We are so accustomed to Israel and Palestine conflicts , I want to shed some light on the facts that led to the one of the longest conflicts in the world.
The conflict goes back to early 19th century due to religious and historical significance of Palestine state for Jews and Islamists.The main reason has been same as with India and Pakistan ie religious sentiments and claim on areas of Israel and Palestine by both the parties.
After the anti semantic movement (movement which asked to destroy the Jews, all over the world), Jewish movement called Zionism was started in late 19 th century by Theodr Herzl. Zionist called for the separate homeland for Jews and earlier Plasetine was the chosen home as the religon firts evolved here.
Before World war Palestine was ruled by OTTOMAN EMPIRE ( Prsesnt Turkey), It was broken and Britain overtook the control of as per the distribution of German and Ottoman colonies.
Britain encouraged Arab Nationalism to wekaen the Turkey Links.
In opposition to Zionist movement Arab also gathered and formed Palestine Arab Nationalism.
By then Jews from Europe started settlling in the Palestine.It was after World war II when thousands of Jews were killed all over the Europe, they started coming to Plaestine in large numbers.After the victory of Allliance forces in World War II, Israel was officially declared a Jews State in 1948.Accoeding to UN position plan (created after war) Plaestine was divided in three areas between Israel and Palestine and cities like Jerusalem and Bethlehem were put under UN control.In this regards Armistice agreement was signed.
But there was resentment in Plaestine people because according to divison they got only 43% of land despite much more population than Israel, moreover there were religious sentiments attached with the two cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
There were several attacks by Palestine on Israel but didnt get success as Israel's forces were stronger with modern weapons. During all these years Palestine was dependent on aids from Europe and UN. In 1964 finally 1964 Palestine Liberation Organization(PLO) was formed which was later headed by Yaser Arafat. PLO used gurriella tactics and terrorist attacks on Israel, in this strategy they attacked several times. Most famous was the Munich incident in which athletes from Israel were kidnapped and killed. This incident got global reckoning as planned byPLO. After this there were several conflicts and finally Israel ousted PLO from Jordan in 1970 and than again in 1982 from Lebanon after Lebanon war.
Finally in 1993 OSLO agreement was signed between PLO and Israel,under this agreement PLO gave the official recognition to Israel and Israel left the control from various parts of Plaestine like Gaza, West Bank etc. CampDavid summit was also a part of this peace process.
All was going well then came anothe instigation from Israel when it started makin West Bank fence, in the same year Hamas another Palestian faction rose on the account of corruption charges against Arafat and his team. Another organization started from Lebanon on the other border in form of Hezbollah.
This long history of conflicts is continuing till date but none of the self acclaimed Bosses of the world has shown seriousness to resolve the conflict which has killed thousands of people till date.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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