The Arab-Israel conflict can be approached with two very different perspectives. One approach is that it is a political clash between rival nationalist movements. The other approach is that it is a conflict between two similar religious civilizations that compete for the same sacred and geopolitical space.
In the first approach, the two rival nationalist movements mentioned are Zionism and Arab nationalism, which both emerged at nearly the same time in the 19th century. The objective of Zionism was to reconstitute the Jewish people to their land of Israel. However, sitting on that land were non-Jews, namely, Muslims. Arab nationalism was a very complex process, originally pushed by Christians who wished to create a political standing with Muslims, so that regardless of their religious background, they would possess full rights as citizens of the Arab nation-state. However, the Muslims wanted to use the movement to reduce the oppressive yolk of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Viewing......
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