History of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict


The Arab-Israeli conflict is a modern phenomenon, which dates back to the end of the 19th century. The conflict became a major international issue after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1917, and in various forms it continues to this day. The Arab-Israeli conflict has resulted in at least five major wars and a number of "minor conflicts". It has also been the source of two major Palestinian intifadas (uprisings) and is cited by al-Qaeda, a largely Arab organization, as one of the reasons for its conflict with the Western world.

Before 1947
Tensions between the Jews and Arabs started to emerge after the 1880s, when European Jews began to immigrate and augment Palestinian Jewish communities by buying land from Ottoman and individual Arab landholders, known as effendis, and establishing agricultural settlements in the historic lands of Judea and Israel, which were then part of the Ottoman Empire.[1] At the time, Arab Palestinians lived an almost feudal existence on the effendis' land in what was known as Palestine.[2] The population in 1880 of Palestine west of the Jordan River was estimated at "under 590,000, of whom 96 percent were Arabs (Muslim or Christian); roughly 4 percent of the population was Jewish"
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is often claimed to be at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict, is an ongoing dispute between two peoples, Jewish Israelis and Arab Palestinians, who both claim the right to sovereignty over the Land of Israel/Palestine in whole or in part.

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Fatah
"Palestinian National Liberation Movement"
Yasser Arafat
was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1968–2004) and President[2] of the Palestinian National Authority (1993–2004).
Hamas
"Islamic Resistance Movement"
Ahmed Yassin
was the co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement group Hamas.
First Intifada
was a mass Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule
The State of Israel

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