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Israel
Located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, Israel is the only Jewish-majority state in the world. It has a total land area of 22,072 sq km with an estimated population of approximately 7.7 million as of 2010.
6,421 Questions
Did the Israelis kill the Palestinians and steal Palestine?
Answer 1
Yes they did, in 1947 the Israelis took over Palestine, trying to wipe out every Palestinian when some survived after this tragedy happened. The Israeli's are saying that they did not try to wipe out every Palestinian and there wasn't even anyone there when we got there.
Answer 2
It's quite complicated and there are two questions in this question.
Firstly, did Israelis kill the Palestinians? Yes, but it was for the most part a conflict not a civilian massacre. There were certainly events that led to numerous Palestinian deaths and the removal of Palestinians from large swathes of land. Throughout the fighting (from 1947-1949) numerous Palestinians were forced from their homes inside what would become Israeli territory, culminating in the Israeli atrocities committed against the Palestinian people in such places as Deir Yassin. Other Palestinians left in fear that they too could be attacked and forced to leave. This climate of fear and and desire to leave was increased by Arab leaders who encouraged such activities claiming that it would get civilians out of the way while the fighting occurred. After the War and the elimination of Israel, the Palestinians would return without issue. This did not happen as Israel was victorious. Palestinians call this event (the overall war and removal from their homes) the Nakba or Great Catastrophe.
Secondly, did the Israelis steal Palestine. No. While Israel certainly acquired a lot more of the former British Mandate than they were initially given, this does not fall under theft since Israel was not fighting an expansionary war, but a defensive war. As concerns the original Israeli territory as allotted by the United Nations Resolution 181, allocating territory to Jewish State and to an Arab State (Palestine), this is settled law and completely legal. Therefore it is not theft. However, people chose to avoid the legal definitions of things when those do not accord with their personal feelings.
Why are the Jews trying to take over Palestine?
The Jews would disagree with the framing of the question. They did not want to take over part of Palestine's land, but rather they wanted to return to their historic homeland. It would be similar to the Cherokee Nation returning to what is today northeast Georgia and wanting to create a Cherokee Reservation there. The Jews wanted their ancestral land back; it has ruins and symbols of historic Jewish States, not to mention that it has the bulk of Jewish holy sites.
How did Israel and Palestine make peace?
Israel and Palestine have had this conflict for years, mainly due to borders, security, water rights, control of Jerusalem and resolving Palestinian claims of a right of return for their refugees. Now it has gotten to the point where they are killing each other.
Why did the British create Israel?
There is an incorrect supposition here, namely that the British created Israel. The British were behind the Balfour Declaration and supported the Mandate for Palestine which entailed the facilitation of the creation of a Jewish State in that area of the world, but the British did not do any of the necessary actions to actually create the State of Israel.
British support for the creation of a Jewish State was rooted in concerns over gaining wealthy Jewish patrons in London to support Britain's engagement in World War I. At that point the British could have cared less about who they promised what to and leave it for after the war to figure out the mess.
In terms of who actually created the State of Israel, it came together as the result of Jewish immigration to the British Mandate of Palestine, Zionist leadership, Jewish militias and political and financial support from the West (primarily Jewish philanthropists). The first group are called the Halutzim or the Pioneers and they took it upon themselves to modernize Israel by cultivating the land and using European technology to improve its output and productivity. The Zionist leadership included some like Theodor Herzl, who envisioned the state, to Eliezer ben Yehuda, who developed Modern Hebrew as a functional language, to David Ben Gurion who declared Israel's independence and sovereignty, among many others. There were numerous Jewish militias defending the Halutzim and attacking the British (and eventually the Arabs when conflict started) such as the Palmach, the Haganah, and the Irgun. Finally, without the monetary contributions from families like the Rothschilds, there would have been no way for the nascent pre-governmental and governmental organizations to acquire enough capital to maintain an internal infrastructure.
What are the obstacles in ensuring peace between the Israelis and Palestinians?
A number of things would have to take place before a long-standing peace (as opposed to a mere cessation of hostilities) could take place. There are other requisites, but there are the most important.
1) Mutual Recognition: Israel would need to recognize a completely independent and sovereign Palestinian Government that would fully control a certain amount of the former British Mandate of Palestine (most likely Gaza and the West Bank). Israel would also have to confer on this state the unambiguous nature of being correct and necessary for Israel. Conversely, Palestine would have to recognize the Right for Israel to Exist as a Jewish State occupying the remaining amount of the British Mandate of Palestine (most likely 1949-Israel). Both sides would have to recognize the historical and emotional value that the land also has to the other.
2) Regional/International Recognition: States that have adopted attitudes strongly favoring one side at the expense of the other, such as the Arab States would need to recognize the legitimacy of both Israel and Palestine.
3) Israeli Reparation Payments: Israel dispossessed many Palestinians of their property, either by malicious activities that took place during the Arab-Israeli Wars or by Ben-Gurion refusing to let Palestinians who left return after the 1948-9 War. Israel needs to pay the Palestinian government reparations for the land that was taken in this way.
4) Israeli Withdrawal from the Settlements: Israel must withdraw from the Settlements to provide Palestine with a viable infrastructure and complete sovereignty. The Settlers must return to Israeli territory. The buildings, however, should be left as partial payment of the above-mentioned reparations.
5) Palestinians Must Concede Right of Return: Recognizing the State of Israel as a Jewish State is meaningless if Palestinians en masse are allowed to Return to Israel. Therefore, Palestinians (and their backers) must abandon the notion that they can ever return to Israeli territory. Palestinians should leave the refugee camps and become proper citizens in this new country of Palestine.
6) Jerusalem Must Be Shared or Internationalized:Palestine and Israel both want Jerusalem and the only way to solve this is either divide the city East/West respectively and divide the Old City or Internationalize the City or some combination of Internationalization and division. Neither side will rest until it can assure its followers that its holy sites will be protected.
7) Liberal Thought: Just in general, people have to be willing to compromise and live with that compromise.
Until 1948 the holy land, Palestine, was a British mandated territory. British policy on the territory was informed by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, whereby Palestine would be regarded as a homeland for the Jews, subject to the rights of the Arabs, but would not necessarily be an independent state. By 1939, Britain was moving away from this position, and a white Paper recommended that an Arab state of Palestine be created.
In order to force Britain's hand and ensure a favourable outcome, 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.
At first, the international solution was for the Palestinians to receive the major portion of the divided territory, but the Jews gradually achieved concessions, until a "Green Line" was drawn, dividing the territory approximately into two, by means of four sectors which touched at one point, so that a Jew or Palestinian need not cross the other's territory in order to move from one of his two territories to the other. After the British forces moved out, the Jews declared independence for Israel and commenced a civil war to extend its area. This was successful, and the recognised boundaries of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were far more favourable to Israel than provided by the Green Line.
On April 10, 1948, the village of Deir Yassin, in the suburbs of Jerusalem, was attacked by the Zionists. The Jewish forces rounded up most of its 600 inhabitants, looted everything of value in the village, and next turned their attention to killing the men, women and children. About 150 mutilated corpses of women and children were thrown down a well.
Four days after the massacre of Deir Yassin, the Jewish forces attacked the village of Nasr el Din, near Tiberias. The bulk of the population of this village consisted of defenceless women and children, who were attacked with machine-guns and hand-grenades. Of the whole population of this village, only forty women and children were able to escape to a neighbouring village.
Palestinians were deported from their ancestral homes, changing the proportions between Jews and Arabs in the Israeli zone. 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. Of about 850,000 Palestinians living in the territories designated by the UN as a Jewish state, only 160,000 remained on or near their homes and land by winter 1949.
Why did the six day war start?
Answer 1
The Six-Day War - the third major Arab-Israeli conflict - was in a sense a continuation of the first two wars. Broadly speaking, the causes of the fighting in 1967 overlapped with the causes of fighting in 1948 (Arab rejection of Israel) and 1956 (continued rejectionism and an Egyptian blockade of shipping to Israel).
Answer 2
Egypt made a number of overt threats to the peace and security of Israel. They closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli Shipping which cut off Israel from Iran (who at that time was ruled by the Shah and in Alliance with Israel) and other South Asian Nations. This severely diminished Israel's ability to procure petroleum. Also the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan mobilized their troops to surround Israel and kicked out the UN observers who had been maintaining the Armistice.
Between the fear of a slow death (because of the lack of petroleum) and the fear of a quick death (because of the mobilized armies on its borders) Israel decided that a surprise attack was the best way to deal with these threats. Israel never expected the attack to be the overwhelming success that it was.
The Arab countries, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq had started massing troops and aircraft close enough to invade Israel. Israeli spies uncovered this plot and Israel struck first, destroying almost the entire Egyptian air force the first day.
The Six Day war began with Israeli air strikes on Egypt's air bases which had been massing aircraft to cover an invasion of Israel. -Israel wiped out Egypt's air forces on the first day.
Did the Jews or Arabs live in Israel first?
The Ancient Hebrews lived in what is now known as the Land of Israel long before there was even an Arabic language, let alone Arabs in Israel. Recent archealogical artifacts have written Hebrew text on a pottery shard dating back to before the 10th century B.C.E. and was unearthed near the coastal region of Israel (near ancient Philishtim boundaries). The earliest known Arabic writing that is authenticated is only 2-3rd century BCE and it is known as 'Old Arabic' (not the Arabic language of today). But these writings were not found in Israel of course, they were found in Saudi Arabia. Arabs are part of an overall group of peoples who fall under the heading of "Semitic". While Jews are also Semitic, they as well as Syrians, Jordanians (Moabites) and Lebanese ARE NOT ARABIC in any way shape or form, aside from a measured level of assimilation with Arabs that resulted in the spread of Islam (recent DNA tests proved that Arabs are not related to the Jews, Moabites, Caananites or other inhabitants of ancient Israel). Arab activity in Israel is not found in any substantial way until after the death of Muhammed in the 7th century C.E. Yet there may have been nomadic traders from the Arabian Peninsula that traded with the Jewish/Hebrew peoples during Roman occupation of Judea/Israel. The Jewish people's presence in Israel pre-dates that of the Arabs by at least 800-1,000 years, but a more accepted time frame is about 1,500 years, considering such a tiny number of nomads visiting trade routes in Israel from the Arabian Peninsula.
What was the main cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict?
There are two ways to read this question: 1) What are the historical circumstances that lead to this conflict? 2) Why are people attempting to resolve these differences with bloodshed?
1) The historical circumstances are very long and complex. The simple version is that Jews were attempting to return to a land (the British Mandate of Palestine) from which they had been exiled 2000 years earlier. In the interim, Arab Palestinians had settled the land. The return of these Jews and their intent to create a Jewish State angered the Arab residents. As a result, there was a conflict of interest: two different groups both wanting to build a nation on the same territory.
2) The Jews believe in their Right to a State with such tenaciousness (like most other peoples) that they will defend it to the death. The Arabs are unwilling to concede the viability of such a Jewish State and how it has dispossessed the Palestinian population and therefore fight to death to reclaim it.
What organization voted to create the state of israel in 1948?
The United Nations designated for there to be a Jewish State in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1947. Israel was declared by its Jewish inhabitant pursuant to the United Nations provision in 1948.
Where do Zionists go to worship?
Answer 1
Zionism is not a religion, but rather a movement that uses religion to assert claims on the land now known as Israel, and possibly also land in the Palestinian Territories. As Jews, they worship the Jewish God, although it is quite possible that some Zionists are secular Jews, who have no real religious beliefs.
Answer 2
Zionism is a nationalist movement as opposed to a religion or religious movement. It derives from the ethnic nature of the term "Jew" as opposed to the religious nature of the term "Jew". There are many Jewish supporters of Zionism, some of whom pray in synagogues and others who are entirely secular. There are also Christian Zionists who usually worship in churches. There are also Muslim Zionists who usually worship in mosques, but Islamic Zionism is usually taboo in most Muslim countries. Druze Zionists pray with other Druze, etc.
Zionism is not a religion.
Zionist are people who support Israel.
Most Zionists are Christians and Jews.
Why did Arabs fight for Israel?
They believed that the land was exclusively theirs for three reasons:
1) It's Been Ours for Generations: Arabs were outraged and greatly saddened by the creation of the State of Israel because they believed that the land that had physically belonged to their parents and grandparents should have been theirs for inheritance. In their minds, it did not make sense that a group of German, Polish, French, English, and Russian speaking people should claim land that their ancestors had not even visited for centuries.
2) Jews Will Kick Us Out: Many Arabs were afraid that they might lose their rights and territories under the authority of the Jewish State. In the Middle East, ethnic cleansing was a relatively common phenomenon by victors in wars. (Turks and Greeks expelled each other from territories. Lebanese Christians and Muslims had also done this throughout history.) As a result, Arabs were afraid of losing all of their rights in a Jewish State. Those who stayed realized that this would not be the case, but that was the minority.
3) Pan-Arabism: Many Arabs claimed that a Jewish State would prevent Pan-Arabism from occurring even though the most successful Pan-Arab Nationalist project was the Egyptian-Syrian United Arab Republic which was physically split by Israel. Simply put, a Jewish State in Israel's location drives a geographical wedge between Egypt and North Africa in the west and the Levant, Iraq, and Arabia in the east.
The Assyrians exiled the Ten Israelite Tribes, and the Babylonians exiled the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
For Jews to live in our ancestral homeland in peace.
Zionism is the movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in Israel.To reclaim Jerusalem as their own.
Being a Zionist only means one thing: Believing that the Jews have a right to an independent State and that this State should be in the Land of Israel. Many people incorrectly believe that Zionism refers to the Anti-Semitic depictions of a worldwide Jewish Cabal or some other conspiracy theory. However, that is not what Zionism is.
Israel is at war with which Arab countries?
Since there are a number of different Arab-Israeli Wars (wars between Israel and its neighbors) and there are different belligerents in each of them. The Arab countries most often involved have been Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. See the Table Below for more information.
Note: Every Arab-Israeli War involves Israel, although in the Persian Gulf War of 1991 Israel did not retaliate when attacked.
Note 2: Palestine can refer to Palestinian Militias, the PLO/Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority.
This list is not exhaustive.
Years of War Israeli Name Arab Name Egypt Iraq Jordan Lebanon Palestine Saudi Arabia Syria USSR 1947-1949 War of Independence An-Nakba (Catastrophe) YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO 1956 Suez Crisis / Sinai Campaign Tripartite War of Aggression YES NO NO NO YES NO NO NO 1967 Six-Day War Six-Day War / An-Naksa (Setback) YES YES YES NO NO NO YES NO 1967-1970 War of Attrition War of Attrition YES NO YES NO YES NO YES YES 1973 Yom Kippur War Ramadan War / October War YES YES YES NO NO NO YES NO 1980-1982 Lebanon War Lebanese Civil War NO NO NO YES YES NO YES NO 1991 Persian Gulf War Persian Gulf War YES (but against Iraq) YES NO NO NO YES (but against Iraq) YES (but against Iraq) DNE 2006 War on Hezbollah Israeli Invasion of Lebanon NO NO NO YES NO NO YES DNE 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead Invasion of Gaza NO NO NO NO YES (Gaza Only) NO NO DNE 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense Operation Blue Sky NO NO NO NO YES (Gaza Only) NO NO DNE
Do you believe that the conflict of the Palestinians and the Israelis can be resolved?
Against all odds, the historical evidence for the viability of such a solution increases daily as more and more people in aggregate begin to realize that the take-all approach is in vain. A majority Palestinian youth begrudgingly accept Israel whereas their parents do not. A majority of young Israelis petition the government to accept some form of a Palestinian State whereas thirty years ago, a small minority would have done that. The biggest impediments to a peaceful solution are intransigent religious fanatics on both sides and external supporters on both sides. The reason that they all cause such problems is that they are unable to appreciate the facts on the ground over their ideologies of how the world should be.
Are the Israelis and the Palestinians fighting about Gaza?
It is important to note that the military/paramilitary conflict is between Israelis and Palestinians, not Jews and Palestinians since the Israeli Army contains more than just Jews.
Israelis and Palestinians are still fighting because neither group has achieved their objective. The Israeli objective is to have a dominant state in the region, living in peace with its neighbors, and with borders that are secure. The Palestinian objective is to have an independent government, international relations, and freedom of movement for its inhabitants. Unfortunately, both of these objectives are greatly expanded by fanatics on both sides who see the only possible implementation of these ideals being one in which the other party cannot exist or exists in such a weakened and defeated state that there can be no real peace. This is why the conflict continues.
To see the causes and desires fueling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in more detail, see the related question.
Israel as an independent state was created in 1948, three years after Hitler was dead and the Nazi regime crushed.
In terms of territory, the German Afrika Corps, under Gen. Erwin Rommel, was decisively defeated at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt. This prevented the Nazis from invading Palestine from the Egyptian side. Also Syria and Lebanon came under Free-French control in July 1941 as a result of the Syria-Lebanon Campaign, effectively preventing the Germans from invading from the north. (These territories had been under Vichy French control from June 1940, but Germany was concentrated outside of the Middle East in late 1940 and early 1941. In Mid-1941, the Nazis tried to establish a Fascist State in Iraq, but failed as a result of the Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941.
What is the current conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis?
The League of Nations gave Britain a mandate to govern the lands west of the Jordan River after the end of the First World War. The League of Nations disintegrated as a result of the Second World War and was eventually replaced by the United Nations. When the Jews realised that Britain was moving towards granting independence to the Palestinian Mandate on a democratic single-state basis, the Jews began a program of terrorism designed to drive Britain out of Palestine. Britain handed the "problem" over to the United Nations, which initially favoured a division that provided approximately equal shares of the land to each side. After initiating a civil war in which many of the Palestinians fled the future state of Israel or were actually driven out, Israel unilaterally declared independence. For one day, 11th May 1949, Israel consented to negotiate United Nations proposals, during which time Israel was accepted as a member of the United Nations, then Israel reneged on any further discussions. The Palestinians did not accept this situation, but Israeli military power has forced a change of position on the part of the Palestinian leaders.
There are no doubt some Palestinians who would like to see Israel destroyed, just as there are Jews who would like to see the Palestinian Territories destroyed, but most Palestinians who continue to fight would settle for a secure territory behind secure borders. Time is on the Israeli side, as Israelis can continue to build Jewish settlements on Palestinian land as long as Israel remains the colonial power in the Territories.
How long have the Arabs and Jews been in conflict?
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.
What were the short term causes of the Israeli-Arab War of 1948?
On May 14, 1948, the last British troops pulled out of Palestine as prominent members of the future Israeli government, such as David Ben-Gurion, met at the Balfour Declaration** to declare Israel a brand new state. Shortly afterwards, armies from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, and other Arab royalist nations set out from their homelands to quash the new state. However, members of the Israeli Army were better trained than their opponents. In addition, the Arab nations' supply lines were overextended wheras Israel's were more organized and had a central command. The conflict culminated in Israel occupying the entire former mandate, aside from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In 1949, the conflict came to an official end but the humiliated Arab nations swore to avenge their losses. The anger of the Arab nations would result in three additional wars along with much Arab-supported Palestinian unrest of which would split Lebanon into a bitter civil war in the late 1970s.
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**Another contributor offered one minor correction:
The "Balfour Declaration" was not a meeting, and didn't happen in 1948.
It was a letter from the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to the
Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, dated November 2, 1917.
The letter reflected the position of the British Cabinet, as agreed upon in
a meeting on October 31, 1917. In the letter, the Secretary wrote: "His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestineof a national home for the Jewish People, and will use their best endeavours
to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that
nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of
existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political
status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
The letter further stated that the Declaration is a sign of "sympathy with Jewish
Zionist aspirations."
The "Balfour Declaration" was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty
with Turkey and the Mandate for Palestine. The original document is kept at the
British Library.
The anniversary of the declaration, 2 November, is widely commemorated in Israel
and among Jews in the Diaspora as Balfour Day. The day is also still observed as a
day of mourning in some Arab countries.
No, Ariel Sharon died on January 11, 2014 after being in a coma for eight years.
Which American president established Israel?
United Nations resolutions. A Jewish state was created by its leaders and
citizens, and recognized by the US. No Arab state was created.
The President of the US at the time was Harry S. Truman.
Can peace be achieved in the Middle East or is the Arab-Israeli Conflict impossible to resolve?
Answer 1
There are dozens of conflicts going on in the Middle East; 'peace in the Middle East' is a vague term. The Arab-Israeli conflict is definitely a major factor, but not the only one, hindering peace in the Middle East.
That said, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the more general Arab-Israeli conflict are protracted conflicts: conflicts that are drawn out and extremely complex. If agreements and compromise are to be reached, it would take drastic measures. At the present time, neither side is willing to give what the other side absolutely wants.
Answer 2
Though it seems unresolvable, once the Palestinians get the justice and fair treatment they deserve and extreme factions on both sides have been quelled there can be peace between a free and independent Palestine and Israel.
Answer 3
As mentioned in Answer 1, there are numerous other conflicts in the Middle East, such as the Iran-Iraq and Persian Gulf Wars, the Arab Spring Wars, the Lebanese Civil Conflict and War, the Turko-Cypriot Conflict, the Egypt-Libya Sand Wars, the Darfur Genocide, the Yemeni Civil War, and the Iranian-Israeli Proxy Wars. There are also Cold Wars between Saudi Arabia and an alliance of Sunni leaders, like the King of Jordan, the King of Bahrain, and the Emirs of the UAE in opposition to Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Resolving the Arab-Israeli Conflict would not fix any of those problems, some of which are far more entrenched than the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
In terms of achieving peace in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, a number of things would have to take place before a long-standing peace (as opposed to a mere cessation of hostilities) could take place. There are other requisites, but there are the most important.
1) Mutual Recognition: Israel would need to recognize a completely independent and sovereign Palestinian Government that would fully control a certain amount of the former British Mandate of Palestine (most likely Gaza and the West Bank). Israel would also have to confer on this state the unambiguous nature of being correct and necessary for Israel. Conversely, Palestine would have to recognize the Right for Israel to Exist as a Jewish State occupying the remaining amount of the British Mandate of Palestine (most likely 1949-Israel). Both sides would have to recognize the historical and emotional value that the land also has to the other.
2) Regional/International Recognition: States that have adopted attitudes strongly favoring one side at the expense of the other, such as the Arab States would need to recognize the legitimacy of both Israel and Palestine.
3) Israeli Reparation Payments: Israel dispossessed many Palestinians of their property, either by malicious activities that took place during the Arab-Israeli Wars or by Ben-Gurion refusing to let Palestinians who left return after the 1948-9 War. Israel needs to pay the Palestinian government reparations for the land that was taken in this way.
4) Israeli Withdrawal from the Settlements:Israel must withdraw from the Settlements to provide Palestine with a viable infrastructure and complete sovereignty. The Settlers must return to Israeli territory. The buildings, however, should be left as partial payment of the above-mentioned reparations.
5) Palestinians Must Concede Right of Return:Recognizing the State of Israel as a Jewish State is meaningless if Palestinians en masse are allowed to Return to Israel. Therefore, Palestinians (and their backers) must abandon the notion that they can ever return to Israeli territory. Palestinians should leave the refugee camps and become proper citizens in this new country of Palestine.
6) Jerusalem Must Be Shared or Internationalized: Palestine and Israel both want Jerusalem and the only way to solve this is either divide the city East/West respectively and divide the Old City or Internationalize the City or some combination of Internationalization and division. Neither side will rest until it can assure its followers that its holy sites will be protected.
7) Liberal Thought: Just in general, people have to be willing to compromise and live with that compromise.
Did Israel gain territory after the six day war?
The Sinai Peninsula was the territory annexed by Israel from Egypt, after the 6 day war. Note that it was later returned to Egypt as part of the Camp David Accords in 1979.
Israel also annexed the Gaza Strip from Egypt after the Six Day War, but Sadat did not request its return to Egypt in 1979. Instead the Gaza Strip was given to the Palestinian Authority in 1993.
