Iisraeli-Palestiina konflikti ajaloolised tagamaad
them trust other nations nor themselves, at the same time they are looking for their
identity, freedom and national development.
The biggest irony of their history is in the fact that the roots of the present
Jewish-Arab tensions lie in the circumstances they have been treated by other nations
during the times. The problems started after the First World War. Both nations began to
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look for the end to their persecution by other forces. Zionism, the strongest force of the
19th century Jewish nationalism, emerged at the same period, when the Arabs began to
quit of the Turkish Empire.
The Jews are looking at their Aliyah as the return to their fathers' homeland,
thus for Arabs they are just immigrants on foreign territories. The Jews dispersed all
over the world considered themselves related to Palestinian Jews by blood bonds and
faith, while the Arabs felt that they had to pay for European crimes, as the European
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