{"product_id":"141420","title":"Palestine, the land of tears ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQtVOAsMWwsHBSvHgCLhvv.png?v=1764957888\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Palestine, the land of tears \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/72352647\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe truth behind the bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict, analyzed on-site by Korea's top international conflict expert.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If the Balkan Peninsula, which sparked World War I and suffered from civil war throughout the 1990s, was the 'powder keg of the 20th century,' the Middle East is the 'powder keg of the 21st century.'\u003cbr\u003e The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a detonator that shakes peace not only in the Middle East but also around the world.\u003cbr\u003e Even now, the vicious cycle of violence continues there, with Israel's military offensive and the fierce resistance of Palestinian armed groups, including Hamas, and ordinary citizens, who risk their lives.\u003cbr\u003e This book, \"Palestine, the Land of Tears,\" introduces the reality of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict and analyzes the deep-rooted causes of the conflict by outlining the history and politics of the Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAuthor Dr. Jaemyung Kim is a leading expert on international conflicts who has covered conflict sites around the world for nearly 20 years. He has visited Palestine and Israel more than ten times since 2000.\u003cbr\u003e The author has also conducted numerous interviews with legendary Palestinian leaders, such as Arafat (PLO) and Yassin (Hamas), who were difficult for even Western journalists to cover.\u003cbr\u003e This revised and expanded edition includes over 100 vivid field photos and details on the changing situation in the Middle East since the Trump administration took office.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e To the revised and expanded edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Why the Land of Tears?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Palestinian Anger, Frustration, and Resistance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Why Jerusalem: A City of Conflict or a City of Peace?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2: A Scene of Frustration and Anger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Gaza Strip, a giant prison with only the sky open to it  \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Palestine on the Brink of Survival\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Palestinian Children and Women\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: A Grim Portrait of the Middle East: Palestinian Refugees\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: The Separation Wall, Revealing the Jewish Ghetto\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Jewish Settlers: \"This is God's Promised Land\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Long-term Prisoners in Palestine\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Israeli Intelligence Agencies Fuel Internal Conflict in Palestine\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Israel's War Crimes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Israel and Palestine: Past and Present\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: Diaspora, Zionism, and the Balfour Declaration\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: The Dark Shadow of Nation-building and Terror\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: Why Hamas Raises the Flag of Struggle\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15: Other Anti-Israeli Struggle Organizations: PFLP, Jihad, and Hezbollah\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16: Israel's Concerns: Arab Citizens\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17: Is Israel a Democracy?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 18: The Arab Spring is a Winter for Israel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 4: The Middle East, the United States, and the Prospects for Peace\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 19: The Missing Middle East Peace Milestone\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 20: Hot Potatoes in Middle East Negotiations \u003cbr\u003eChapter 21: Collusion between the United States and Israel\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 22: Comparing Israel's Military Power with That of the Middle East\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 23: Nuclear Weapons Permitted Only to Israel\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 24: Conscientious Objectors in Israel\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 25: Israel's Pacifists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 5: Palestine's Tears Are Still In Progress\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 26: The Light of Hope in Small Changes\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 27 The Day When Palestine's Tears Will Stop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Search\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Palestinians' freedom of movement was restricted by checkpoints and separation barriers manned by Israeli soldiers, and farmers were unable to easily access the land they had cultivated for generations.\u003cbr\u003e The Gaza Strip has long been surrounded by concrete and barbed wire.\u003cbr\u003e The only open exit is the Mediterranean Sea, but even the sea is under the surveillance of the Israeli Navy.\u003cbr\u003e This Israeli blockade has brought the Palestinian economy to the brink of collapse, leaving only hatred and despair toward the Jews.\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.42~43\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBy the standards of Jerusalem's pious Jewish clergy, Tel Aviv is the Sodom and Gomorrah of the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e Of course, not all Tel Aviv citizens will nod their heads to this point.\u003cbr\u003e Doesn't Seoul alone have the diversity of a large city?\u003cbr\u003e It's like saying that it's hard to say anything about Seoul just by looking around Itaewon, Apgujeong-dong, and Hongdae.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hardline Israeli politicians insist that “Jerusalem is Israel’s eternal capital, which can never be divided or shared.”\u003cbr\u003e Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also made such public statements whenever he has the opportunity.\u003cbr\u003e He said, “United Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.\u003cbr\u003e “Jerusalem was, is and will always be ours, and will never be divided or separated,” he said.\u003cbr\u003e --- p57\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When we got to the scene, the relief supplies that had been left behind were still emitting smoke. \u003cbr\u003eThen-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who visited the Gaza Strip immediately after the ceasefire was reached, also strongly condemned Israel's indiscriminate bombing.\u003cbr\u003e A UN official who met at the scene said, “Secretary-General Ban’s face was very dark as he looked at the vehicles that had been destroyed by Israeli gunfire, even though they clearly had the UN mark on them.”\u003cbr\u003e --- p78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ariel Sharon's comments to Israeli media around that time clearly reveal his militant worldview.\u003cbr\u003e “You can call me a monster or a murderer.\u003cbr\u003e You can call Israel a Jewish Nazi state.\u003cbr\u003e “That’s better than being a dead saint.” Far from being punished as a war criminal, Sharon’s political career persisted, and in 2002, 20 years after the Lebanese massacre, he became the Prime Minister of Israel and took the lead in strangling Palestinians.\u003cbr\u003e --- p121\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe central figures of Hamas were Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the organization, and Abdul Aziz Rantisi, a former doctor.\u003cbr\u003e However, these two men were killed by Israeli helicopter missiles in the spring of 2004.\u003cbr\u003e I had two interviews with Yasin before he died.\u003cbr\u003e It was at his house in downtown Gaza.\u003cbr\u003e Yassin suffered a neck injury in an accident at age 15, and was arrested by Israel in 1989, early in the founding of Hamas, and spent seven years in prison, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and with fingers.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p291\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003ePalestine, the land of tears and lamentation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe miserable collapse of houses and mosques where the smoke still lingers, the 8-meter-high separation wall that has taken away even the freedoms that once existed, the luxuriously built Jewish settlements in front of the Palestinians who have no home and are wandering in refugee camps, the tears of Palestinians who have lost their parents and children to Israeli shelling, the farmer kneeling in front of the olive grove where the hope for their family's livelihood has turned to ashes, the Arab youth who live without hope, enduring all kinds of inequality as second-class citizens...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is Palestine, the site of so-called 'terrorism' and 'retaliation' as seen through the eyes of the author who visited Palestine more than ten times.\u003cbr\u003e Israel has been labeling Palestinian resistance as \"terrorism.\" \u003cbr\u003eWhy do they commit terrorism? Why does the bloody conflict, which has continued for over 70 years, continue unabated? The author argues that before analyzing these questions, we must first look at the Palestinian land itself, the tears and cries flowing amid the ruins of brutal destruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Root of Conflict: Zionism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Jews, who had been scattered by the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago, established Israel in the land of Palestine in 1948.\u003cbr\u003e This new nation was the fruit of the Jewish nationalist movement (Zionism) in the late 19th century.\u003cbr\u003e Zion is the name of a hill in ancient Jerusalem in Palestine.\u003cbr\u003e Zionism is a movement to establish an independent state in Palestine for Jews scattered around the world, using the hill in ancient Jerusalem as a symbolic goal. \u003cbr\u003eTheodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, was a 19th-century Austrian journalist who, far from being religiously strict like a Jewish rabbi, lived a very secular life.\u003cbr\u003e Herzl saw the spread of anti-Jewish sentiment following the Dreyfus Affair in 1894 (the case in which a Jewish French officer was accused of being a German spy without evidence), and he believed that an independent Jewish state should be established.\u003cbr\u003e The state-building movement initiated by Herzl led to the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland in 1897, where a declaration calling for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine was issued.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePalestine was not a no-man's-land\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The promised land flowing with milk and honey that the Zionists wanted to go to was not a no-man's land.\u003cbr\u003e At the end of World War I, Palestine was home to 700,000 to 800,000 Arabs and 50,000 to 60,000 indigenous Jews. \u003cbr\u003eIf Jews were to immigrate in large numbers, conflicts over land would inevitably arise.\u003cbr\u003e During World War I, Britain promised the Rothschilds, the financial magnates who had been financially supporting the Zionist movement, the creation of a Jewish state in exchange for war support.\u003cbr\u003e This is the Balfour Declaration (1917), named after British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour.\u003cbr\u003e However, Britain also needed the support of the Arabs to fight the Ottoman Empire and promised them an independent state.\u003cbr\u003e This is the McMahon-Hussein Agreement (1915) between a senior British official and the Caliph of Saudi Arabia.\u003cbr\u003e These two promises conflicted with each other.\u003cbr\u003e As a result, other Arab countries under the rule of the Ottoman Empire gained independence, but only the Arabs in the places where the Jewish state was established lost their homes and land and were forcibly driven out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne land, two nations\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs the wave of Jewish immigration continued, the number of Jews in Palestine reached 450,000 in 1940.\u003cbr\u003e Arabs waged an armed struggle against Britain's pro-Jewish policies.\u003cbr\u003e At that time, Jews were often engaged in gun battles with the native Arabs, and when the Jews took up arms to defend themselves, Britain supported them.\u003cbr\u003e The Jewish militia organizations formed at this time were the Haganah and the Irgun.\u003cbr\u003e By 1944, the Haganah numbered nearly 100,000 members and became the main force in the Israeli War of Independence a few years later.\u003cbr\u003e They threw grenades into empty houses to drive out the indigenous people and terrorized Palestinians.\u003cbr\u003e When necessary, they even carried out terrorist attacks against British forces. \u003cbr\u003eIn the midst of the chaos and violence over a single piece of land, the United Nations decided to divide the Palestinian territory into 6 to 4 parts, each to establish a Jewish state and an Arab state (UN General Assembly Resolution 181, 1947).\u003cbr\u003e Jerusalem was to remain an open city, not fully annexed by either side, and placed under a trusteeship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe founding of Israel and the four Middle East wars\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e However, by then, the Israeli armed groups Haganah and Irgun had already occupied three-quarters of Palestinian land.\u003cbr\u003e And when Israel was established in May 1948, a whopping 870,000 Arabs were driven out of the land.\u003cbr\u003e As a result, the Arab coalition attacked Israel, leading to the First Middle East War, but Israel won and acquired much more land than had been decided upon by the United Nations. \u003cbr\u003eIsrael's victory in the three subsequent wars left it with more occupied territory, while Palestine was left with a semi-autonomous state in a dwarfed territory confined to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.\u003cbr\u003e Thus, a situation was created where both sides exchanged violence under Israeli oppression, which is no different from colonial rule today.\u003cbr\u003e The emergence of Israel, a country that did not exist on world maps until the first half of the 20th century, in the Middle East resulted in enormous sacrifices for the Palestinian people, and the situation in which they live to this day has become one of tears.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePalestinian resistance, the intifada\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The two intifadas were an outburst of long-standing anger among the Palestinians who had endured years of sorrow and frustration under Israeli oppression.\u003cbr\u003e Intifada translates to uprising or resistance. \u003cbr\u003eThe first uprising, triggered by the deaths of four Palestinians in 1987 when a jeep struck them in Israeli-occupied territories, lasted for more than six years and resulted in the deaths of more than 1,000 Palestinians and 90 Jews.\u003cbr\u003e The incident attracted international attention, and the bloodshed was temporarily calmed by the Oslo Peace Accords (1993), which established a limited Palestinian self-government under active mediation by the United States and Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e However, in 2000, when Israeli right-wing politician Ariel Sharon stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, a holy site for Muslims, Palestinians protested by throwing stones, and the Israeli army suppressed the protests with blood, starting the Second Intifada.\u003cbr\u003e During this process, over 5,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis were killed over seven years. \u003cbr\u003eThe reason there were more casualties in the Second Intifada was because the Palestinians were fully armed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Between 2000 and 2018, there were over 10,000 Palestinian casualties and just over 1,000 Israeli casualties.\u003cbr\u003e In terms of death rate, there are 10 Arabs for every 1 Jew.\u003cbr\u003e This extreme asymmetry has led to constant international condemnation of Israel for not simply conducting military operations in conflict zones, but also for committing inhumane war crimes and massacres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Gaza Invasion and Israel's War Crimes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Israel is alternating between temporary occupation and retreat in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.\u003cbr\u003e After the Oslo Accords, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) led by Arafat moderated, and Hamas, an Islamist force based in the Gaza Strip, emerged in Palestinian politics. \u003cbr\u003eIsrael invaded the Gaza Strip three times in 2009, 2012, and 2014, using Hamas' terror attacks as a pretext.\u003cbr\u003e According to a 2009 UN report, Israeli forces used an 11-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield during the Gaza invasion, bulldozed houses containing women and children, and shelled houses containing civilians.\u003cbr\u003e The Israeli army bulldozed olive groves, the livelihood of local farmers, claiming to have a clear view, and bombed numerous homes under the pretext of searching for underground arms-smuggling tunnels leading to Egypt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In one household in the Gaza Strip that the author visited, Asma, a 15-year-old girl hanging laundry on the roof of her house, and her 11-year-old brother Ahmed, who was feeding pigeons right next to her, were shot dead by an Israeli sniper in broad daylight. \u003cbr\u003eWhy did the sniper kill these sisters? One in three Palestinian children say they will grow up to be martyrs.\u003cbr\u003e The growing intensity of their resistance is also evidence of their deepening frustration and anger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ea huge separation barrier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Since 2002, Israel has been pushing for the construction of a separation barrier totaling 710 kilometers.\u003cbr\u003e By the end of 2014, approximately 500 kilometers had been completed.\u003cbr\u003e The nominal reason for building the wall is 'security', but in reality, the purpose is to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which have been illegally occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967, to Israeli territory and make the territory of the Palestinian independent state that will one day be established even smaller. \u003cbr\u003eThe separation barrier extends further into Palestinian territory than the Green Line, which served as the border for 19 years before the Six-Day War, leaving 240,000 Palestinians trapped between them with nowhere to go.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Palestinians trapped inside the wall lack the basic freedoms of movement that every human being should enjoy, including the freedom to visit family and friends.\u003cbr\u003e They are in a situation where they cannot find jobs or basic necessities, cannot farm because waterways are blocked, and it is difficult to even obtain drinking water.\u003cbr\u003e To make matters worse, Palestinians suffer daily from violence, both large and small, from Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These trapped Palestinians living within the wall are living in a 21st-century ghetto, with restrictions on their residence, much like the Jews did during Hitler's Nazi era. \u003cbr\u003eIsrael's goal is to divide Palestine into the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and then isolate its cities and towns by building a wall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In addition to the separation barrier, Palestinians are suffering from extreme poverty due to Israel's harsh economic blockade.\u003cbr\u003e Israel's per capita income is around $35,000, while Palestine's per capita income is only $3,000.\u003cbr\u003e One in two Palestinians lives in absolute poverty.\u003cbr\u003e Israel's blockade policy is an economic war aimed at paralyzing the Palestinian economy and forcing its surrender.\u003cbr\u003e The calculation is that even if Israel cannot destroy Palestine militarily due to international condemnation, it can economically destroy it. \u003cbr\u003eThe brutal forced migration and massacre of Native Americans by white Americans in the 19th century, and the infamous apartheid system of the white South African regime in the 20th century, are now distant legends, but in the Middle East, a 21st-century version of Israel's ethnic cleansing and discrimination is taking place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJewish settlements, the vanguard of colonization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 600,000 Jews live in settlements in the Palestinian territories.\u003cbr\u003e Settlements are a right-wing political project aimed at expanding Israel's territory.\u003cbr\u003e The Israeli government encouraged settlement construction and resettlement in the occupied territories by providing financial support to construction companies and residents.\u003cbr\u003e Because the area where the settlements are built is Palestinian territory under international law, the settlement apartments are built to resemble fortresses on a battlefield.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Also, around the settlement, it is not uncommon to see fathers carrying automatic rifles taking walks with their families. \u003cbr\u003eJewish settlers legally carry guns.\u003cbr\u003e Under the pretext of protecting themselves from Palestinian terrorists.\u003cbr\u003e As friction with local Palestinian residents increased as settlements were built after the Six-Day War, the Israeli Ministry of Defense allowed settlers to arm themselves in 1973.\u003cbr\u003e In 1981, Jewish settlers were even given the power to search and arrest Palestinians without warrants (Israeli Military Order No. 898).\u003cbr\u003e When the Intifada broke out in 2000, the Jewish settlers' power grew even more, allowing them to shoot at Palestinians!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The strategy of Israeli hardliners to dominate the Middle East boils down to maintaining the status quo based on military superiority. \u003cbr\u003eThe idea is to maintain the existing situation of military occupation of Palestine as is, while prolonging the period as much as possible and expanding Israeli territory by establishing more Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories.\u003cbr\u003e Even today, Jewish settlers routinely harass and threaten the surrounding Palestinian population, creating a climate of fear and encouraging the indigenous people to leave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhose land is Jerusalem?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 2018, US President Trump caused a stir by moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.\u003cbr\u003e The international community has not recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.\u003cbr\u003e This is because Jerusalem was declared an international city under the UN trusteeship through UN General Assembly Resolution 181 in 1947.\u003cbr\u003e Most countries also have their embassies in Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem. \u003cbr\u003eHowever, hard-line Israeli politicians insist that “Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel, which can never be divided or shared” (Palestinians, on the other hand, claim that East Jerusalem is the capital of an independent Palestinian state).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jerusalem has a population of 900,000.\u003cbr\u003e West Jerusalem is predominantly Jewish, while East Jerusalem is home to 6 Arabs and 4 Jews.\u003cbr\u003e The problem is that the Israeli government is implementing various policies that disadvantage Arabs in order to reduce the proportion of Arabs in East Jerusalem, such as forced evictions and bans on new housing construction.\u003cbr\u003e As a result, the proportion of Arabs is decreasing year by year.\u003cbr\u003e The massive Jewish settlements surrounding East Jerusalem are effectively Israeli colonies embedded in Palestinian territory. \u003cbr\u003eIf you look at a map of the West Bank, you can see that Jewish settlements are scattered everywhere like countless dots.\u003cbr\u003e It means that all of Jerusalem will become Israeli territory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e President Trump's recent decision to move the embassy recognizes Jerusalem as the official capital of Israel and, furthermore, acknowledges Israel's current military occupation of Palestine.\u003cbr\u003e This also means throwing away the two-state solution card.\u003cbr\u003e Instead of establishing two independent states of Israel and Palestine on the land of the Middle East, it is a one-state solution, that is, recognizing only Israel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIsrael's military superiority and Iran's nuclear weapons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After four wars, the military balance between the Arab states of the Middle East and Israel has increasingly shifted toward Israel. \u003cbr\u003eIsrael currently has a strategy of using its military superiority in the Middle East to prevent and thwart the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.\u003cbr\u003e The reason for the military imbalance is that the burden of defense on Israel's southwestern front was reduced by the peace agreement with Egypt in 1979, brokered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.\u003cbr\u003e The 1994 peace agreement with King Hussein of Jordan is in the same vein.\u003cbr\u003e In particular, the removal of the Egyptian threat is a great advantage for Israel, as Egypt is the largest Arab country and has already fought several wars with Israel.\u003cbr\u003e In exchange for the peace agreement, Egypt and Jordan received massive annual economic and military aid from the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In addition, the division of the Arab world caused by the eight-year Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s also worked to Israel's advantage. \u003cbr\u003eThen, in the 1990s, the Gulf War weakened Iraq's military power, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had been providing military aid to the Arab world, disrupted the military balance between Israel and Arab countries.\u003cbr\u003e The 2003 Iraq War toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, disbanding the 400,000-strong Iraqi army and solidifying Israel's military superiority.\u003cbr\u003e Israel's military power is now balanced quantitatively with that of its neighbors, while maintaining a qualitative advantage.\u003cbr\u003e The only country Israel now has to worry about is Iran, which is developing nuclear weapons.\u003cbr\u003e If Israel were to launch a surprise attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, the flames of war would likely spread throughout the Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA place that everyone in the world should pay attention to until the end.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe author, who has covered the Middle East more than ten times since 2000, says that now is the time to listen to the cries of the Palestinian people who say, \"We want to live like human beings too.\"\u003cbr\u003e He says that when gunfire is heard in the Middle East, it should not be simply dismissed as the work of some extreme terrorists.\u003cbr\u003e This is not because of concerns about international oil prices, nor because of the complexities of international diplomacy, such as having to send troops under the pretext of peacekeeping forces at the request of the United States.\u003cbr\u003e Rather, the Palestinian issue poses fundamental questions to us about what 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