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The Palestinian conflict is one that dates back hundreds of years. The land of Israel/Palestine was originally settled 3000 years ago by feuding Hebrews & Canaanites which later merged together to become the people of ancient Israel. The land was later conquered and reconquered by surrounding super powers, thus scattering the Jews throughout Europe, Africa and Arabia. Although some jews were able to remain continuously in the land. Late in the 1800s the growing persecution of jews inspired the jews to resettle back into their ancestral homeland. Which became increasingly possible with the defeat of the Ottomon empire after World War I. WWII convinced the U.N. to partition the land (almost) equally between the jews & the arabs. Although the partition was more in favor for the arabs, it was not enough to them for they expected the whole region. Thus in 1947 after the Jews proclaimed independence 7 arab armies, with the help of British training and british soldiers attacked Israel on all sides. Against all odds the jews emerged victorious and what lands the arabs willingly abandoned (to give way to arab war machine) the Israelis reclaimed. And even the arabs later declared those lands as a complete loss and gave up on it. The current conflict was mostly hinged on the 1967 war, wherein a besieged Israel launched a preemptive strike which destroyed all the armies surrounding it, also allowing Israel to occupy the remaining Palestinian lands. Later wars of 1972 and 1979 hardened Israel?s stand to occupy these lands as a form of self-defense or so they say. Palestinians since then had resorted to terrorist plots. And the conflict persists today. An endless cycle of revenge.
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