Structural Causes of Conflict
In the 1800s, the Zionist declared Palestine as their holy land for the Jewish people and called it Israel. Because of rising Antisemitism in the rest of Europe, many more Jewish people started to immigrate to Israel. This caused the native people of Palestine to be angry and violence started to break out. Both sides thought that the land should be theirs because for the Zionist, they saw it as their sacred land, but for the Palestinians, they saw it as their native land.
Proximate Causes of Conflict
After the violence started to escalate even further, the UN intervened and came up with a "solutions" to the issue of fighting over the land. They declared that 55% of the land should go to the Zionists, while the rest should go to the Palestinian people. This was a major start point unrest in the conflict because the people of Palestine thought that they should have gotten the more of the land because there were more of them than the Zionists. This also caused Palestine to view the UN as favouring the Israeli people.
New Factors to Prolonging Conflict Dynamics
In 1947 until 1949, there was a major war between Israel and Palestine. Five different Arab armies were involved, but the Israeli Army outnumbered all of them combined. By the end of the war, Israeli had conquered 78% of the Palestinian. Many of the Palestinians were made refugees and a lot of their culture was lost. This a large factor of the reason why the anger has continued on through so many years. Israel continued to conquer more and more land, but because of some violations of laws that land is not technically considered theirs. However, the Israeli army heavily occupies the areas, West Banks and Gaza, and violently enforces their rule onto the Palestinian people. Both sides of the people involved in the conflict hold much anger for the other for various reasons, and all of the continued fighting has added on to the growing hate between the two.
Potential Factors for Peace
Much of the hate between Israel and Palestine stems from an often misguided view of the other. If they were both educated more on the history and the views of the other it might lessen some of the anger that fuels the conflict. The rest of the world, whether it is the common people or the government, should also be educated on the conflict in order to take steps in trying to resolve the issue.