What does politics have to do with the Israel and Palestine conflict?

[tAnonymoustlemmm]

people say that politics is the main cause of the problems. How? I'm 14 and learning this at school, so easy explanations would be appreciated, thankyou.

[youcanrun]

sorry sweetie there are no easy and fast answers to this. it is a vast and complex history and it takes a lot to really get it all.

when Israel united and became a country again in 1948, withdrawing from british rule, they returned to their homeland. the polictians did not care about how the people who had been living in Israel land got hoome again. Most went back to the countries of their ancestors. some refused to leave , these are called the Palestines. They are Arabs and being used ased pawns by the other muslims and arabs, Palestine never had a country or language of their own. for these last 50 or so years there has been several military scrimages between them. that's my side, and someone else will say the Palestines are being driven out and misplaced. that's the politics.

[CherJPA]

It's mostly a political conflict, not religious.

For Jews it's a political problem. With antisemitism and other countries ruling themselves, Jews wanted self-determination too - the ablity to rule themselves. They'd always lived in that area & (here's the religous piece) always looked to it as their homeland.

Most Palestinan Arabs are secular - not very religious. There was a Arab imperalist idea that they would reestable their empire when the Ottoman empire fell. Israel was a real thorn in that plan.

The conflict isn't at a basic religious level. Judaism says nothing about Arabs or Islam. Islam coming later references Judaism with some respect (but Jews should always be dimmis - lessor, but again it's a political statement).

When Jews moved in and purchased land, they brought good economics. The area wasn't well settled and Arabs first started moving around the Jews. Because of the political conflict of interests, war broke out when Israel was declared by the UN.

That's breaking it down very, very simplistically.