Israel and Palestine: What Do We Know?

National diplomacy has been working for years to reach a peace agreement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by creating two states that live side by side in peace and security.

The neo-born Israel and the West Bank, and Gaza Strip have been the subject of countless "peaceful" agreements that have never been entirely accepted.

Though, what do we know about the diaspora that still causes missing, dead and injured?

Let us try to clarify some points to have a better view of the situation.

It all dates back to the early twentieth-century conflict between Palestine and the Ottoman Empire, which fought over the territory of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris River and the Euphrates. At the time, the British Empire occupied the territory between Egypt and Palestine and decided to ally with the Arabs to take the rest of the domain from the Turkish Empire. Once this goal had been achieved, the English signed the well-known Balfour Declaration and created the "national home for the Jewish people" within the territory conquered with the help of Muslims.

Thus, after the First World War, Palestine became a de facto English colony as well as a territory of discord and violence between Arabs and Jews. In this period, the divisions and the first wave of dislocated Palestinians lay the foundations for the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, still ongoing.

In the second post-war period, the political-moral pressures exerted by the Holocaust, and the American involvement in favour of Zionism, led to the creation of a single federal state (with UN Resolution 181), which included 55% Jewish territory against 40% Arab and placed the Jerusalem area under international control.

Palestinian resentment grew behind the proclamation of the State of Israel in 1948 (thanks, moreover, to an exceptional agreement between the USA and the USSR, both resolved to reduce the British hegemony in Palestine).

Hatred and clashes between the two rivalries continued. The displacement of people is fuelled by Israel's victory, which involves increasing the number of stateless and homeless Palestinians. Despite that, a quiet period in which a false coexistence of the citizens of the two states seems to be envisaged. However, the Israeli interference in the Palestinian West Bank never stops.

Although condemned internationally, the continuous expansion of the Jewish people gives grounds for the propagation of popular movements of the Palestinian resistance against Israeli colonization (so-called even more recently by international diplomats).

The disproportionate division gave rise to the growing irredentist thought of the Palestinians, which the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, will be the spokesperson for.

During the pandemic period, Trump, as officially a stranger to the conflict but secretly an Israeli ally since forever, outlined the well-known Peace and Prosperity 2020 plan. The recognition of a small portion of West Bank land owned by the Arabs and the demilitarization of the Palestinian State under the control of Israel is only part of the plan of the century, far below what was defined as a "win-win solution".

Evidently, not accepted by the Palestinians, relations between the latter and the government of Israel, and thus of the United States, broke down. In a period in which the pandemic gives no respite, and the medical aid of the West seems to be more necessary than ever, Biden, Trump's successor, does not fail to reaffirm military support for the Jewish, guaranteeing, however, the continuity of humanitarian assistance to fight the pandemic.

The situation has stalled, and to date, discriminating practices, dead and injured civilians, and refugees forced to leave their land is the only sure thing.

The flood of images of destroyed schools and maimed children play their part in tipping the scales of public opinion.

The question is complex and not easy to solve, but, indeed, the Israeli troops do not seem to be outdone compared to the terrorist groups of Hamas.

It is difficult to define an idea of ​​terrorism in a context where the rights of a citizen of one State are forgotten in the name of occupation/incorporation into another state without official consent.

On the same level, the unconditional label of terrorist should not be given to the supporters of the Palestinian State, such as Iranian general Oassem Soleimani, in the same way that various American presidents have favoured the Israeli State.

How come the identification of ​​the US army secretary or the US president himself has never been shaped as a terrorist even though they continue to fuel a war by procuring weapons for their allies in the same way Iranians do with theirs?

After all, it is a war aimed at expansion.

Israelis - and Americans - seek victory, and Palestinians - and Muslim countries - do not want to lose their origins.

What should we expect? A serene renunciation of their own identity?

It seems that the methods used in this confrontation are not seeking the peaceful coexistence of the two territories, despite the Western propaganda in defence of a despotic Israel as the only democratic State against a people of desperate Palestinian terrorists.