ABSTRACT
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most enduring of the modern era and it continues to entangle and engage the international community to the present day. The ongoing battle between the Israelis and Palestinians is rooted in a struggle between the two peoples over land, national identity, political power and the politics of self-determination. The initial context of the conflict lies in the decline of Ottoman Muslim power and the opposition from within this society from a new breed of nationalist. European territorial ambitions and the emergence of new notions of territorial nationalism that would come to bind both the Palestinian and Jewish people to ambitions for independence and statehood in the same territory are also clearly significant factors shaping the period that can be considered as epitomizing the roots of the conflict.
