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The Roadmap Peace Plan for Israel and Palestine conflict

The land of Palestine is considered holy for the Muslims and the Jews the Jews consider it as the promised homeland from god . The conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians dates back to the time of the Ottoman Empire in the 1880s . At that time , the Muslim Arabs predominantly inhabited the land of Palestine where as the Arab Christians and the Jews were present in smaller groups . It was the idea of the Promised Land , which inspired the Jews to come and settle in the land of Palestine . It was in Europe

where the early Zionist movement started which promoted the idea of Jews having a state of their own which should be in the Land of Israel (Palestine . In 1897 the World Zionist Organization was founded by Herlz declared that the aim of Zionism was to establish 'a national home for the Jewish people secured by public law . this idea began more pronounced among Jews and got immense support from the West because of the riots against Jews which proved murderous for the Jews . The mass killings of the Jews by the Nazis during World War II in which about six millions Jews were cruelly murdered under the rule of Hitler calling it the Final Solution of the Jewish Question . These killing by the Nazis intensified the international support for the creation of a homeland for the Jews . The Zionist movement overlooked a major factor before promoting the idea of a state in Palestine , which was that another people , the Muslim Arabs already occupied it . More interestingly , the West and Europe also ignored this crucial problem this was due to the fact that idea of a Jewish state attracted the British for religious as well as practical purposes . It was 1917 in which the British army took control of Palestine from the Ottoman Empire and in the same year Balfour declaration was passed which was seen as a promise made by Britain to the Jews for further increasing its efforts for a Jewish national home in Palestine . A point that is to be noted here is that after the second world war Jews made a 33 of the in 1922 they were a mere 11 . They saw the increasing number of Jews in their homeland as a conspiracy against them and their homeland the Jews were looked upon as outsiders . They also became greatly influenced by the European anti-Semitism and adopted many ideas and claims of Holocaust deniers as well as the anti-Zionist ideology of radical Jewish intellectuals

The newly created UN suggested dividing the country into two one for the Arabs and the other part for the Jews , and Jerusalem was to be assigned as a corpus separatum meaning an international city . The Jewish community accepted the plan as they had nothing to lose , in fact they were at last achieving what they have always wanted , and the Palestinians on the other hand saw it as a division of their homeland Shortly after this suggested UN plan...

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