Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a part of the greater Arab-Israeli conflict, is an ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinians. (See definitions of Palestinian.)
Today the conflict is mainly over these issues:
- The status and future of the illegally occupied territories of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem (Source: United Nations Security Council Resolution 497)
- Israeli security from Palestinian militant attacks.
- Palestinian security from Israeli military attacks.
- The question of creating a Palestinian state
- The fate of the Palestinian refugees.
- The settlement policies of Israel
The refugee issue arose as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The issue of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem arose as a result of the Six-Day War in 1967. The current peace proposal is the Road map for peace presented by the Quartet of the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States on September 17, 2002.
People who sympathize with Palestinians tend to view the conflict as an illegitimate military occupation of Palestine, supported with military and diplomatic assistance from the U.S., while those sympathetic to Israel tend to view it as a terrorism campaign perpetrated by Palestinian groups such as Hamas, supported by other states in the region. This sharp contrast of views on the nature of the conflict has been a key obstacle to resolution.
History
The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the account of events of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict beginning in the 1880s and continuing to present day.
Related articles
Ethnicity
- Arab -- Jew -- Palestinian -- Armenian
Religion
- Islam -- Judaism -- Christianity
Geography
Places
- Jerusalem -- Ma'alot -- Hebron -- Bethlehem -- Church of the Nativity -- Gaza City -- Jenin -- Jericho
History
Until 1949
- Balfour Declaration 1917
- 1922 Text: League of Nations Palestine Mandate
- British Mandate of Palestine
- 1947 UN Partition Plan
- Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948
- 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- 1949 Armistice Agreements
- Palestinian exodus
1949-1967
- 1956 Suez War
- 1967 Six Day War
- Khartoum Resolution
- Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt
- Occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Jordan
1967-1993
- 1970 War of Attrition
- 1973 Yom Kippur War
- 1978 Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel
- 1982 Lebanon War
- 1990/1 Gulf War
- 1993 Oslo Peace Accords between Palestinians and Israel
- first Intifada
1993-present
- al-Aqsa Intifada
- Camp David 2000 Summit between Palestinians and Israel
- Road map for peace
- Violence against Israelis
- Israel's unilateral disengagement plan
- Jabalia Offensive in the fall of 2004
Ideology and ideas
Media coverage
- New Historians
- Promises, an Oscar-nominated documentary
- Media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Elements of the conflict
- Partial_list_of_Palestinian_terrorist_acts
- Palestinian refugees
- Israeli settlements
- Israeli West Bank barrier
- Child suicide bomber
- Al-Aqsa Intifada
- Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Peace Process in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Organizations and armed forces
- Israel Defense Forces
- Anti-Israel Movements
- Fatah
- Hamas
- Hezbollah
- Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
- Palestinian Authority
- Palestine Liberation Organization
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad
People
Israeli
- David Ben-Gurion -- Menachem Begin -- Yitzhak Rabin -- Shimon Peres -- Ariel Sharon -- Chaim Weizmann
Palestinian
- Haj Amin Al-Husseini -- Ahmed Shukairy -- Yasser Arafat -- Marwan Barghouti -- Mahmoud Abbas -- Nabil Shaath -- Sheikh Ahmed Yassin -- Ahmed Qurei -- Hanan Ashrawi -- Dalal Mughrabi
Others
- King Hussein -- Anwar Sadat -- Colin Powell -- Anthony Zinni
Related conflicts
External links
- Middle East Policy Council - Conflict Statistics (http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/resources/mrates.asp)
- HonestReporting (http://www.honestreporting.com/)
- Sharm El-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee Final Report (Mitchell Report) (http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/mitchell.htm)
- Government of Israel (http://www.gov.il/)
- IndyMedia (Israel) (http://indymedia.org.il/)
- IndyMedia (http://jerusalem.indymedia.org)
- Electronic Intifada (http://electronicintifada.net/)
- P10K (Palestine 10,000) - a peoples peace-keeping force (http://www.P10K.net)
- Palestinian Negotiation Team (http://www.nad-plo.org)
- "Barak's Generous offer" (http://www.gush-shalom.org/media/barak_eng.swf) from Gush Shalom
- Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza (http://www.jsource.org/jsource/Peace/settletoc.html)
- Myths and facts about Israel and settlements: An Israeli view (http://www.jsource.org/jsource/myths/mf22a.html)
- meta:Solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- What next? By Sari Nusseibeh (http://www.sfcg.org/cgnews/menarticleframe.cfm?articleid=148)
- Israeli newspaper editorial mentioning Mr. Nusseibeh (http://www.sfcg.org/cgnews/menarticleframe.cfm?articleid=176)
- Current breakdown of fatalities in conflict (http://www.ict.org.il/casualties_project/stats_page.cfm)
- Chicago Tribune: Israeli veterans show occupation's ugly side (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&e=6&u=/chitribts/israeliveteransshowoccupationsuglyside) Photos of the occupation taken by Israeli soldiers
- Two Peoples, One State (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/04/opinion/04tarazi.html?oref=login) The PLO's Michael Tarazi outlines a solution to the conflict (New York Times, 4 October 2004)
- A Non-Violent Look at Conflict & Violence (http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/mideast.htm) (1938) by Mohandas K. Gandhi.
- Directories
- LookSmart - Israel-Palestine Conflict (http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317836/us317916/us147927/us269889/us290317/us290303/us290378/)
- Open Directory Project - Israel-Palestine Conflict (http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Warfare_and_Conflict/Specific_Conflicts/Middle_East/Israel-Palestine/)
- Yahoo - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Middle_East/Government/Politics/Israeli_Palestinian_Conflict/)
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