Origin of Israeli Conflict
The origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be traced back to the Balfour declaraition by Great Britain in 1917. Ironically the declaration called for the establishment of an independent Jewish state within Palestine, as long as the civil liberties of existing inhabitants were guaranteed. Seventy-five years later, is painfully obvious that these guarantees were never maintained. The state of Israel exists as a dominant overlord to the non-existent state of Palestine. Instead of two separate and equal states as stated in the Balfour declaration, we have one nation that has usurped the sovereignty of another. Israel maintains a stranglehold upon the Palestinians, and with its current right wing government, shows no signs of searching for peace. Thus the conflict will continue without the intervention of outside forces, to bring both parties to the peace table. The history of the conflict all relates to the way that the Israeli state was created. The Zionists didn't want to emigrate to the Holy land, they wanted their own separate homeland. After WWII, the British were pressured by Zionist interests to create a separate state within Palestine. In an odd twi
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