?
ReplyDeleteGood history lesson.
ReplyDeleteOnce again watch out for simple spelling / grammar / logic mistakes. It is tough sometimes to decipher what you are saying (ex. the anti-Zionist section seems to contradict itself.)
+ Please tell us where you are getting your information from, otherwise it will be considered plagiarism.
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