Israel the world's only Jewish State

located east of the Mediterranean Sea

and Palestine the territory of the Arab
population that hails from the Israel
controlled land have long been known for
their enduring conflict with the Israeli
occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip the tension between Israel and
Palestine has been deteriorating in
years climaxing with many violent
clashes between the two sides to
understand the root of the Israel
Palestine conflict we have to look back
a few thousand years
ago early history of Israeli Palestinian

Early History of Israeli-Palestinian conflict

conflict in the 17th centuries BC
following the call of God three
Patriarchs of the Jewish people Abraham
Isaac and Jacob settled in Canan a
region approximating present day Israel
the West Bank and the a strip parts of
Lebanon Syria and Jordan the region
later had the name the land of Israel
the promised land the Palestine region
or the Holy Land in 1,000 BC King Saul
established the Israelite monarchy which
then was ruled by King David who made
Jerusalem the capital of his kingdom and
his son King Solomon who built the first
temple in Jerusalem after the death of
King Solomon the United monarchy was
split into the Kingdom of Israel in the
north with Samaria as the capital and
the kingdom of Judah in the South with
Jerusalem as the capital the land became
home to a majority of Jews but then it
was subject to numerous conquests of
various groups leading to the
significant decrease of the Jewish
population on the land one of these
conquests was conducted by the Roman
Empire who gave the name Palestine to
Judah intending to break the Jewish
connection with the land of Israel
during this time Christianity which
started as a Jewish sect ultimately
became a dominant religion toward the
end of the Roman Empire in the 7th
Century came an Arab Conquest beginning
the spread of Islam the Dome of the Rock
was built on the ruin of the second
temple making Jerusalem the holy city to
three monotheistic religions Judaism
Christianity and Islam after Christians
in Jerusalem were intensely persecuted
by the seljuk Turks a Central Asian
Empire with ambition to expand its
territory Christians in Europe launched
several Crusades to bring the holy city
back to the and of the Christians during
this time many Jews were killed others
were making pilgrimages everywhere
mostly in Western Europe from the 16th
century to World War I the Holy Land
along with much of the Middle East was
ruled by the Ottoman Empire an Islamic
superpower the land was unofficially
called Palestine at the same time in
Europe more and more Jews were joining a
movement called Zionism aiming to create
a Jewish National State in its ancient
Homeland hence in the first decade of
the 20th century tens of thousands of
Jews moved from Europe back to the
region Israel and Palestine under the

Israel and Palestine under the British rule

British
rule World War I exploded and ended with
the collapse of the Ottoman Empire its
land in the Middle East was carved by
the British and French Empires the
British then gave more Independence for
Iraq and Jordan and the region remaining
under the control of Britain was what it
called the British mandate for Palestine
where Britain promised to establish a
Jewish National Homeland under its Bal
for declaration which went into effect
in
1923 tensions between the Jews and the
Arabs who both claimed the land grew
which even led to acts of violence by
the 1930s following the increasing
Jewish population in Palestine due to
the fear of persecution during the Nazi
reign in Germany the British limited
Jewish immigration
in response the Jewish militias formed
to both fight the Arabs and resist the
British rule then came the Holocaust
throughout Nazi Germany which claimed
almost 6 million Jewish lives after the
war more and more Jews then fled from
Europe to Palestine to seek a Homeland
escalating the tension with the Arabs
overwhelmed by the situation Britain
began to withdraw from the
region the birth of the Israel

The Birth of the Israel State

state after World War II the UN proposed
a plan to partition Palestine into two
independent states a Jewish State and an
Arab state with the city of Jerusalem
becoming an international Zone with a
special status however the plan
According to which the Jewish accounting
for only onethird of the population was
granted more territory 56.5% of the land
was rejected by the Arabs they began to
form volunteer armies throughout
Palestine less than one year after that
as Britain complet completed its
withdrawal from Palestine Israel
declared itself an independent state
marking a new bloodier chapter in the
struggle between the Jews and the
Palestinian

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War

Arabs the 1948 Arab Israeli
War right after the announcement of an
independent Israel a war between the
Arabs and the Jews broke out which was
known as the 1948 Arab Israeli War the
war involved five recently indep
dependent Arab Nations Egypt Jordan Iraq
Syria and Lebanon the Arab League who
invaded the region in an attempt to
establish a unified Arab Palestine
however a ceasefire agreement was
reached a year later in which more than
2third of historic Palestine including
the West Jerusalem belonged to Israel
while Jordan occupied East Jerusalem and
the area known as the West Bank and
Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip as a
result more than
750,000 Palestinian Ians were expelled
from the land where they lived for
centuries on the day that they call
al-nakba or the catastrophe with the
deteriorated dispute between the Jews
and the Arabs there came more Wars and
fighting in the following

The Six-Day War

decades the 60-day
war it was in 1967 when the 60-day war
broke out after a volatile period of
diplomatic friction and skirmishes
between Israel and its neighboring Arab
states Jordan Syria and Egypt this brief
war ended with the victory of Israel
giving Israel control over the Golden
Heights from Syria the West Bank and
East Jerusalem from Jordan and Gaza and
the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt Sinai was
later returned to Egypt under the Egypt
Israel peace treaty after the war most
Palestinian refugees and their
descendants were not allowed to return
to their homes but had to live in Gaza
the West Bank and neighboring Jordan
Syria and Lebanon

The First Intifada and the Oslo Accords

the first inata and the Oslo
Accords the rising number of Israelis
settling in the Palestinian territories
in the West Bank and Gaza gave rise to
the PLO the Palestinian Liberation
Organization first founded in Cairo
Egypt in 1964 to create a liberated
Palestine in Israel the PLO launched
attacks on Israel from its base in
Jordan it was then forced to move from
Jordan to Lebanon starting to to carry
out acts of terrorism against Israel
fighting went on for years including the
Israeli invasion of Lebanon to kick the
PLO out of Beirut the PLO eventually
agreed to divide the land between
Palestine and Israel but there were
still more and more Jewish settlers
moved into the Israel occupied
Palestinian territories in 1987 a
violent Palestinian Uprising was ignited
starting from the jabalia refugee camp
after an Israeli Defense Forces truck
collided with two Palestinian civilian
Vans killing four of them this was known
as the first
inata this bloody conflict resulting in
hundreds of deaths triggered a peace
process with the signing of the Oslo
Accords by Israel and the PLO the Oslo 1
Accord signed in Washington DC and the
Oslo 2 Accord in taba Egypt according to
the Oslo Accords the West Bank was
divided into three areas area a was
exclusively controlled by the
Palestinians
area B was controlled by both the
Palestinians and Israel area C was fully
controlled by

The Second Intifada

Israel the second
inata though further peace talks
continued in 2000 the Israelis and
Palestinians could not reach agreements
on issues like the status of Jerusalem
rights of refugees and the increased
Jewish settlement in Palestinian lands
Ariel Sharon a Jewish Israeli who had
later become Israel's prime minister
visited the Temple mount home to the AL
aam Masque in Jerusalem the action was
deemed offensive by many Palestinians
and the second inata broke out the
violence ended with Israel's withdrawal
from Gaza but continued to settle in the
West
Bank Israel conflict with

Israel conflict with Hamas

Hamas Hamas is a Sunni islamist militant
group aiming to destroy the state of
Israel and create an Islamic State after
the armed conflict between Hamas and F
who managed the PLO Hamas split from the
Palestinian Authority and gained power
in the Gaza Israel put Gaza under a
suffocating blockade leading to several
bloody wars between the two groups in
the Gaza Strip including operation
castled Operation pillar of defense and
operation protective Edge in 2014 Hamas
and fah reached agreement to form form a
national Unity government in 2018 the US
Embassy was relocated from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem which was deemed by the
Palestinians as a signal of American
support for Jerusalem as Israel's
Capital 2021 the conflict between Israel
and Palestine was reassumed by a series
of hostile events in East Jerusalem
leading to several acts of violence
until a ceasefire deal brokered by Egypt
Qatar and the United Nations came into
effect on May 21st
peaceful though it may seem now the
complex and longlasting territorial
dispute between two states is a ticking
time bomb that can explode any
time.