The conflict between Palestine and Israel itself

As my short film will be about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict I felt it was extremely necessary to educate my audience of the conflict through a blog post as well as through my short film when it is finished.

Palestine

Palestine is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is sometimes considered to include adjoining territories.

Situated at a strategic location between Egypt, Syria and Arabia. Palestine is the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, the region has a long and tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. 

The arabs in which have lived in Palestine for years, have lived amongst the christians and various others in which follow different beliefs/religions peacefully, as Palestine is seen as the holy land for many. 

Over the years Palestine has faced battles with Egypt, Syria and Jordan as well as the conflict with the Jews. 

In 1832 Egypt conquered Palestine in the Muhammed Ali invasion although in 1840 Britain interfered and gained power of the Levant; in which consists of Palestine, Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia. In the 19th century the zionist immigration was introduced and the language of the hebrew was re introduced. Britain supported zionism through World War 1 and the Balfour declaration in 1917. They were given the mandate to dominate the region of Palestine in 1922, after Britain had secured Jerusalem and north Palestine in the war between Palestine and Syria.

The non-jews living in Palestine rebelled from 1920 until 1936. In 1947 the jews came over after World War II and the Holocaust, Britain handed their domination of the state to the united nations, in which claimed that the Jews included in these atrocities would immagrate into Palestine and were given the power of having their own state. 

Evidently the Jewish leadership took advantage of this proprosal although the Arab higher comitee dis-approved of this and claimed a civil war immediately. The state of Israel was established in 1948. 

When the war began 700,000 Palestinians fled and were driven out of their homes unable to return. Israel then invaded and claimed another 26% of Palestine, therefore Jordan occupied the West bank and Egypt occupying the Gaza strip.  

In June 1967 there was a six day war in which Israel captured the lands in which were possesed by both Jordan and Egypt and began to create Israeli settlements over the land. 

In 1987-93 Palestine had their first retaliaton through the Palestinian intifada, this claimed the state of Palestine in 1988.

In 2000 the second Al-aqsa intifada was proposed and Israel built a security wall. 

In 2004 the unilateral disengagement from Gaza took place, withdrawing the Israeli army from the strip.