Why Is israel and palestine are enemy of each other?

[Yeshwa Younis]

I would like to know the history of enmity of Israel and Palestine. What bible said this enmity?

 

[Albion]

I would like to know the history of enmity of Israel and Palestine. What bible said this enmity?

Israel is the ancient and ancestral homeland of the Jews. About 1900 AD when every other nationality began to feel that they had a right to a homeland and to independence, the Jews did, too. Unfortunately for them, they had been driven out of their homeland long before and so had to actually go back to their own homeland. Most other nationalities merely had to overthrow some colonial ruler where they lived.

After the Holocaust, getting back there took on a new urgency--self-preservation--so they began to pour back into Palestine which belonged to Great Britain. Britain ultimately gave it to them...or to be more correct, allowed the United Nations to divide it between the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs living there.

The Arabs there and elsewhere did not accept this partition and so have been warring against Israel ever since. The Israeli emnity against them comes from having been repeatedly attacked by an enemy for over a half century. The Palestinian emnity comes from having a foreign people settle in the land they (the Arabs) themselves had settled about 1300 years earlier.

 

[Yeshwa Younis]

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Israel is the ancient and ancestral homeland of the Jews. About 1900 AD when every other nationality began to feel that they had a right to a homeland and to independence, the Jews did, too. Unfortunately for them, they had been driven out of their homeland long before and so had to actually go back to their own homeland. Most other nationalities merely had to overthrow some colonial ruler where they lived.

After the Holocaust, getting back there took on a new urgency--self-preservation--so they began to pour back into Palestine which belonged to Great Britain. Britain ultimately gave it to them...or to be more correct, allowed the United Nations to divide it between the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs living there.

The Arabs there and elsewhere did not accept this partition and so have been warring against Israel ever since. The Israeli emnity against them comes from having been repeatedly attacked by an enemy for over a half century. The Palestinian emnity comes from having a foreign people settle in the land they (the Arabs) themselves had settled about 1300 years earlier.

 

[Trogool]

I would like to know the history of enmity of Israel and Palestine. What bible said this enmity?

The Jews lived there a couple thousand years ago. After world war 2 they were given the land as their own nation. Unfortunately, the Palestinians already lived their and still are not happy at how the Israelis took their ancestral homes from them.

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[lismore]

They all need God's love in their hearts.

 

[Epiphoskei]

I'm sorry, but the argument that Palestinians don't like Jews because they took their ancestral homes is not going to fly. During the several Aliyahs, Jews immigrated to Israel by legal and peaceful means, buying the land they moved into. It is not terribly uncommon for people of one culture to oppose immigration which undermines their culture's dominance in a region, no. But if war breaks out because of ethnic tensions between a native group and peaceful migrants, the ethnic tensions aren't the real reason the war broke out. The real reason war broke out is that the bellicose party was barbaric and inexcusably escalated the situation. Where parties are generally civilized we don't see hostility like exists in the Middle East emerging from great migrations. There aren't any American-Mexican race wars going on in Texas, for example.

After and only after 1948, as a result of that war, did Arab lands begin to be appropriated through war instead of trade, and land losses in war are generally the kind of things on which we can legitimately blame tensions like exist in the present Middle East. But as these losses were a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict, it won't do to blame them for the conflict which caused them. An effect cannot be the cause of itself.

 

[Radagast]

The Jews lived there a couple thousand years ago. After world war 2 they were given the land as their own nation. Unfortunately, the Palestinians already lived their and still are not happy at how the Israelis took their ancestral homes from them.

Simplistic, but yes. Although the land given by the UN to the Jews was much smaller than what is now the state of Israel.

Israel is the ancient and ancestral homeland of the Jews.

It's more complex than that. I will use "Palestine" as the name for the region as a whole. Southern Palestine (Judea) is the ancestral homeland of the Jews. Northern Palestine is the ancestral homeland of the 10 Israelite tribes, many of whom became Samaritans (in Jesus' time, for example, Samaria was very much a distinct, non-Jewish region, and the Parable of the Good Samaritan deals with the hostility between Jews and Samaritans).

Following Alexander the Great's invasion, many Greeks settled in Palestine too, and archaeology shows many Greek towns from Jesus' time (the gymnasiums and pagan temples are the big clue).

Before the Jews, of course, there were Canaanites, and they hung on in Southwest Palestine (including Gaza, but also some cities now in the state of Israel).

In the centuries after Jesus, many Jews became Christian (so Bethlehem, for example, has been a Christian town for almost 2,000 years), and the whole of Palestine became a Christian country with a few Jewish and Samaritan settlements.

Following the Arab invasion, many Christian inhabitants of Palestine (including some descendants of former Jews and former Samaritans) became Muslim, and Arab settlers also arrived. Several Crusades tried and failed to kick the Arabs out, and left behind some people of part-European origin.

In addition, Jews have lived outside Palestine for a long time, in the so-called Diaspora. Even in Jesus' time, there were more Jews in Egypt than in Palestine. In addition, a great many Jews had never returned to Palestine from Babylon, but had lived there since the Exile. After 1948, however, Jews became unwelcome in Muslim countries and around a million were forced to leave -- in most cases, travelling to what is now the state of Israel, from lack of any other alternative.

People on all sides have suffered, but it's probably true that the conflict in that part of the world has been toughest on the Christians than on anybody else.

 

[Albion]

It's more complex than that.

Of course it is, but getting to the point is often the most important thing we can do for an inquirer. In this case, it's that the Israelis do have a claim to the land, just as the Palestinian Arabs do.

 

[dana b]

I would like to know the history of enmity of Israel and Palestine. What bible said this enmity?

It's all about the continuing fight between Ishmael and Isaac. These two brothers both are Abraham's hiers. So whenever Abraham was granted land, both of these brothers stood to inherit it after him. It is not easy to see who should be entitled to exactly which part of which land.