Arab-Israeli Conflict

Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestinian citizen el-Hobeishi was a suicide bomber and gave his life

when he planted a bomb in a railway station in the northern town of

Nahariya. Hamas which said it was responsible for the bombing has

found its first suicide bomber from Israel's Arab minority. All

previous candidates have been Palestinians from the West bank and the

Gaza strip, who do not have Israeli citizenship. He had no causes to

give his life, as it is usually people in refugee camps who have no

citizenship that would be chosen. The P.L.O. would have agreed about

the suicide people but not openly as it is for their good.

On September 2000, 800 Palestinians were killed due to Jewish

extremism retaliation. Live ammo was used on Palestinians stone

throwing, the Israeli army was brought in to shoot people stone

throwing. Was this a proportionate response? Why did they shoot and

not arrest? No police were involved.

Each has a long standing claim to the homeland

The Palestinians lived in tribes and were part of the Roman Empire,

the Jews were driven out and the Arabs remained.

Israel, In 70AD +130AD, Jews revolted Roman Empire because they were

organising the area and charged taxes. The Jews spread to: Russia

Europe Eastern Europe

North Africa

2)

a) Why did it seem possible that peace might have been achieved in the

early 1990's?

Well, it seemed possible that peace may have been achieved during the

1990 Gulf War when the P.L.O. lost its funding from Kuwait and Saudi

Arabia who were generous to the P.L.O. but their financial support was

cut off and 400,000 Palestinians working in the Gulf states were

expelled from work. The loss of $10 billion between '91-'93 hit the

P.L.O.'s ability to fund schools and hospitals for poor Palestinians.

This was all due to the invasion of Kuwait by the Iraqi forces. Its

oil rich southern neighbour. A united nations force (American with

British, French participation and support from Egypt and Saudi Arabia)