To what Extent do the main causes of the conflict date back only to 1948?

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To What Extent do the main causes of the conflict date back only to 1948?

Zuhaib Ahmad

To what Extent do the main causes of the conflict date back only to 1948?

Attempts to make peace since 1948 between Arabs & Israeli’s have so far failed, peace talks can not reach agreements. Recently, Violence has broken out again. On 10th March 2003, 10 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli soldiers. The aim of the army was to crush Arab terror organisations. For my coursework I will be writing about whether conflict dates back to 1948, the three main points I will be writing about are,  is how Religion, Land & International Interference have affected the war.

        The first cause of the conflict is religion for example both Arabs and Israeli’s claim the Palestine belongs to them, Israeli’s claim that the land is theirs because God had promised them it through ‘The Torah’. The Arabs claim that the land belongs to them because they have been living there for the last 13 centuries even when Jews went to live in Europe about the 7th Century. Jerusalem is a long term problem because the Jews believe that they should own it because King David made it his Capital. Solomon also built a temple there which is important to Jews; the temple is more special to Jews now because its ruins only left a western or Wailing Wall, people come around 1000 miles just to see it. Arabs believe they should have Jerusalem because in the middle of the city there is a spectacular mosque, Al-Aqsa and the golden dome mosque. Muslims have a work for Jerusalem which is ‘Al-Quds’ which translates to ‘Holy Place’, this is probably because Muhammad ascended into heaven from a Rock in Jerusalem, because Jerusalem being a holy city for both races it creates a lot of conflict between them, they refuse to share it, they want a sp0ecific piece of land which is Jerusalem and are willing to do what ever it takes to get it, even fighting! Religion is not linked to 1948 ad religion started way before this period although it is an important factor we need to consider ( Judaism 2500CE, Islam 570CE).

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        The second cause of the conflict is land. In 1947 there was a partition in Palestine planned by the UN (United Nations). Palestine was divided into 2 parts so both Jews and Arabs will had their own state, The Jews named their half of the Country Israel and Arabs kept the name of their state Palestine. Jews were given about half of the country and the Arabs were given the West bank, The Gaza Strip and bits of land to the north and South side of Israel.

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