A big bombing accident by Israel took place in Palestine over 29 days from July to August. The event caused about 2,000 casualties. Currently, Israel called a truce from August 5th. Those two countries’ fighting is being reviewed in the international community again.
  According to the UN, the dead in Gaza were 1,867. 68% of these were civilian casualties. On the other hand, 67 people were killed in Israel. The number of people who were killed by fighting between those countries has also increased significantly since 2008. BBC broadcasted that 50,000 people were victimized during the fighting in 2009, whereas the number of victims caused by this incident was 485,000 people. Property damage costs were estimated at 6 billion won, which is more than the 2 billion in 2008.
  Their large-scale fighting started when Israel chose land in Palestine to build their country. Jewish people’s living in Europe up to the 19th century were treated discriminatingly, so they determined to found their own country. Jewish people asserted their ownership of the Palestinian land on the basis of religious reasons. Abraham, who was an ancestor of the Jewish people, lived in the Palestinian region in around 200 BC. Then, Jewish people were expelled from Jerusalem by invaders 2,000 years ago, so they have a right to recover their own country. However, there is a blind spot in those reasons. Today, 80% of the Jewish people are unrelated to the ancestors. Their real ancestors were related with Qajar, which was located in what is now the southern Russian steppes. The rulers of this kingdom, although they were not Jewish people, accepted Judaism as the state religion. Due to that, another Jewish generation was created.
  Israel has not only religious reasons, but it also has international support. The ‘Balfour Declaration’ is another foundation to invade Palestine. From the end of the 19th century, the Zionist movement, a campaign to build their own country, was started among the Jewish people. That time, the British were fighting with Germany, so it needed Israel’s help. At that time, British Foreign Minister Arthur James said that the British government would be in favor of establishing a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
  This bombing event is a racial discrimination policy for reducing the Palestinian population, which has been frequently done by Israel. Currently, Palestinians are living in less than 1/4 the land that they had after 4 big Middle East wars. The Palestinian population has a total of around 520 million people, so it is almost the same as Israel, 600 million people. Compared with Israel and Palestine in birth rates, Palestine is 32.8 people per 1,000 people, and Israel is 26.2 people per 1,000 people. The scholars estimated that the Palestinian population will be higher than the Israeli population in 2016, so Israel invaded Palestine and killed women and children frequently to stop from this happening.
  The reason that the world power nations do nothing about Israel is because of Jewish people’s powerful influence. Jewish people are 0.2% among the world’s population, but 23% of Noble prize winners are Jewish people. They affect various areas, especially in U.S.A. According to Forbes, there are 1,645 people who have more than 10 billion dollars and 268 among them are Jewish people. Bill Gates, who founded Microsoft company, Larry Ellison who is a C.E.O. of Oracle, which is a corporation of computer technology, and Mark Zuckerberg who is the creator of Facebook are all Jewish people. Jewish people are spreading in international financial companies and US federal executive departments. The famous U.S. media, NYT, Wall Street Journal, NBC, ABC, CBS etc. are managed by Jewish people’s capital. Jewish people affect not only U.S.A. but also other countries. However, because of the recent event, British are rethinking about exporting weapons to Israel.
 

By Lee Da-yeon
dy34@cbnu.ac.kr