衝突方/
●以色列
●阿拉伯國家

以阿衝突的核心是以色列和多數信奉伊斯蘭教的巴勒斯坦人的領土之爭。19世紀末，散居在歐洲各地的猶太人興起「錫安主義」，希望回到上帝賜與他們的「應許之地」定居，並建立猶太國家。但是這塊地實際上大多住著信奉伊斯蘭教的巴勒斯坦人。1890年後，猶太人陸續搬到巴勒斯坦人常居地，導致巴勒斯坦人的居住範圍從該地區的94%縮小到現在不到40%。巴勒斯坦人無處可去，且不斷遭到以色列擠壓，現在很多人依舊住在難民營，且擁有的領土越來越少。這便是領土之爭。
除此之外，以巴衝突的另一個原因就是耶路撒冷歸屬問題。耶路撒冷同時被猶太教、基督教和伊斯蘭教視為聖地，彼此誰都不讓誰。宗教衝突加上巴勒斯坦穆斯林領域被搶，進而引發發生多次中東戰爭，由伊斯蘭教的阿拉伯國家輪番對抗猶太教的以色列。（以色列真能打）

Date: 19th century to date

The root cause of the Arab–Israeli conflict is the territorial dispute between Israel and mostly Islamic Palestine. In the late 19th century, a wave of Zionism spread across Jewish communities in Europe seeking to return to God’s promised land and establish a Jewish state. Nevertheless, at the time, the promised land was already populated by Palestinians who were mostly Muslims. After 1890, Jewish migrants continued to flow into Palestinian settlements, chipping away the Palestinian residential area from 94% of the territory to less than 40% now. Palestinians have no place to go and live under constant oppression inflicted by Israel, many of whom have ended up in refugee camps as their territory continues to shrink. Hence the territorial dispute. 

Another root cause of Israeli-Palestinian conflict is sovereignty over Jerusalem. Judaism, Christianity and Islam have all enshrined Jerusalem as their holy city and the three refuse to relinquish their sovereignty over the land. Religious conflicts on top of the loss of the Islamic territory of Palestine have triggered many wars in the Middle East between Islamic Arab countries and Jewish Israel.