Essay about Ethnic Conflict in the Middle East

The conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Jews is a modern phenomenon, which began around the turn of the 20th century. Although these two groups have different religions (Palestinians include Muslims, Christians and Druze), religious differences are not the cause of the conflict. It is essentially a struggle over land. Until 1948, the area that both groups claimed was known internationally as Palestine. But following the war of 1948-49, this land was divided into three parts: the state of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River) and the Gaza Strip (1).

Human history has demonstrated that conflict is inevitable. As long as there are differences of opinion, there is fuel for anything from a brief argument to a war that lasts for years. This truth prevails through ancient history and modern day issues. Over time, conflicts grow, compound, and set the archetypal stages for new issues to be born: conflicts between the rich and poor, the religious and political, the loyalists and rebels, and particularly, the East and West. Since people acknowledged those living in opposite sides of the world, the assumption that they themselves were opposites followed. Often, each thought the other was barbarian, an enemy, and would

Following the turmoil of the Second World War, millions of Jewish people were displaced with nowhere to go due to the prosecution from the Nazi Party. Upon the decree of Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion and much deliberation from the UN , Israel was formed. Originally, what was considered a British territory was now a Jewish state that encompassed the holy grounds of Jerusalem. While this Jewish-Muslim tensions date back thousands of years, this event sparked the contemporary conflict between these two groups that wages on today. Following the First Gulf War, Israel and Palestine began peace talks in an effort to quell the violence and tensions between the two groups as they agreed to withdraw their armies in order to de-escalate tension

The Arab Israeli conflict was a state of political tension and military disputes between the Arab countries and Israel. Though there are many factors contributing to the conflict such as Arab and Jewish nationalism and religion, Britain played an essential role in the conflict.

Western media outlets play a huge role in the public’s understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The way people gather their news is very diverse now. The Reuters Institute for Study of Journalism Digital News Report (2017), have shown that the majority of millennials receive their news from Facebook, and social media. The issue with receiving news intel from many news outlets today, is the articles are often bias. Facebook has algorithms, that often caters different news to your own opinions, based on what you have liked, or shared. The same report found that 32% of people read their news on the toilet, or in the bathroom. This shows that a lot of the time, people read their news in short periods, which means they often don’t tend to

Imagine you are travelling through the Middle East in the 1930s. Which nations or states would you describe as “most likely to succeed” and which would you describe as least likely? Why?

In 1948 the Jewish state of Israel was created out of the land of Palestine; the homeland of many Arabs who have lived there since the middle ages. Since then there has been continual conflict between the Arabs and the Israelis. From about 1500 BC, the Jewish people have lived in the land of Palestine. In the first century AD, Palestine was controlled by the powerful Romans. In AD 70 and again in AD 135 the Jews revolted against their Roman Rulers.

The knowledge and understanding of blood feuds helps in the develop understanding of the current conflicts in the Middle East. The Middle East conflict started after World War II when the United Nations handed the Jewish people land once owned by the Palestinians. A conflict has occurred with the Palestinians who live together with Israelis that has led to terrorism and tyranny. Israelis believe they must control the Palestinians to stop their terrorism; while the Palestinians use terrorism to seek independence from Israelis. Blood Feuds in Thull are similar to the situation in the Middle East and are violently depicted in Lincoln Keiser's "Friend by Day Enemy By Night."

The Arab-Israeli conflict refers to the political tension and military conflicts amongst certain Arab nations and Israel. The conflict began as a struggle over land, or the area now known as Palestine. This conflict began at the end of the nineteenth century with the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism. Arab nationalism was a reaction response to Zionism in relation to this conflict. While the Arab nation initiated four wars, Israel defended itself and won each time. What use to be a large-scale conflict between the Arab nation and Israel, as shifted over the years to a more local area conflict. Although many peace agreements have been signed through the years, there is still a major conflict between the Arab nation, specifically shifted towards the Palestinian nation, and Israel. The Arab world and Israel remain at odds over specific territory as well as many other issues.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is a struggle between the Jewish state of Israel and the Arabs of the Middle East concerning the area known as Palestine. The term Palestine has been associated variously and sometimes controversially with this small region. Both the geographic area designated by and the political status of the name have changed over the course of some three millennia. The region, or a part of it, is also known as the Holy Land and is held sacred among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In the twentieth century it has been the object of conflicting claims of Jewish and Arab national movements, and the conflict has led to prolonged violence and in several instances open warfare opposing Israel's existence. These wars, which occurred

After the Jews formed an army and began fighting the British stopped backing the Arabs and the issue was left up to the UN. The UN created the Partition Plan also know as Resolution 181. In this plan 25 percent of the Palestine Jewish state was offered to the Jews and the rest was going to be an Arab state. The Jews accepted this offer but the Arabs turned it down because they wanted it all(United). Since there wasn’t a settlement here there would be another war. This time when the Arabs attacked the other Arab countries, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan joined in on the attack. This battle broke out in 1967 and was know as the Six Day War because it only lasted six days. This war backfired on the Arab nations at the end of the war the Jewish Palestine state, now called Israel, was victorious and took over the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and The Sinai Peninsula. The Gaza Strip and West Bank are Arab states and the Sinai Peninsula was part of Egypt.

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has tight roots in history, stretching thousands of years back to when the Israelites first forged their way into the land, then known as Canaan. It came to its peak in 1948, the year Israel declared its independence (Beinin). Ever since then, the volatile area of Palestine has become a battle ground for war, terrorism, and politics. The two nations have attempted to make agreements, but so far, none of them have succeeded in creating long-lasting peace. Since it is unlikely that neither Israel nor Palestine would completely give up their land to the other nation, a compromise needs to be forged between the two. The conflict between Israel and Palestine cannot stop unless Israel lifts the

Conflict of ideas consists of ethnic, religious, ideological, territorial, governmental, and economic. According to Goldstein and Pevehouse (2014), “the first three are conflicts over ideas, the last three conflict over interests” (p. 160). Throughout the world, ethnic conflict is the most important source of conflict as it is large groups of people who share ancestral, language, cultural, or religious ties and a common identity. Thus, this is not based on tangible causes, but on intangible ones. Goldstein and Pevehouse (2014) stated that “fundamentalist religious movements pose a broad challenge to the rules of the international system in general and state sovereignty in particular” (p. 188). Religious conflicts are intangible, as everyone’s religious practices are different and often transcend material grievances. Although some religious groups coexist peacefully, religions involve core values and held as absolute truth for

In this week’s reading, we cover various topic about the history of the Middle-East, and its complexity as it relates to the contemporary crises in which destabilizing the Greater Middle-East. To be frank, I believe there are two majors issues destabilizing the Middle-East: (1) the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) and (2) a future nuclear-arm Islamic Iran. It worthy of noting that the intricacy of the Middle East did not start with ISIS, arguably so, the Middle-East was always a chaotic place. After the rise of ISIS, this organization managed to expand its operation beyond the Middle. The ISIS group became and still is the most dangerous criminal organization. Among many of their criminal activities, they are in part responsible for

The middle east is a land stained with the blood of innocence and plagued with instability. Most history books will claim that the instability has been growing since the late 1970’s and some state its stemmed from bad blood between tribes that has been cultivating for thousands of years. But could the foundations on which the house of history stands be built upon grains of sand? Have western nations played a larger part in the rapid growth of conflict in the middle east? “Christianity and western civilisation, what countless crimes have been committed in thy name?” - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o