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In general terms, yes. This particular conflict started when Hamas lobbed a few harmless joke missiles at Israel. They're such cards.
Incidentally, Hamas - the internationally recognised terrorist organisation - won just over 44% of the votes at the last Palestinian parliamentary election. This compares to just over 41% won by Fatah - who include the internationally recognised terrorist organisation the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade in their council.
How far back do you want to go, exactly, before you start apportioning blame? Only you need to predate Israel by some decades if you're wanting a starting point.
On that topic, Israel gave the Palestinian people something they'd never had in their entire history. A country.
It is so hard when 76% of voters turn up and 85% of those cast a vote for either a terrorist organisation or a former terrorist organisation that includes terrorist organisations within it to suggest that if the Palestinian people wanted not to be shelled indiscriminately in retaliation for their government's civilian-targeted shelling of a psychotic nation state with an overblown military budget, they should probably not vote for terrorists to be in charge but...
... no, not that, the other thing.
Incidentally, Israeli civilians' only real crime here is democratically electing their government too. Apparently the Palestinian people don't care about that enough to stop electing terrorists.
The states are as bad as one another. The only difference is that one will inevitably lead to its own destruction as the other is overwhelmingly more militarily advanced and doesn't give a damn. I don't think 1.4 million graves with "See?" is really in the Palestinians' best interests.
1- This is all about the general. This all started in the beggining of the 20th century and it didn't end. This particular conflict is the same conflict from the 20's. We weren't there and we haven't TV or Internet but it happened.
2- Israel gave the Palestinian people something? No.
A country? No. The British had signer an agreement (McMahon Hussein) for Palestinian build their own government but then they ignored it and signed the Balford Declaration. Palestiniena people were denied the right to self-autodetermination.
Is this false?
3- Incidentally, people dismiss or forget the history of how the state of Israel was born. The crime has almost 100 years and people start to forget it. That's what Israel wants. The zionist army, helped by the British, are responsible for the situation. UN commited the biggest error in their history in 1947 and palestinians will have to deal with it until they all surrender or die. Convenient to Israel but bad to human History.
(Western countries label Hamas as terrorists, others don't. It's pretty much the Bush talk "we're the good guys, they're the bad ones". I'm not defending Hamas or other extremists. I'm just saying that the way Israel was "conquered" was by terrorism as well.)