When Israel, Palestine, Jews, Arabs, when we put them together, I don't think you're unfamiliar with it. If you've been following international news regularly, you'll know that this area is one of the most chaotic places on earth, and nothing good is usually going to accompany them. If we go back a little bit in time, we will find that from 1948 to 1982, in the statistical 34 years, there were several large-scale wars around the same place, known as the Middle East War, so what are they fighting? Why is there so much contradiction between Israel and Palestine? Where do these contradictions come from? Where are they going? In this episode, let's go back to this forgotten place by God, starting from the first Middle East war, and now turning the time back to the 16th century BC, when there was a great famine in the Mediterranean region around Jerusalem, which roughly included today's Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, in order to escape the famine, the ancient Heberlands who lived here fled to Egypt, where they lived for more than 400 years and gradually became slaves. In order to escape the fate of generations of slavery, Moses, the leader of the Hebrews, led the people to escape from Egypt and return to the area of Jerusalem. After finally conquering the area and defeating the foreign invaders, in 1013 BC, the Jewish kingdom was established on this land, which was the first Jewish state.
After ruling the region for almost 1,000 years, in 63 BC, the Romans finally occupied Palestine, forcing the more than 1.5 million Jews living there to leave their homes. From this point on, the Jews began to disperse throughout the world, mainly in Europe. They turned into a people without a homeland. A few hundred years later, at the beginning of the 7th century A.D., Muhammad, the founder of Islam, came to Palestine, the land, and established an Arab state. From then on, this land, which belonged to the Jews, was occupied by the Arabs who believed in Islam, and they have not left it to this day. So what is the fate of these Jews scattered around the world, especially in Europe? The answer is quite tragic. They are the object of discrimination, exclusion and rejection in all countries, and there are two main reasons for this, first of all, the most important is that they have different religious beliefs. Because the religions practiced on the European continent are mainly ** religion and Catholicism, Jews who believe in Judaism appear out of place, and are often treated as pagans and punished with cruel religious criminal laws; Secondly, because Jews are good at business and more business-minded, many Jews are relatively wealthy businessmen or wealthy people, who control many commercial institutions and banks in Europe, and then indirectly interfere in political issues, and even control the economic lifeline of some countries and manipulate elections. This has also led to a strong wariness of other native peoples in Europe against this foreign people.
For example, between 1933 and 1945, Jews in Nazi Germany suffered a terrible death. In the entire more than ten years of Hitler's rule, he has a total of nearly 6 million Jews, and the cruelty of his methods is far less than even in the darkest Middle Ages in Europe, and all these experiences of the Jews are stimulating each of them, so an idea began to be born among the Jews, that is, to establish an independent state, and only by establishing a country belonging to the Jews can similar tragedies continue to be staged in the future. And this is where Zionism comes in. In short, the Jews wanted to return to their ancient homeland, which was the area of Palestine, which had been established, but this state was not something that the Jews could build if they wanted to, because Palestine was not a no-man's land at this time.
As we have just mentioned, the Arabs who profess Islam occupied the Palestinian areas in the 7th century A.D. and have been living there ever since, and they certainly will not tolerate a people who have been away for more than 2,000 years to inexplicably run to their own territory and establish another state. So, if we look at it from the historical perspective of the time, although the spirit of the Jews is commendable, the idea of statehood is not realistic. However, it was this seemingly whimsical restoration plan, but suddenly on November 29, 1947, at the repeated insistence of the Americans, the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt the first plan, deciding to divide Palestine into two, and this is the famous United Nations Resolution 181 in history. This resolution decided to replace 21. of the 70,000 square kilometers of Palestinian land10,000 square kilometers were allocated to the Arabs, while the Jews received 140,000 square kilometers of land, UN Resolution 181 seems very unfair. Noticeably more biased towards the Jews. Almost all Arab countries have made it clear that they do not accept this UN solution, and have declared that as long as the Jews dare to establish a state on Palestinian soil, then the only way to solve the problem is to resort to war. In fact, in addition to being unfair, Resolution 181 leaves two other issues that have not been resolved, one of which is the ownership of the holy city of Jerusalem, and the other is the specific demarcation of the border between the two countries. It can be said that a deeply unfair and porous solution to the partition of Palestine was the root cause of the outbreak of the first Middle East war. So now that said, why is the United States pushing for such a branch that clearly has many problems?
There are two main reasons for this, the first is that Palestine is located in the core region of the Middle East, and replicating a country here will help the United States to first have extremely high strategic value in the entire Middle East region. In addition, the discovery of large oil reserves in the Middle East has also given the place greater economic value. All this makes the United States want to control Palestine by all means. But it is clear that the Arabs are not a good choice, because supporting the Arabs is likely to make the entire Middle East a sphere of influence for the Arabs, leaving a hidden danger. The second reason is that the Jews themselves have a great voice in the United States, they are large and often wealthy, and they have a lot of influence on American politics and economy. By lobbying Congress and **, it also made American policy inclined to support Jewish independence to a certain extent. On May 14, 1948, at 4 p.m., Israel's first prime minister, Ben Julian, announced to the world that Israel was officially stated. This people, who had been wandering for more than 2,000 years, once again established their own nation in this God-given land. However, these Jews, who had been in joy, did not rejoice for long. On May 15, the day after the proclamation of the statehood, the Arab coalition of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria besieged Israel from the east, north, and south in an attempt to prevent the establishment of the Israeli state, and the first Middle East war broke out! At this critical moment of life and death, the Israelis called on the American players and the Jews of the world to unite and help Israel through this crisis, and the Jews, who have always been known for their unity, did not disappoint their homeland this time, and in just a few weeks raised a large amount of money and shipped it to Israel, many veterans with World War II experience also offered to return to Israel to fight, many of them no longer even speak Hebrew, but this did not prevent them from doing this. A country that has just been born gives its own life. At the same time, with the support and mediation of the United States, the United Nations drew up a temporary fire storage agreement between the two sides in order to give Israel some respite and use it to rebuild its forces and build up its strength. At this juncture when the United Nations demanded that both sides be on fire, the Arab coalition had already achieved a resounding military victory. At that time, they occupied more than 2 3 of the land in Palestine, and many cities, including Shencheng and Jerusalem, had already fallen into Arab hands. This victory has made the Arabs noticeably less vigilant against Israel, believing that if they continue to fight, they will soon be able to occupy all of Israel, repeating the same scene of the expulsion of the Jews from Palestine 2,000 years ago.
So on June 11, they gladly accepted the mediation of the United Nations, entered into a four-week pause, and began negotiations, hoping that they could reach an agreement in their favor. However, the Arab coalition may not have imagined that the so-called ceasefire negotiations were just a trap and an outright delaying tactic. Israel has completely changed its destiny through these four weeks. By the end of my stay, the Israeli army, which had grown from just over 30,000 men, had expanded to just over 60,000. The guerrillas who had been rebelled in various places were quickly integrated into a regular defence force, and a unified command structure was also established. At the same time, Israel has also imported a large number of advanced bombers, tanks, and large-caliber artillery from the United States, Britain, France, and other places. All these efforts turned the scales of war in an instant. Because during the armistice, the Arab coalition did almost nothing, there were still only more than 40,000 people, and the equipment had begun to lag behind Israel. Now it's time to be afraid of the Arabs. On 8 July, the last day of the truce, the Israeli army went straight to the Arab positions and launched an offensive on its own initiative. At this time, the Israelis who switched from defense to attack obviously had to overwhelm the Arabs in terms of momentum, and because there were also some contradictions of interests and problems in command and coordination within the Arab coalition forces, they were quickly defeated in the face of the menacing Israeli army, and they could only switch from offensive to all-round defense. In 1949, the Arab countries that had been broken one by one signed an armistice agreement with Israel within a few months, and the first Middle East war, which lasted for 15 months, ended with the victory of Israel.