What is the source of the Israeli/Hamas/Gaza Strip Conflict?

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What is the source of the Israeli/Hamas/Gaza Strip Conflict? Should the English and the 1917 Balfour Declaration be determined the cause of the conflicts?

Every conflict has a starting point and I feel this one was started by the Balfour Declaration in 1917.

Some may say it was actually Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany when he started out on the First World War.

Choose where you want it, they probably all have a little bit of history going back even further than that.

I find the same problem looking at the Ukrainian-Russian war. When did it start?

There seems to be no good guys in the battle.

They're all, shall we say,are on the wrong side, which gets rather confusing.

In the case of the Ukrainian one, I feel it probably is at least a thousand year old spat between the Russians and what was then the Ukrainians. Probably has its origins going back even further than that. Maybe as far back as when the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals first started throwing stones at each other. I don't know.

We can't look at just what's going on in the war. There's a whole history that has to be looked at. Definitely with the Israeli one on the Gaza Strip I see the history of that one starting when the Ottoman Empire during the First World War collapsed and primarily France and England, Great Britain, if you will, jumped in to take their share of the spoils.

There was the Balfour Declaration.

We'll just take a little bit of a look at what was the Balfour Declaration.

It was when the Brits and the French decided to carve up what was the collapsing Ottoman Empire and take their share of the spoils’.

But the Brits in their view that they could make decisions for the rest of the world, sound familiar for other countries nowadays, but it was the Brits turn back in 1917 to be doing this.

(a link to the UK House of Commons Archive on the document is here )

And the Balfour Declaration was, well, here we have it here, I'll just read through it quickly.

It's a statement of support for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.

Now it's well it's a letter the British foreign secretary to Lionel Walter Rothschild well I think we know where this is going about establishing a Jewish community in the Middle East it's quite an interesting document especially considering how short it is

It had the Zionist leaders in London that were, shall we say sponsoring it for Lord Balfour, but it fell short of their expectations.

There was a very strong drive to make this a Zionist state, Zionist beliefs, etc.

That's, that's what started it all off.

Notice in there that the rights of the people that were there were to be respected.

That may have been at one time, but I don't think well, certainly we start moving them out. It's not respecting their rights very much. And it's the whole thing is degenerated over the last little over 100 years to what we have now.

Frankly, the way I look at it, it's not really the Israelis that are bad, and it's not the Hamas that are bad. There was a third party in there.

And that's the British, or probably more correctly, the English.

One can see the theme of arbitrary imperialist manipulation they practised previously in Ireland and Scotland, parts of the British Isles, Were their own local variant of that that happened to them over the centuries generated by the English.

It's time we realized how much of history of what we're cleaning up today, the conflicts have their seat back in the old British Empire days and how they were doing it.

Here in Canada, we have our problems with the in regards the First Nations people that I don't think it'll ever be settled because it was started out with settlement under The Great White Queen from Overseas was dictating to the First Nations how they should settle things. And we've been playing catch up ever since with the mess that the English have made for us.

And you can go around the world, there's conflicts all over the place that go back to the overhanded arbitrariness of the English when into a country, they draw boundaries where they felt like and create divisions that look at India and Pakistan that are another example that. What I'm really trying to say is we've got to sit back and look at what the source of the conflicts are. When one has a historical conflict we can't put a band-aid over the top surface we've got to dig back and deal with the historical conflict and far too often that conflict lands directly at the feet of the old empires that were controlling the world.

And well, frankly, as far as I can tell, the old empires were probably the early allegiance with what has become what we now know at the World Economic Forum.