The Implications of the Israel/ Palestine Conflict

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I decided to write about this issue not because of personal firsthand experience but due to my best friend’s experience. I didn’t have any idea whatsoever about the Israel-Palestinian issue, in fact I was clueless about all the ciaos in the media about the war. I came to knew about this issue when in my junior year of high school I met my Arab friend, she was such a fun person to be around. Every time I asked about where she was from she just said Palestine and I would ask her “Is that even a country”. Later I came to know that Israel and Palestine were same. Until then I used to only know about a place called Israel from bible where I read “Israel to be god’s house”. To further quench my curiosity I asked her, “If Palestine and Israel the same place”, she suddenly replied in a disturbed tone, “No it’s not”. It is Palestine not Israel, I was terribly confused. Later she told me How Israel or the Jewish people took over their land and threw them out by taking the entire Gaza in their hands”. She talked about how cruel Israelites were and she also went on to say how cruel America is helping Israel militarily to kill more Palestinian. I forgot everything she said, but couldn’t forget one sentence about America being cruel thought she has gone crazy and she is just expressing a grudge and anger to her rivalry. When I heard this from all Arabs I knew I thought this issue can be true. Moreover I think this issue is a major issue because somewhere down the line this affects America as a whole. Hence, for this semester I would be exploring the serious issue of U.S. helping militarily in Israel-Palestinian issue.
Although I was never interested in such a serious issue, I took some struggle to research th...

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... Israelis. Current Number of political prisoner held by Israel are 5007 Palestinians, whereas Palestinians held none. Still U.S.is supporting Israel, Is it because Palestine is a highly growing Arab nation? We need to answer all these important queries. According to Current Illegal settlements on other’s land, Israel currently has 260 Jewish only settlements and outposts built on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land. . A new World Bank report found that Israel’s movement and access restrictions cost the Palestinian economy at least $3.4 billion annually, an amount equivalent to 35% of Palestinian GDP. The unemployment rate in West Bank is 23%.
Is it high time the U.S. government stop supporting Israel as far too many issues with this friendship? How many more UN violations are needed to convince the American people?

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