PALESTINE, THE WHOLE STORY IN 3 MINUTES.
It is
undisputed that at the escalation of violence and political world are failing
jurists, political and ideological systems are exhausted and must enter into a
period of deep reflection and analysis for review, not just listen to the news
coming from the Middle East, review the conflict but where we find that the
central part seems to be: the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories;
The creation of the State of Israel and the control of water in the region; the
Jewish settlements on Arab land compromise the possibility of a future
Palestinian state and the future of Jerusalem, for its historical and religious
significance is a key piece for a peaceful coexistence in our day and in the
future.
Arabs and occupied their present territory that was Palestine after
centuries before Moses freed his people from bondage in Egypt in 1270 BC,
David, King of Israel, defeated the Philistines in 1000. Later they were
assimilated like the Canaanites. The unity of Israel and the weakness of
adjacent empires enabled David to establish a large independent kingdom, whose
capital was Jerusalem. Under his son and successor, Solomon. Israel enjoyed
peace and prosperity, but he died in the year 922 BC the kingdom was divided
into two: Israel in the north; Judah, south. Israel fell to Assyria divided in
the years 722 BC and Judah was conquered in 586 BC by Babylonia, which
destroyed Jerusalem and exiled most of the Jews who lived there.
When
Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquered the region in 333 BC Followed the
Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucids of Syria continued to rule the area. until
Pompey the Great conquered Palestine for Rome and became a province ruled by
Jewish leaders. During the reign of King Herod the Great in the year 37-4, AC
Jesus Christ was born. In the years 66 AD until 73 broke two Jewish revolts
against Roman rule, but were repressed. For the second, the destruction of
Jerusalem and the harsh repression of the Jewish diaspora led to other
territories. Then Judea was renamed Palestine.
The
intensification of anti-Semitism was a .. From 1880, encouraged European Jews
to seek refuge in their "promised land", Palestine. Theodor Herzl,
author of The Jewish State in 1896, founded the World Zionist Organization to
solve the "Jewish problem" in Europe. As a result, Jewish immigration
to Palestine increased dramatically. For those years, the Palestinian Arabs
constituted about 95% of a total population of 450,000.
The promise that the
British did to the Arab leaders, in the years 1915-1916 to grant independence
to their territories after the war, expelled the Turks, the British, however,
did not meet.
The secret
Sykes-Picot treaty with France and Russia in 1916, Britain agreed to divide and
rule the region with its allies. Subsequently, by the Balfour Declaration in
1917, Britain assured the Jews (whose financial support needed to sustain the
war effort) a "national home" in Palestine Jew. This promise was
incorporated after the mandate given to Britain by the League of Nations in
1922.
In 1939, the
British government issued a new "White Paper" restricting Jewish
immigration and offering independence for Palestine within 10 years. This was
rejected by the Zionists, who then organized terrorist groups bloody against
the British and the Palestinians. The goal: to expel them out of Palestine and
pave the way for the establishment of the Zionist state. Emigration increased
sharply after the arrival of Nazi Germany; in 1935 nearly 62,000 Jews entered
Palestine. Fear of Jewish domination was the main cause of the Arab revolt
erupted in 1936 and continued intermittently until 1939.
The struggle for
Palestine, was resumed in 1945, the so-called holocaust world sympathy aroused
by the Jews, European Zionists and even though Britain refused to admit 100,000
surviving Jews in Palestine, they managed to enter illegally. Finally, the
British transferred the problem to the United Nations in April 1947. During
that year, the United Nations approved the partition under which the
Palestinian Arabs, accounting for 70% of the population and owned 92% of the
land, were reduced to 43% of the country. This is stated in UN Resolution 181.
The State of Israel was established on May 14, 1948.
After five decades of violence continue with small breaks, but it's time
that Resolution 181 of the United Nations dictates when you lose a great
opportunity to resolve this conflict. The great failure of international policy
remains in force, because it is in the Middle East which could ignite the fuse
that = sinister globe. The very fact that the great powers have veto power in
the Security Council of the UN, is also strong evidence of the failure of
international law, because it means that all the arrangements made by that
body, always ready to favor the rich and the economic potential of the
countries that form part of Israel for decades. Nearly 181 resolution
commercial matters is because paves Israel's right to buy as a sovereign state
to the global community of nations.
In 1993, the
leaders of each side agreed to sign a historic peace agreement. Yasir Arafat,
leader of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine, and Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin met in the United States on September 13, to sign the
peace agreement in the region. The plan called for the autonomy of the
territories occupied by Israel, to be launched in the Gaza Strip and Jericho
territories. The Palestinian administration of these areas began in May 1994.
Today all seems
lost in the Gaza Strip under the rubble, there is no way to think of a meeting
between the leaders of the Zionist state of Israel and the Palestinians to
attempt a ceasefire. There is the origin of violence that have ravaged Gaza and
the West Bank in recent days, with the balance of bloody hundreds dead, most of
them children and young Palestinians.
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