Israel-Palestine Conflict: intractable, structural asymmetric or protracted conflict
Israel-Palestine Conflict: intractable, structural asymmetric or protracted conflict
Introduction
Conflicts between societies or nations, which erupt when their goals, intentions, and/or actions are perceived as mutually incompatible (Bar-Tal, Kruglanski, & Klar, 1989; Mitchell, 1981; Rubin, Pruitt, & Kim, 1994), occur even between close allies. Incompatibility of goals of any conflict is very essential. This dimension of conflict creates the differences among the typologies of conflict. In this paper, I will discuss about the historical background of Israel-Palestine conflict. To analyze this conflict, I have arranged some theoretical discussion from some notable and established theories. I think I have tried my level best to present my ideas in the context of Israel-Palestine conflict.
Historical background of Israel-Palestine conflict
There were three regions on the map which were known as Palestine. Those regions were namely Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. There was a dispute over the ownership of the land between two groups: Israel Jews and Palestinian Arabs. The Palestinian Arabs are chiefly Muslim, but they also include Christians and Druze.
The root of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the birth of major nationalist movements among Jews and Arabs. Both of the parties geared towards achieving sovereignty for their people in the Middle East. The escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was guided by the collusion between those two forces in southern Levant and also by the emergence of Palestinian nationalism in the 1920s.
Dissolution of the Arab kingdom of Syria
Though there was a potential friendly relation between Zionism and the Arab national movement with the outcome of the First World War, a crisis emerged on the Damascus based Arab national movement due to the dissolution of the Arab kingdom of Syria in July 1920 following the Franco-Syrian War. The very Palestinian Arab nationalist
Introduction
Conflicts between societies or nations, which erupt when their goals, intentions, and/or actions are perceived as mutually incompatible (Bar-Tal, Kruglanski, & Klar, 1989; Mitchell, 1981; Rubin, Pruitt, & Kim, 1994), occur even between close allies. Incompatibility of goals of any conflict is very essential. This dimension of conflict creates the differences among the typologies of conflict. In this paper, I will discuss about the historical background of Israel-Palestine conflict. To analyze this conflict, I have arranged some theoretical discussion from some notable and established theories. I think I have tried my level best to present my ideas in the context of Israel-Palestine conflict.
Historical background of Israel-Palestine conflict
There were three regions on the map which were known as Palestine. Those regions were namely Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. There was a dispute over the ownership of the land between two groups: Israel Jews and Palestinian Arabs. The Palestinian Arabs are chiefly Muslim, but they also include Christians and Druze.
The root of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the birth of major nationalist movements among Jews and Arabs. Both of the parties geared towards achieving sovereignty for their people in the Middle East. The escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was guided by the collusion between those two forces in southern Levant and also by the emergence of Palestinian nationalism in the 1920s.
Dissolution of the Arab kingdom of Syria
Though there was a potential friendly relation between Zionism and the Arab national movement with the outcome of the First World War, a crisis emerged on the Damascus based Arab national movement due to the dissolution of the Arab kingdom of Syria in July 1920 following the Franco-Syrian War. The very Palestinian Arab nationalist
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