The Conflict Between Israel And Palestinian Refugees

Since 1967 the borders between Palestine and Israel have been unfair. The Israeli people have taken a majority of the Palestinians land. This had caused conflict between these two territories for years. The Israel and Palestine conflict has been going on for many decades and nothing seems to be able to solve this issue. All because the Israeli government is very stubborn. They are not willing to make a compromise in this situation. The main issues between the Palestinians and the Israelites are; Israel has been unfair to the Palestinians and have taken the land which used to be their own. Not only has Israel created unfair boundaries but, they are also reluctant to let outsiders into Jerusalem. A place that is not only religiously important to the Jews but also to the Arabs. And above all of that Palestinian people feel as if they have to live in fear from the Israeli people. Israel militia has shot at mothers and children. These problems are still prevalent today; if we can solve the unfair borders, Jerusalem, and security we could have a safer Middle East.

Since the UN partition of Israel and Palestine in 1947, Israel has been placed in many instances of conflict between the Jewish migrants to the region and the Palestinian natives. Several conflicts resulted in open, declared war, such as the First Arab-Israeli War of 1948-1949, and the Yom Kippur War of 1973. In addition, Israel has been involved in the occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of the Gaza Strip. After the last open war, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank has been marked by the military governorate, taking political and institutional control of the region that is ethnically and religiously different than the population that resides in the Jewish state of Israel.

The big question we ask ourselves today is, will Israel and Palestine ever agree to stop fighting? The conflict between Israel and Palestine has been traced all the way back to 1948 through 2005 in The Israel Palestine Land Settlement Problem, written by Charles Rowley and Jennis Taylor. However, this conflict did not end in 2005. This article was written in 2006, so anything within the last 10 years is not included. The conflict between the two counties still continues to this day and still remains a major problem. Israelis and Arabs have been fighting over Gaza on and off for decades now. The three issues laid out in this article are the four major wars that took place, the refugee problem, and the conflict between religions. It concludes with the road map to peace. Throughout his whole book, The Israel-Palestine Conflict, Gelvin speaks of the same historical events that occurred between Israel and Palestine, while the article reveals there are still other conflicts, the land settlement problem has been the major conflict between Israel and Palestine since 1948.

Zionists and Palestinian Arabs wanted individual nations and both felt they had a claim to Palestine. Shortly after in 1947, the United Nations General Assembly Resolution (UNGAR) called for a partition, which divided the country so that each state would have a majority of its own population. This divide meant that some of the Jewish settlements would fall within the proposed Arab state while an extremely large number of Palestinian Arabs would become part of the proposed Jewish state. (Beinin and Hajjar 2014). A year later in May, Israel unilaterally declared their independence and the State of Israel was established. This of course started a war, and neighboring Arab states invaded Israel almost immediately. During this war about 750,000 Arab Palestinians fled to Lebanon, the West Bank, and the Gaza strip. (http://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/%E2%80%9Cpalestine-refugees-unresolved-question-time-syria-crisis%E2%80%9D) Also during this fight, Israel expanded its borders far beyond the UN partition lines, leaving Egypt to take hold of the Gaza Strip & Jordan to control the West

er the war, as the years went on the Jewish population in Palestine grew tremendously. The growth created a lot of violence between Jews and Arabic’s. This violence ultimately led to Britain to make a big decision on the future of Palestine. This with the fueling of World War II and the Holocaust caused international support for Zionism. So, in 1948 they established official declaration of the State of Israel (Cohen, 2003; Levin, 1974.)

The Declaration of Independence ‘notified the world that the Land of Israel was the historic birthplace of the Jewish people, that the Zionist movement was the testimony to the role Palestine had fulfilled in Jewish history and religion, that the Balfour Declaration, the United Nations Partition Resolution, the sacrifice of the Zionist pioneers, and the torment suffered by Jews in recent years—all had laid the moral and legal foundations for the new state.’ The declaration emphasized the importance of the land of Israel to the Jewish people, and it recognized their constant struggle to get it back since being exiled from their homeland. Later on the 14th of May, the British Mandate expired and both the United States and the Soviet Union recognized Israel as a state. This was especially fortunate for Israel, because two of the biggest powers in the world acknowledged the state. Even though the Jews deserved to have a state of their own and finally received it, the fighting was not over. The day after Israel gained independence, it was attacked by Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq marking the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli

Many years passed by and nothing happened between the Israelis and Palestinians, but in 1967 they went into war for six days. The Israelis ended up winning the war again and they took control of the remaining land of Palestinians. After the death of a Palestinian president, Hamas took complete control of Palestine. Hamas has been destroying Israel by rockets, bombs, shootings, and doing many more terrible things. These attacks have made the Israelis forces angry because Hamas is hurting their homeland just to hurt the Palestinians refugees. Israeli troops are getting their revenge on the Palestinian refugees by killing them for the pain they have caused to many Israeli people. Even to this day many Palestinian refugees suffer from Israeli forces

The conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis and their Arab neighbors go as far back as the early 20th century when the Jews began to migrate in momentous numbers to Palestine, then under Ottoman Turkish rule.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a problem throughout history and can is still a hot debate today. The conflict derived from religion differences where people wanted to claim the land, but over time it has escalated further than that. The long-term conflict is the religion itself, people believe that they deserve their own religion and that they should be able to have two separate lands for them. The short-term conflict is that people have been trying to win the territory through means of war, so people lose land and people gain land, and through that process, people were being discriminated against. Throughout the conflict, there seems like there are a few options on how to end the feud and turn to a point of peace.

I was fortunate enough to personally observe what Palestinians endure while traveling neighboring cities, how Palestinians are treated at military checkpoints, and the viciousness that Israelis pursue against Palestinians. Wretchedly, Palestinians are not permitted to roam what was once their own territory freely. Movement from one part of the territory to another is constrained and subject to military checkpoints. Likewise, a ten-mile commute from one city to a neighboring city may take hours. Workers walk miles to avoid military checkpoint because of the uncertainty of passing through. What seems more afflicting is that Palestinian children are often denied access to school because of delays or closures at the checkpoint. Moreover, the delays or closures force Palestinians

The Israeli and Palestinian conflict has been an unwavering conflict that has plagued the world for longer than any can remember. I, myself am hopelessly torn on whether I am Pro-Palestine, or Pro-Israel. I find it difficult to make an informed and unbiased decision on the conflict with the two conflicting stories being relayed by the pro-Israel documentary as well as by the Pro-Palestine documentary. I feel as though it would be impossible for me to make a decision on the issue unless I was able to see for myself. I see both sides of the issue, and I sympathize with both sides on different points. The two documentaries that were shown were very different, telling conflicting stories, and representing the conflict differently which led me to formulate an unclear opinion.

The Middle East has long been home to very deep-rooted conflict. For too long, the citizens of the Middle East have lived in the central of death and fear. The animosity between few, takes the hope of hundreds. The Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict is most notably the largest issue preventing peace in the Middle East, but it is by no means the only issue. The issue of bankrolling and foreign aid are also issues preventing peace; because the U.S provides so much funding and foreign aid to certain countries, it is in some sense encouraging them to continue acting the way they act now and not change for the better of the region. It is also making the U.S look biased and can potentially cause issues for America in the long run, if they haven’t already. There is also the conflict of the Persian Gulf; the importance of these “new” resources and how it could affect the world economy and also the balancing of powers in the Persian Gulf; The U.S and the Middle Eastern nations will need to work to together to bring about security and stability into the Persian Gulf and hopefully it can overflow to the Middle East as well.

In 1948, the British mandate announced their intentions to terminate its mandate in Palestine due to the conflict between the Palestinians and the Jews. Britain faced difficulties trying to bring peace to Palestine. After the British mandate left Palestine, the Jewish people declared the establishment of a Jewish state (Israel). On the same day, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq intervened and this marked the first Arab-Israeli war. After this war, over 800,000 Palestinian Arabs became refugees as a result of the independence of Israel. Also, Jews in the Arab countries were made to abandon their properties and flee.

The Israel-Palestine conflict has afflicted the middle east for over 90 years, acting as a breeding ground for violence and terrorism as well as costing countless of lives throughout the conflict. Israel-Palestine is an 80 mile wide area of land situated in the western Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Egypt to the south, Jordan and Syria to the east, and Lebanon to the north. Today, the crux conflict in Israel-Palestine most publicly materializes in the form of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. The original conflict, though, spans back long before the inception of Hamas. Beginning in Israel-Palestine, this conflict has spread into Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq. The Israel-Palestine conflict spawns from the British’s negligent policies which caused Zionists and Palestinian Nationalists to manifest separate national identities and propagated enmity and hostility between the divergent identities; Furthermore, the failure of the outside world and the competing nationalists to understand both or either of the Israeli or Palestinian narratives catalyzed the spread of violence and intolerance and precluded any resolutions.

Throughout this essay you will learn about the conflict between Palestine and Israel. Many factor took place to cause the conflict between Palestine and Israel, such as, the history, where the conflict stands today, why both side have a good argument against one another, and why the attempts at peace have fallen short. The Israel-Palestine conflict has lasted for a longer time than anyone would have expected. The conflict elaborated into a gigantic battle when it could have been an easy solve. Overall, the ongoing conflict should have never gone this far and damaged this many people's lives throughout Palestine and Israel.