11-02-2023, 10:14 AM
The world in 1947, via the UN vote for partition, gave 55% of “Palestinian” land to the new state of Israel despite the Jewish population being half of that of the Arab population. This in part happened to assuage western guilt over their own anti-semitism that drove their actions and inactions prior to and during WWII. Israel received Palestine’s largest city of Jaffa which was the area’s commercial and financial hub. Partition cut Arab villages off from their fertile farmland. The Arab world, who not unexpectedly voted against partition, promised the Palestinian Arabs that their land would be theirs again and started a war the day after Israel was formed and lost. Thus the Palestinians lost even the lands they were promised during partitions. And they’ve been fighting ever since as refugees in their own land. Of course, this is a way oversimplified history of the region. It’s a long and complicated history that has brought us here today.
This is land conflict all knotted up with religion. And it isn't ever going to be solved because at this point no solution will ever satisfy Israel or the Palestinian Arabs.
This is land conflict all knotted up with religion. And it isn't ever going to be solved because at this point no solution will ever satisfy Israel or the Palestinian Arabs.
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