“THE ARAB–ISRAELI WARS HAVE RESOLVED NONE OF THE ISSUES THAT LED TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST WAR 1948” DISCUSS

After World War Two there was great sympathy for the Jewish peoples and the Zionist quest for a homeland received world wide attention. It was decided that the Jewish homeland should be found in Palestine. However this intended solution to the Zionist struggle and the Palestine conflict ended up doing more harm than good. It sparked a whole new wave of conflicts which up to this day still exist in the middle east, and remain a constant cause of economic, political, and religious turmoil in world affairs.

The land of Palestine has been subject to conflicts for centuries due to the different world religions coming together there. The struggle here between the Jews and Arabs goes far back to ancient times; the Jews claimed that it was there “promised land” which was given from God to Abraham, the Arabs on the other hand claimed it to be the land of their forefathers which they had long before the Jews. After World War One the League of Nations assigned Palestine t...