Then after World War II and the Holocaust, there was a great push to do more to stop the genocidal efforts of Adolf Hitler to wipe out the Jewish people. There was this tragedy of the Jewish people, but many suggest that the way to deal with this was not to create a tragedy for the Palestinian people. Richard Falk goes on to say, “The UN decided to partition the former mandate that the British no longer wanted to administer and they gave, at the time, 55% of the historic territory to the insipient Jewish nation and 45% to the Palestinian nation. This seemed unfair and unacceptable at the time to the Palestinians and Arabs.”(“Global”) Yet again, it was another decision made by the European world that did not bother to consult the people who would be affected by the decision. The Palestinian and Arab people occupying the land were outraged. According to Office of the Historian, “The Palestinian Arabs refused to recognize this arrangement, which they …show more content…
There are two solutions to the problem, the one-state solution and the two-state solution. The one-state solution would combine Israel, the Gaza strip and the West Bank into one country. There are two sides to this solution. One of them is favored by some Palestinians, creating a single democratic country where Arab Muslims would outnumber Jews. This would essentially end Israel as a Jewish state as the identity would be washed out with the Palestinian Arab population. The other side is favored by some Israelis. This involves Israel taking control of the West Bank and forcing out the Palestinians or taking away their right to vote. However, this has been rejected by many, including Zionists, the extremist Jewish group, as it is a human rights violation. The two-state solution is exactly what it sounds like, a separate Israel and separate Palestine. This would satisfy both the Israelis and Palestinians as both countries run separately. This two-state solution “has been the goal of the international community for decades, dating back to the 1947 UN Partition Plan, and many nations say that it is the only way out of the conflict,” according to Oren Liebermann, Angela Dewan, and Lauren Said-Moorhouse of CNN. However, the inability of Israelis and Palestinians to decide on terms of a two-state solution poses interest in a one-state solution, partially since if the two sides