The Truth About Israel and Palestine

The Israel-Palestine conflict has been raging on for decades and there seems to be no end in sight.

On July 8, 2014, Israel launched operation Protective Edge, carrying out airstrikes on 50 cities in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. The Israeli government claimed this was retaliation against rockets fired from Palestinian territories controlled by the Islamic political movement Hamas.

The July events are the latest of a series of bloody attacks between Israel and Palestine. What is the cause of all this violence and why are both sides so committed to it?

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Israel and Palestine

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/29/susan-rice-gaza-hamas-israel-defends-john-kerry

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/death-toll-soars-gaza-israel-unleashes-fiercest-bombardment-866386008

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.607542

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_attacks

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/12/israel

Judaism

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=avh6dkSop0EC&pg=PA15

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=avh6dkSop0EC&pg=PA18

Enlightenment

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_IYvjkNrTe0C&pg=PA210

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/05/rosa-luxemburg-writer-activist-letters

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4099803,00.html

Zionism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovevei_Zion

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Bn49KxgeStIC&pg=PA66

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Zionism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvi_Hirsch_Kalischer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism#Jewish_Orthodox_religious_groups

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aHphMCIkhK0C&pg=PA91

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%E2%80%93Jewish_relations#Muslim-Jewish_wars_and_military_conflicts

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aHphMCIkhK0C&pg=PA165

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Hess

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Zionism

http://www.zionism-israel.com/hdoc/Moses_Hess_Rome_and_Jerusalem.htm

http://mailstar.net/avineri.html

Theodor Herzl

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d7YCWL7m-bUC&pg=PA35

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=62AUWWooZ4QC&pg=PT17

Second Rise of Judaism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Isaac_Kook

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Zionism

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pepll2z8vZ0C&pg=PA86

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/gideon-levy-let-s-face-the-facts-israel-is-a-semi-theocracy-1.2438

http://www.rwf.gr/186583/%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%8D%CE%BE%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%82/uri-avnery

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/opinion/sunday/are-iran-and-israel-trading-places.html

http://forward.com/articles/147521/israel-turning-into-theocracy

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/12/us/beliefs-jewish-views-separation-church-state-grow-more-complex-when-it-comes.html

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/10/xenophobic-theocracy-columnist.html

http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/08/how-to-kill-goyim-and-influence-people-leading-israeli-rabbis-defend-manual-for-for-killing-non-jews

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/2.209/west-bank-rabbi-jews-can-kill-gentiles-who-threaten-israel-1.4496

http://coteret.com/2009/11/09/settler-rabbi-publishes-the-complete-guide-to-killing-non-jews

http://www.come-and-hear.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_58.html

http://www.come-and-hear.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_59.html

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=avh6dkSop0EC&pg=PA87

http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/jewish/jewish_backwardness.htm

Zionist Agenda

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iy3UWNnQB1MC&pg=PA244

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Dw6-5jQbDr8C&pg=PT79

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze'ev_Jabotinsky

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RWPB0lieZzYC&pg=PA214

Balfour Declaration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4ivqeqyGB7EC&pg=PA46

Aftermath

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SCrBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA69

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aHphMCIkhK0C&pg=PA91

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hHvk870X84QC&pg=PA237

Violence Erupts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Nebi_Musa_riots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palin_Report_1920

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0005/The%20Balfour%20Declaration%20and%20its%20consequences.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion

Partition of Palestine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/israel_palestine_pop.html

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Dw6-5jQbDr8C&pg=PT72

Ethnic Cleansing

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Dw6-5jQbDr8C&pg=PT73

Massacres

http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851685553

Catastrophe

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=88GKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT72

http://auphr.org/index.php/news/5100-palestinian-loss-of-land-1946-2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pNotUys-esEC&pg=PT154

Israel's Ally

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-israel

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fqcQwUp-ShIC&pg=PT53

http://www.haaretz.com/business/u-s-aid-to-israel-totals-233-7b-over-six-decades.premium-1.510592

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CwN6RATLAk0C&pg=PA81

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver