middle east conflict
The Middle East has long been home to a very deep-rooted conflict. The struggle for the control of Jerusalem between the Jews, Christians and Muslims has been going on for hundreds of years. After WWII with the establishment of Israel, the conflict grew even stronger. Now, as Israel is currently the dominant and the stronger of the countries in the region, the predominantly Muslim countries are finding it hard to accept the fact that Israel is in fact the dominant force in the Middle East. Israel in turn is trying very hard to learn to get along with its Muslim neighbors. One of the ways it has been attempting to reach this goal is the signing of different so called peace agreements with the PLO.It has even with the various peace agreements been very tumultuous. Israel is unwilling to give up complete control of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem to the Palestinians. Along with this, Israel has been strengthening its settlements in these areas, and has been encouraging even more expansion. Right now, it seems as if the peace process has stopped being effective, and has instead turned detrimental to the stability of the Middle East. The peace process between Israel and the PLO was initiated, mediated, and
Maksoud, Clovis. Taking Sides. Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing Group/Brown & Another problem that does not look to be resolved is the issue with the Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories. The Israeli government's position on the settlements, starting with Rabin, and then Netanyahu has been "...to strengthen settlement in places where it exists...these are natural needs and necessary growth.Rabin before his assasination had been very willing to push ahead with the peace process which it is said is why the extremists had him assasinated.Netanyahu on the oter hand was not ready to make room for peace and during his tenuere not much progrees was made.Ehud Barak looks very willing toforge ahead with the prcess of peace and has alrady decided to give concecions to the palestinians in order to achive it. " According to Naseer Aruri, who is a member of the Palestinian National Council and the PLO's Central Committee, and who is also a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, in the past four years, the growth in of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has been around 49 percent, while the growth in East Jerusalem has been 33 percent over the same period. Overall, more then a hundred settlements have increased their population. Aruri's article discusses the similarities and differences between Rabin and Netanyahu's approaches to the peace process. He states that "[Netanyahu] feels unimpelled to disguise or finesse Israeli colonization or to deny that the interim phase and the final settlement are one and the same. Hence, his proudly declared non-negotiability of virtually all the final status issues. Colonization equals freedom of movement for all Jews anywhere in the 'land of Israel.' It is manifest destiny..." Aruri goes on to say, "The Likud government's statement on settlements makes no attempt to hide the fact of non-negotiability; the settlements' population would simply have their National Priority A status restored in order to 'reinstate social and economic parity between [them] and other developing areas of the country.'" Basically, the Israeli's are not
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