The Conflict Current to Current Conflict
The Conflict Current
Violent attempts to control land have defined much of the history of Palestine, making it the site of constant political conflict.
But Why Palestine? Why such attempt? Why its a conflict?
Tranquility wins
Palestine?
Until 1948, Palestine typically referred to the geographic region located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Arab people who call this territory home are known as Palestinians.
Much of this land is now considered present-day Israel
Israel? What is Israel
Israel is the world’s only Jewish state, located just east of the Mediterranean Sea. Palestinians, the Arab population that hails from the land Israel now controls, refer to the territory as Palestine, and want to establish a state by that name on all or part of the same land. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over who gets what land and how it’s controlled.
The Jews and Arab
Though both Jews and Arab Muslims date their claims to the land back a couple thousand years, the current political conflict began in the early 20th century. Jews fleeing persecution in Europe wanted to establish a national homeland in what was then an Arab- and Muslim-majority territory in the Ottoman and later British Empire. The Arabs resisted, seeing the land as rightfully theirs. An early United Nations plan to give each group part of the land failed, and Israel and the surrounding Arab nations fought several wars over the territory. Today’s lines largely reflect the outcomes of two of these wars, one waged in 1948 and another in 1967. The 1967 war is particularly important for today’s conflict, as it left Israel in control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. That leaves a war flow and casualties.
The map
This is an important issue, as Maps are now regarded as definitive by people around the world, including journalists, students and others carrying out research into the Israel-Palestine situation.Whether intentionally or otherwise, The politics of maps is making itself complicit in the Israeli government's ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
The two state solution
The primary approach to solving the conflict today is a so-called “two-state solution” that would establish Palestine as an independent state in Gaza and most of the West Bank, leaving the rest of the land to Israel. Though the two-state plan is clear in theory, the two sides are still deeply divided over how to make it work in practice.
Demographic Reason
The alternative to a two-state solution is a “one-state solution,” wherein all of the land becomes either one big Israel or one big Palestine. Most observers think this would cause more problems than it would solve, but this outcome is becoming more likely over time for political and demographic reasons.
What is your thought on making peace to win in conflict region?
