A wave of attacks by Palestinian militants on Israel, and Israel’s declaration of war against Hamas, has brought new attention to an old problem.
A surprise, coordinated assault on Israel by Palestinian militants — one of the deadliest and most brazen attacks in years — brought renewed attention to an old and continuing problem: the Israeli-Palestinian
Both Israelis and Palestinians were struggling for self-determination and sovereignty over the territory, developing respective movements for their causes. In 1917, Britain’s foreign secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, expressed his government’s support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”To Israelis, the missive marks a formal utterance of the Israeli state’s right to exist; to Palestinians, it was an early sign of their dispossession.
On June 19, Israeli forces raid Jenin, deploying helicopter gunships to the West Bank for the first time since the second intifada.
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