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The roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict were all laid out in 1948 and the years immediately preceding it. 1948 also reflects the attitude that Israel's neighbors
by NeverFade 6y ago
The roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict were all laid out in 1948 and the years immediately preceding it. 1948 also reflects the attitude that Israel's neighbors have repeatedly taken towards it, namely: trying to destroy it.
Israel was attacked again in 1973, 1991, 2006. They suffer regular rocket and terror attacks to this day.
It's also hard to blame all aggression in the region on the Israeli (Jews) when we recall that they were attacked by all neighboring nations as soon as they tried to find refuge in Israel, before there was any history of hostility.
Simply put: Israel's neighbors targeted it for destruction from day 0.
- 0x49fa98 6y agoif you're so obsessed with 1948 you should consider reaffirming the original peace agreement. http://www.auphr.org/index.php/news/5218-mapcard http://www.auphr.org/index.php/news/5218-mapcard
- davidf18 6y agoThose like me who want peace want to ensure that nations which attack other nations lose land when they do so. Germany after WWI lost Alsace-Lorraine to France. After WWII Germany lost Upper Silesia to Poland. After WWII Japan lost Sakhalin Island to Russia. Arabs and Palestinians repeatedly attacked Israel, a country resurrected from 2000 years ago. Visitors to Israel can go to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and see the ruins of the 2nd Temple which was destroyed by the Romans. In 1948 the Palestinians and 7 Arab nations followed the leadership of "The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem" who had spent WWII as a guest of Hitlers's in Berlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1987-004-09A,_Amin_al_Husseini_und_Adolf_Hitler.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#/media/File:B...
- andrepd 6y ago> before there was any history of hostility Carving a piece of land pretty much unilaterally, against the wills of those living there, is already an act of hostility.
- slavak 6y agoUhm... At least 32% of those living there would probably beg to differ.[1] (Or 55%, if you look at the actual partition plan.[2]) In any case most of the rest of the region was carved up by the occupying European powers in much the same way, including the creation of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)#Official_reports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palesti... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine#Proposed_partition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_...
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