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What Exactly Is The Israelie-Palestinian Conflict About?


I'm considered to be a student of history and I know for a fact that the land of Israel which is really just the land of Judea belongs to the Hebrew people (the Jews), historically speaking. As a Christian who thanks the early followers of Y'Shua the Messiah for preaching the gospel to other nations, who were Jewish, I'm sort of confused on who occupies Israel at the moment since 1948. Is the majority of Israel occupied by a Jewish sect or Jewish people in general? Aren't the Palestinians technically Arabs? Wouldn't their ancestry have come from the Arabic Peninsula? Last time I checked Judea/Israel isn't part of this peninsula which brings in another question, didn't the Muslims in the middle ages take this land by force? Everyone WITH intelligence knows Islam was always a geopolitical movement. What's with the Jewish hate amongst those radical Muslims? Didn't those protesters get influenced by a terrorist organization named HAMAS?


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It seems you've got your information mixed up. The Palestinians are the descendants of the Canaanites and the Israelites (who were essentially a sub-branch of the Canaanites). The Canaanites predate Judaism by thousands of years (as state in your bible) itself. However, in the last 2000 years many other civilizations have conquered Palestine and some of them settled there, such as the Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Arab Muslims from the Arabian Peninsula, Crusaders, Mamluks and Ottomans.

Those people have changed their religion over time. Judaism was widely spread in Palestine early on. However, during Byzantine times most residents of Palestine converted to Christianity. During Arab Muslim rule, most converted to Islam. However significant Jewish and Christian minorities remained. This mixture of people made up the Palestinians of today. Thus most of the Jews that you refer to who lived in Palestine 2000 years ago have converted to Christianity and Islam and are part of the Palestinian people today.

Most of the Jews occupying Palestine today are not native to the land, but in reality immigrants from all over the world. nearly half come from European origin who are totally foreign to the whole region and not just Palestine.


Asker's Rating: Asker's Comment: Thank you for your information. In a way President Obama made a good decision about the borders and how the Jews who live there today should sort of give up the land. I guess its all about compromise to bring peace though.


It boils down to two things. 1) Hamas doesn't recognize Israel's right to exist as a nation and will all die before they change their beliefs. 2) The Palestinians refuse to give up The Dome of The Rock which is built upon the past site of the Jewish Temple and where they made sacrifices to God. Those two simple, yet positively impossible to change facts, are the reasons that the world will end starting in Jerusalem.


People called Arabs are really people who have Arab as their mother tongue. The people called Palestinians are descendants of various groups of people that have at some time or another settled in the area. That is, the Palestinians of course also have some Jewish ancestors. Of course, they also have ancestors from the Arab peninsula, probably also some European Christian crusaders from the middle ages. By the way, not all Palestinians are Muslims, some are for instance Christians. Before the establishment of the state of Israel, the Jews who had been living there had up to this point been considered Palestinians too. Palestine was simply a geographic label for this areas. After Israel was established, the Palestinians Jews identified as Israelis and "Palestinian"became a label for the remaining, largely (but not exclusively) Muslim population.


So what is it about? It is clearly about land. Land which is considered as "holy" by three different religions.