The current conflict between Israel and Hamas is rather simple at this point in time. Israel wants to live in security!
For an example, how would you feel if your city were bombed by a neighboring city? Like, if Canada bombed Milwaukee? (just an example, people! It won't happen) It wouldn't go over very well, right? There would be an immediate cease fire, and much diplomacy to fix the problem, right?
But Hamas has used "cease fire" to actually INCREASE attacks on Israel. For the past eight years, over 8,000 bombs have been fired into Israel during "peace" or "cease fire". The United States recognises Hamas as a terrorist organization, and has worked to negotiate some of these "cease fire" "truces". There have been over 6,000 bombs that have landed in Sderot in the past, and now these bombs are reaching Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva, much further into the country of Israel.
Question...if this is "peace" then what is "war"??? Israel is simply wanting to live in secure borders and this won't happen until Hamas quits lobbing bombs into cities! Pure and simple, this is what the conflict is all about. Israel figures that if the munitions are exploded or confiscated then the bombing will stop.
Hamas is callously using it's population for human shields. The death tolls among it's citizens are a calculated attempt to condemn Israel for "human right violations" in not preserving human life. In my opinion, this is a cowardly and dastardly ploy to turn a legitimate war into a condemnation of Israel because Israel "ignores clear human rights". Oh really? Who uses the population as a shield? Certainly not Israel! Israel goes to war because it must, not because it wants to.
Research the history of Hamas. Personally I would not even attempt negotiations with a "political party" whose entire aim is to wipe my country off the map.
The conflict between Israel and Gaza was caused due to Hamas being elected into power in Gaza in 2005. In Hamas' charter, it calls for the destruction of the Jewish state (Israel). Israel and America, in trying to get the Palestinians to the negotiating table, mistakenly withdrew from Gaza as a goodwill gesture, but didn't expect Hamas to get elected. Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and as such vehemently opposed to any nation, anywhere in the world, which has any kind of rule other than Shari'ah (Islamic law). The conflict between Israel and Gaza is no different to the conflict and violence caused by Muslims in India, Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia, Thailand, the Philippines etc.
Israel was right because Hamas was constantly attacking them. Note: The above answer is referring to the confrontation between Israel and Hamas called Operation Cast Lead which occurred in December of 2008 and January of 2009. In 1914, there was no such political organization as Hamas and there was no government called Israel. Therefore, the question as actually posed is meaningless. There were Jewish and Palestinian Militias operating in Ottoman Palestine at the time, but they were in their infancy and more directed against the Ottomans than against each other.
There is no such conflict. Abraham and his grandson Israel were never in conflict according to the Bible. There is also no conflict between the patriarch Abraham and the Modern State of Israel.
No. The Hamas-Fatah Civil War has cooled off, but is not truly over and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has not been settled.
The cities that Hamas continues to target with unguided rockets are cities situated on land that is part of the Jewish region as defined by resolution of the UN's General Assembly.
they do not want land for peace between israel and palestinians because they want full power of the gaza strip and nothing to do with israel.
Hamas has declared an unceasing war against the Jewish people, but has only attacked them in Israel.
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Israel has never actually declared war on Palestine. If you are referring to a specific war between Israel and Hamas or the general causes of the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, please ask that question. If this is a general question on the causes of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, please see the Related Question below.
Hamas refuses to recognize Israel whereas the previous Palestinian party in power, Fatah, is willing to recognize Israel and negotiate with them to degree. Therefore, when Hamas replaced Fatah as the legitimate government of the Palestinians by elections in 2006, Israeli relations with the Palestinian Authority soured in anticipation of the more doggedly Anti-Israel stance of Hamas.
Mainly Hamas, Hizbollah, Syria and Iran.
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