What are some of the factors that have derailed the Israel - Palestine peace process?
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When Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt to the promised land. They were commanded to kill all the homosexual idol worshiping inhabitants before them.  They were instructed to not show mercy or spare anyone. Or in the latter days they would come back to hurt them.\n\nSo Israel went to Canna did not kill the homosexual worshipers of Baal and as you can see it has turned to their hurt.\n\n\nGo big Re Go
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problem; political war due to decolonisation without leaving a proper government behind. (this is a VERY VERY brief explanation)\n\nsolution; hmm.. if there was an easy one they probably would have thought about it and put in to action by now.Till then all that the advanced countries will do is send supplies, medical stuff and blue helmet soldiers(to make the situation even worse lol).\n\nThis is an interesting question, i'm sorry that my answer is so mean, but if I were you I'd look up for the answers my self so that I get better chances of understanding and remembering the information. I think I'll make a study about ti right now ^^
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Palestinan and Israel conflict.  Jews moved on their land during WW11.  Divided over who gets Jeruselem and holy areas.  Just an idea.
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Try http://www.palestinefacts.org
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Now that Hamas is in power? I don't know. But it does put Israel in a better position. They can't really declare war against a faction, but they can against a government. Now that the govt. is controlled by the extreme faction, it would be easier for them to declare war and get away with it.
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It all began with the USA support of zionism & the creation of a Jewish state in arab lands over 50 years ago. It has been a downward spiral ever since.
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Consider foremost the common values that bind the US with the Middle East's only democracy, then the strategic value to the US of a strong Israel.\n\nAmerican aid to Israel was minimal until after the Six Day War, and only took off after Israel saved US ally Jordan from a PLO-Syrian invasion in 1970. The 1979 Camp David Accords, which secured peace between Israel and Egypt, mandated increased aid to Israel to compensate in part for Israel's return of the Sinai and the resulting loss of strategic depth, air bases, training grounds and oil fields. Israel's prescient destruction of Iraq's nuclear program in 1981 stopped Saddam Hussein from having nuclear weapons when he invaded Kuwait nine years later - nuclear weapons he could have used against US troops during the the first Gulf War.
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Resolution 242 was adopted by the United Nation Security Council on November 22, 1967. While the Israeli side accepted the resolution, the Palestine Liberation Organization rejected the deal entirely because, among other reasons, it did not recognize Israel's existence. \n\nThe resolution called for the "Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict... termination of all claims or states of belligerency...” and the recognition that "every State in the area... [has the] right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force."  \n\nThe British and Americans who authored the resolution had worded it in such a way as to allow Israel to retain some of the territory acquired.  \n\nThe British Ambassador who drafted the resolution, Lord Caradon, stated, “It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of June 4, 1967, because those positions were undesirable and artificial.”
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Yes, Israel is a threat to its neighbours and worst of all to itself. The power Israel holds now is based on the support it gets from the US and the spineless UK, but these countries' influence is on the wane, look at events in South America, and the Israeli government will get isolated further. This isolation, I believe, will result in desperation from the Israeli government which might result in some "pre-emptive strikes" from them that would send the region deeper into conflict.
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The middle east peace conference in Madrid.The purpose of the conference was to serve as an opening forum for the participants and had no power to impose solutions or veto agreements. It inaugurated negotiations on both bilateral tracks and on multilateral tracks that also involved the international community. The Syrian and Lebanese negotiators agreed on a common strategy.\nThe first-ever public bilateral talks between Israel and its neighbors (except Egypt) were aimed at achieving peace treaties between the 3 Arab states and Israel, while the talks with the Palestinians were based on a 2-stage formula, the first consisting of negotiating interim self-government arrangements, to be followed by permanent status negotiations. (This formula was essentially followed in the later Oslo process.)
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Israel, but it was considered a military and diplomatic failure.
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Israel is the single root cause of all of the instability in the ME.\nTheir refusal to comply with UN resolutions and withdraw from Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian land they have occupied (stolen) since 40 years has created the issue we have today.\nThe problem is the USA supports and vetoes any UN resolution blindly with regards to Israel.\nYet the USA wishes to apply any UN resolutions against the Arabs by military force.\nUntil the USA and Israel act in an honourable way their will never be peace.
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Complex problems usually don't have simple answers (like 'they tried to throw the Palestinians out).\n\nFor over 3,000 years, Jews have held the Land of Israel to be their homeland, both as a Holy Land and as a Promised Land. The Land of Israel holds a special place in Jewish religious obligations, encompassing Judaism's most important sites — including the remains of the First and Second Temple, as well as the rites concerning those temples. [2] Starting around 1200 BCE, a series of Jewish kingdoms and states existed intermittently in the region for over a millennium. Recent archeological evidence suggests that the kingdoms of King David and King Solomon may have existed. [3]\n\nUnder Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and (briefly) Sassanian rule, Jewish presence in the province dwindled due to mass expulsions. In particular, the failure of the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Roman Empire resulted in widescale expulsion of Jews. It was during this time that the Romans gave the name Syria Palaestina to the geographic area, in an attempt to erase Jewish ties to the land. The Mishnah and Jerusalem Talmud, two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were composed in the region during this period. The Arabs conquered the land from the Eastern Roman Empire in 638 CE. The area was ruled by various Arab states (interrupted by the rule of the Crusaders) before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517.\n\nThroughout the centuries, the size of the Jewish population in the land fluctuated widely. Circa 1881, in the region approximating present-day Israel, the Jewish population numbered approximately 20–25,000 of a total population of 470,000.[citation needed] Since 1844, in Jerusalem the Jews have constituted the largest of several ethno-religious groups.[citation needed] By 1896, they were an absolute majority of the population\n\n\nThe rise of Nazism in 1933 led to a fifth wave of Aliyah. The Jews in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by 1940. The subsequent Holocaust in Europe led to additional immigration from other parts of Europe. By the end of World War II, the number of Jews in Palestine was approximately 600,000.\n\nIn 1939, the British abandoned the idea of a Jewish national home, and abandoned partition and negotiations in favour of the White Paper of 1939, which limited Jewish immigration and restricted purchase of land by Jews. Its other stated policy was to establish a system under which both Jews and Arabs were to share one government. The plan was never fully implemented because of a combination of resistance from the Jews and Arabs and Britain's pre-occupation with Europe and World War II. However, the White Paper guided British policy until the end of the term of their Mandate. As a result, many Jews fleeing to Palestine to avoid Nazi persecution and the holocaust were intercepted and returned to Europe. Two specific examples of this policy involved the ships Struma and Exodus[4]. These attempts by Jews to circumvent the blockade and flee Europe became known as Aliya Beth.\n\nIn 1947, following increasing levels of violence by militant groups together with unsuccessful efforts to reconcile the Jewish and Arab populations, the British government decided to withdraw from the Palestine Mandate. The UN General Assembly approved the 1947 UN Partition Plan dividing the territory into two states, Jewish and Arab, giving about half the land area to each state. Jerusalem was planned to be an international region administered by the UN to avoid conflict over its status.\n\n\nImmediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the UN General Assembly (on November 29, 1947), the Arab leadership rejected the plan and launched a guerilla war that included attacks on Jewish civilians. The Irgun Tsvai Leumi retaliated with attacks on Arabs, including Arab civilians.\n\nOn May 14, 1948, before the expiry of the British Mandate of Palestine at midnight of May 15, 1948,
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I've seen a lot of maps that do mention it.\n\nOf course, at the moment it should be listed _in addition to_, not _instead of_ Israel. One problem is the rather non-contiguous nature of the present Palestinian state: a bit here, a bit there. Some parts firmy under PA control, some still effectively parts of Israel. It's pretty difficult to draw a map saying 'Palestine starts here and Israel ends here'. Although political reasons do exist, I think it's more of a practical consideration than anything else. A lot of cartographers choose to point out the Gaza Strip and the West Bank - the two parts that make up Palestine - under those names.
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Is peace humanly possible?  Yes.\n\nWill it happen in between Israel and the Palestinians?  Not in the way things are currently being run:\n   - Palestinian's Rulung Party, the Hamas, have demanded control over thier own land for the last 39 years (since 67), now that Israel has removed thier citizens from Gaza, Hamas has celebrated its freedom, but complains that Israel will not let thier people travel to and from... which is funny because they admitt their goal is to eliminate the Israelis alltogether.  \n\nSo if peace was to happen... both sides would have to prove to one another they were serious about peace.  This isn't some perfect world, so it is not like the Israeli governement would be willing to just lay down all thier arms in order to establish peace with the Palestinians... they know the second they do that Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq would attach full-force.  So it will havce to be a slow process of give and take with the Palestinians and the Israelies each giving up thier rights in order to establish peace.  \n\nWith Hamas in control of Palestinian areas, it won't happen though.
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start with\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-Palestinian_conflict\n\nand follow the links as far as you wish to go
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At the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a dispute over land and borders. \nIt started in 1948 when Israel was created,by a UN resolution,in Palestine,which at that time was under a British mandate.The Arab countries around didn't accept the decision and the next day they attacked the new created state.Israel won this war.In 1967 Israel attacked Syria,Egypt and Jordan in a pre-emptive war.They occupied and annexed to Israel Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank of the Jordan River (including East Jerusalem), and the Golan Heights.Millions of Palestinians ended up living in UN's refugees camp in Lebanon \nThere are 3 UN resolution that ask Israel to end the occupation on the Palestinians territories and the other territories that they occupied in 1967 ,but the Israelis refuse to do it...\nSince then Palestinians are living under Israeli occupation and they are refused even the elementary rights any human should have... And there are millions of Palestinians living in UN's refugees camps...Israel refuses to let those people come back to their lands...