The Arab's Responsibility For The Arab-Israel Conflict The Middle East has always been known as the Holy Land, the land of the Bible. For centuries, prophets have walked there, nations have collided and conquerors have come and gone. While Jews claim a three thousand-year-old attachment to this ancient land, Arabs also stake their devotion. Since the United Nations partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948, there have been four major Arab-Israeli wars (1947-49 The First Palestine War, 1956 Suez War, 1967 Six Day War, and 1973 Yom Kippur) and finally 1993 a peace tr