The Arab–Israeli conflict (Arabic: الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي, Hebrew:
הסכסוך הישראלי-ערבי) refers to the political tensions and open hostilities
between the Arab peoples and the Jewish community of the Middle East that have
lasted for over a century. - A Stan Klos Website
Arab-Israeli Wars
(1948 -1991)
The Arab–Israeli conflict (Arabic: الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي, Hebrew: הסכסוך
הישראלי-ערבי) refers to the political tensions and open hostilities between the
Arab peoples and the Jewish community of the Middle East that have lasted for
over a century. Some trace the beginning of the conflict to large-scale Jewish
return to Palestine, especially after the establishment of the Zionist movement,
which intensified with the creation of the modern State of Israel in 1948.
Others see it as a part of Arab nationalism, whose central premise is that the
peoples of the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea,
constitute one nation bound together by common linguistic, cultural, religious,
and historical heritage.[1] Territory regarded by the Jewish people as their
historical homeland is regarded by the Pan-Arab movement as belonging to the
Palestinian Arabs,[2] and in the Pan-Islamic context, in territory regarded as
Muslim lands.
The conflict, which started as a political and nationalist conflict over
competing territorial ambitions following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire,
has shifted over the years from the large scale regional Arab–Israeli conflict
to a more local Israeli–Palestinian conflict, though the Arab world and Israel
generally remain at odds with each other over specific territory.
