Is Peace Possible Between Israel and Palestine?
"The Arab world is not in a compromising mood... Nations never concede; they fight. You won't get anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps get something, but only by the force of your arms...But it's too late to talk of peaceful solutions" (Bard 1). The Arab League Secretary Azzam Pasha said this statement on September 16, 1947, eight months before the state of Israel was established. The Arabs held this mentality in a time when Israel was not yet a fact. This trait was hereditary in the sense that it was taught to their children, who taught it to their children, and so on. Those are the people who are living in Arab countries, and still despise everything about Israel and believe that, no matter what, negotiations are useless. This is especially true today with the Palestinians, for as Suha Arafat, wife of Yasser Arafat, stated, "I have always rejected normalizing relations with (Israeli) women...
They always invite me to their functions and I categorically refuse because I hate Israel" (Bard 2). This statement proves that though the Israeli's try to normalize relations with the Palestinians, they refuse because they want nothing to do with Israel. From the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 to the present, there have been five wars, all of which have ended with peace treaties that did not do much. A peace treaty will never normalize the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East because so many have failed in the past.
May 14, 1948 was a victorious day for the Jewish people; the state of Israel was born. The excitement, however, was short lived because the armies of Syria, Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon entered Israel the next day in an effort to erase...
Poorly written
This essay is poorly written. I do not say this because I disagree with the position being presented in this paper (which I do), but because there are a number of grammatical mistakes. For example, one should never refer to himself or say "you" when writing an essay. So instead of saying "As you will find.." one should say "As one will find..".
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