terça-feira, 27 de janeiro de 2009

The Gaza strip conflict



My beloved teacher, we are going to talk about this text tonight. By now, I tried to correct your appointments. Thank you in advance.

The conflict we are testifying, between the State of Palestine and Israel has its origin at the banishment of Jews from Judea (It would be called Palestine only on 19th century) by the Roman Empire on 135 A.D. This fact gave rise to Zionism, doctrine whose core is the reestablishment of the Israeli State and the largest concentration possible of Jews in an anonymous national unity, situated in the ancient Judea.
In 1897, the first Zionist World Congress created the Zionist World Organization, with purpose of raising funds to the Jewish National Fund, which would buy proprieties in Palestine. From that beginning, the immigration to that area increased potentially, and in 1947 there were more than six hundred thousand Jewish people living there.
This immigration was broaden by the Nazism persecution, when more than six million Jews were sacrificed, creating thus an exodus of this population to Palestine. On May 14th, 1948, the State of Israel declared its independence, not accepted by the Arab community, represented by Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and The Emirate of Transjordan, that invaded the new nation a day after it was born.
In spite of being a newborn nation, Israel was victorious on its first campaign, conquering an eight thousand squared kilometers territory, including Nazareth and the western side of Jerusalem. Cisjordan and Gaza strip were refuge for more than five hundred thousand Arabs.
Since then, Israel got in three more belligerent events. The most significant was six-day war, from June 5th to 10th, in 1967, with the Israeli occupation of Sinai, Jerusalem and Cisjordan, redrawing the Middle East map.
Nowadays, only in Gaza strip, there are more than one million and five hundred thousand Arabs living in destitution and poverty. Because of this historical situation, Israel and those communities which support them have been targets of terrorist groups’ attacks.
Some analysts say there is only one alternative to this conflict: the 'one-state' solution, where Palestinian and Israeli population would share the territory from the Mediterranean coast to Jordanian border. As the world has seen, missing diplomatic relations do not aim to a peaceful solution in a medium term.

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