Answer 1
Nobody is under occupation in Israel. The Palestinian Arabs who live there have full Israeli citizenship if they want it, as well as equal rights to own land, do business, vote, attend school, sue or practice law in Israeli courts, get health care, worship as they please and stand for election to government office. Those who decide that they would be happier elsewhere are free to move with their families to any of the surrounding countries, or for that matter, to anywhere else in the world.
One thing that Palestinians living in Israel don't have that others living in Israel do have: A universal military obligation.
Answer 2
The question turns on the wording in Israel. As Answer 1 notes, ethnic Palestinians in Israeli territory are not under occupation and are full citizens in the Israeli State with unique political parties that advocate for their interests. It is the Palestinians outside of Israeli civil jurisdiction, such as those in the West Bank that are under occupation. This occupation has lasted since 1967, over 45 years ago. However, Palestinians have been ghetto-ed and garrisoned in Arab refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, and the Gaza Strip since 1949, nearly 64 years. Over 10% of Lebanon's current population are Palestinians living in a virtual prison that they cannot leave because they do not have proper documents (and the Lebanese intentionally choose to deprive them of these documents).
Their ancestors have lived there since the days of earliest settlement in the Mesopotamian area. That would be from the first perceptible difference between Arabic and Jewish people.
Answer 2
Very roughly, for 3,000 years.
Answer 3
The Patriarchs and their family lived in the land of Israel (Canaan) for 220 years, from the 19th century BCE. The era from Joshua until the First Destruction (including the Judges and Kings) was 850 years. The Second Temple era was, according to traditional chronology, another 420 years (not 586), which included the Hasmonean dynasty. That's a total of 1490 years.
According to tradition, Judaism was founded by Abraham 3800 years ago.
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The Patriarchs and their family lived in the land of Israel (Canaan) for 220 years, from the 19th century BCE. The era from Joshua until the First Destruction (including the Judges and Kings) was 850 years. The Second Temple era was, according to traditional chronology, another 420 years (not 586), which included the Hasmonean dynasty. That's a total of 1490 years.
After the Second Destruction, there were thousands of Jews who remained in Israel (Judea; Palestine) throughout the Talmudic era and beyond (see for example the Talmud, Sanhedrin 17b). They were the majority of Palestine's population well into the fourth century, with records attesting to at least 43 Jewish communities, most of them in the Galilee and Jordan valley. After that, there were still Yeshivas in Israel with at least some thousands of community-members.
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The Palestinians (Arabs) and Israelis (Jews) do not get along and do not live in the same territory in Israel. There has been constant fighting between them since Israel became a nation in 1948. No peace treaty has held, and no relinquishment of the land has achieved peace.
If this question is asking about political relations between Israel and Palestine, then the answer is rather simple: Palestine did not exist. Palestine only became a country in the late 1980s or early 1990s depending on the particular interpretation of history chosen. At this point, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the forerunner to the current Palestinian Authority (the recognized government of Palestine), was a stateless organization that believed in no negotiation or peace with the State of Israel. If this question is asking about personal relationships between Israelis and Palestinians, the question becomes more complicated. Between 1949 and 1967, Israeli Jews had little if any contact with Palestinians. The Israeli Arab communities tried to maintain links across the border with Jordan, but with little luck. Between 1967 and 1987, many Palestinians got jobs in Israel and correspondingly, there was relatively high degree of contact. Palestinians formed large portions of the workforce in many unskilled professions during this period. While the Occupation certainly bothered and infuriated the Palestinians, it was nowhere near as strong and omnipresent as it has been since the Intifadas.
Yes, Palestine was a country. When Israel was created in 1948, the land was occupied by the British and before that the Turkish Empire. When the UN created Israel after the Holocaust they wanted to split the land in half. Half as Palestine and half as Israel. Arabs did not like the idea. As the British retreated from Israel all the neighboring Arab countries tried to take over Israel. A war ensued and as the Jewish people pushed back their Arab neighbors they declared the land Israel. Palestinians today who live in the West Bank were Jordanian before the war, but never went back to live Jordan, because they want to stay in their home country. The West Bank and Gaza both are Palestinian and are still in Israel, but are run by their own Palestinian governments. Palestinians are determined to get THEIR land back.___________________________________________________________ Palestine has been semi-autonomous (the Palestinian Authority) since renouncing war on Israel in the 1990's. As stated above, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza now govern themselves, but they are not an independent country. They are still technically part of Israel. A study of history will show that this land has had many rulers before the Israelis, the Brits, and the Turks. But as the Arabs say"our land will be back".
It created a Jewish state on land that most Arabs believed rightfully belonged to the Palestinians. It did not lead to ongoing tensions between the Arabs and Israelis. The tension had already been there. The creation of Israel gave the Arabs a political entity on which to focus there ambivalence.
It has not yet been resolved. Israel and Palestine were closest to a long-lasting solution at the Taba Summit in Egypt in 2000 when Ehud Barak conceded on nearly all of the Palestinian requests, but was denied by Yassir Arafat who knew that the remaining concessions that Barak did not make would make the solution untenable for the Palestinians. (The primary issue was that there was no Right of Return for Palestinians to what is now Israel, which is a non-starter with Israel, but most Palestinians will not let go.) Since that time, international focus groups and thinktanks have come up with solutions, but there are too many people who are too unwilling to compromise to implement them.
Arabs, specifically Palestinians.
No. No country or people is evil. Palestine and Palestinians are victims of violence and strife and have been attacked both by Israel and by their "fellow" Arabs. Each has placed them in occupation, deprived them of necessary materials, and stalls their chances for proper statehood.
The British Mandate of Palestine covered all of current day Israel (including the occupied territories) and Jordan, as well as parts of Syria. Currently however, the term Palestine refers to the Occupied Territories where Israel has put the Palestinians previously occupying what is now Israel. The Israeli Defense Forces controls Palestine with an iron fist, though recently there has been efforts to bring the Palestinian Authority to power. This has not been successful as of yet because of many things, among them Israel's want for an Israeli Jerusalem without Palestinians and Israel's wants for better safety for their citizens (leading to much worse safety for Palestinians).
The British took a large part of their land and called it Israel for Jewish people to live in. The Palestinians didn't have any say, and the Jewish people hadn't lived there for a long time. This isn't a dating question :) Many Palestinians lost their homes and land when the state of Israel was formed. This is the main reason they are upset. There are several UN resolutions aimed at getting Israel to compensate the Palestinians, but so far they have not been enforced by the global community.
After the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, many Palestinians became refugees, displaced from their homes and land. This led to ongoing conflicts with Israel, resulting in continued displacement, occupation, and restrictions on Palestinian rights and movement. The issue remains a major point of contention in the region.
Europeans invaded Palestine and changed its name to "israel". When the US tires of supporting this genocide, the invaders will go someplace else. The US spends billions of dollars every year supporting the apartheid "israelis".
There was no such thing as "Palestinians trying to defeat Israel in 1948". "Palestinians" at that time, if any, would have been any inhabitants of the former British Mandate of Palestine, including Israelis, but the word had not even been invented yet. The groups trying to defeat Israel in the 1948 war were the mobilized military forces of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, plus 'irregulars' who called themselves the Holy War Army and the Arab Liberation Army, plus foreign volunteers from Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Palestinians (Arabs) and Israelis (Jews) do not get along and do not live in the same territory in Israel. There has been constant fighting between them since Israel became a nation in 1948. No peace treaty has held, and no relinquishment of the land has achieved peace.
Israel and the State of Palestine are major enemies. They have been conflicting since the formation of the Jewish state in 1948. Israel and Palestine have been involved in several wars, all of which Israel has won. Israel is a greater military power than Palestine, which is why Israel has won more wars and killed more Palestinians in the process. However, the Israelis are only defending their nation. Israel has occupied Palestine for almost sixty years. Israel has the right to protect itself against attacks, and has a strict military policy to protect itself because it is surrounded by enemy nations. The current government of Palestine is regarded as a terrorist organization by many countries, such as Israel and the United States, which is why Israel is especially cautious.
The obstacle that has prevented peace between Israel and the Palestinians is the Palestinians' absolute refusal to accept Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state ... a refusal that pre-dates any other factor that might be added in this space as an alternative response to the question. _____________________________________ One has been a demand of the "right of return" for Arab refugees who fled Israel in 1948. They left (and their leaders at the time URGED them to leave) on the promise that Israel would be quickly destroyed and that they could come back. It didn't work out that way.
No. Jerusalem is the capital city of Israel which is an indepedent sovereign state (country). Israel was a British protectorate from the end of WWI until 1948. The Israelis recognize the importance of Jerusalem in the Christian and Islamic traditions and they maintain access to the Holy Land and the holy sites for all visitors. Given the tension between Israel and her Islamic neighbours, the Israelis have been very generous in their treatment of the Palestinians, but the Palestinians have been encouraged by other Muslim states to reject co-operation with the Israelis. It is sad because the Palestinians would do much better by accepting Israeli help. It is interesting that the only military campaigns against Israel were waged by the Egyptians who are not Arabs at all.
In the general sense, no. Arabs, in general, opposed the State of Israel through war and bloodshed on numerous occasions. However, there have been a number of Arabs who did help to create Israel, primarily among the Druze and Bedouins, but there are some ethnic Palestinians who have actively contributed to create Israel as well.