An Unbiased History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Amidst Hamas strikes inside Israel, here’s everything you need to know about the conflict.
After nearly an entire century, the Israel-Palestine conflict has become one of the most important and pertinent issues in the Middle East. A conflict that is responsible not only for the lives of thousands of people but also for dilapidating their households while also giving rise to terror groups that continue to grip the area in its claws.
Most people today believe that the Israeli-Palestine conflict has to do with a clash of two religious ideologies. However, it is not just a Jew vs. Muslim fight; put simply, it is a fight for two groups of people who claim that they have the right to the same land. One had already been living there, and the other was forced to migrate to this land due to increasing antisemitism but then made it their home.
Notably, before the issue began, people from all three major Abrahamic religions — Islam, Judaism, and Christianity — occupied the land under Ottoman rule. However, as time went on, two groups of people living in two completely different areas started to form a sense of nationality. The Palestinians started seeing themselves as more than just the ethnic Arabs, a group of people large enough that it warranted their…
