I would like to understand the Israeli / Palastine conflict

[wendylovesbob]

Is there a book which is both readable, and has no agenda?

Or can you explain it to me?

When I read about it in the papers I have no idea about the implications or framework of whatever specific thing is being reported.

any take on why there are refugees after decades - (there can';t be anywhere else in the world that has refugee camps with shopping malls) - why has nobody in the Arab world taken them in?

Lebanon took them in and Israel went to war against Lebanon, destabilised that country and caused a civil war. That culminated in the massacres of Palestinian refugees. (Forgot to mention the Golan Heights which were also seized by Israel as part of its drive to secure and expand its borders.)

Egypt got whipped for much the same reason.

Jordan is vulnerable also and never, ever forget control of the water supply in all this.

You also have the Shi'ite/ Sunni conflict and I can't help you there.

Sorry, slightly misleading. The Golan heights overlook Syria. If you can be marmalised by Israelis rockets you try not to upset them.

"why has nobody in the Arab world taken them in"

Why would they ? if Israel had been set up in France would we have taken in the displaced French {hmm]

The Arab world is not a coherent whole in regard to the Palestinian problem but a lot of nations with conflicting interests. Egypt colluded with the Zionists in the blockade of Gaza.

We did take in displaced French, more than once. Some came as Hugenots - Protestant refugees of Catholic persecution. Some came as refugees from the French Revolution and some came as refugees from the Nazis.
We take in refugees from all over the world and eventually forget they were ever strangers. So do many other countries.

The Palestinians are in a fairly unique position though. No one wants them. They're too much of a hot potato unfortunately.
They are left to wander, just as the Jews did for 2000 years. Bitter irony.