An Overview Of The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

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As said by many people, Israel should be one state as well as two states. The “one state solution” is an overview of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is the only solution that will bring tranquility, justice and freedom to the middle east. The new President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, is opposed to the establishment of a Palestinian state (Rubinstein,Danny).There should be one state in Israel because it has always been the Jewish land, the land was originally given to the by Abraham, and many people from each land believe it would make equality among everyone.
Religion is huge in Israel to many groups of people, the Jewish being one. They claim that the land is from Abraham and his descendants. Its said that it was a biblical promise that the Jewish would receive the land. The land was the historical site of the ancient Jewish kingdoms of Israel and Judea. The conflict for the Jewish is the Palestinian Arab. Based on their residence in the country for hundreds of years, they claim it as theirs. Palestinians say that it is their land from Arab ascendant state that the Jews acquired from them. Israel has been known as a state since 1948 and has been allies with America since the 1960’s. The main argument of this is religion and the Arabs living in Palestine and the Jews living in Israel. It was Zionism for the Jews against Arab nationalism. This rivalry was known as the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The main issues were border brawls, security, the leading of Jerusalem, recognition, understanding and the Palestinian freedom of movement. These issues are what guided the intensifying conflict therefore it became part of day to day activity between the two states. The Zionists believed that Palestine was their land and according to...

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... Judea and Samaria. It will happen by the support of Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
Though intense considering in academic circles, this approach has remained outside of official efforts to resolve the conflict as well as main analysis, where it is eclipsed by the one-state solution. The one-state solution was most recently agreed upon by the government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority at the November 2007 Annapolis Conference and remains the main basis for negotiations given by the administration of U.S. president Barack Obama. Interest in a one-state solution is growing and many more are for it than against.
Clearly the one-state solution is the best option. In 2012, the UN envoy to the Middle East, Robert Serry, announced, “Israeli settlement construction has said that the parties are to achieve a two-state solution, and furthermore a peaceful solution.”

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