Jaimin Patel
Professor Ghazvinian
History 181
December 7, 2017
Looking back over the past 25 years, what has been the main obstacle standing in the way of peace between Israel and the Palestinians?
Israel has dependably been willing to trade off and each Israeli government including the present one has been set up to make significant penances for peace. Israel has made major concessions, gave up some land, withdrawn forces and even removed military bases to make peace. Be that as it may, peacemaking requires agreements on the two sides. Israel has attempted to recognize the rights and interests of the Palestinians. However, Israel has rights and interests that should be recognized and tended to. Peace must be accomplished through both parties bridging differences and resolving any issue for the sake of the future.
Looking back to this whole conflict, I feel like there were a few obstacles standing in the way of peace between Israel and Palestine. I feel like the main one was the refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The U.N. stepped in 1947 to divide the Palestinian Mandate territory into a Jewish state and an Arab State but unfortunately this was rejected by the Arab
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Palestine view is “no” to partition, “no” to a Jewish state, and “no” to a Jewish presence in what they consider an Arab land. The Palestinians time and time again missed opportunities to achieve their national aspirations by greed, and hatred. In 1993 we saw a glimpse of peace between Israel and Palestine when they have the Declaration of Principles. In these terms, Palestinians promised to recognize Israel and stop terrorism and Israel in turn would establish a Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and Gaza. Israel also agreed to more concessions and transferred substantial powers and responsibilities to the Palestinians in various geographical