The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peace is harder than winning the lottery

Erick 2022-12-26 15:52:20

A long time ago, the Jewish ancestor Abraham (pronounced Ibrahim in Arabic ) originally lived in Canaan (in present-day Israel/Palestine). He has two sons, the youngest son Isaac became the ancestor of the Jews. According to the records of the Bible and the Qur'an, the descendant of the eldest son Ishmael (Arabic pronunciation Ismail) born to Abraham and his maid Hagar is Arab people. So Jews and Arabs are actually brothers?

In 1000 BC, the Jews established a state in Palestine. In 910 BC, the Babylonian Empire conquered Palestine, and the Jews became slaves. After the Persian Empire destroyed the Babylonian Empire, the Jews rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem. Then the Roman Empire became the new ruler.

In 79 BC, the Jews revolted, the powerful Roman army smashed Jerusalem, the temple was demolished, and the Jews left their ancestral land and fled to all parts of the world (mainly Europe), living a miserable life under the supervision of others.

Because Jews attach importance to education and group formation, they often engage in non-productive industries such as finance and commerce, and make a lot of money. Every time the economic crisis occurs, they are hostile to the local indigenous people.

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary AJ Balfour sent a letter to LW Rothschild (the surname is very powerful), representing the British government's willingness to support Jewish settlement in Palestine. The letter, later known as the Balfour Declaration , is the most important proof of Jewish statehood.

At that time, Palestine was still a piece of land under the Ottoman Empire , and Arabs, Christians, and Jews all coexisted peacefully. The Ottoman Empire disintegrated after World War I, and in 1920, the League of Nations entrusted the British to administer Palestine. In 1922, the United Kingdom divided the mandate into two parts: the eastern part (now Jordan) was the Arab settlement, and the western part was the Jewish settlement. Jews began to organize immigration to Palestine.

As the Nazis came to power in Germany, Europe set off a high tide of massacres, and Jews accelerated their immigration. After the end of World War II, there were already 600,000 Jewish residents in Palestine. While the United Kingdom used Jewish militias to suppress the Palestinians, it also introduced policies to restrict Jewish immigration.

The map of Judea-Palestine divided by the United Kingdom is very strangely intertwined. Both sides are divided into 3 parts that are not connected to each other, which will undoubtedly lead to war.

On May 14, 1948, at midnight the day before the end of the British mandate, the State of Israel was officially proclaimed. Then Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon declared war on Israel. The Israeli militia successfully resisted the enemy's attack and obtained the 3 lands originally allocated to them. And Egypt and Syria took the opportunity to occupy other lands! 700,000 Palestinians have since gone to the road of homelessness.

In 1967, the Arab coalition attacked Israel again, but after 20 years of development, the quality of the Israeli army was superior to that of its opponents. It only took 6 days to easily defeat the enemy, and captured all the Palestinian land and seized it from Egypt in the west. The huge Sinai Peninsula , and the strategic Golan Heights from Syria in the east !

The Sinai Peninsula is too big for Israel to digest. So under the mediation of the United States, Egypt, Israel and the United States signed the Camp David Agreement , Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula, and the Arab leader Egypt permanently withdrew from the anti-Israel alliance.

On October 6, 1981, Egyptian President , was shot and killed by Islamic extremists during a military parade.

The Palestinians established the Palestine Liberation Organization (Fatah) , under the leadership of Arafat , to strive for the great cause of statehood.

In 1993, under the coordination of Norway (which is described in this film), hosted , Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Rabin signed the Oslo Agreement in the United States, and Israel exchanged land for peace: Israel in the Withdraw 13% of the land in the West Bank and return 14% of the land currently under Palestinian-Israeli control to the Palestinian side. Palestine removed the anti-Israel clause from its charter and set a timetable for a security plan to seize illegal weapons under the supervision of the CIA.

This was the closest Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in history, but soon on November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated by Israeli extremists (like Sadat, seeking peace is always unpopular), He was replaced by hardliners like Netanyahu , and the long-term right-wing hardliners who dominated the Israeli regime in the following decades, the Oslo Accords became a waste of paper.

The same is true on the Palestinian side. In 2004, the more moderate Arafat also died. Then the hardline Hamas ( Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement) replaced Fatah as the main political force in Palestine. Afterwards, bloodshed continued on both sides: Israeli settlement expansion, Palestinian protests, Israeli repression, Hamas rockets or human bombs, Israeli 10-fold retaliation.

In 2020, for the first time in U.S. history, Trump raised his support for Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights, and Israel named a Jewish settlement on the Golan Heights as Trump Town.

The war between the two sides has been fought for 70 years, and the blood hatred between the two nations is full of blood. It is expected that the war will continue, and there is no end in sight. Unless both sides have a peace-loving leader with the support of the people at the same time, the probability is extremely small, and it is easy to be raped by the patriotic people.

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Oslo quotes

  • Yair Hirschfeld: You mean it will only be us?

    Terje Rød-Larsen: Out here, I will do all that you ask, but in there, I cannot help you. Only you, together, can do this.