History of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the account of events of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict beginning in the 1880s and continuing to present day.

Arab-Israeli conflict The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict the end of the 19th century to the present day. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict centers on conflicting, often mutually exclusive claims to the area called Palestine by the Palestinians and the Land of Israel by Israelis .

The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict started in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century are marked by the birth of two major nationalist movements among the Jews and among the Arabs , both geared towards attaining sovereignty for their people in the Middle East. This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Jews and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities in the 1947–48 civil war . The conflict continues to the present day on various levels.

The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict began with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities in the 1947–48 civil war . The conflict continues to the present day on various levels.

The region today: Israel , the West Bank , the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine , a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 , issued by the British government, endorsed the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which led to an influx of Jewish immigrants to the region. Following World War II and the Holocaust , international pressure mounted for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, leading to the creation of Israel in 1948 . The establishment of Israel, and the war that followed and preceded it , led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who became refugees , sparking a decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people . The Palestinians seek to establish their own independent state in at least one part of historic Palestine. Israeli defense of its own borders, control over the West Bank , the Egyptian-Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip , and Palestinian internal politics currently make the Palestinians' goal out of reach. Numerous peace negotiations have taken place over the years, but a long-term peace agreement has not been reached. The conflict has been marked by violence, including Palestinian political violence and military operations by Israel into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The United States and other countries have played a key role in attempting to broker peace, but many obstacles remain, including the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the status of Jerusalem , and the ultimate fate of Palestinian refugees. The preoccupation of rabbinic literature in all its forms with the Land of Israel is without question intensive and constant. It is no wonder that this literature offers historians of the Land of Israel a wealth of information for the clarification of a wide variety of topics. The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840–1947 . Unlike the earlier literature that dealt with Palestine's delimitation, the boundaries were not presented according to their historical traditional meaning, but according to the boundaries of the Jewish Eretz Israel that was about to be established there. This approach characterizes all the Zionist publications at the time ... when they came to indicate borders, they preferred the realistic condition and strategic economic needs over an unrealistic dream based on the historic past.' This meant that planners envisaged a future Palestine that controlled all the Jordan 's sources, the southern part of the Litanni river in Lebanon, the large cultivatable area east of the Jordan, including the Houran and Gil'ad wheat zone, Mt Hermon, the Yarmuk and Yabok rivers, the Hijaz Railway ... Translated by Sylvie d'Avigdor (republication ed.).