Brown_Pride
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http://www.the-coli.com/higher-lear...itics-foreign-policy-economy.html#post2293251
View that thread and Epic and mine's back and forth.
Who started it depends on your definition. If you want to be technical than I guess Zionism started it when the Jews first immigrated to the area.
good looking out just read it.
So here's basically what i took from that (keep in mind i'm laying this out to a 10 year old and that's how i'm summarizing what i've gathered.)
Back at the turn of the century the current area where everything is going on was populated by various Arab peoples as well as Jews. During this time two things happened.
1. Britain told the Arabs they would be allowed to govern their own lands.
2. Jews had begun purchasing land in the area and kicking the locals, who were mostly Arabs, off the land. Sometime very close to this the UN and told "the jews" they could have a country in that area, because of historical and biblical ties to the land.
As each group felt they had a right to exist in that area there were tensions. Israel just happens to have won the wars between the the two groups so they dictated what happened to some of the lands after the wars. In all fairness the Jews took more than they said they would, mostly because some of the lands would have given the Palestinians a military advantage in terms of a place to launch attacks on Jewish cities. So on the one hand they took to much, on the other hand it can be argued they did so out of self preservation.
Ultimately both sides have a claim to the land, just depends on how far back you want to look or who's word you want to take.
??? Is that the situation in the beginning in a nutshell then?