Origins of Current, Ongoing Major Conflicts | Part 1.

Hello! This is simply to inform and educate the SpaceHey Users on current topics, some of which is desperately needing context.

NOTE, THIS IS ONLY PART ONE.

ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

   Ever since 1948, the State of Israel has been locked in conflict with is Arab neighbors. These neighbors are:

- Palestinian Territories (Gaza and West Bank)
- Syria
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Egypt

These conflict has lead into a series of major wars, including:

First Arab-Israeli War, 1948 - 1948
Suez War, 1956
Six-Day War, 1967
War of Attrition, 1967 - 1970
Yom Kippur War, 1973
First Intifada, 1987 - 1993
Second Intifada, 2000 - 2008
First Gazan War, 2014
Second Gazan War, 2023

The current major war, the Second Gazan War, began after Palestinain Militant Group Hamas killed over one thousand Israeli civilians and military personnel. However, the conflict goes much further into the past.

The earliest form of Israel were the Israelites who had escaped Egypt with Moses. According to the Bible and Torah, God had promised the land of Zion to the Israelites, with Jerusalem serving as the Capital. However, the land would come under the ownership of many different empires. The Greeks, Romans, and the Ottomans. Under the Ottomans, the land became primarily Arab. This area became known as Palestine, which originated from the Greek word "Palaistine." However, after the Holocaust during World War II, the political ideology of Zionism grew. Zionism promotes the establishment of a Jewish State in the area of Israel and Palestine. This lead to the establishment of Israel in 1948. This began the Arab-Israeli conflict.

UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN WAR

    In December of 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was founded. This Union included:

- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Estonia
- Georgia
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Moldova
- Russia
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan

In 1924, however, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin would pass away. His successor, Joseph Stalin, would become one of the most controversial leaders in modern history. His leadership, as well as his association with Nazi Germany, would start the Second World War. While the world was focusing on Germany's Holocaust, Stalin was committing genocide against the Ukrainians known as the Holodomor. He would eliminate Ukraine's grain supply, their primary food supply. Due to this, Ukrainians sympathized with Germany after their invasion of the USSR in 1941. After the USSR and the Allied victory in WW2, Ukraine would continue facing Soviet Oppression, However, in 1991, the USSR collapsed, and each country under the USSR would become an independent republic.

Under Russia's current "president", Vladimir Putin, Russia would threaten Ukraine multiple times. In 2014, Russia would invade Ukraine and annex the Crimean Peninsula. He would then invade again in 2022, which is still ongoing at the time of this post.