CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST

Conflict in the Middle East

Conflict in the Middle East

Introduction

The conflicts that are found in the region of the Middle East have many different reasons. This region is considered holy and sacred by the people of all three major religions of world, i.e. Christianity, Islam, and Jewish. The tensed relation between Arabs and Jews is the main case of the conflicts in the Middle East. A number of wars have been fought in the region. These wars were fought not only between Muslims and Jews, but also between Muslims themselves, for example Iran - Iraq war. The second main reason and cause of the conflicts, tensions, and wars in the region of Middle East is the liquid gold, oil.

Discussion

One of the main concerns is the territory. Israelis and Palestinians struggle to secure land on which, according to them, are entitled millennial. Another issue is which relates to the culture and the imposition of Western values on ancient Eastern traditions. One can also mention the economic factor - perhaps the preponderant: capitalist powers want to establish a strategic point on the richest oil region of the planet (Shah, 2011).

Tensions persist for centuries. Expelled from Palestine by the Romans in the 1st century since the Christian era, Jews for centuries cherished the dream of returning to the "Promised Land", facing all kinds of discrimination and persecution. However, the territory during his absence was occupied by other people who also feel the right to remain unattended. The conflict is a dispute over ownership of the land of Israel. Arabs claim it as the descendants of the general population of the land at the beginning of this century. Official Israeli authorities explain the ownership of the land on the basis of the various international regulations (the Balfour Declaration, etc.) (Thomsen, 2007).

Reasonable objection to the Arabs is that all these international agreements cannot change the simple fact that the majority of Jews now living in the land of Israel is not the Jews are the descendants of those who lived here before, and are Jewish, brought here the Zionist government in order to demographic, political and military means to oust and oppress the rights of the indigenous Arab population of the country (Thomsen, 2007).

Israeli society has long been accustomed to the fact that a good name in the global market is acquired for the bodies of Jewish women and children. People of the world applauded, and you hear a new explosion, new victims, and new blood. With each new terrorist attack situation is becoming more and more unbearable, until it reaches a certain critical point in which the problem of Israel become so severe that Israel is forced to take retaliatory action (Thomsen, 2007).

The Jewish people, who lived throughout history in different countries, especially in Europe, where it has not always been well received, claims, under a movement called Zionism, the creation of their own state for all Jewish communities scattered throughout the world. The Zionist claim that Palestine is the place they should ...