What Was History's Legacy That Cause Divisive Issues Between Palestinians And Israelis?

It was history's legacy that caused divisive issues between Palestinians and Israelis (Mideastweb.org,n.d.). Judea, which was the home of the Jews in ancient times, was conquered by the Romans. It was then renamed Palestine. Palestine was later conquered and inhabited by Arabs for over a thousand years. The Zionist movement arose to restore the Jews to Israel, largely ignoring the existing Arab population (Mideastweb.org,n.d.). After the Balfour Declaration in 1917, Palestine was granted to Britain as a League of Nations mandate to build a national home for the Jewish people. The Arabs disliked the Jews for coming in to occupy their land. Hence, they rioted repeatedly and later revolted. Thus, this created a history of enmity between Jews and Arabs in Palestine.

Britain had stopped Jewish immigration to Palestine. After the Holocaust, there was more pressure on Britain to allow Jewish immigration to Palestine. In 1947, the United Nations partitioned the land into Arab and Jewish states. The Arabs refused to accept the partition. The Arabs still wanted to have all of Palestine, consisted of both east and west of the Jordan River (Contenderministries.org,n.d.). On May 14, 1948, the Palestinian Jews
In the 1980s, Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) slowly moved away from their early ideological and uncompromising rejection of the existence of Israel. In November 1988, Arafat and the PLO officially agreed to end not only terrorism but all attacks on Israel, in the context of a compromise two-state political settlement that would create a largely demilitarized Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem