Iran

The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) is the group that officially represents Palestine at the UN. Policy disagreements caused a split and the PLO became the PA (Palestinian Authority). At the end of the 1967 War, Israel captured the West Bank, The Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip. In 2005 Israel pulled out of Gaza and the people there held an election and selected Hamas to lead them. The sending of rockets into Israel continued. During the 1990's so many suicide bombers were sent into Israel that they had to build a wall. Hamas does not recognize Israel and thus no two state solution is possible unless Hamas is replaced. The recent incursion into Gaza has caused the predictable outrage around the world. There are reports that Hamas hides behind civilians and these reports are questioned by some in the press. A look at motivation leads to the question, who benefits when civilians in Gaza are killed. The long term solution is to unite other Arab countries to join Israel to combat Hamas and this was well underway when the October 7 attack occurred. That is now on hold. Many feel that Iran is creating the problem to counter their prime enemy in the region, Saudi Arabia.