Explain the similarities and differences between the Israel-Palestine conflict and the American invasion of Iraq. 

Basically, Iraq and Israel-Palestine on the surface appear to be very different societies with little in common as Iraq has its Kurds, Sunni Arabs, and Shiites, and its modern history has been a struggle over monarchy, republicanism, and the one-party state.

Whereas, Israel-Palestine is a Jewish, Sunni Arab, and Christian Arab, and its central struggle has been over the shape of the Zionist state and the question of Palestinian statelessness.

Additionally, Iraq is a hydrocarbon state, while Israel- Palestine have diverse economies.

Similarly, the two are fruitfully viewed through the same prism in two ways, though on a comparative level, they share much in common, being,

• Multi-ethnic states with a background in Ottoman and British colonial administrative practices.
• Again their fragility and ethnic instability have driven both internal civil wars and wars with neighbors.
• They have as well had an important impact upon one another.

Step-by-step explanation

To dig much into it, both illustrate the ways in which European colonialism profoundly shaped the modern Middle East, imposing the state frameworks within which ethnic competition was worked out. They also demonstrate how central the Israeli-Arab conflict has been to the fortunes of Middle Eastern governments. The British made two promises during World War I, with tragic consequences for the Middle East. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 pledged to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which, the pompous commitment intoned, and miraculously avoid inconveniencing what were to be more than a million native inhabitants by the time the promise was fulfilled