Israel Palestine conflict: a 1000-year history
Israel
Palestine conflict: a 1000-year history
If
we want to understand today’s crisis properly, we need to know the history
first and how did the conflict between Israel and Palestine begin?
our story begins thousands of years ago, you must have heard about how terribly hitter had treated the Jews. But do you know, the atrocities against Jews began thousands of years ago.
It is said that Jesus Christ was born into a Jewish family
and some Christians believe that some juice wanted to crucify Jesus Christ.
this is a belief from an ideology that remained among the Christians for
several years, decade, and even centuries, and when the crusades happened around
of thousand years ago Christians killed the Jewish in a large number at that
time there were many rumors being circulated against the juice that they drink
the blood of Christian children or that they used the blood for religious
rituals because of these rumors there was rampant hatred against the Jews.
The hate that the Jews had to wear hardly only religion had
to wear that in the last thousand years after the 1800s this hatred towards the Jews was not only
because of the religious region but also because the juice was being seen as a
different ethnicity as well. because of
these reasons till the late 1800s are living around the world begin feeling that
no country accepts them as their own if they wanted to live peacefully, they
would need to create their own country to create a Jewish country. there was an
austro Hungarian journalist name Theodor Herzl. He started a new political
movement in his 1896 pamphlet (Zionism).
He said that Jews should get their separate country at the
time this was not a new idea. since 1870 there were several organizations
calling themselves lovers of Zion. they
were already propagating this idea because of this region in 1881, the first
large-scale migration of Jewish was seen in the Palestine area. The Jewish will
to many permanent settlements in the area and started living there.
why did they choose
Palestine area because this was a very holy area for them. Jerusalem is the
holiest place for the Jewish. Do remember that at that time there was no Israel
Gaza of the west bank the whole area was Palestine that felt under the ottoman
empire. Where Christian and Muslim and Juice live together peacefully more or
less. there was no conflict. one reason behind it can be that most of the land
was empty. there were very few settlements on the land. now we fast forward to the
year 1915 world war 1 was going on. the British, French, and Arab
revolutionaries were fighting the ottoman empire. the British play a clever hand
here. They tell the Arab revolutionaries that in the return for their support
in the defeating in the ottoman empire, we will give you the Palestine area and
the Arab revolutionaries were fighting to create a unified Arab country. the
Arab revolutionaries wanted one Arab country from Syria to Yemen. the British
were promise the same things to the Jews that they will help them to create
their own Jewish country near Palestine. why do they do this so that they could
appease the American juice and could gain influence on American politics
but in the reality, the British made a secret deal with the French? as soon as the ottoman empire fell after world war 1 Britain and France divided the Middle
East area between themselves Britain took over the control of the Eastern
region. 1918 _1948 the entire Pakistan area was under the control of the
British government at this time in Germany Hitler gets political power and
Juice are a massacre in the millions in the genocide. The juice free from Hitler
control Europe to different countries to save themselves some get refugees in
America but many of these Jews go to Palestine.
Britain allowed them to enter Palestine initially but later they start
stopping them from coming to Palestine because this an Israeli nationalist
movement started in Palestine at the same time, around 1940, Palestine
nationalist movement had also begun, and Palestine but also demanding their
own country. in 1948 the British government realized that enough’s enough and
that they cannot remain there longer there. British left the Jewish to form a
Jewish country and the Palestinians to form their own country they accept that
they could not do that and ceded the responsibility to the U.N and the British
then they leave Palestine. The United nation comes up with a partition plan about
the area to be allotted for creating a Jewish country and a Palestinian
country. 1947 UN partition plan.
in 1947 the United
Nations partition plan is a release in the plan the U.N keep 57% of the area
for the Jewish country and 43% of the area for the Arab Palestinian country.
Jerusalem is a very historically important area for three religions. for the Jewish,
Christian and Muslim U.N decided that Jerusalem would be under international
control the Jewish accept this plan and name their new country Israel hear the
Israel country is born in 1948 but important is the other neighboring Arab
countries were not a pleased with this plan at all. they believed that the plan
was basically the Britisher’s way or continuing their colonialism. So they
start a war against Israel saying that they will not be allowed the Jewish to take
any part of the land this war is named the first Arab – Israel war of 1948.
and this is a very historic war and of itself.
more than 5 countries were fighting
against a tiny country. the Jewish living in Israel knew that 5 years ago
they had seen how the world treated them. how Hitler had treated them and then
all the Arab countries were starting a war against them. if they did not fight to
survive then, they would not be able to survive ever. if they did not fight to
survive there then they would not be able to survive ever so to save themselves
they fought with all they had and very surprisingly Israel won the war
defeating all these countries after the war in 1949. the area that was
supposed to be Palestine according to the UN partition plan. Israel occupied
several of these areas. the Gaza strip area went to Egypt and the west bank
area went to Jordan which meant that the Palestinians did not have a country
longer. More than 7,00,000 Palestinians had to leave their homes and become
refugees in Arab countries. This is named the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
After this in 1967 the second Arab – Israel war takes place. This war lasts for
six days. And Israel wins this easily too. Not only does Israel occupy the Gaza
strip and the west bank area but also this large Egyptian peninsula gets occupied
by Israel after this war.
This is part -1
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