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this is the history of Israel and Palestine through the centuries the land We Now call Israel and Palestine changed hands many times as different groups of people battled for control of the area overtime the establishment of the Jewish Christian and Muslim religions made the land especially the city of Jerusalem are uniquely place for about a thousand years in the Middle Ages the Arabs almost always held control of the area and actually lived relatively peacefully with the Jews in fact it was the Christians during their brief rule who massacred and persecuted both the Jews and Muslims  at the turn of the 20th century 1900 bid of statehood friendly taken rude around the world and so naturally many Jews wanted a country of their own but in the two thousand years since the founding of Judea most Jews had left the promised land and spread throughout the world with the goal of creating their own country now it's Yubel large numbers of Jews started to come back and settling Palestine World War 1 brought the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the hands of the British French and Russians giving them control of the Middle East they divided it up in the British were given a mandate over Palestine with the more sympathetic British now in control these Jewish scientists as they were called seize the opportunity to lower eat their plan for Statehood for the goal of the British who just wanted to create a government in Palestine where power could be shared delete by the different groups living there and then there were the Arabs who didn't trust the British or the Jews because many of the Arab leaders thought the British would favor the Jews the Arabs refuse to form any government that included Jewish participation before long this stubbornness grew into frustration at not being represented this is some within the Arab Community turn to violence and carried out bombing attacks against Jewish settlers and started to destroy the crops the settlers were growing on their Farms about a decade later World War II broke out in millions of Jews were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust after the american-british and Allied Forces defeat Germans hundreds of thousands of Jews came to Palestine and the UN General Assembly passed a fateful plan to divide up Palestine into independent in Jewish states with the all-important city of Jerusalem placed under International control that the five members of the Arab League didn't want the Jews to control any part of the so they all voted against the plan in May 1948 after much planning and covert arms acquisition the Jewish leadership one ahead into add establishment of the state of Israel and quickly convinced the US government the Soviet Union and many other countries to officially recognize it as expected by Israelis the Arab countries invaded Palestine immediately but these Raley's were ready and were more disciplined better-trained and well-armed and we're too strong for Arab enemies when the dust settled after 10 months of fighting in peace agreements were signed Israel not only kept the whole area under the original un plan controlled almost 60% of the land that have been planned for the Arab State more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs had also fled the fighting or were kicked out of their home and about the same none of Jews migrated Indie Israel from Arab lands so you had about 1.5 million people basically switching places making population of Israel much more Jewish a generation later in 1967 tensions were again reaching the boiling point third Benson cross-border attacks from both the Israelis and the Arabs so Israel decided to launch a surprise Invasion and in 6 days won control of the Gaza strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt took the West Bank and East Jerusalem away from Jordan and kicked Syria out of the Golan Heights fewer than in Israeli troops were killed in the short war but over 20,000 Arab soldiers died went missing or were captured and just like in the 1948 War image of thousands more Palestinian Arabs left since then Israel's really built up its security capabilities and constructed many settlements in these new territories even though that you win in the international court of justice declared the settlements illegal under international law 10 years after the war Israel return to sign cancel it to Egypt and in 2005 pulled its troops and the settlers out of the Gaza Strip but there are around 750000 Jewish settlers in the West East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights in 1993 Israel struck a deal with the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat and agreed to allow the Palestinians to set up a government and Rule themselves in the Gaza Strip and the City of Jericho in the West Bank change the PLO recognize the right of Israel to exist this new Palestinian government headed by Arafat became known as the Palestinian Authority and was controlled by Jordi party fatah but not all Palestinians especially people in the Gaza Strip liked arafat's more moderate approach and so a split 2 leading to the rise of the more extremist Islamic party I must whose leaders refused to negotiate with Israel or recognize its right to exist in 2000 Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary election but photography used to be in minority party and a violent power struggle between Hamas and fatah played out and streets of Gaza after more than 100 people died in the fighting Hamas controlled the area so arafat's successor Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas essentially cut the Gaza Strip loose from the Palestinian Authority and set up an emergency fatah controlled government in the West Bank so today there are fairly different Palace x what is the West Bank led by a boss and his fatah party who more or less coexist peacefully with their many Jewish Neighbors although Israel is in the process of building a 400 Mi long barrier along the border it's a boss who's engaged in ongoing negotiations with Israel and the international about reaching a solution to the conflict that would allow Palestine to become an independent country the other Palestine is the Gaza Strip which is essentially poor is mostly cut off from the rest of the World by Israel C embargo and a wall that divides it from Israel and Egypt leaving its people without many basic necessities shooting clean drinking water Gaza is very dependent on the UN and the rest of the International Community for Aid it's controlled by Hamas Khaled mashal is the chairman unless it is let the party since the 2004 assassination of the Hamas leader I'll run TC Machado lives in Qatar in 1990 Israel tried but failed to assassinate him in retaliation for the bombing of a market in Jerusalem that has claimed responsibility for its amaz who's been Target of repeated Israeli military actions recently including this year's operation protective Edge which was response to a number of attacks by Hamas against Israelis including kidnappings and Rocket attacks both of which have been aided by the digging of many tunnels under both the Gaza Israeli border and Gaza Southern border with e Hamas uses these tunnels to smuggle in weapons and money that it gets from others in the region who have an interest in destabilizing Israel security like you Ron in its response to the mosque Israel is taking heavy criticism for its destructive and vengeful airstrikes that kill a high number of civilians they're generally two ideas for how to end the conflict in give Palestinian statehood the first is a two-state solution where Israel and Palestine would two Sovereign countries living side-by-side this is the strategy embraced by many in the International Community including US President Barack Obama and is embraced by people like prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Lagoon party but Time After Time negotiations or around this solution fail because of the many issues has to confront and resolve like what to do about the three quarters of a million Jewish settlers in Palestinian areas the instability of the Gaza Strip the what did the Gaza Strip in the West Bank on even connected and of course who would control Jerusalem these obstacles has given rise to a second alternative solution bets embraced by many Arab Israelis and even Jewish politicians like the newly elected president of Israel reuven rivlin they think the only practical way to go one state solution compromised where neither the Palestinians nor the Jewish people get exactly what they want but would instead be unified in one single state that I'm sure equal rights for all of its citizens proponents of this plan think it would solve one of the world's toughest problems and remove the entire area from the criticism of them world the main argument from Israelis against the one-state solution is that it would instantly end the idea of a Jewish State and would make Jews in minority again but looking at the numbers on a combined arab-israeli State Jews would number 6.6 million and Arabs around 5.6 million of course that's before the issue of People migrating back to this unified country is settled another issue that would require a creative solution is the wealth Gap in the technologically driven and very prosperous economy of Israel and the much more challenged economic situation of the Palestinian territories watching hopefully this video helps you see the situation with Clear Eyes the next time it's in the news but I want to know what you think how should the israeli-palestinian conflict assault

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