A simplified thread of the conflict in Israel
Will help you understand what is Israel, Zionism, Palestine, PLA, Hamas, Hezbollah & what does each party in the conflict wants
After reading this you won't fall for Jihadist propaganda & have informed responses to fake narratives
Firstly remember that all this is just the size of Meghalaya so for Jihadists that occupy 60+ nations today including 1/3rd of Hindu lands this is pocket change.
Additionally 20% of Israeli citizens are Arabs with full democratic rights but no Jew is permitted in Arab nations.
Around 2500 years ago it was Jewish homeland but over the years they were displaced by multiple rulers.
A full list of who ruled that region is shown in the picture below
This should make it clear that Islam definitely doesn't have a unilateral historic claim over the region.
In 19th century Europe there was extreme persecution of Jews and they really needed to save their lives. So in the 1840s, a movement started known as Zionism where they came and settled in Israel as their theological homeland.
There was NOTHING CALLED PALESTINE.
There were merely some nomadic Arab tribes in a marshy malaria ridden desert and Jews were leaving behind wealthy businesses and good life in Europe to save themselves.
They were refugees in an unknown Ottoman colony not invaders.
Until 1914 there wasn't much opposition but here came the first defeat.
Ottoman Turkey lost fair and square in a war and the British promised a Jewish homeland in 1917 in what is called the 'Balfour declaration' which was put into effect starting 1923.
Between 1918 and 1921 100,000 Jews were mass murdered by Russians in Ukraine leading to more migrations into Israel which was now the only place where a Jew could save his/her life. What else were they expected to do - a tiny piece of desert marshland that they developed that too
The Arabs also started attacking & there were riots in the 1920s and 30s. Jews had no option but to form their own militia .
The British banned further Jewish emigration to the area in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War 2 dooming millions of Jews to death.
In 1936 the British decided to partition the British Mandate territory into an Arab State and a Jewish State.
The Jewish leadership and residents said “YES”. The Arabs said “NO”.
1947 the United Nations voted to split the land into two countries. Almost all of the roughly 650k Jews went to the blue territory in the map to the right, and a majority of the 1.3M Arab population went to the orange.
1948 - The Jewish residents ACCEPTED the deal.
The Palestinians, with the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria declared war on Israel and LOST and Jewish state of Israel was declared.
The Arabs did not accept a deal and lost a war - who's to blame here?
After the 1947 war ended, Egypt took administration of Gaza, Jordan took administration of the West Bank, and Syria took administration of the Golan Heights.
Arabs in those areas became “refugees”.
Why couldn't these Arab nations offer citizenship and refuge to fellow Arabs?.
The Arab States didn’t declare Palestine on the remaining land. The Jordanians annexed what is now known as the “West Bank” and Egypt governed what is now called the “Gaza Strip”.
There was no attempt to create a Palestinian State on these lands.
Over the next 20 years 2 million Jews came from all over the world, often penniless leaving all their hard earned assets in the country from which they were running. And still worked hard and made Israel a developed nation with their sweat toil and smarts.
In 1964 the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed with the express intention of destroying the new Israeli/Jewish State and kicking the majority of its Jewish residents out (into the sea was the language used i.e. genocide or ethnic cleansing).
In 1967, a war was fought to counter an imminent Egyptian attack. In six days, Israel routed the Arab powers, taking the West Bank, East Jerusalem from Jordan & Golan heights from Syria. Note that again Arabs were aggressor and also lost a war
Coming to Jerusalem. It's the Ram Janam bhoomi for Jews on the border between Israel & the West Bank. It’s home to some of the holiest sites in both Judaism and Islam so both Israel and Palestine want to make it their capital. After 1967 war Israel has taken control of Jerusalem
In 1970, the PLO took control of Ibrid town and made it a base and opened training camps in Jordan! So Jordan cracked down on them in their country and killed 25k. Guess who was a key perpetrator ? General Zia Ul Haq of Pakistan. Muslim unity?
In 1973 Egypt and Syria launched a surprise two-front attack on Israel to regain their lost territory but failed yet again. This is called the Yom Kippur War or the October War,
In 1987 Islamist group Hamas, was formed as a militant “resistance” group and won political power in a 2006 election. Hamas’s takeover of Gaza prompted an Israeli blockade of the flow of commercial goods into Gaza, on the grounds that Hamas could use those goods against Israel.
The intifadas were two Palestinian uprisings against Israel, the first in the late 1980s and the second in the early 2000s. Think of it as terror attacks on Jewish civilians.
Israel has controlled the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War. There are about 500,000 Jewish settlers living in the West Bank, many of whom live near the border with Israel proper.
Settlements are communities of Jews that have been moving to the West Bank since 1967 for religious reasons or because they want to claim the West Bank territory as Israeli land or because the housing there tends to be cheap and subsidized.
In 2005 Israel left Gaza but Hamas still fires rockets, Lebanon has Hezbollah terror & Iran is the mastermind. Thus in 1937, 1948, 1967, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2021 Israel offered peace but Arabs are disinterested and fueled by theological Jew hatred.
What is Israel supposed to do?
