Episode-1: What are Israel and Palestine? Why are they fighting each other?

Md. Guljar Hussain-Writer and Columnist 

Welcome to my blog. Hope you are well.  The present world is now watching the instability, unrest situations and occupancy by the supper power with it's big gun especially in the Arab countries of the Middle East. It is said that the instabilities and unrest that we see in the Middle east are resulted from the from Israel-Palestine crisis. one sided policies and continuously ignoring the situation by the super powers are diminishing the Palestinians from their land where they had been living for a long time. In my stylus I have tried my best to discover the principles of  why the the Israelis and Palestinian are  stick to their demand. Why they are going hard lines to snatching away each other's rights. I hope it will quench your thrust of knowledge somewhat. I hope to continue in episode forms if you inspire me in this matter commenting bellow...

Israel is the only Jewish state in the world east of the Mediterranean. Palestinians, the Arabs who come from the land that controls Israel now, call the area Palestine and want to build a state with that name in all or part of the same country. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over, who will get whose land and how it will be controlled!

Israel in red, Palestinian-majority territories in pink. (Vardion)

Although both Jews and Arab Muslims look back on their claims to the land for a few thousand years, the current political conflict began at the beginning of the 20th century. Jews fleeing the persecution in Europe wanted to establish a national homeland in what was then Arab and Muslim majority territory in the Ottoman Empire and later in the British Empire. The Arabs resisted and saw the country as their right. An early United Nations plan to give each group a part of the country failed, and Israel and the surrounding Arab nations waged several wars on the territory. The lines of today largely reflect the results of two of these wars, one in 1948 and one in 1967.

The 1967 war is particularly important for today's conflict, leaving Israel in control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, two areas with large Palestinian populations:

Today, the West Bank is nominally controlled by the Palestinian Authority and is under Israeli occupation. This is done in the form of Israeli troops enforcing Israeli security restrictions on the Palestinian movement and activities, and Israeli "settlers," Jews who are building ever-growing communities in the West Bank that are effectively denying the Palestinians land. Gaza is under the control of fundamentalist Islamist Hamas and under Israeli blockade, but not by occupation of ground forces.

The main focus for today's resolution of the conflict is a so-called "two-state solution" that would establish Palestine as an independent state in Gaza and most of the West Bank and leave the rest of the country to Israel. Although the two-state plan is clear in theory, the two sides are still deeply divided as to how it should work in practice.

The alternative to a two-state solution is a "one-state solution" in which the whole earth becomes a big Israel or a big Palestine. Most observers think that this would cause more problems than it would solve, but this result becomes more and more likely over time for political and demographic reasons.

To be continued........
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