Keep Your Friends Close, But Your Enemies Closer: How The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is Causing Major Conflicts Throughout Their Populations and The World

The Israeli- Palestinian conflict has caused and is still causing many problems including illegal actions, intifadas, and violent actions towards the rest of the world. Overall, this conflict occurred over land. Palestinians claimed the land that they shared with Israel as their land, due to them living their there for so long. Then the Israelis claimed they had religious ties to the land, and after the Hollocaust, the jewish started approving the idea of a separated state. Jews started moving into Palestine territory, causing conflicts, and the U.N. interfered resulting in the Jewish population getting their own state, Israel. Palestinians tried to fight back against Israel, but lost land in the process and caused their own kind to be stateless. This rivalry has been occurring ever since.
    In one of the articles I have read, the topic of the article was on illegal actions being done by Israeli prison workers against Palestinian prisoners. According to the author of this article, Israeli prison workers are neglecting the prisoners' medical needs, abusing them, and giving them unfair sentences due to unfair judicial systems. The author of this article is a Palestinian prisoner currently, and he has many followers on his side fighting to get him out after he was accused of starting an Intifada. His imprisonment has caused hunger strikes across many jails in Israel (Barghouti 2)
    In another article, the topic was about a possible third Intifada forming and how this terrorist group and the past Intifadas have affected Israel and neighboring nations. The author starts by talking about how Marwan Barghouti started past Intifadas, and how these groups caused violent acts towards Israel. These Intifadas also caused violence in the rest of the world, and these actions were classifies as terrorist attacks. The author then describes how the possibility of a third Intifada is alarming Israelis and how Barghouti called for this Intifada to form (Frykberg 20).
    In the last article, the topic was about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how this conflict affects the rest of the world. The author starts out by describing the history behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how it started. Then it is stated that past United States presidents have tried to solve the problem by introducing new ideas on how Palestinians and Israel could split up the land. All of these presidents have failed, and there have been terrorist strikes on the United States caused by terrorist groups from Israel. The violence done to the Twin Towers in the U.S. is an example of these terrorist attacks ( Berger 21). In essence, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a major problem for everyone.




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Barghouti, Marwan. “Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons.” The New York Times, New
      York Times Company, 16 Apr. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/opinion/palestinian-hunger-
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Berger, Joseph. “The Six-Day War, Then and Now.” The New York Times Upfront, vol. 149, no. 12,
      24 Apr. 2017, pp. 18-21.

Frykberg, Mel. “A Third Intifada: Waiting in the Wings.” Middle East, no. 433, pp. 20-23.
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