A Complicated and LOOOOoooooong story, now over-simplified and shortened by whole lot:
1)Israel started shooting back after the Palestinians shot rockets at them...
2)...because Palestinian-Gaza is completely boxed in (land, air, water) by Israel,...
3)...because the Palestinians previously shot rockets at Israel...
...)
40)...because Israel took all of Jerusalem...
41)...after Palestine&Friends attacked Israel (and lost the fight, 1967)...
...)
50)...after Israel divided Jerusalem and countryside just like Israel wanted too, instead of sharing it equally...
...)
60)...because Palestinians&Friends attacked Israel (and lost the fight, 1948)...
61)...while everyone was discussing dividing up the area equally into Palestine, Israel and an international Jerusalem...
...)
700)...because they both actually lived there for a really long time, saw a couple of burning bushes and just don't like each other because neither can remember precisely where... (allot of Jews did leave around 100AD and later came back in during the 20th century).
...)
8000)...because everybody at one point in time marked their tree and now feel that area is theirs instead of recognizing each other as brothers and countrymen.
Personally I think its the extremist element on both Israeli AND Palestinian sides that is causing all the drama, and that most of the people on both sides would rather prefer to just live, love, grow old and be happy.
So much objective distance and logic in an over-simplified argument, how could this possibly be a thread about the I/P conflict on a forum with so much false dichtomic arguing?
Sarcasm aside, I'd actually like to hear a well reasoned argument for why Israel is claimed to have stolen land being the source of all of this and why Israel's establishment is such a sore thumb on the ego of its Arab neighbours with the whole spectrum from elect goverments, primary school teachers and nutcase mullah's seeking from removal to the genocide of these jews?
As far as I can tell, nationalistic aspirations were pursued by both some Arab tribes (following servitude under turkish ottoman rule) as well as Jews in the area (with increasing immigration especially post holocaust and again after neighbouring arab states relocated jews). The arabs started an armed uprising against jews, especially new arrivals and the civil strife led Britain to divide the warring groups similarly to India/Pakistan.