By Dan Reed, American Citizen
For years I’ve witnessed the ongoing
meaningless pilgrimage of Israel and Palestinians to the so-called peace
negotiations. Furthermore, this pilgrimage always includes the same players:
Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the United States. We never see
involvement from the other major players: Hamas, Hezbollah, Jordan, Lebanon,
and the other Mideast countries. Moreover, we never hear the issue of Jewish
Zionism discussed, as it relates to Israel officially establishing actual boarders
for their Jewish State.
As an American Christian, I find it extremely
difficult to comprehend why billions of U.S. tax dollars continue flowing into
the State of Israel? As a human being, I cannot understand why, after sixty-six
years, the Palestinian territories have not achieved Statehood?
So I decided to better inform myself
about the conflicts between Palestine and Israel. My research included scores
of articles, websites, books, and library documents from both the Palestinian
and Israeli perspective. I organized my findings into the following
comparisons:
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PALESTINE
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ISRAEL
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1. The Time Before Israel
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Jewish Zionism
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2. The 1947 Partition of Palestine
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The 1947 Creation of the State of
Israel
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3. The Palestinian Refugee Problem
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Jewish Immigration to Palestine
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4. The Palestinian Territories
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Israel’s Ever Expanding Boarders
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5. What is Palestine’s Right To
Exist?
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What are Zionism’s long-term goals
in Israel?
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I begin this seven part series with
a brief review of The Time Before Israel was created, which provides a
historical perspective on: the land of Canaan, the Jewish promised land, the
land of Palestine, the beginnings of Zionism, the Jewish National Fund, the
1917 Balfour Declaration, and the Holocaust.
During the coming weeks, I will
share my research findings and comparisons of the on-going conflicts between
Palestine and Israel. Furthermore, I plan to assemble all my research documents
and sources into an e-book, which I hope to offer as a down loadable sourcing
tool on this journal.
