Israeli Point of View
The Israelis have a big point in this conflict against the Palestinians. The Israeli feel like they can take the land back because it is their "holy land," as promised by God. The Israelis feel like they should be able to return to their old homes and many still have their home keys that will never be used again. Some of the people coming back are using the reason of war as their means of taking the land back. Some people are saying that they had to flee from Israel because of the fighting that was going on around them. When they returned they didn't expect people to take over their homes. Bad relationships between the Israeli and the Palestinians are a result of the civil war that took place in Israel in the years of 1947 and 1948. That war was one of the two major events that made the relationship between Palestinians and Israeli a lot more difficult to solve. Then came the Six Day War which was the event of when the Israeli took over most of the Palestinian land in the state of Israel. Some Palestinians fled from the area but some stayed. Some Jews also argue that they have right to the land because it was in fact founded by Jews, for Jews. Although that statement can be taken down by other beliefs, they do have a point there. The Israeli see the Palestinians as a threat to their society and as a threat to their lives. Since the attacks that have been done against the Israeli, checkpoints have been opened on the borders of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. The checkpoints slow down traffic tremendously. Now Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip need to wake up really early to get into the line early and to get faster to work. The worst thing about the conflict is the fact that it seems impossible to solve. Both the Israeli and the Palestinians have big friends in high places. The U.S. in fact has been trying to solve the conflict, but they have prevailed. The U.S. actually made matters worse and made themselves a friend of Israel. The U.S. have been giving weapons and basically funding the Israeli army, and at some points provoking the two sides to fight. The man up there on the left is the Prime Minister of Israel. The Prime Minister of Israel has been trying to be friendly to the Palestinians to let them off his, and his peoples', back(s). Many of his plans have failed and some of them even made matters worse. The Israeli believed that their land was just simply taken away from them by the Palestinians and they had no right to take their rightful land away from them. This made some very incredible events happen around Israel. The Israeli began taking the land from the Palestinians, angering them even more. The Israel believed that it was their land given to them by God and passed down through generations and generations of leaders and normal everyday citizens of the country. The Israeli only had this main reason to take the land away from the Palestinians, without permission from the Palestinians or the U.N. that is.
Down below is a map showing the amount of land Israel took from the Palestinians without the consent of the U.N.
Down below is a map showing the amount of land Israel took from the Palestinians without the consent of the U.N.