ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

Israel and Palestine

Israel and Palestine

Introduction

The origins of the conflict date back to the founding of Israel in 1948. This state was built on the expulsion of Palestinians after a campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out by Zionist squads. This was followed 60 years of continued oppression of the Palestinian people by Israel.. Zionism, the demand for a "home" in Palestine Jew appeared as a movement in Europe in the late nineteenth century in response to growing anti-Semitism. The Zionists claim that Palestine was "a land without people for a people without land." At the end of World War I there were only 56,000 Jewish settlers living in Palestine, in contrast to the million Arabs.

Discussion

The Zionist leaders sought the support of the imperial powers to assist them to take more land. In 1947, the UN devised a plan to Palestine from Zionist settlers gave 55% of the country, despite representing only a third of the population and 6% own land. In March 1948, Zionist forces launched a campaign of terror to grab the maximum amount of land possible. Murdered hundreds of Arabs and carried out ethnic cleansing of some 750,000 people.

Despite the passage of sixty years to begin the launch of the Palestinian national liberation movement, for the right to self-determination and statehood of the Palestinian National Standard on Palestinian soil; not been this movement of global importance and interaction as much as they are today, At all levels of international, regional and popular, and in particular was for a period of days, ethnic and twenty of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip recently, the strong and important, which put the Palestinian issue in orbit the first issue of the Middle East and gave the Palestinian-Israeli conflict Mdyate and true dimensions at all levels.

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