the UN set down land for an Israel and land for a Palestine. Arabs weren't happy
And why should they be?
The Arab inhabitants of the territory didn't commit the holocaust, which is what brought the issue of a Jewish homeland to the forground. Now they are expected to live in permanent refugee camps like dogs. I don't condone suicide bombing as an appropriate response to any percieved injustice, but, how can anyone expect the Palestinians to accept the situation? I don't disagree that the Jews deserve a homeland, whatever their reasons, but at the expense of another?
The UN Mandate and British partitioning is the reason we find the whole region in conlfict today.
You couldn't have put two more incompatable people in the same area. Looking back to the Philistines and Hebrews, they were in constant conflict. Each side slaughtering the other on more than one occasion, unlike today, the Philistines were essentially the dominant side.
No one here will be able to give a definitive answer about what to do, and if they can, your talents are at waste here...Go...mediate.
Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians (and I'm not just talking the minority who would go so far as to kill themselves and others) are going to be perceptive to the idea of the other maintaining complete control over the entire region.
The best idea, I suppose, would be a 2 state scenario. But like any other conflict theres always a minority who refuse to think of the larger picture, and both sides have guilty parties when it comes to this.
Anyway, the wall, it's not such a bad idea in the short term. Keeps the bombers where they are. But I believe all it is going to do is enforce the idea that the Israelis are uncooperative with regards to finding a permanent solution to the problem.
Of course, it will provide for some great footage (Think Berlin wall coming down) when they do find a permanent solution and both groups can live side by side (yeahyeah...optimism) and they knock it down.
Hang on let me take off my rose-coloured specs.
The wall won't keep everyone out, the Israelis will have to step it up and use their nuclear program that they
don't have. The focus of every terrorist cell in the world will be instantly brought to Israel..which will understandably get very pissed off. Endgame, Checkmate and the world comes to a fiery end which I will miss out on because I've built my bomb shelter like everyone else on my block.
I will emerge to a small rock floating through space...there will be one other person on that rock, who as it turns out, is a beautiful Israeli girl..we will mate, creating a species of Arab/Israeli children, who will at first get along by finally reconciling the two religions and races into one. Unfortunately there is a minute discrepancy between the two religions (One side believing I, am the father of the religion, while the other side believes my Israeli counterpart is the matriarch and hence the more important of the two....not that it matters we've been dead for hundreds of years) and a splinter religion is formed.
The two religions fight long after our smaller rock crashes into a large planet similar to the old earth. The two sides now have the ability to procreate and grow larger and larger, until thousands of years later, the two sides have been moved into a small country via poor diplomacy on behalf of a group of countries who have decided they are superior enough to decide where the originators of the entire planet should live. Hence we find them, after hundreds of years have past and hundreds of measures have been taken by each side to ensure the other one is as uncomfortable as the other. As I said, we find them in this small piece of land where they stand toe to toe ready to fight each other to the death...
Pardon the longwindedness, I should know better, but I started writing the little history of mankind and I just kept going.