Account for the Re-emergence of the Palestinian Dimension of

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict drifted from its historical groundings into a new dimension for the Arabs and Jews post 1967. After the war of 1948, the conflict had seemed, for the main part, to develop into that of an international affair. The armistice agreements inflicted by the imperial powers, border tensions

, the Suez War of 1956, had all seen sovereign states acting as the major players in the conflict. Israel appeared to be small and beleaguered, encased by much larger states bent on their illegitimacy of existence. However following the war of 1967, the focus drifted to that of a more general problem; two peoples – Jews and Palestinians – claiming the same piece of land. The change in the status quo of territory within the region after the Six Day War was a primary motivator toward the re-emergence of a new Palestinian dimension to the conflict. By extending her sphere of influence across the newly occupied territories, in particular the Gaza Strip and the West Bank; Israel had hundreds of thousands of Palestinians under her military control. Furthermore, the occupation of these territories gave Israel control over all the area that had been allocated for Jewish and Palestinian states under the United Nations Partition Resolution of 1947. The newly powered Israel now had within her borders a minority nation desperate for revenge, independence and sovereignty - a plight that echoed all to familiarly in the historical memory of the Jews. Occupying and forcing Palestinians li

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