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Arab-Israeli conflict
1920 riots · Jaffa riots · 1929 riots · 1936-1939 uprising · 1948 Arab-Israeli War · 1956 Suez Crisis · 1967 Six-Day War · War of Attrition · 1973 Yom Kippur War · 1982 Lebanon War · First Intifada · al-Aqsa Intifada · 2006 Arab-Israeli conflict
The Arab-Israeli conflict (Arabic: ‎, Hebrew: ) spans about a century of political tensions and open hostilities. It involves the establishment of the modern State of Israel as a Jewish nation state, as well as the relationship between the Arab nations and the state of Israel (see related Israeli-Palestinian conflict). Some uses of the term Middle East conflict refer to this matter; however, the region has been host to other conflicts not involving Israel (see List of conflicts in the Middle East).

Despite involving a relatively small land area and number of casualties, the conflict has been the focus of worldwide media and diplomatic attention for decades. Many countries, individuals and non-governmental organizations elsewhere in the world feel involved in this conflict for reasons such as cultural and religious ties with Islam, Arab culture, Christianity, Judaism, Jewish culture or for ideological, human rights, or strategic reasons. While some consider the Arab-Israeli conflict a part of (or a precursor to) a wider clash of civilizations between the Western World and the Arab or Muslim world[Causes of Anti-Americanism in the Arab World: A Socio-Political Perspective] by Abdel Mahdi Abdallah (MERIA Journal. Volume 7, No. 4 - December 2003[Arab-Israeli Conflict: Role of religion] (Israel Science and Technology), others oppose this view.[Arab-American Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan: There is No Clash of Civilizations but a Clash between the Mentality of the Middle Ages and That of the 21st Century] Animosity emanating from this conflict has caused numerous attacks on supporters (or perceived supporters) of one side by supporters of the other side in many countries around the world.

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History

The Arab-Israeli conflict dates back to the end of the 19th century. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1917, the conflict became a major international issue. Over time, the League of Nations, Great Britain, the United Nations, the United States, and the USSR, have all played major roles in the conflict, as does the Quartet on the Middle East today. The conflict spans major wars including the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, 1956 Suez War, 1967 Six Day War, 1970 War of Attrition, 1973 Yom Kippur War, and 1982 Lebanon War as well as a number of lesser conflicts. In the course of the conflict, many Arabs were displaced from what is now Israel, and many Jews were displaced from what is now Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, the Palestinian Territories, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen (see Palestinian refugees and Jewish exodus from Arab lands). The conflict has also been the source of two major Palestinian intifadas (uprisings). Al-Qaeda, a largely Arab organization, has cited the conflict among its justifications for attacks on targets in the West.

Reasons for the conflict

There are far more than two opposing viewpoints (Israeli/Jewish and Palestinian/Arab) in regards to the reasons for the conflict between these two groups, as opinions within groups and throughout the world differ greatly.

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See also

Further reading

External links

General sources

Government and official sources

Regional media

Israeli

Arab

Translations from Arabic into English and other languages

Think tanks and strategic analysis

Peace proposals

See main article: List of Middle East peace proposals

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This article is part of the
Arab-Israeli conflict series.
History
Views of the conflict
International law
Facts and figures
Participants
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Arab League
Soviet Union / Russia
Israel and the United Nations
Iran-Israel relations
Israel-United States relations
Boycott of Israel
Peace treaties and proposals
Israel-Egypt
Israel-Jordan
Cold War
Main events (1945–1967) Main events (1968–1991) Specific articles Primary participants Other important figures

General timeline:

1940s: 1950s: 1960s:

1960s (continued):

1970s: 1980s: 1990s:
  • Dissolution of the USSR
 Contemporaneous conflicts: 
NATO
    • Warsaw Pact Political leaders: 
    United States
  • *Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • *Harry S. Truman
  • *Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • *John F. Kennedy
  • *Lyndon B. Johnson
  • *Richard Nixon
  • *Gerald Ford
  • *Jimmy Carter
  • *Ronald Reagan
  • *George H. W. Bush
    • Soviet Union
  • *Joseph Stalin
  • *Georgy Malenkov
  • *Nikita Khrushchev
  • *Leonid Brezhnev
  • *Yuri Andropov
  • *Konstantin Chernenko
  • *Mikhail Gorbachev

    • Political leaders: 

    Winston Churchill
  • *
    • Clement Attlee
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    • Charles de Gaulle
  • *
    • Josip Broz Tito
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    • Konrad Adenauer
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    • Walter Ulbricht
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    • Todor Zhivkov
  • *
    • Imre Nagy
  • *
    • Nicolae Ceauşescu
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    • Alexander Dubček
  • *
    • Willy Brandt
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    • Erich Honecker
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    • Helmut Kohl
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    • Pope John Paul II
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    • Francisco Franco
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    • Margaret Thatcher
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    • Lech Wałęsa
  • Asia:
  • *
    • Mao Zedong
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    • Zhou Enlai
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    • Chiang Kai-shek
  • *
    • Kim Il-sung
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    • Ho Chi Minh
  • Latin America:
  • *
    • Fidel Castro
  • *
    • Augusto Pinochet
  • *
    • Daniel Ortega

     

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