What is the conflict about in Israel?

Answer 1

Answer 1

The so called Israel is located inside the Palestine territorial lands.

Answer 2

The 'conflict' involving Israel and its 'neighbors' has next to nothing to do with territory.

The essential conflict arises from the simple fact that the ruling powers of all but a few of the surrounding nations maintain the policy, and feed their populations on it, that a Jewish nation has no right to exist in their neighborhood.

Answer 2

This question is so incredibly vague, that it is nearly impossible to answer.

There are, however, a few general categories into which Israeli conflicts fall:

1) Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: This a conflict between two nationalistic groups of people who wish to occupy the same piece of land. Both have a historical right and claim to the land and have extremists who refuse to give quarter to the dreams and desires of the other. This has manifested in an Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza to prevent the establishment of an Arab State and Palestinian Acts of Terrorism in an attempt to remove the Jewish State. Please see the Related Questions below for more information.

2) Israeli-Arab Conflict: This conflict has a military history to it and forms the backbone of much of Israel's Wars and Military Activities up to 1975. Arab States opposed Israel's Right to Exist and subsequently (unsuccessfully) tried to eradicate it through military means. Since this method has failed, the Arab States have now engaged in anti-Israel product boycotts, financial support of the Palestinian Terrorists involved in the above (1), and diplomatic non-recognition of Israel. Non-Arab Moslem-Majority States (such as Iran, Pakistan, and Indonesia) also participate in these new aspects of the Israeli-Arab Conflict. Please see the Related Questions below for more information.

3) Domestic Conflicts: Israel (like all functioning democracies) has a wide variety of political opinions and aspirations. As a result there are heated debates inside of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) over domestic policies (like welfare, internal construction projects, human rights and equality, relationship between religion and the state, and others) and over international politics (mainly those listed in (1) and (2), but also alliances with Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, and Turkey). Naturally, the elections become a battleground over ideologies and many groups campaign in ways to malign the ethnic/regional/religious groups with whom they disagree. (This is not dissimilar to the way Republicans call Democrats to be "elite Wall-Street types" and the way that Democrats call Republicans "dumb rednecks".)