@Hacker ---- Try reading the book EXODUS by Lean Uris.
Written by a jew so heavily tilted in favour of the Jews.... but gives you a lot of history.
And as for links as such, I dont have many. I remember reading abt it looong back.
The history as such is this.
The Jews had been asking for a country of their own for a looooong time. Jews were being persecuted in most countries. Austria, Russia, and many more. I guess UK and US were the 2 safest countries for them. In many other places they had to live in ghettos.... special areas only for jews. These areas were terrible living conditions.
and anyway Palestine at that time was ruled by Britain. The Jews kept asking for their own nation in that area.
the Britishers were afraid of pissing off them Arabs who realised that they had the world by it's ba**s because these Arabs were sitting on oil. TOns and tons of it.
So, the Britishers told the Jews "Fight with us in WW 1 and we will give you Israel". The Jews fought alongside them. But then the Britishers again said "get lost".... for the same reason.... not to piss of the arabs.
after WW2 and the Holocaust, world sympathy was with the jews. And they continued to press their demand for their own country called Israel and they wanted the area around Jerusalem.
And by this time, UK had realised that the days of colonialism and imperialism was over. They decided to hand over an area of Palestine to the jews.....
and since the whole was feeling guilty for having done nothing to stop Hitler, they all agreed(through the United Nations) to form a new country called Israel.
Israel was formed in 1948. Immediately, ALL the arab countries declared war. Israel was surrounded by enemies.... Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Palestine, etc....
I think 3 wars were fought.... This is where I admire the Israelis... they were outnumbered heavily.... I mean 3 large arab countries against one newly formed Israeli country.
Of course, the Israelis could get lot of weapons mainly from US and France. Again all thanks to sympathy.
They won all the wars and ISrael as a nation was stable. The best part was the way they thrashed the Egypt air force before they could eevn get off the ground...... I dont remember in which war that was.... Either the 6-day war or the Yom Kippur war.
And since then, the Arabs and the jews have always been enemies.
Things got really bad in 2000 when Israel illegally occupied MORE Palestine land. Gaza Strip, West bank, Golan heights, etc..... Since then it has been really bad.
I think suicide attacks on Israel had already started before that.....
EDIT: Check out this link.... read through all of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
Written by a jew so heavily tilted in favour of the Jews.... but gives you a lot of history.
And as for links as such, I dont have many. I remember reading abt it looong back.
The history as such is this.
The Jews had been asking for a country of their own for a looooong time. Jews were being persecuted in most countries. Austria, Russia, and many more. I guess UK and US were the 2 safest countries for them. In many other places they had to live in ghettos.... special areas only for jews. These areas were terrible living conditions.
and anyway Palestine at that time was ruled by Britain. The Jews kept asking for their own nation in that area.
the Britishers were afraid of pissing off them Arabs who realised that they had the world by it's ba**s because these Arabs were sitting on oil. TOns and tons of it.
So, the Britishers told the Jews "Fight with us in WW 1 and we will give you Israel". The Jews fought alongside them. But then the Britishers again said "get lost".... for the same reason.... not to piss of the arabs.
after WW2 and the Holocaust, world sympathy was with the jews. And they continued to press their demand for their own country called Israel and they wanted the area around Jerusalem.
And by this time, UK had realised that the days of colonialism and imperialism was over. They decided to hand over an area of Palestine to the jews.....
and since the whole was feeling guilty for having done nothing to stop Hitler, they all agreed(through the United Nations) to form a new country called Israel.
Israel was formed in 1948. Immediately, ALL the arab countries declared war. Israel was surrounded by enemies.... Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Palestine, etc....
I think 3 wars were fought.... This is where I admire the Israelis... they were outnumbered heavily.... I mean 3 large arab countries against one newly formed Israeli country.
Of course, the Israelis could get lot of weapons mainly from US and France. Again all thanks to sympathy.
They won all the wars and ISrael as a nation was stable. The best part was the way they thrashed the Egypt air force before they could eevn get off the ground...... I dont remember in which war that was.... Either the 6-day war or the Yom Kippur war.
And since then, the Arabs and the jews have always been enemies.
Things got really bad in 2000 when Israel illegally occupied MORE Palestine land. Gaza Strip, West bank, Golan heights, etc..... Since then it has been really bad.
I think suicide attacks on Israel had already started before that.....
EDIT: Check out this link.... read through all of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel