What are the main milestones in the emergence of the Palestinian problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict?

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/13/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

International relations

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Summary :

Introduction.
The Jews idea of returning to the land of the Bible and their forefathers.
1. Discrimination of Jews in Europe.
2. Jewish settlement in Ottoman territory.
3. The Balfour declaration.
The interwar period.
1. The British capture of Jerusalem.
2. Zionist movement and encouragement of the Jewish immigration to Palestine.
3. The growth of Arab population.
The period of violence.
The Palestinian problem to the United Nations.
1. Hitler against the Jews.
2. The support of the Jewish community to the British.
The Arab defeat.
The emergence of the Palestinians as an autonomous political force.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

In January 2006, the Islamic militant group Hamas won the palestinian Parliamentary elections, with 42.2% of the votes. The election in Palestine of a group that remains committed to an armed struggle, the destruction of Israel and retaliatory attacks on israeli civilians shows that nearly sixty years after the creation of the State of Israel, the co-existence of Palestine and Israel is still problematic in the Middle East. When did this palestinian problem start to emerge and how did it become a more general conflict between Arabs and Israel? According to Cleveland, in the 1880s, "Zionist claims to the same territory inhabited by palestinian Arabs lay at the root of the conflict over Palestine" . How did these conflicting claims over a territory cause the emergence of an arab-israeli conflict that spanned more than one century of political tensions and open hostilities with "Jordan, Egypt and Syria, whatever their mutual animosities, aligned against Israel" ? How did this conflict generate five wars and create over 1 million refugees? How did it produce misunderstanding and bitterness among the various parties involved and repercussions throughout the Middle East and the world at large? To answer these questions, we are going to study the main milestones in the emergence of the palestinian problem and the arab-israeli conflict. We will explain the implications of the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel and why it can be considered at the end of the "emergence of the palestinian problem and the arab-israeli conflict".