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State of Israel
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Palestinian National Authority
After the British Mandate of Palestine (which was set up after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire) was dissolved in 1948. Due to the holocaust may jewish people had immigrated to this country which had been arab land for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
Jerusalem was overrun by the two religions and after the British withdrawl the UN planned a partition with the creation of a jewish state and a arab state with Jerusalem as a UN-administrated zone. Jerusalem did have more arabs than jews.
Due to the arabs not accepting the partition plan, civil war broke out and neighbouring arab countries invaded, Israel was victorious and occupied much more land than the partition plan had planned. To this day Israel occupies parts of the planned Palestinian State, parts of Syria & Lebanon.
Israel also has a nucler arsenal which it refuses to awknowledge and has even abducted the man who exposed their nuclear program to the British media in he 1980's. Palestine meanwhile remains a country which is seperated in zones and isn't offically a country.
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Palestinian President (democratically elected)
Mahmoud Abbas
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Israeli President (democratically elected)
Shimon Peres
So what is your opinion on the conflict, are you more on Palestines side or Israels side. Personally I believe the 'State of Palestine' should occupy all that area and I regard Israel as an illegal state.
Vote and discuss!

