Anonymous blue__wave 14w

with israel and gaza and all that stuff

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Anonymous OP 14w

Like the issue with Israel Palestine? And the why US and Iran is involved?

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Anonymous blue__wave 14w

just all of it yeah. i don’t understand it like why it started in the first place and everything

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Anonymous OP 14w

Ok so people will reference biblical times that’s not super relevant. You can go back forever but to get a good understanding all you need to know is post WW1 this huge middle eastern empire (the Ottoman Empire) was destroyed and its land was given to Europeans. After WW1 it looked something like this:

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These Europeans made mandates, mandates were like colonies except the plan was for them to one day become countries Palestine was one of these mandates and it was controlled by the UK. The UK made a bunch of promises to both Arabs and Jews that they would have land in Palestine.

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Anonymous OP 14w

So when the British empire started to go away and the mandate was going to run out. They had to make a compromise between the Arabs and the Jews and the UN created this deal:

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Anonymous OP 14w

The Arabs felt like this deal was unfair bc the Jews got a disproportionate amount of land, but Zionist would argue although that is true there was also a huge Arab minority that they were accepting. A lot of Jews that were moving to this state were from Europe the Arabs felt like they were being colonized again and the Jews wanted a homeland where they were the majority to avoid another holocaust.

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To summarize the Arab countries and Arab Palestinians went to war with Israel a few times and lost the majority of the time until the map now looks like this now:

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The green areas are controlled by Palestinians and the rest is controlled by Israel. The strip of land to the west is Gaza and its controlled by a radical Islamist group (Hamas). The west green area is called the West Bank and its controlled by the Palestinian authority and they’re a Palestinian government that Israel allows to exist. The problems people have with Israel now is they’re claiming that Israeli is committing war crimes in Gaza and is expanding its borders into the West bank.

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Israel will defend these actions by saying that Hamas uses civilian clothing and civilian buildings to do terrorist attacks on Israeli. I honestly have no clue how they justify expanding into the West Bank in my opinion that’s insane. There’s a ton of things I skipped over a bunch of stuff but that’s the summary of it. Also Iran supports Hamas and Israeli was scared they were gonna get a nuke so they attack Iran.

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To finish off people will talk about a one state or two state solution. If your pro two state you want both Israel and Palestine to exist in a one state you just want one or the other to exist.

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Anonymous blue__wave 14w

wow thank you so much. it’ll take some time for me to understand the significance of all this but appreciate you taking the time to explain it!

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Anonymous OP 14w

Bro don’t worry this is confusing asf and everyone is super biased esp on social media, I tried not to be.

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Anonymous blue__wave 14w

i appreciate it :)

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