Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Palestine And Palestine Of Palestine - 1506 Words

Palestine and Israel have been in conflict since 1948 for the ownership of Palestinian territory. When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Palestine became part of the administration of Great Britain after WWI despite British promises of a definite Palestinian independence. During WWII, several Jewish people fled to Palestine due to the Nazi persecution. Consequently, by the end of this war, there were six hundred thousand Jews in Palestinian territory, which created a coexistence tension. As a consequence, the United Nations divided Palestine in two equal sized regions: Arabic and Jewish. Once Great Britain withdrew Palestinian territory, the State of Israel was created, and was seeking more territory. This became the cause of the conflict. As†¦show more content†¦Since the beginning of the Arab-Israeli conflict, a â€Å"two-state solution† has been implemented in order to appease the issue. However, after more than 50 years, the world has realized that the conflict has on ly increased, and become worse and harder to solve. On the one hand, there is the â€Å"two-state solution† which consists in splitting both nations in two different states. One for Palestine and one for Israel side by side. â€Å"The framework of the solution is set out in UN resolutions on the Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine, going back to 1974† (Abunimah 130) which is a document that stablishes the two-state solution as a way to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. And on the other hand there is the one-state solution which is also known as the binational-state solution. â€Å"Proponents of a binational solution to the conflict advocate a single state in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with citizenship and equal rights in the combined entity for all inhabitants of all three territories, without regard to ethnicity or religion† (Tilley 250). This solution was presented on November 2007 and has been in discussion since then. However, afte r the outburst of the war in the Gaza Strip in 2014, more people is starting to believe it is the only viable solution for the issue. Palestinians have had a real reason to fight all this time, â€Å"their homeland for over a thousand years was taken,

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