Thursday, March 12, 2009

Creation of the Middle East




After the end of the First World War, The Ottoman empire was forced to give up a lot of its territories to the entente powers. Palestine, the area that is now Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, was given to Britain under a mandate. A short time after this arangement, the British decided that much of the land should be occupied by the Jews since their religious history reverts back to the area. After WWII, many people vastly agreed that this area should rightfully be occupied by the Jews because of the holocaust. The Jews accepted this, but the Arabs did not, and they revolted right away. Now there is a major conflict in this area on who should live there. The Arabs of the West Bank think that they should try to solve the problem with Israel, but the Arabs of the Gaza Strip want to destroy all the people of Isreal. With this, there is major conflict between the Isrealites and the Arabs of the Gaza Strip, and there is mostly peace between the people of Isreal and the West Bank. My opinion is that the Jews rightfully deserve to live in the area because of religious history. I think that if the land didn't belong to the Jews then all of Jerusalem with Jewish culture would be destroyed! On the other hand, since Muslim culture is also in Jerusalem, I think that if the Muslims weren't there then their religious culture would also be destroyed. Therefore, I think that the Arabs should move to the West Bank and leave the Gaza Strip since there is a ton of violence there, and then hopefully peace would spread from the people of the West Bank to the people of the "former" Gaza Strip. With this though, the Arabs will probably grow angry, so I think that Arab land should be extended to the top of Israel until it reaches the Mediterranean Sea so that they have water ports.

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