Today, the Jews are not fighting with anybody. Actually, it's been quite a number of days.
The general conflict is between the Israelis (who are majority Jewish) and the Palestinians (who are majority Muslim).
Israel.
They were fighting over the holy land of Jerusalem
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Israel is the Jewish homeland. It is where the Jews originated from.
the Holy Land did not spread. If anything, it has shrunk since ancient times.
the crusaders were fighting muslims to capture the holy land of Jerusalem.
The Romans
Diaspora
They were fighting for Jews, not land. But Hitlers intentions were for all of Europe if not all of the world.
Reb Saunders believes, like a number of Orthodox Jews, that the Galut (the Exile from the Holy Land) was a divine act of punishment because Jews had violated the commandments that God had given them. When God believed that the Jewish people had repented and were ready for the Messiah, this Messiah would come and bring the Jews back to the Holy Land. Until that time, Jews will remain in exile. They see a Return to the Holy Land as being an act of blasphemy because Jews should wait for God to bring them into the Holy Land and not to physically move there of their own free will.
The men were fighting for the freedom of the Holy Land to Europe and in Iraq we are fighting for the freedom of the Iraqis