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Why should the Israelis compromise their views in Arab-Israeli conflict?
Compromises need to be made on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Giving in to every demand on either side will create a treaty which is untenable for the other party. See the related question below.
Who did the US help in the Arab-Israeli war of 1948?
The United States did not support either side; it was too busy fighting Communists in Turkey and Greece.
What type of push factor is the six day war?
Warfare or Strife - It is social push factor. However, the Six-Day War was a push factor only on the Arab Side. On the Israeli side, the Six-Day War created an economic and social pull factor resulting in Israeli Settlements.
Who won the Israel and Iraq war?
There is no such thing as an Israeli-Iraqi War. Every war in which Israel and Iraq were opponents, there were other parties to the conflict. In the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, Iraq never signed an armistice agreement with Israel, but its withdrawal of forces commensurate with the Jordanian-Israeli armistice more or less indicates Iraqis' tacit agreement with its terms. The Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9 was a success for Israel in that it not only defended its borders but expanded its territory during the struggle. In the Arab-Israeli War of 1973, Iraqis assisted the Syrians. While there is a dispute over whether Egypt or Israel was victorious on the Sinai front, nobody disputes that Israel was victorious on the Syrian front. Israeli tanks were within 40 kilometers or 25 miles from Damascus. This would also be a loss for Iraq. Iraq sent skud missiles into Israel in 1991 to goad Israel into joining the UN Coalition to liberate Kuwait. This would have weakened the coalition and caused Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies to withdraw from the fight (since they would refuse to fight on the same side as Israel). To prevent this the USA urged Israel to stay out of the Gulf War. Several Israeli civilians died in missile attacks and there was property damage. Ironically more Arab-Israelis were hurt or lost property than Israeli Jews. Israel held back from retaliating and allowed Iraq to be soundly defeated by the UN Coalition.
What portion of the population in Israel and the Palestinian territories is Jewish Arab?
As concerns "Jewish Arabs":It is important to note, before answering the question, that the people you are referring to are not considered to be "Jewish Arabs" by either Arabs or Jews or themselves. They are typically referred to as "Jews from Arab countries", "Mizrahi Jews", "Mizrahim", or "Sephardi Jews". Many Jews consider the term Jewish Arab offensive because the Jews were in much of the Middle East and North Africa long before the Arabs arrived and did not intermarry with them to a large degree, making them Un-Arabized (as opposed to the remaining indigenous population which did experience this). Therefore, they are not Arabs of Jewish faith, but Jews who happened to grow up in Arab countries.As concerns Israel:Racial Jewish demographics are always hard to do in Israel because there is a huge push in Israel for Jews from all different walks of life to intermarry and create a United Sabra Culture. (Sabra is the term for Israeli Cultural Judaism). Mizrahim first came to Israel in the "Exodus Wave" which occurred from 1950-1952. During that period, between 450,000 and 550,000 Mizrahim left the Arab World and came to Israel, with the largest communities leaving from Iraq and Morocco. Israel had, prior to that point, a population of around 600,000. This made the Mizrahim a very large percentage of Israelis.During the 1960s, the Israeli Religious Population was relatively small and Mizrahim reproduced at a slightly higher rate than Ashkenazim which led to Mizrahim being the largest Jewish community from that period until the 1990s when a mass of Russian Jews shifted the balance back to Ashkenazim being the Jewish majority. However, it is also important to note that the children of the Mizrahim born in Israel in the 1960s and 1970s began to intermarry with the Ashkenazim, leading to many in Israel having mixed heritage. (For example, one-quarter of Israelis claim Moroccan heritage, but only one-fifth claim it from both sides, representing a difference of 250,000 people)The best estimate today of the Mizrahi Jewish population in Israel would be around 2 million individuals.As concerns the Palestinian Territories:There used to be a relatively sizable Mizrahi Jewish population in what would become the Palestinian Territories in the early 1900s (prior to the increase brought on by the Mandatory Period). There were roughly 20,000 Jews in Jerusalem and its environs, as compared with an Arab population of around 300,000 (which is nearly 7%). This grew during the the Mandatory Period to roughly 100,000 Jews, most of whom were not Mizrahi Jews, but the descendants of Europeans.The Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949 saw the expulsion of all Jews in the Palestinian Territories as they were seen to be on the side of the Jewish State. The period from 1949-1967 (the Jordanian West Bank) was the only time in the last two millenia when no Jews lived in or were permitted to visit the Old City of Jerusalem. Any endemic Palestinian Jewry crossed into Israel after this forcible expulsion. In 1967, a minority of Israeli Mizrahi Jews (of which some were historically Palestinian, but had shed that title) joined in the settlement building in the West Bank and Gaza, primarily in the environs of Jerusalem and in the Old City itself. However, this was a minority of settlers both because a stronger pull to attract settlers existed in the Ashkenazic Communities (Nationalist fervor) and because those communities contained more individuals. With the Israeli unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, there are no more Mizrahi Jews in that area.A decent estimate of the Mizrahim remaining in East Jerusalem and the Israeli Settlements scattered throughout the West Bank would be 60,000 (of a total of between 200,000 and 300,000 settlers).
What does east of the Jordan mean?
The Jordan is the river which creates the border of Israel and Jordan country. The east bank of the river is a nickname for the Jordan country's side, and this nickname is used a lot when there is a talk about the Arab-Israeli argument.
What concessions does each side expect of each other in the Arab-Israeli Conflict?
This question is difficult to answer because expectations vary between individuals on the same side of the conflict as to what they see as the most likely moves by the opposition and which issues they prefer resolved than the other. What's easier to list is what the likelihood that each desired gain from each side could be born out through negotiations. (I did not add "peace" simply because both sides want "peace", it's just a question of how you define it.) Arab Desires for Palestinians: Full Return of Refugees (Includes '49 Israel) 0% 1947 UN Partition Plan up to All Territory 0% Return of Refugees to West Bank and/or Gaza 50% Self-Defense Force 30% Monetary Compensation for Exile 40% Independent Arab State (withdrawal of Israeli Soldiers) 60% Removal of the Israeli Settlements 50% Jerusalem 20% Israeli Desires: Permanent Peace with other Arab States 50% No Palestinian Army 30% Old City of Jerusalem 20% Border Swaps (depends which ones) 30%
Is the conflict in the Middle East between the Arabs and the Jews?
A:Many prefer to see this conflict in terms of religion, since a religious imprimatur absolves an aggressor of any moral responsibility. However, it is really about land. Whether or not the Jews of the early twentieth century felt a longing to live in what was then called Palestine, and whether or not the Holocaust gave Jews a further, compelling reason to seek a safe refuge, Palestine was the home of the Palestians. They were soon to be forced out of their homes in the most desirable parts of the land and later even find their much reduced territory under threat from Israeli settlements. The Palestinians can no longer hope to regain their former land or even any rights in that land. But for some, it is now about emotion. And emotion is often enough reason to continue pursuing a lost cause long after all reason says to accept the best deal the victor is willing to offer. On the Israeli side, there is no good reason to offer any solution the Palestinian leadership could accept, since the longer the conflict continues, the more Palestinian land can be settled by Israelis.Of course, many ultra-Orthodox Jews now see the total occupation by Jews of all Palestinian lands as a religious imperative, but there were few ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel in its early years and they had little influence on policy. More relevant are the words of a Jewish settler interviewed on television, when she said religion was not important to the decision to live in the West Bank territory - look at all the free land we have.
What was king Herod's nationality?
King Herod was born in 73 BCE in Judea. Herod's mother was an ethnic Arab and his father was an Edomite. When Rome made Herod a client king, many Jews resented it. Although Herod was raised as a Jew, his alliance with Rome led many of his Jewish subjects despise him. Many Jews considered Herod an "outsider" and a "half Jew".
Why did the Arab-Israeli conflict become an issue in the cold war?
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union knew that they would be unable to fight each other outright for fear of killing each other in mutually assured destruction. As a result, they found existent conflicts around the world and picked sides. They would then use these conflicts as proxy wars by helping their selected side in the conflict. The Arab-Israeli Conflict was one of the conflicts chosen by the US and the USSR in their proxy wars. The US supported Israel. The USSR supported the Arab League.
What was Plan Dalet?
General DiscussionPlan Dalet is an initiative that the proto-Israeli militias (like the Haganah or Palmach) had among a number of other initiatives to defend the nascent state of Israel from a civil war with the Arab population and invasions from hostile neighbors. Plan Dalet is often cited by those who argue that Israel had a clear and unambiguous intent to ethnically cleanse the nascent state of Arabs destroy or cleanse all Arab villages, but this perspective is not supported by its general understanding or application.Benny Morris, a historian who has argued both for and against Israeli policy has stated that, "Plan D called for securing the areas earmarked by the United Nations for Jewish statehood and several concentrations of Jewish population outside those areas (West Jerusalem and Western Galilee). The roads between the core Jewish areas and the border areas where the invading Arab armies were expected to attack were to be secured." Refutation of the Ethnic Cleansing ArgumentThe argument that positions and towns granted by the United Nations to Israel and those areas outside of it with large Jewish populations were to be held at all costs against invading armies says nothing about how Arabs civilians should be treated in those areas. The general policy practiced by the proto-Israeli militias in engaging with Arab civilians was to allow those that submitted willingly to Israeli control to continue unharmed, but to fight with those that contested the Israeli military presence. Abu Ghosh and several Arab towns around Jerusalem were spared violence by Israeli militias precisely because of this peaceful submission to Israeli authority. Similarly, a large number of Arab civilian towns surrendered in the Galilee region and were not forced out or ethnically cleansed. In fact, the numbers of Arabs who did not leave the Galilee were so high that Arabs have maintained a consistent majority of the population in the central Galilee since 1948 in Israel (in some places over 75% of the population).Conversely, all Jews in what would become the West Bank or Jordanian-Occupied Jerusalem were forcibly evicted due to ethnic cleansing and those areas became Judenrein from 1949 until the Israeli conquest of the West Bank in 1967. If you are looking for ethnic cleansing during the Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949, it is much clearer in both word and deed coming from the Arab side against Jews than the Zionist Jewish side against Arabs.
Was Palestine a Jewish majority state before Israel?
Palestine was not a state before Israel, for hundreds of years, it was a province of the Ottoman Empire, and when World War I and the Turkish Revolution ended the Ottoman Empire, it was controlled by Great Britian under a League of Nations mandate. The UN Partition plan of 1948 divided the land between those parts that had Arab majorities (Transjordan, the West Bank and Gaza) an those parts that had a Jewish majority. The partition was an ugly thing because each side of the line had minority enclaves that felt threatened by their neighbors, and during what we now call the Israeli War of Independence or the Nabka, all Jews were forced to flee from the Arab side and many Arabs were forced from Jewish side. Even so, Israel today is about 30% Arab.
