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Answer 1

As in all similar conflicts, both sides have rights. Unfortunately , generations of diplomats have attempted to sort this one out unsuccessfully.

Answer 2

This is one of those questions where the Asker appears to be looking for a number of opinions vindicating each side. The problem is that both sides have legitimacy in certain claims and extremists who would rather derail the process of negotiations than not get everything in their wishlists. The Israelis and the Palestinians who truly want to live together in peace respecting each others' Rights to Exist, are in the Right and those who would rather stir up antagonism and hatred on both sides are in the Wrong.

Some arguments on each side are as follows.

Israel:

1) UN Resolution 181: In 1947 the UN Partition Plan, which was passed into law split the British Mandate of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab State. The Jews decided to agree with the Partition even though the Arabs refused. Because the Resolution passed, Israel had the Right to Declare a State, which they did.

2) Wars Won: Israel fought for its right to exist and has fought three existential wars (the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, the Six-Day War of 1967, and the Arab-Israeli War of 1973). In each conflict, it was only by Israeli perseverance and cunning that the territory was maintained. If Israel had lost any of these wars, regardless of its international legal case, it would have been denied the ability to re-declare a State.

3) Jewish Nationalism: Jews have lived in other nations under other governments for two millennia and were either actively or passively discriminated against. Israel represents to Jews the guarantee that even if the situation in their current Diaspora country turns sour, they have somewhere to go. This guarantee of a homeland has actually been used in various waves such as the Post-Holocaust refugees, the Mizrahi Exodus, Operations Joshua and Solomon in Yemen and Ethiopia, and the Russian Immigration in the 1990s.

4) Population Exchanges: Just as Palestinians left the British Mandate of Palestine, Jews were forced to leave the Arab World in roughly the same numbers. Around 720,000 Palestinian Arabs fled the new state of Israel, whereas 850,000 Jews fled from Arab countries with 500,000 settling in Israel. As a result, just as Israel took in Mizrahi Jews fleeing the Arab World, it would be contingent on Arab countries to take in Palestinian Arabs fleeing the Jewish State.

5) Jewish Holy Sites: Israel is home to numerous holy Jewish sites across the country, harkening back to the Jewish biblical past and imagery. In addition, the holiest site in the world for the Jewish people is the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Palestine:

1) Original Inhabitants: This is the strongest case for the Palestinians and goes back to how the Palestinians lived in the British Mandate of Palestine for at least 800 years as the consistent majority of people in the territory. They have love and reverence for the land and consider it to be an intrinsic part of their identity.

2) Atrocities have no Statute of Limitations: Many Palestinians assert that Israelis stole their land and possessions from 1920-1949, most violently during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9 when numerous massacres were perpetrated by Jewish militias to secure the exodus of the Palestinian People. These Palestinians assert that Israel should not be allowed to profit from this seizure of territory.

3) Muslim and Christian Holy Sites: The Palestinians have numerous holy sites that pertain to their religions as well in the British Mandate of Palestine. Jerusalem holds Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, the third most holy sites in all of Islam. There are also the Christian Monuments such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the cities of Nazareth and Bethlehem. Many Palestinian Muslims and Christians want to live in these places as they used to.

4) Arab Reception: Palestinians have been confined to refugee camps and occasionally attacked in violent pogroms by their Arab neighbors (like the attack on Sabra and Shatila in 1982 and Nahr El-Bared in 2007). Palestinians assert like the Jews that nobody is really looking out for their best interests other than other Palestinians and this is why they could never truly settle in another Arab State.

5) Never Allowed to Declare a State: Whether the Palestinians accepted UN Resolution 181 or not, they were never given an opportunity to Declare the Arab State which that Resolution gave them the right to do. After the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, Jordan and Egypt occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, effectively preventing the nascent Palestinian organizations from becoming a nation, even though they may have wanted to do so. In the present day, the United States has actively tried to prevent Palestinian access to the forums that would allow it to declare its Right to be a State because of its protection of Israel.

As this is forecasting, there are different opinions.

Answer 1

Historically, Israel has won all the wars or other military engagements in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the conflict has not yet been resolved. Additionally, the Qur'an shows that the Jews will be victorious in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Verses 5:20-21 indicate that as long as the people shepherded by Moses (i.e. the Children of Israel) defend the land, they will be victorious, else they will be losers. It is likely that Israel will remain the dominant power in this relationship.

Answer 2

Israel will prevail.

Answer

The Arab Rashidun Caliphate conquered the Levant in 634-638 C.E. The Arabs who led this conquest did so because they could (see "Right to Conquest" below) and they perceived that doing this was their duty as pious Muslims.

However, not many Arabs actually moved to Palestine during the Caliphate period. Egypt and Mesopotamia were far more attractive for those Arabs who wished to leave Arabia, and those who wished to leave Arabia (and abandon what their families had known for generations) were rare anyway. Those who did go usually went in order to perform bureaucratic or government functions. During the period of Arab Caliphates, non-Arab peoples in Palestine, such as Phoenicians, Canaanites, Samaritans, etc. began to convert to Islam and consider themselves Levantine Arabs. In this way, the Arabs did not move to Palestine en masse, but the masses in Palestine chose to become Arabs.

More recently, during the late 1800s in Ottoman Palestine up through the British Mandate period, the increasing immigration of Zionist Jews led to increasing number of nascent business, improved hygiene, and increased carrying capacity of Palestine. This drew in Levantine Arabs from surrounding areas as well as permitting the indigenous population to multiply.

Discussion on "Right to Conquest"

Historically, there was the "Right to Conquest" which was a pervasive idea in political thought. The idea was that it was natural for any country or state to grow and control more territory as it grew stronger. This allowed weaker states to dissolve in place of ones that were better run, a bureaucratic version of "survival of the fittest". The "Right to Conquest" prevailed as the dominant theory of nation-building until the mid-1800s when people started bringing up the concept of self-sovereignty and ethnic nationalism, which held the idea that people should govern themselves even if they are not the most powerful in the world. This view of state sovereignty has become dominant today and the Right to Conquest is seen as incorrect.

Since the Caliphates existed well within the Right to Conquest Period, the Caliphs did not have to assert a reason to conquer neighboring territories in Southwest Asia. It was their natural prerogative

The list is long and diverse. It includes all of the following and, believe it or not,
also many more others as well:

• National Rifle Association (NRA)
• Federated States of Micronesia
• American Automobile Association (AAA)
• National Society of Professional Engineers
• AFL/CIO
• Trinidad and Tobago
• American Jewish Congress (AJC)
• Farmers Insurance Group
• Airline Pilots' Association
• American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
• National Basketball Association (NBA)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• McClatchy Group
• Tribune Group
• Organization of American States (OAS)
• Rabbinical Council of America (RCA)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• Orthodox Union (OU)
• Chicago Public School (CPS
• The Marshall Islands
• Svalbard and Jan Mayen
• Boy Scouts of America
• AARP
• The Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
• League of Nations
• ACLU
• DAR
• GOP
• NLRB
• IAEA
• FCC
• VFW
• National Society of Professional Engineers (I'm quite well aware that this item is a repeat on the list. The NSPE, of which this contributor is a proud former member, to its credit ... possibly due to this contributor's influence, I don't know ... has the distinction that it has not fought against the State of Israel twice.)
• Grand Army of the Confederacy
• International Olympic Committee (IOC)
• American Petroleum Institute (API)
• Amoco Production Company
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• IBEW (especially Local 110)
• National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
• Jewish Telegraphic Agency
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• Intel Corporation

Answer 1

The problem is that both sides have legitimacy in certain claims and extremists who would rather derail the process of negotiations than not get everything in their wishlists. The Israelis and the Palestinians who truly want to live together in peace respecting each others' Rights to Exist have had to consistently those who would rather stir up antagonism and hatred on both sides.

Arab Answer

Simply, because of the Arab lands occupied by the Israelis. The Arabs, through the Arab League made the initiative that Israelis withdraw from the Arab lands occupied in war 1967 and all the Arab States start political, economic and diplomatic relations with Israel. However, the Israelis ignored the initiative completely.

Israeli Answer

The above answer is disingenuous about what the Arab League Initiative represents and while it does say that all Arab nations will have peaceful and diplomatic relations with the State of Israel at its conclusion, the Initiative does not provide for major Israeli concerns. The foremost of these concerns is that not every Palestinian can live in the Jewish State of Israel. Doing this would remove its Jewish Character and make Israel a de facto Arab State. This is a non-starter. The Arabs are to be commended for making a great compromise, but they refused to negotiate any terms in the Saudi Peace Initiative and made it a "take it or leave it" deal. This inability of the Arabs to seriously mind Israeli concerns and be open to a full negotiation is the reason why the Initiative failed, not an unwillingness of the Israelis to accept peace.

However, the Arabs are not the only ones furthering the conflict. The Israeli government currently is belligerent and encourages settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, hampering the peace process. On the flip side, Gaza is run by the Militant Terrorist Organization Hamas which constantly attacks Israel and is not interested in fruitful negotiations. Both sides are at fault for the current rounds of fighting, but the bottom line is that at the end of the day, most Israelis and Palestinians in the former British Mandate of Palestine realize that a Two-State Solution is the only one that is viable. It is Jews and Arabs outside of this area who still demand total victory for their side.

Answer 3

Religion. Jews and Muslims don't like each other.

Answer 4

Many years ago the region of Palestine had Jews, Christians, and Muslims with relatively minimal violence.

Lots of Jews in other countries were being pushed out because people were jealous of their wealth or just wanted their farms, so certain politicians and rulers who believed that the bible was true decided to allow some of the Jews to live in Palestine.

Those who arrived in Palestine decided that, as this was their home, more Jews should live there.

In 1948 the politicians in other countries agreed to split Palestine into separate areas for Jews and Palestinians, this started a war between the Palestinians and the Jews which the Jews won.

Ever since that time the Jews, (Israelis), have been pushing out the Palestinians, (mostly Muslims), from their land and the other Muslim states have been helping the Palestinians.

Additional Information

There are many additional reasons. Please see the Related Question to read about the Causes of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, many of which have not yet been resolved.

Jeroboam

However, there is a developing scholarly consensus that there was no United Monarchy as described in the Bible, and that Omri was probably the first real king of Israel. Omri ruled from 876 to 869 BCE (another estimate: 884-872).

Personal liberty laws:

- Laws passed by north states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves.

Even those who claim that the Judaism evolved and developed are in agreement that Judaism had developed for the most part prior to creation of the Diaspora and the Spreading of the Religion. The real changes occurred after the Destruction of Temple in Jerusalem the first time in 586 BCE and were solidified after the Second Temple was destroyed in 70 CE. By the mid 100s CE, Judaism was defined more or less by the laws and ideals it currently has. Judaism spread geographically within the next few centuries as Jews were exiled from their ancestral homeland.

The main change in the latter period was the ending of sacrifices and the rising of Rabbis to deal with all religious matters as opposed to being just scholars. However, this was settled soon after 70 CE.

Answer:

Judaism has evolved as circumstances have necessitated. Here are just a few examples:

1) After the end of prophecy (some 2350 years ago), the Tanakh was sealed by a special Sanhedrin (Rabbinical court). It was the same Sanhedrin which placed our prayers in their permanent form (see Talmud, Berakhot 33a).

2) Purim and Hanukkah were instituted after the relevant events.

3) Certain fasts were instituted in connection with the Destruction of the Temple.

4) After the Destruction, the laws of sacrifices were suspended.

5) When circumstances made it impossible, the New Moon was no longer proclaimed by testimony; rather, the fixed calendar was instituted (around 360 CE).

6) The Talmud was put in writing (around 500 CE) when it became too hard to be learned by heart.

7) There are seven formal Rabbinical commands. These are:

Saying the blessings over food (and on various occasions)

Washing one's hands before eating bread

Lighting the Hanukkah-menorah

The Eruv

Saying the Hallel prayer on certain occasions

Lighting the Sabbath candles

Reading the Megillat Esther on Purim.

In addition, there are many Rabbinical decrees, mostly from the Men of the Great Assembly (4th century BCE), as well as later enactments. The purpose of every one of these is to provide a "fence around the Torah," meaning to shore up something that can benefit from strengthening. An example: not handling electric appliances on the Sabbath, even if they are not connected to any electric socket.