Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & Pan-Islamic Terrorism

The Arab-Israeli war in 1948 held unpleasant experiences for Arab states in the Middle East, as much as it did for the Palestinians. It brought about the beginning of a mass movement of Palestinians from Palestine to Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. Further, the creation of the State of Israel in an Arab state evoked anger in the populations of all of the Arab states, which threatened to political leaders in those states.

The United Nations Partition Plan of 1947 divided Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state. Galilee was also to be divided in half; however, the Jews (later to become Israelis) were not satisfied with this arrangement, and seized both halves of Galilee.

The division of Palestine alone was sufficient to cause a mass migration of Arab Palestinians. The Jewish seizure of western Galilee added to the exodus. By the end of the 1948 war, 800,000 Palestinians had fled their country. The Arab states in the Middle East refused to acknowledge the existence of the State of Israel. Over the following 20 years, several wars erupted between Israel and the Arab states.

During all of this time, the Palestinians outside of Palestine attacked Israeli interest through the use of guerilla tactics (most frequently referred to as terrorist actions today). Within Palestine, there were constant frictions between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

During the Six-Day War, Israel occupied (and r

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tate of Israel as the only solution to the repression and other forms of anti-Semitism suffered by Jews in other countries. For most secular Zionists, the creation of a Jewish state need not have occurred on Palestinian territory, although it needed to occur on territory somewhere. Religious Zionists, by contrast contend that Israel had to have been created on Palestinian territory, because the land was theirs by biblical promise. Some people contend that both the Arabs and the Jews have legitimate rights in Palestine, and that the irony of the conflict between competing rights is the development of great injustice. In the case of the State of Israel, the injustice is the loss of Palestinian Arab rights through a securing of Jewish rights. This argument is supportable, if one agrees with the proposition that Jews from all parts of the world have rights to the territory of Palestine which are at least equal to those of the Arab Palestinians who were born there. If one agrees with the religious Zionists, of course, there is no question of competing equal rights, because, as God promised the territory to the Jews, there are only Jewish rights to be considered. If one accepts the position of the secular Zionists, it is also d
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