As a Jew living in the United States of America, I am unsettled by the horrors that have occurred in the Arab-Israeli Conflict over the past sixty-two years. Although the Jews may have been given part of the holy land originally because the United Nations feels sympathy towards victims of genocide, this does not mean that thousands more people need to die. This dispute over the lands of Israel has started wars, and terrorist cells. Even when the two sides could have shared the land, the Arabs felt like that was not good enough for them. However, neither side Arab nor Jew, is above reproach and blameless.Being an American Jew it would be easy to criticize the Arabs who resort to terrorism; however, Israel has made bad choices along the way as well. The most recent example of this is Israel's creation of Jewish Communities and announcement of this when Joe Biden was in Israel attempting to improve Arab-Israeli relations. The building project of one thousand six hundred Jewish Suburbs in East Jerusalem
Internationally accepted as Palestinian territory) set the talks between the two countries back an entire month. The United States President, Barack Obama, has tried increasingly hard to solve the problems in the Middle East. This, and Russia’s involvement in moving the peace treaties along, goes to show that the current events in the Middle East are global issues. However, for the time being it seems that Israel and the surrounding Arab countries are trying to make amends, even though it is a hard road ahead.
