Is Israel the root of all conflicts and terrorism in the Middle East?

Question

Is Israel the root of all conflicts and terrorism in the Middle East?

Answer 1

It is Israel's continued illegal occupation of Palestinian land and the shameful treatment and virtual imprisonment of the Palestinians that fans the flames of M.Eastern conflict.Add to this the blatant bias of America and you have a recipe for never ending conflict.There's terrorism on both sides ,the Israeli side is state sponsored and benefits from a wholly biased American press and the fact that most of the world's press is controlled by Zionists.

Edit wild-man of Borneo :That actually made sense for a change,you're slipping.

Answer 2

No it is the intolerance of the Arab states to anything which they feel threatens their culture. Jews have been around a lot longer than Muslims - fact!

Answer 3

No.  There has been conflict in the Middle-East for hundreds of years.  Israel only came into being after WWII.  The Sunni and Shite have had problems getting along.  The Persians (Iran) has not been on good terms with various Arabic countries.  Turkey has had periods of domination in the area.  When the natural--but unattractive--lust for power that many people have is combined with the religious belief that one is obliged to spread one's religion by force if necessary, there is going to be trouble.

Answer 4

Well, rin-tin-tin, I think that the CAUSE of terrorism in the Middle east is the religious right wingers in the Muslim community. I see very few Israelis running around with Bomb vests on...

And protecting ones homeland is becoming more and more incorrect in society...we are taught we must tolerate stupidity and terroristic actions by fanatics.

Answer 5

No

Answer 6

'Major' cause - Recent poll conducted in the middle ease put blind support for Israel as the major reason for anti-American sentiments. However poll did make it clear that they love American people and culture.

Israel is occupying West Bank & Gaza, which in turn fuels anti-Israel sentiments, US blindly supports Israel, which in turn leads to terrorism and conflicts.

Every country in the middle east hates Israel with vengeance, and when they see how Palestinians are treated by Israelis they in turn resort to violence and terrorism. There is no doubt about it Israel is combating terrorism BUT what is ignored the reason, why are they willing to sacrifice their lives. Just like terrorism must NOT be condoned state terrorism MUST be condemned as well.

Israel is currently occupying Palestinians territories, Palestinian homes have been deliberately demolished and Jewish only settlements built instead. There are numerous cases when homes were bulldozed when people were still inside.

Blind support for Israel is a thorn in US-middle east relations!

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Answer 7

of every possible effort to assure them of their safety if they stayed.

They all left for one or more of the following reasons:

1. The Arab terrorism engendered by the November, 1947, U.N. partition resolution frightened them to death of their imaginative souls and they feared Jewish retaliation.

2. Propagandists promised a blood bath as soon as the Mandate ended, in which the street of all the cities would run with blood.

3. The promised invasion by the foreign Arab armies (which started on May 14, 1948, with the Arab Legion massacre of some 200 Jewish settlers at Kfar Etzion) was preceded by extensive broadcasts from Cairo, Damascus, Amman, and Beirut to the effect that any Arabs who stayed would be hanged as collaborators with the Jews.

"The Palestinian Arabs were the victims then, as in 1967, of their own propaganda, and having no stomach for violence, they ran. I have met many of my Palestinian Arab friends since in Beirut, Damascus, Amman, and in the Persian Gulf states, and they have all without exception gladly told me that they had wished they had listened to me and stayed - as did some 200,000 who became and still are the most economically advanced Arabs in the Middle East.

The massacre of Kfar Etzion, the massacre of the hospital convoy killed 48 Jewish doctors and nurses; the continued shelling and blasting of Jewish settlements for more than 20 years, has not caused one single Israeli to move away. They sit tight and if necessary in their shelters, while across the river, where the shooting comes from, the towns and villages are deserted, last year's crops still rot on the trees and the refugees move still further away from any trouble." How long will the Palestinian Arabs continue the myth that they were kicked out, every time they ran away from trouble and got themselves into more trouble?"

Jamal Husseini, in charge of the Palestine Higher Committee, told the Security Council on 23 April 1948, "We have never concealed the fact that we began the fighting."

On 6 September 1949, the Beirut Telegraph carried an interview with Mr. Emile Ghoury, Secretary of the Palestine Higher Committee, in which he said:

"The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the act of the Arab States in opposing partition and the Jewish State."

The Jordan Daily Falastin wrote on 19 February 1949: "The Arab States which had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promises to help these refugees."

As late as 12 October 1963, the Cairo daily Akhbar el-Yom, recalled:

"15 May 1948 arrived...on that very day the Mufti of Jerusalem appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Arab armies were about to enter and fight in their stead..."

A British police report to Jerusalem Headquarters on 26 April 1948 attested: "Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab population to stay and carry on with their normal lives..."

In Haifa, on 27 April 1948, the Arab National Committee refused to sign a truce, reporting in a memorandum to the Arab League Governments: "when the delegation entered the conference room it proudly refused to sign the truce and asked that the evacuation of the Arab population and their transfer to neighboring Arab countries be facilitated...The military and civil authorities and the Jewish representatives expressed their profound regret. The mayor of Haifa (Mr. Shabtai Levi) adjourned the meeting with a passionate appeal to the Arab population to reconsider its decision..."

As to Deir Yassin:

1. It was carried out by Irgun and Lehi forces against the orders of the army.

2. Attacks on Jewish villages were being launched from there by Arab soldiers.

The remaining 30% of Palestinian Arabs either (1) saw for themselves that these Jews would fight and die for their reborn Nation, and decided to pack up and leave or (2) were driven off the land as a normal consequence of war.

When the 19-month war ended, Israel survived despite a 1% loss of its entire population. Those Arabs who did not flee became today's Israeli-Arab citizens. Those who fled became the seeds of the first wave of "Palestinian Arab refugees."

The Arab propagandists and apologists almost never mention that in 1948, Arab armies launched a war against a one-day-old Israel. Instead they focus on the main consequence of that war: the creation of Arab refugees, stating that Israel "short of genocide" expelled 800,000 of them. This not only disagrees with UN estimates of a bit over 400,000 refugees but also ignores the fact that most of the Palestinian Arabs were encouraged to leave by the Arab World itself.

    The end result of the 1948 - 1949 Israeli War of Independence was the creation of a Jewish State slightly larger than that which was proposed by the 1947 United Nations Resolution 181. What remained of that almost-created second Palestinian Arab State was gobbled up by (1) Egypt (occupying the Gaza Strip) and by (2) Trans-Jordan (occupying Judea-Samaria (today termed the "West Bank" of the Jordan River) and Jerusalem. During 1950, Trans-Jordan formally merged this West Bank territory into itself and granted all those 'Palestinian Arabs' living there Jordanian citizenship.  Since Trans-Jordan was then no longer confined to one side of the Jordan River, it renamed itself simply "Jordan."  In the final analysis, the Arabs of Palestine ended up with nearly 85% of the original territory of Palestine... called Jordan but in reality their Arab "Palestinian state. But that was still not 100% and thus the conflict between Arab and Jew for "Palestine" has continued through four more wars and continuous Arab terrorist attacks upon the Israeli citizens. It continues to this very day.

From 1949 - 1967 when all of Judea-Samaria [West Bank & Jerusalem] and Gaza were under Arab [Jordanian & Egyptian] control, no effort was ever made to create a second Palestinian State for the Arabs living there.  

Nevertheless, Israel is being expected to now provide these same Arabs with their own country when their fellow Arabs failed to do so.  

Arafat and his 'Palestinian Liberation Organisation (formed in 1964)  discovered their "ancient" identity and a need for "self-determination" and "human dignity" on this very same West Bank only after Israel regained this territory (three years later in 1967) following Jordan's attempt to destroy Israel.

When King Hussein of Jordan occupied the West Bank, no request was ever made to him by the Arabs living there for an independent State.

It isn't logical that the PLO was formed in 1964 to regain the lands they would lose three years later in 1967.  This sort of logic makes sense only to those who have not learned that the PLO was formed to destroy Israel. And that is still the goal of Hamas.

After the Six Day War in 1967, Israel regained Jerusalem and other land West of Jordan.  The UN Security Council then passed Resolution 242 authorizing Israel to remain in possession of all the land until it had “secure and recognized boundaries"

Answer 8

The Arab Nations' refusal to accept the existence of Israel is the root of the conflicts and terrorism in the Middle East.

Answer 9

Only a very uneducated person who did not care to get the true facts would believe that.

Answer 10

Takes two to tango.

Answer 11

No.

Don't think so.

Just internal conflict of interest among themselves.

Living in misery with faulty education and communication system.

With misinterpretation. miscommunication, communication failures and communication break-down.

Genesis 11.1, 6

Decode this lyrics " Solitaire"

The mess out there was played out by Judas.

Matt 27.29,37

Decode this lyrics "I will follow him"

In short-changing, conning and deceiving little children with cheap-skate ghostly stories on tribe with non-existence rights of original descendant in kicking them on the butts with their self lack of knowledge without being aware of it.

Luke 4.4-7

Luke 3.7-9

Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49

Luke 8.5-8,10-17

Luke 9.25,55-56,60

What do you think?

Answer 12

If you are anti-Israel the USA makes more sense.

Answer 13

NO

ITS THE TERRORIST TRIO OF "U S , U K AND ISRAEL "

ACTUALLY,IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY AND ANTI TERRORISM THEY WANT TO CONTROLL THE MID EAST WEALTH.