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There has been constant debate the past couple of years about what should be done about the Israel and Palestine conflict. Although the attention this issue has received has skyrocketed the past couple of years it has been a problem awaiting solution for decades. The area known as Israel now was originally known as British Palestine after the Ottoman Empire was split up and colonized after World War 1. This was the case until in 1948 the Israeli immigrants who had overwhelming come into the area after the tragedies of the Holocaust had been seeking an independent state in the region. After UN negotiations the territory was split up where both Israel and Palestine each had their own territory while Jerusalem was left as a special international territory. Eventually, the Arab-Israeli war broke out where the state of Israel won and began to occupy more of Palestinian Territories which led to even more conflict. Going farther forward to 1967 was when Israel fought another war against neighboring countries in the Six Day War. Israel had won the Sinai region of Egypt and had taken the West Bank from Jordan now officially occupying the entirety of what was once Palestine. Even after the Camp David Accords were signed in 1973 between Israel and Egypt the once Palestinian regions of Gaza and the West Bank were still occupied. This created an overwhelming tension between the two parties and led to two increasingly violent intifadas where Palestinians were the majority of the casualties. During this time the group known as Hamas was formed with the goal of destroying the nation of Israel and reclaiming Palestine. The conflict reached all time highs on October 7th, 2023 when Hamas had enough and attacked Israel. This is what caused the conflict in Israel that we know today. No solution has been found yet to the conflict but the prevailing opinion is there needs to be two separate states, one for Israel and one for Palestine. Despite this Israel has refused to give up any territory and many Palestinians are suffering from the conflict.

I would personally say that the two state solution would theoretically cause the least amount of future conflict and should be what negotiations should move towards. However, I do understand that as of right now this solution would be nearly impossible to pull off due in part to Israel’s refusal to give up any territories they have to Palestine and also in part due to that after all of this conflict and hardship the two states would not be able to peacefully exist right next to each other. The reason I say that is because this is exactly how the original conflict began and I hope to see moves towards peace and talks of a solution in which it is a two state region once again but as for right now there needs to be a stop to the bloodshed before anything else.