When we hit the year 2000 the situation really heats up, and for good reason. With the coronation of the new Israeli prime minister who was previously a military general named Hammas who was known for his ruthless acts against the Palestinian people.
To which the Palestinians did not agree, and attempted to revolt. However as the new prime minister of Israel had no reservations about mass murder and killing civilians. Needles to say it did not end well, for anyone. The Israeli police force which gave limited rights to anyone who isn't Jewish and decided to occupy much more than what they were supposed to and that is when the Palestinians really lost it. When Israel had a firm grip on the entire of Palestine they decided to build a giant wall on the entire south side of Israel called the "Apartheid Wall".
The wall was build for anti-terrorist defence and it was governed very harshly, anyone within kilometres of the wall or the construction site during the building of the wall was shot with extreme prejudice. However the necessity of a wall was apparent because of the turmoil in the country. The Arab people were constantly attempting to assassinate the prime minister of Israel and killing Israeli police. When the prime minister dies in 2005 the Arabs were pleased and the Israeli were not, they mourned for weeks and eventually elected Mahmoud Abbas as the new prime minister. Abbas did not want to continue the killing and requested a ceasefire, but the Arab prime minister Hammas refused a ceasefire. Until today the presidents have changed and the people have changed yet policies have changed very little since then and the country of Palestine is still in trouble. What I have to think after all this is that people really need to let things go, if people could just let things go and forget then a lot of problems could be averted and should be averted.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/middle_east_crisis/
http://www.globalissues.org/article/119/the-middle-east-conflict-a-brief-background
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/103/middle-east
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Middle_East
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ReplyDeleteThis is a bit of an overload of information. One sentence does not always flow well into the next as we cannot always clearly connect the ideas. Don't forget to give a bit more of your opinion at the end of each piece.