How long have the Arabs and Jews been in conflict?

Answer 1

Answer 1Fighting between Arabs and Jews is mainly about territory. Until 1948 the holy land, Palestine, was a British mandated territory. In 1939, Britain was moving towards a position of granting independence and a white Paper recommended that an Arab state of Palestine be created.

The British Balfour Declaration of 1917 had regarded Palestine as a homeland for the Jews, subject to the rights of the Arabs, and the Jews had been hopeful of a separate state in at least part of the Palestinian mandate. In order to force Britain's hand, the Jews commenced a program of terrorism, with the Stern Gang as the main participant. In 1946, the British headquarters in the King David Hotel were blown up. By February 1947, the number of British casualties in Palestine has risen sharply and Britain called on the UN to solve the Palestinian problem. The Jews were well organised and well armed, and fighting quickly escalated into war. Between May 1948 and January 1949, 370 Palestinian villages were wiped out just in the coastal strip between Tel-Aviv and Haifa. In many cases, if the villagers refused to leave, they were put onto trucks and driven away to the West Bank.

So, Arabs (both Muslim and Christian) and Jews have been fighting since the 1940s. Some publications that may provide more information include:

· A history of modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples(2004) by Professor Ilan Pappe (University of Haifa, Israel);

· The History of Israel (1998) by Professor Arnold Blumberg;

· Bitter Harvest: A Modern History of Palestine (1989), by Sami Hadawi (official land valuer during the British Mandate)

Answer 2

Jews and Arabs have been fighting for a very long time. More than any could think of. They have, in fact been fighting since Abraham went against Gods plan and had a child with his servant girl. He was supposed to have a child with his wife, Sarah. When the servant girl got pregnant with a son Abraham and Sarah "fired" her. Then when Sarah had her rightful son, Isaac, Isaac was the son who would form the Jews and the Servant girl's son would form the Arabs. To learn more please look up Genesis chapter 16 in the Holy Bible.

Answer 2

Answer 1

Since before the time of Jesus over 2000 years at least.

Answer 2

The recent Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Jewish-Arab Conflicts that are its progenitors started in the 1920s.

Answer 3

The first major conflict between Jews and Arabs occurred in Biblical times, when the Ishmaelites joined a popular attempt to wipe out the Israelites (Psalm 83).

The second conflict was during the Mecca-Medina War period during Mohammed's life. Several of the Jewish tribes of Medina did not see eye to eye with Muhammad and this resulted in violent reprisals from each side. This occurred in the 620s C.E.

However these fights are not the cause (or related to) the current violence in the Arab-Jewish conflicts which first manifested in violence during the Zionist colonization of the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1920s.

Answer 4

If the question is asking how long the Jews and Arabs have been fighting each other to determine the fate of the former British Mandate of Palestine, the answer is approximately 90 years (since the 1920s).

If the question is asking how long Jews and Arabs have fought at all in the area of the former British Mandate of Palestine, the earliest historically verified battles fought by Jews in the territory happened nearly 2800 years ago and The Bible alludes to even earlier confrontations. Arabs first fought in the region as early as 650 or so C.E. when Caliph Omar expanded the Islamic Caliphate into the Levant.