The Israeli Palestinian conflict goes back to the early days of the State of Israel and is primarily centered over both territorial disputes regarding the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, as well as in a perceived existential threat.
Israel claims the Palestinians, ruled by the Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank and Hamas based in Gaza, have no desire to achieve peace and want to completely eradicate the Jewish presence from the land.
The Palestinians claim Israel acts as a brutal occupation of the Palestinians, subjecting them to an apartheid rule.
There have been many attempts to bridge the gap between the two sides before, most famously the two Oslo Accords, but they have yet to achieve success.
Fighting between the two sides tends to manifest in the form of popular Palestinian uprisings known as intifadas, the launching of rockets and machine gun fire, retaliatory airstrikes and artillery fire and even armed operations.
The conflict and possible resolutions to it remain highly divisive issues both within Israel and among the international community.
How did hasbara contribute to this monumental failure to address the uninterested and uninformed?
While the UN General Assembly resolution reflects a significant moment in international politics, it also uncovers the hypocrisy that often accompanies such discussions.
These fundamentalist Jewish groups twist Jewish tradition into an abominable chimera, mixing biblical literalism, ethno-nationalism, and theological obsessions similar Evangelical Christians.
The Garden of Eden taught us the clear divide between good and evil, which modern society has blurred too often in recent months
If the West opposes violence to achieve political goals, how can it stand with the normalization of violence and terror in the movement for Palestinian statehood?
For many Israelis, the massacre solidified their lack of faith in achieving any kind of peace with the Palestinian people.
Although there is a popular train of thought among many Israelis that settling the Land of Israel will hasten the messianic era, it is not a consensus.
Both campaigns should state their future administration’s policy for the Middle East, including how they perceive the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the post-October 7 world.
This book will help Jews, Christians, and Muslims around the world to better understand their religion’s claim to the land, as well as the claim of their co-monotheistic religions.
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