israel

[tastick]

why do arabs hate israel

[Loosehead]

Well they pretty much hate everyone but reserve special hatred for Israel mainly because they where forced off their land to create Israel after WW2.

[Clanad]

Trying to grasp the life and death struggle represented in your question presents a modern day equivalent of the Gordian Knot that isn't soon to be cut. Loosehead's short answer touches on but one of the components of the violence that engulfs that land. A comprehensive understanding can include the Book of Genesis (Chapter 16) from the Old Testament or Tanakh, wherein the father of both the Hebrews and those later to becom Arab's and recognized as such by both people's had two children in his old age... one, Isaac, became the progenitor of the Jews and the other, Ishmael (by his wife's handmaiden Hagar) who fathered all of the various Arab tribes, and historically began the conflict.

However, the British Mandate following WW I and it's attempted enforcement by the newly formed United Nations following WWII also contributed greatly. Both sides strenuously maintain the justness of their positions, but it's not soon to be resolved... Here's a fairly level headed historical account of the internecine warfare...
http://holyland-isreal.tripod.com/partition.ht m . Many on both sides, will disagree with almost everything the article... but you'll not find any historical account that doesn't favor one or the other...

[Lonnie]

The land is steeped in History and bloodshed, you can't get away from it,

First the Jews took it from the Caananites, then the Romans took it from the Jews, and renamed it Palestine, (their pronouniation of Phillistine) Under Mohamed, the Arabs then settled it, right now, its owned by Jews again, so the question really is, who is the rightful owner of Palestine/Israel, going by its history, whoever is there at the time.

But the present day problems, as Clanad has touched on, is the 'Twice Promised Land', Britain again.

Although, methinks, even without that, Jews, because of the Holocaust and Russian Pogroms, would have gone back anyway, but mpst of the pre 67 land was bought from the Arabs, their real problem was the declaration of a state.