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Deaths and Injuries of the Israel/Palestine Conflict prior to the Oct 2023 war

SOURCE: https://advisorybriefs.com/ip

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15 years is a woefully short time frame to look at in a conflict that goes back hundreds if not thousands of years...
- This conflict started in the late 40s. Less than 100 years.
  
  Still it would probably be good to have the graph go back 70 years to when it started.
  
  I mean I'm not gonna waste my time trying to educate you on this but you're wrong. Go read some books, watch some lectures, listen to some podcasts.
  
  You're a moron who fell for the natural enemies myth. Jews, Christians and Muslims all lived in Palestine peacefully before the Nakba.
  
  Yes surely 1917-1948 was a time of peaceful bliss....
  
  Don't call people morons when you're completely ignorant.
  
  In 1576, the Jewish community of Safed faced an expulsion order: 1,000 prosperous families were to be deported to Cyprus, "for the good of the said island", with another 500 the following year. The order was later rescinded due to the realisation of the financial gains of Jewish rental income. In 1586, the Jews of Istanbul agreed to build a fortified khan to provide a refuge for Safed's Jews against "night bandits and armed thieves."
  
  The 17th century saw a steep decline in the Jewish population of Palestine due to the unstable security situation, natural catastrophes, and abandonment of urban areas, which turned Palestine into a remote and desolate part of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman central government became feeble and corrupt, and the Jewish community was harassed by local rulers, janissaries, guilds, Bedouins, and bandits. The Jewish community was also caught between feuding local chieftains who extorted and oppressed the Jews. The Jewish communities of the Galilee heavily depended on the changing fortunes of a banking family close to the ruling pashas in Acre. As a result, the Jewish population significantly shrank.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1834_looting_of_Safed
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hebron
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_riots
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936–1939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine
  
  Edit - Folks, how is it controversial that this conflict extends further into the past than 1948?
  
  You are not allowed to say something against Palestine on Lemmy. Sometimes not even against Hamas.
  
  Not sure if that's propaganda bots, anti-semitism, or people generally having this biased view.
  
  In Germany Palestinian activists were celebrating Hamas attack on Israelis. And anti-semitic attacks in the public and even schools increased.
  
  You're wrong, you need to read some Facebook posts, educate yourself!
- it's not in timeframe of millennia.
  
  do you think the recent conflict can tracked back to biblical times when prophet Moses lived?
  
  so many things happened in that region, that includes there was a peace in that region for a time to time.
  
  the recent conflict can be tracked at WW I, when British Empire take over that region from Ottoman Empire and they drew the lines and promised two ethnic groups of the same region.
  
  WW I was over a hundred years ago. My point stands that only considering 15 years is a very myopic view on the region.
  
  Can THIS conflict he traced back to biblical times? (By the way, it may even be selling yourself short to stop at Moses... but that leads to the question of how back do you draw the line of relevance...) no of course not. Realistically, while I'm inclined to look back to the late 1800s and early 1900s, there's no one alive today that was alive at that time. 1 or 2 generations later can you expect everyone to forget the events of the past? Maybe not.
  
  It's a really classic example (maybe THE classic example) of violence begetting violence. Unfortunately the violent tendencies and hatred are institutionalized. It's clearly not an easy problem to solve, but I'm fairly certain that violent terrorist attacks against civilians is not in the running for a solution.
  
  EDIT: just to add, going back a thousand years takes us to the time of the crusades, during and after which there were Arab attacks driving out non-arabs... and Arab attacks against other Arab factions (not blind to the fact that all Arabs are not a monolithic group).
  
  Going back a little further you have a history of violence and discrimination against the Jews and Arabs (and pagans and other people) by the Roman's. You can see how hard it is to find a stopping point in the history of violence in the region.
  
  So yes while the CURRENT conflict probably only tracks back a hundred or so years, the history of conflict in general in the region goes back thousands of years (probably 4 thousand years but im not sure there are even stories, much less even somewhat reliable historical accounts that go back much further than that).
  
  Yes, this is a region that has been fought over since the dawn of human history. It's centered between the various cradles of human civilization - Sumeria, Egypt, and Greece, so it would have been a strategic location militarily and economically. Jaffa is a port that dates back to biblical times, and during the height of the Roman Empire, Judea would have been a vital trading post on the silk road. It's where monotheism began, so it holds great cultural significance as well. With the discovery of oil it became an indispensable ally for the industrialized world in a region destabilized by colonialism and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. It truly is a prize to be won, and has been for thousands of years.
  
  However, Israel is not a center of trade in the globalized economy under American hegemony, and perhaps as our dependence on oil wanes, its military/geopolitical significance will dissipate. The only remaining reason for conflict will be the Al Aqsa Mosque sitting atop the Jewish Temple Mount.

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