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Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Understanding the Israeli and Palestinian conflict

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The Middle East conflict has intensified even more after the first intifadeh - the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, beginning in 1987. The sole factor that propels Palestinians to resist is humiliation. For one thing, the settler-Jews have always had their upper hand in economic, political, and social arena. The native of the land - Palestinians - were ever treated as the subordinate race for the other. Besides, the humiliation in the Palestinian psyche originates because of five basic reasons: Islamic religious belief, Jewish brutality, d...

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