Nahost-Konflikt

Since the declaration of Israel's establishment in 1948, conflict has existed between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries, rooted in conflict over territory also claimed by Palestinian Arabs. Zionists viewed the region of Palestine as the Jewish ancestral homeland, while Arabs saw it as Arab Palestinian land and an essential part of the Arab world. By 1920, sectarian conflict had begun with the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the partition of Ottoman Syria by the 1916 Sykes–Picot tre