Why there are so many problems between the Israel country and its neighbors ?

Question

so many times I watch in TV war between Israel and its neighbors, such as Palestina, Iran. Also I hear bad references from the Israelí people or called Jews; It could be the reason?

Answer 1

Because Israel's neighbors follow a hate-filled philosophy that allows no diversity and tells them to kill every Jew.

Answer 2

Israel is hated by the countries around it.

There is no country called palestine.  That is a lie.

There are people that have started calling themselves palestinians that want to steal the land from Israel.

They attack innocent Israelis, blow up women and children on buses and in the cities.

The palestinians are murderers and terrorists.

Answer 3

The problem is not Israel its with its neighbors who mostly hate all Jews and want them dead.

Answer 4

this is a good article and some website which will help you understand....

Why Americans Support Israel And Europeans Don`t

Posted 5/15/2002

By Glenn M. Frazier

"Glenn M. Frazier is a freelance writer and editor of GlennFrazier.com."

The European bureautocracy is shocked by the American stance toward Israel. The common views outside the United States range from seeing Israel as an oppressor state — some say "terrorist" — to the milder "well, both sides are guilty, but Israel is stronger."

Americans don`t see things that way.

I`m not Jewish. Most Americans aren`t Jewish. Large numbers of Americans, though (including myself), support Israel. What`s up with that? To listen to America`s critics, their implied message seems to be that only a Jew could care about the Jews, and that therefore something sneaky must be going on in the United States.

In a poll taken by the Pew Research Center in early April, the growing transatlantic gap in opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict was confirmed. According to the poll, most people on the continent (France 63 per cent, Germany 63 per cent, Italy 51 per cent) disapprove of current U.S. policies with regard to the Middle East, while only 26 per cent of Americans themselves polled said they "disapprove".

Further, when asked to choose sides between Israel and the Palestinians, most Europeans either primarily sided with the Palestinians (France 36 per cent, Great Britain 28 per cent), or selected "neither" (Germany 33 per cent, Italy 32 per cent). Most Americans, on the other hand, placed their sympathies with Israel (41 per cent), with 21 per cent saying "neither" and only 13 per cent choosing the Palestinians. (Interestingly, in every country surveyed, those sympathizing with "both" were outnumbered by those choosing "neither.")

So what`s going on here?

First, it should be noted that in past polls, going back many years, Americans have generally always sympathized with Israel over the Palestinians, with percentages ranging from 34 per cent in 1990 to 48 per cent in 1997. Our views on this issue, in fact, have not changed substantially since before the September Atrocity.

This, of course, feeds the tired claims of a "Jewish controlled media" and the supposedly stunning power of Jewish lobby groups in the U.S. This is probably the oldest of attempted explanations for American support of Israel. As explanations go, though, these claims are not terribly convincing. If a "Zionist conspiracy" really ran this country, Arabs would be commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Arafat`s martyrdom about now.

It is true that as lobby efforts go, those supporting Israel are among the most powerful. But how powerful is that? Certainly not enough to so radically sway common public opinion to the point that we see Israel exactly opposite of how Europe perceives Israel.

A more recent attempt at explaining American support for Israel involves two components of the Republican constituency that were core to President Bush`s election. The first is the Evangelical Christian movement. (The Boston Globe recently cited Evangelicals as strong supporters of Israel, dismissively implying the motives of the Christian Right as essentially scriptural.)

According to a recent article in The Economist, the other component, the so- called neoconservatives (an ever-shifting label), support Israel as part of an overall desire to see America "play a more forceful role in the world." That`s, well, interesting. Being occasionally tagged as a neocon myself, I find it hard to disagree with the author`s statement that "Neocons are obsessed with the grand design of foreign policy." But so what? I`d say Marxists are similarly obsessed, but — despite Israel`s regrettable socialist idiosyncrasies — this bare fact does not amount to anything.

So let`s be generous and lump these two groups together (the total Jewish population in America is too small to have a significant impact on these numbers, by the way) and not question the attributed motives. Do neocons and theocons really make up 41 per cent of the American Public? Some might wish that it were so, but how then would one explain two terms of Clinton? Remember, we`re talking about stable levels of public support for Israel since at least the late 1970`s.

Here`s one more data point: among Europeans, the "highly educated" were far more likely to respond as sympathizing with the Palestinians, compared to their non-Sorbonne-impaired neighbors. France, in particular, showed a dramatic difference among these two demographics, with only 30 per cent of French with "low" education supporting the Palestinians, versus 51 per cent of those with "high" education.

And here, I think, is the real cause of this historical rift between opinions. Call us middle-brow, say we lack nuance, whine about American exceptionalism, but the basic truth is that Americans are idealistic where Europeans are cynical, and cynics where Europeans are idealists.

Take the European response to President Bush`s declaration of the Axis of Evil, for example. Across all four European nations polled, the majority disapproved of the statement — France by a whopping 74 per cent. In the United States, the majority approved, with only 34 percent saying they disapproved.

So do Americans support Israel because we think the Second Coming is, well, coming? Do we do it out of some nefarious scheme to launch a New Imperialism? Are we bamboozled by the dreaded "Jewish Controlled Media"?

No. We believe — more than Europe does — that some things are just plain wrong. No excuses, no rationalizations. Like my mom used to say, "I don`t care what he did first, if you hit, you`re wrong!" Sure, that policy lacked nuance, but it certainly was clear.

President Bush`s popularity is in large part due to the great gift he brought us in September: moral clarity.

Academic quibbles among the intelligencia about moral equivalency and "root causes" frankly cause the average American`s eyes to glaze over. Sure, the average American thinks, Israel may have misbehaved. Sure, there should be a separate Palestinian state. But once people started blowing up pizza parlors, a far more important — and far more clear — problem walked onto the scene. Until the absolutely clear evil of terrorism, suicide bombing, and attempted policide is eliminated, other, lesser problems are put on hold.

Europeans call this idealism simplistic, and maybe it is.

On the flip side, Americans are sometimes dumbfounded to discover how oddly credulous Europeans are when it comes to so much else. Europeans put a value on words that is foreign to the average American. Just because "peace process" sounds like maybe there`s a process that can create peace, it does not mean that anything baring the label is actually worthy of any respect.

As idealistic as many Americans are when it comes to notions of right and wrong, we are deeply, deeply cynical when it comes to words and ideas. We are the "show-me" nation. And that`s one more reason the notion of a conspiratorial Jewish Controlled Media is so silly to the average American. Who trusts the media?!

We Americans sniff out conflicts of interest as a knee-jerk reflex, assume everyone has a bias, and know that just because there`s a picture of the batboy shaking hands with Jimmy Carter doesn`t mean the event actually happened. Some poor souls here still have a hard time accepting that Elvis is dead. I mean, did you see the body?

This, in the end, is the great divide between Europe and the U.S.: We believe nothing, they believe in nothing.

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Answer 5

Out of pressure and sympathy, Britain decided to give one of their colonies (which was inhabited by palestinians) to the jews, many of whom were very influential people in Europe. Naturally, the palestinians were furious at the mass migration of jews to their country. In addition, other middle eastern nations, which are mostly similar arab nations were enraged at this action, so they all attacked the newly created state of israel and kept getting defeated because the US ensured Israels security from day 1. So, it is because of this arab solidarity  that other arab nations wanted to expel the jews. Now you can see why Israel has problems with its neighbors and why its neighbors have problems with US.

Israel's indirect actions resulted in the downfall of Lebanon, its northern neighbor. Lebanon was fluorishing before the destructive civil war that was ignited by 400,000 palestinian refugees who fled to Lebanon after Israel expelled them from their native lands. Its because of issues like these that cause deep resentment between Israel and its neighbors.

I hope this answers your question.

Answer 6

Probably because the Arab countries around Israel started attacking them as soon as Israel was created. And there have been years of terrorist attacks inside Israel with thousand of Israeli citizens killed.

Answer 7

Immediately after the state of Israel was formed its neighbors attempted to invade them and drive out all of the non-Muslims.  

The Palestinians fought on the side of the invaders and were forced to leave when they lost the war.  At the same time all the Jews living outside Israel were evicted and forced to flee to Israel.

Since then the Palestinians have continued a policy of genocide against the non-Muslims in Israel.  (And fail to make a connection between this policy and the lack of compassion the Israelis have for them.)

Personally, my solution to this issue of displaced Palestinians is very simple:

Since equal number of Jews and Palestinians were driven from their homes in that war - simply give the Palestinians the propertys vacated by the Jews and the Jews the properties vacated by the Palestinians.

Answer 8

the land they are on was stolen from the palestinians at the end of world war two. It used to be called palestine but the name was changed illegally to israel. The jews have won all the wars in the middle east with u.s backing and money. Still the people of the muslim world refuse to live under jew rule and would rather die than live under a jew boot. All have suffered loss and it seems and iran is one of the only nations not to so they are trying to build a military that can defend the nation and maybe one day the muslim world against jew invasion and incursion and if necessary u.s too. I dont blame the muslim people for trying to resist still even with all of the loss they have endured. What nation lays down and gives in other than so few e.g  the checks did to the germans in world war two - most would fight on even with horrible losses

Answer 9

Once upon a time there was a piece of land known as the British Mandate, which was under British control from their giant colonizing spree.

After WWII, Europe had a problem. A few million jews who faced too much hostility in their home countries to return to them (ironic isn't it?) so what to do with all of these jews? Well the British Mandate was the holy land, which according to scripture, was the land promised to the jews, and since some jews had settled there, and the British controled it, it was decided, hey, let's establish the state of Israel and all of them can go there.

Of course, there were people already living there, who's family had lived there for centuries, who did not take kindly to the thought of some foreigners coming down and establishing a county for themselves right where they lived, so these people, and the surrounding countries, got quite upset, as you might imagine, and really did only the same thing most people would do if someone is trying to establish a country in their neck of the woods. This would be like if Britain still controlled North America and decided to let some Muslims from India come and establish some country there.

So long story short, a war broke out, and Israel was able to claim a significant amount of land, which they would not have had if there hadn't been a war, and refuse to give back. In each time Israel is attacked they tend to win more land.

At least that is my understanding of it all. If it's wrong, I blame the western media.