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Why can't they try for peace?
Violence has become so commonplace that leaders on both ends seem to believe that managing the violence is preferable.
Israel's blockade on Gaza strangles economic life there and punishes civilians, which produce a climate that is hospitable to extremism.
Palestinian's distrust of Israel, due to their military occupation even after trying for peace, has also been a major factor in the increasing violence.
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How did the conflict start? (Israel's military occupation)
In 1967, Israel won another war with its Arab neighbours and put the remaining 2 Palestinian territories (West Bank & Gaza) under
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Why is the conflict still going on now?
Hamas, a Palestinian militant group that formed in 1987, seeks Israel's destruction.
It is internationally recognized as a terrorist organization for its attacks targeting civilians and has rule...
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Why Is Israel the oppresors?
Palestinian civilians endure the brunt of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
While Israel targets militants and Hamas targets civilians, Israel's disproportionate military st...
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How is this going to end?
One-state solution: By erasing the borders and putting the Israelis & Palestinians together into one equal, pluralistic state. However the unequal demographics makes this a bad idea.
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Who is to blame?
Both sides have squandered peace and perpetuated conflict, but Palestinians today bear most of the suffering.
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Why are the Israelis and Palestinians fighting?
The conflict is NOT primarily about religion.
It is over:
- Land ownership and control.
- (The unpleasant) Israeli-Palestinian coexistence, in which Israel has put the Palestinians under suffocating mili...
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What are Israel and Palestine?
Israel is an officially Jewish country.
Palestine is a set of 2 separate (but not independent), ethnically Arab and mostly Muslim territories: the West Bank & Gaza.
Both countries are located in the Middle East.
There ...
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The Zionist movement
Thousands of (mostly European) Jews were moving into the mostly-Arab, mostly-Muslim region of the Ottoman Empire, as part of a movement called Zionism to:...
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The 1948 Arab-Israeli war
Arab leaders in the region saw this plan as European colonial theft and, in 1948, invaded to keep Palestine unified.
However, the Israeli forces won & pushed well beyond the UN-designated borders to claim land that was to have been part of Palesti...
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