| Cerebralbore101 said: Israel is just as much of a backwards, embarassment of a country as any other in the Middle East. It's a religion-based country, founded on the idea that even though most of them left thousands of years ago, Jews are the only ones entitled to live in the Israeli/Palestinian region. And don't get me wrong. Palestine beleives the same thing about themselves. They just happen to be on the losing side of a conflict where both sides wish for Genocide. |
That's a gross oversimplification conveniently sidestepping recent history.
Mass unnatural migration of Eastern European Jews to Palestine started in the early 1900's.
Jewish migration to Palestine in the early 1900s, driven by rising European antisemitism and Zionism, occurred in major waves (Aliyot), significantly altering the region's demographics. Approximately 40,000 Jews arrived during the Second Aliyah (1904–1914), while subsequent waves, especially in the 1920s-30s, saw tens of thousands more arrive.
See how crazy the US is going against immigration reaching about 15% of the population. (Of course those numbers should be taken with a large dose of salt as 97% of the population of the USA are immigrants, less than 3% indigenous left)
Palestine changed from 2% to 5% Jewish in 1880 to 12 to 13% by 1915 then grew to 31-32% by 1940 under British mandate, mainly Askenazi Jews from Europe. And these zionist Jews did not integrate, they created their own labor parties excluding the indigenous population, see Labor Zionism.
So resistance and uprisings were to be expected, Arab revolt 1936-1939.
Then WW2 happened, Peel partition plan, UN partition plan, and the creation of Israel displacing 700-750K Palestinians and the destruction of over 500 villages and towns, taking 77-78% of the land, killing 13,000 to 16,000 Palestinians in the process.
One side wishes for freedom and the right of return to their land. The other sides wishes for Greater Israel and a land without people.
