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Are the conflicts in Israel-Palestine & Iran related? Or are they two separate things?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
hi I'm kinda ignorant when it comes to current events related to politics, can you please tell me if the Israel Palestine conflict has any relation to the Iran thing or are they two separate things happening right now?
I saw this car with this message on his window and it occurred to me I have no idea what's going on in the world. I just hear things in the news and hardly comprehend them and ignore them. My definition of ignorant is IGNORing things I don't understand.
It’s a regional issue that’s been going on for thousands of years, with many sub-events.
Essentially, Israel has been stealing land from Palestine since it was first created as a nation. Separate from that, relations between Israel and Gaza, which is a Palestinian territory inside Israel, have been tense, and blew up when Hamas, which effectively governed Gaza, broke through the barricade keeping them hemmed in and killed/kidnapped a bunch of people in Israel proper.
Israel responded by flattening most of Gaza, and attacking people in many other parts of Palestine and taking more land.
Hamas is mostly backed/funded by the Iranian government.
Israel also attacked Syria and sent some settlers over the Syrian border, and attacked Lebanon, targeting Hezbolah-controlled border states; Hezbolah is also Iranian government-backed.
Israel then attacked Iran, and convinced the US to join them.
It’s worth noting that the current Israeli government is hard-right expansionist nationalist, and has been waiting for an excuse to do these things for a while now.
Stealing?
That's a funny way to describe legal possession.
Early Zionists bought their land, legally. Regardless of the law of the Ottoman empire or British law or whateve ... There are legal deeds recognized internationally. You can't steal land from people that never owned the land.
Palestinians were often tenant farmers (farming on somebody else's land). And sure, the new owners of the land told them to kick rocks. That naturally upset them into some intifidas.