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In a region filled with turmoil and contradictory geopolitical motives, the Israel-Palestine conflict remains to be the most significant in the neighborhood. The area of interest coincidentally, is located around one of the few holiest places on earth, for Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Needless to say, opposition towards Israel being solely a Jewish state has lead to a violent backlash and subtle chaos within the area. Before Israel became a state, Palestine had been the official sovereignty for almost 400 years. Until 1948, Palestine was officially annexed, and was turned into a Jewish State named Israel. In this essay I will discuss and trace the origin of conflict between the Jews and the Palestinians, and why the two groups may have a long future ahead of them. I will argue that the Arabs view of Israel as an illegitimate state and a combination of cultural-religious opposition to the west and will prevent any progress from happening.

Ties to Israel for both the Jewish and Islamic dates back centuries before Christ. Both origin stories of the two religions put an important emphasize on the region. In Islam, the prophet Mohammed, supposedly spoke with Allah, and was given the fundamentals of the Islamic Creed in the sacred city of Jerusalem. For Jewish people, this holy land symbolized the “promised land” as well, and is the precursor of the religion. Hence, this region stood symbolically as the foundation for both religions.

Before World War Two, Jews had been spread across the globe, mostly inhabiting East-West Europe and America. Jews in West Europe lead stable lives, practicing their religion freely up until Nazism. Eastern European Jews had historically lived harsh and troubled lives, having been forced to live in o...

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...b’s it stood for western imperialism and the negation of external cultures. Most importantly, Israel stood as the only democracy in the Middle East. This notion threatened Israel’s neighboring countries, since democracy was unfamiliar in the region. In the eyes of the Arab’s, democracy conflicted with the majority of principles that the Middle Eastern countries had spent thousands of years positioning their lives around.

Relations between Israel and the Arab world seem to have dragged along for decades now. Fundamental conflicting ideologies have hampered efforts to progress society in Israel, which will prevent any development from taking place. Negotiating peace efforts between Israel and the Arab world, only in a utopian society, would one think that these issues could be solvable. Which is why, development of Palestinian and Israel relations seem unfathomable.