种族与文化差异、意识形态分歧、利益纠葛、外部势力干涉等导致中东地区各民族间的矛盾与冲突非常突出,并构成了影响地区安全与稳定的重要威胁源。该地区的民族问题具有普遍性、多元化、教派性、时代性和国际化等诸多特征。其中巴勒斯坦问题最为典型,是影响二战后中东战争与和平的关键因素之一。
Because of their race and cultural differences,ideological differences,conflicting interests,foreign interference and other factors,inter-ethnic contradictions and conflicts in Middle East is very prominent,and constitute an important source of influence threaten regional security and stability. Ethnic issues in the region show the characteristic of universality,diversity,sectarian nature,the times and internationalization and so forth. Among them,the most typical one is Palestinian issue that has become one of the key factors affecting the war and peace of the Middle East after the Second World War.