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Shadow
(Historical perspective)
-Moses was told about the promised land
-Jews belive the promised land is Israel
-Jews were driven out and and wandered across the world for like over 2000 years
(after many centuries)
-Hitler decided to start the holocaust
-Hitler is defeated but anti semetism was still high
-Jews really had no place to go
-UN decided to give Jews a piece of the land
-Palestineans are pissed off now cuz theve been living there for so long
-Jews still want to return to their Promised land
-UN intervenes and forces the creation of Israel
-Arabian countries aint so happy about it and try to regain the land back
-USA/UN (i forgot which) decides to support Isreal by funding them with tonnes of weapons
-fighting going on since
That will be the USA.
1947-48: The fact is that there was a resolution after the 2nd World War that stated the creation of a state called Israël on Palestinian land. The intention was to split the land into two parts en form two states: Israël and Palestine. There were two problems with that. The Arabic countries weren't glad with the formation of a jewish state between all the islamic states and even more, Jerusalem was also a point of discussion. On the other hand Israël wanted entire Jerusalem and the entire ground. They were not satisfied with the land they got.
The Arabic people planned to regain the land that was lost to Israël, but Israël withstood the attack quite easily and in a counterattack they conquered some extra land from Palestine. They were not the only ones. Even Syria conquered some land that moment that was normally for the jewish state in Palestine.
1956: There was the Suez crisis in Egypt and Israël got into war with Egypt. ISraël conquered the Sinai Peninsula and gave it back during the peace resolution afterwards. Israël also got free passage through Suez canal. Israël retraeted from Sinai and Gaza, where a UN-task force was stationed.
1963: Nasser, with the support of the Arabic leaders, blocked the free passage through the Suez canal. UN retreats from Gaza and Israël finds the situation very threatening. He decides to attack and this leads to the Six-Day War. Israël wins the war and conquers new ground: Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the Sinai Peninsula. They don't listen a second time to the UN who ask to retreat from the conqueed land in exchange for acknowledged existence behind safe borders.
Later the unison of the Arabic world started to fall apart as country after country acknowledged the existence of the state of Israël. This way Egypt gets back the Sinai Peninsula.
I guess the stories behind Sabra and Shatila, and behind the two itifadas are well-known.