Middle East Conflict

Middle East Conflict

Seems to be most complex conflict in the world!

In fact, it's probably the easiest conflict in the world to explain, it may be the hardest to solve. In a nutshell, it's this- one side wants the other side dead! 

Israel wants to exist as a Jewish state and wants to live in peace. Israel also recognizes the right of Palestinians to have their own state and to live in peace. The problem however is, the most Palestinians and many other Muslims and Arabs do not recognize the right of the Jewish state of Israel to exist. This is being true since 1947, when the United nations voted to divide the land called Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish accepted the United nations partition but no Arab or any other Muslim country accepted. 

When British rule until May 15 1948, the armies of all the neighboring Arab states- Lebanon, Syria Iraq, Transjordan and Egypt attacked the one day old state of Israel, in order to destroy. But the world was surprised to see the little Jewish state survived.

Then it happened again  in 1967, the dictator of the Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser announced his plan in his words "to destroy Israel". He placed the Egyptian troops on Israel's border and armies of  surrounding Arab countries are also mobilized to attack. However, Israel preemptively attacked Egypt and Syria. Israel didn't attack Jordan, begged Jordan's king not to join the war. But he did. And only because of that did Israel take control of Jordanian land, specifically the 'West Bank' of Jordan river. Shortly after the war, the Arab states went to Khartoum, Sudan and announced their famous three "No's: "No recognition, no peace, and no negotiations".

What was Israel supposed to do? Well, one thing Israel did, a little more than a decade later, in 1978, was to give the entire Sinai Peninsula - an area of land bigger than Israel itself and with oil, back to Egypt because Egypt , under new leadership, signed a peace agreement with Israel. So, Israel gave the land for the promise of peace with Egypt and it has always been willing to do the same with the Palestinians.

All the Palestinians have ever had to do is to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and promise to live in peace with it. But when Israel has proposed trading land for peace - as it did in 2000 when it agreed to give the Palestinians a sovereign state in more than 95% of the West Bank and all of Gaza - the Palestinian leadership rejected the offer, and instead responded by sending waves of suicide terrorists into Israel.

Meanwhile Palestinian radio, television and school curricula remain filled with glorification of terrorist , demonization of Jews and the daily repeated message that Israel should cease to exist . So, it's not hard to explain the Middle East dispute . One side wants the other dead. 

The motto of Hamas, the Palestinians rulers of the Gaza is "We love death as much the Jews love life" There are 22 Arab states in the world - stretching from Atlantic Ocean to the Indian ocean. There is one Jewish State in the world. And it is about the size of New Jersey, In fact, the tiny El Salvador is larger than Israel. 

Finally think about these two questions: If tomorrow, Israel laid down its arms and announced, "We will fight no more", what would happen? And if the Arab countries around Israel laid down their arms and announced "We will fight no more", what would happen?" In first case, there would be an immediate destruction of the state of Israel and the mass murder of the Jewish population . In the second case, there would be peace the next day. 

As I said at the outset, it is a simple problem to describe: one side wants the other dead and if it didn't, there would be peace. Please remember this: There has never been a state in the geographic are known as Palestine that was not Jewish as the First kingdom of Israel from 1000 BC-586 BC, second kingdom from 538 BC-63 BC and Babylonian captivity from 587-538 BC . Israel is the third Jewish state to exist in that area. There was never an Arab state, never a Palestinian state, never a Muslim or any other state.

That's the issue-- why can't the one Jewish state the size of El Salvador be allowed to exist That is the Middle- East problem.

Reference: Jewish History & Prager University

This post is true to the events happening in the present world, nothing more or less. This is dedicated to a country that loves peace and wants to protect herself from her hateful neighbors, whom the world still support! I bless the people of Israel to prosper and have peace in the midst of these injustice situations!