What is the correct history behind the whole Israel/Palestine thing?

For centuries there was no such conflict. In the 19th century the land of Palestine was inhabited by a multicultural population – approximately 86 percent Muslim, 10 percent Christian, and 4 percent Jewish – living in peace.

Zionism

In the late 1800s a group in Europe decided to colonize this land. Known as Zionists, this group consisted of an extremist minority of the Jewish population. They wanted to create a Jewish homeland, and considered locations in Africa and the Americas, before settling on Palestine.

Historic Palestine

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At first, this immigration created no problems. However, as more and more Zionists immigrated to Palestine – many with the express wish of taking over the land for a Jewish state – the indigenous population became increasingly alarmed. Eventually, fighting broke out, with escalating waves of violence. Hitler’s rise to power and Nazi atrocities, combined with Zionist activities to sabotage efforts to place Jewish refugees in western countries, led to increased Jewish immigration to Palestine, and conflict grew.

UN Partition Plan

Finally, in 1947 the United Nations decided to intervene. However, rather than adhering to the democratic principle espoused decades earlier by Woodrow Wilson of “self-determination of peoples,” in which the people themselves create their own state and system of government, the UN chose to revert to the medieval strategy whereby an outside power divides up other people’s land.

UN Plan of Partition

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Under considerable Zionist pressure, the UN recommended giving away 55 percent of Palestine to a Jewish state – despite the fact that this group represented only about 30 percent of the total population, and owned under 7 percent of the land.

1947-1949 War

While it is widely and correctly reported that the resulting war eventually included five Arab armies, less well known is the fact that throughout this war Zionist forces outnumbered all Arab and Palestinian combatants combined – often by a factor of two to three. Also contrary to popular belief, Arab armies did not invade Israel – virtually all battles were fought on land that was to have been the Palestinian state.

Finally, it is significant to note that Arab armies entered the conflict only after Zionist forces had committed 16 massacres, including the grisly massacre of over 100 men, women, and children at Deir Yassin. Future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, head of one of the Jewish terrorist groups, called this a “splendid act of conquest,” and stated: “As in Deir Yassin, so everywhere, we will attack and smite the enemy. God, God, Thou has chosen us for conquest.” Zionist/Israeli forces committed 33 massacres altogether.

By the end of the war, Israel had conquered 78 percent of Palestine; three-quarters of a million Palestinians had been made refugees; over 500 towns and villages had been destroyed; and a new map was drawn up, in which every city, river and hillock received a new, Hebrew name, as all vestiges of the Palestinian culture were to be erased. For many decades Israel denied the existence of this population, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once saying: “There is no such thing as a Palestinian.”

1967 Occupation

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1967 War & USS Liberty

In 1967, Israel conquered still more land. Following the Six Day War, in which Israeli forces launched a highly successful surprise attack on Egypt, Israel occupied the additional 22 percent of Palestine that had eluded it in 1948 – the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Since, according to international law it is inadmissible to acquire territory by war, these are occupied territories and do not belong to Israel. It also occupied parts of Egypt (since returned) and Syria (which remain under occupation).

Also during the Six-Day War, Israel attacked a US Navy ship, the USS Liberty, killing and injuring over 200 American servicemen. President Lyndon Johnson recalled rescue flights, saying that he did not want to "embarrass an ally." (In 2004 a high-level commission chaired by Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, found this attack to be “an act of war against the United States,” a fact few news media have reported.)

Current Conflict

There are two primary issues at the core of this continuing conflict. First, there is the inevitably destabilizing effect of trying to maintain an ethnically preferential state, particularly when it is largely of foreign origin – the original population of what is now Israel was 96 percent Muslim and Christian. Yet, Muslim and Christian refugees are prohibited from returning to their homes in the self-described Jewish state. (And those within Israel are subjected to systematic discrimination.)

Second, Israel’s continued military occupation and confiscation of privately owned land in the West Bank, and control over Gaza, are being resisted by Palestinian inhabitants. It is these occupied territories that, according to

Where/when there is war you won't find an honest answer from a muslim/arab they follow the prophet:

Hadith 4:269 Narrated Jabir bin ��Abdullah: The Prophet (Muhammad) said, “War is deceit.”

So to find a CORRECT history of what has happened you will need to find an impartial source, of which there are none.

The best you might do is to take some time, based on how strong your desire to know is, and research some old texts.

Try "The History of the World" from the 1960's, or an Encyclopedia Britannica from the early 1970's.

The library in your area would also be a very good source.

Most things you read on Yahoo! Answers will be stilted to the point of view of the writer.

Good luck.

Jews have been there for 2,500 years living as an introverted grouping.Palestine created by romans in AD43 called Syria-Palestina as a country.

So you have a grouping for many years and a land for 2000 years.

Jews have the most right to live there of anyone,but Palestinians have most right to nationhood.

Britain allowed 100,000 Jews to illegally enter Palestine from war torn Europe.This emboldened the Jews to form their own country by getting rid of Palestine in 1948

Palestine removed off the world map and it's people's ethnically cleansed out of new Israel and into occupied land (west bank and Gaza) result being that Gaza is most densely populated area in the world.Newly arrived Jews than occupied the cleansed Palestinian homes.

!967 and Palestinians tried to get their land back with help from other Arab states.It failed and Israel took more land to enlarge their country.Jordan/Egypt/palestine/syria lebanon all lost land.

1967 the palestinian struggle for getting the occupied lands back from the Jewish state.

When you hear of palestinian refugee camps they are the ethnically cleansed palestinians from Israel.Eventually the world turned it's back on the palestinian problem.As a result radicalism developed as the only way to resist the occupation (Hamas/Hezbollah/islamic Jihad/al asqua brigades)

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This history goes back millenia. The current Israeli/Palestinian bad blood dates back to 1948. The British Empire was breaking up and new countries were being drawn by the UN. A piece of the British Empire was taken to create Israel. Palestinians were upset because they didn't get a country of their own, and they wanted the land that had been given to Israel. In 1967, the Palestinians got a bunch of Arab countries to attack Israel, but Israel defeated all of them and doubled the size of its territory. The entire Middle East has never forgotten how the Israelis crushed them in 1967.

moses following gods commandment took the hebrews out of egypt and into the promised land ,thats the land god gave to the hebrews as a nation,(it happened serveral thousand years ago)then god told the hebrews to change there name to isreal,and told them to build a big tempel to him,the israiled did but the temple got dystroyed by nebbacannazer,then years later god told soloman to rebuild the temple and he did,later the emporor titus of rome invaded and dystroyed the temple,god told the israiles to rebuild it one last time,well the new religon that took over almost all the middl east built there mosq right smack on the verry foundation of the temple,no the jews havedo as god told them but cant because of that mosq being in the way.the muslams claim that very spot to be there most holey place and wont move off of it,the isrelies were to weak to remove them untill now,but are restrained by the united states of america,because we fear a major war in the whole middle east.we could win with no problem at all if we were willing to use the same brutil force the aribs use and wish the had the same stuff we did then they could vaporize isreal but since they dont have nuclear power they just keep sticking pins in the peoples of isreal,finally isreiles got tired of the harrasment and decided to put a stop to it,and here we are.

Palestine was under the british occupation after 1st world war .In 1948 the british army delivered part of Palestine and most of british weapons hand to hand to jewish troops ( while any palestinian reported to has a knife or small gun may be hanged by the british army) .Jewish troops built a terrorist organization called israel , then israeli troops occupied the rest of Palestine in 1967.Since that time any one who says a word or makes any action regarding freedom of Palestine will be arrested or killed

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If you're asking on Yahoo Answers, you're going to get different sides.

I'd look up the whole history of that area from as far back as you can.

As some one has said you will not find an answer on hear. The only way is to research it yourself. There is just to much hate & propaganda flying around to get a balanced view.

google George Marshall, Secretary of State in 1948

he was totally against Israel

this man was a 5 star general, architect of europe rebuilding, Time man of the year, and nobel prize winner

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he said we'd have problems with arabs and threatened oil supplies forever - he was right

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Marshall

"Marshall was again named TIME's Man of the Year in 1948, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. As Secretary of State, Marshall strongly opposed recognizing the State of Israel, telling President Truman, "If you (recognize the state of Israel) and if I were to vote in the election, I would vote against you."[2][3][4] In 1949, he resigned from the State Department and was named president of the American National Red Cross."

1) it's important to ask 'why was theis great man so against it'

2) Have his predictions come true?