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The Arab-Israeli Conflict - The Continuing Struggle For Peace - Why is there still so much fear, suspicion and hatred between the Israelis and Palestinians today?
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict The Continuing Struggle For Peace Why is there still so much fear, suspicion and hatred between the Israelis and Palestinians today? The Israelis and the Palestinians have been fighting in the Middle East for more than four thousand years. However the last century has seen some of the most savage fighting in the history of the conflict. It started in the 1940's, when news came out of Germany that the Nazis were murdering large numbers of Jews. After the war a quarter of a million Jews, who were freed from the camps, had no homes to return to, this caused great sympathy for the Jews, especially in the USA. President Truman demanded that these Jews should be allowed into Palestine at once. Many Palestinians objected to this, but it still went on. After the partition Plan in 1947 there was the first Arab-Israeli war in 1949, other wars that followed...
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