War, Peace and Lamentation
Peace, War and Lamentation
Imagine a child living in a closed society that separates them from the rest of their community and country. Does that child feel isolated or alienated from their homeland? Picture a 10 minute commute to work turning into a two hour commute overnight. Imagine a society that requires check-points and permanent resident permits in order to move freely from one destination to the other? Unfortunately, this is a way of life for some Palestinians families living in the West Bank and Gaza areas of Israel. The surrounding areas of the West Bank did not always consist of separation and policies, but rather freedom of movement. However, this changed when Israel policy makers made the decision to build the wall to separate Palestine from Israel territories. According to Editor John Woodward, on July 2003, Israel policy makers announced that they finished the first phase of the wall in the West Bank area (46). The separation wall as a 7.6 concrete crowned with watch towers between one distance and another (144). He goes on further to describe the wall as a barrier that includes barbed wires in front of a hole in the ground, which are 2-and 4-meters deep. The barrier also consists of, cameras, radar observation, towers, and touch sensitive pads. Too add to that, the electrified fence stretches across 60-100 meters long with one military road (144). The wall separating Israelis from Palestinians is one of many efforts between the two parties to come to a mutual peace agreement.
One of the repeated efforts of Israel authorities to make peace with Palestinians policy makers includes several different offers of a two-state solution. The two-state solution was a plan to make two independent states for Jewish and Palestine communities. It was first offered to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1937, but they rejected the offer. One researcher argues that the repeated refusal of the two- state resolution was an implication
Imagine a child living in a closed society that separates them from the rest of their community and country. Does that child feel isolated or alienated from their homeland? Picture a 10 minute commute to work turning into a two hour commute overnight. Imagine a society that requires check-points and permanent resident permits in order to move freely from one destination to the other? Unfortunately, this is a way of life for some Palestinians families living in the West Bank and Gaza areas of Israel. The surrounding areas of the West Bank did not always consist of separation and policies, but rather freedom of movement. However, this changed when Israel policy makers made the decision to build the wall to separate Palestine from Israel territories. According to Editor John Woodward, on July 2003, Israel policy makers announced that they finished the first phase of the wall in the West Bank area (46). The separation wall as a 7.6 concrete crowned with watch towers between one distance and another (144). He goes on further to describe the wall as a barrier that includes barbed wires in front of a hole in the ground, which are 2-and 4-meters deep. The barrier also consists of, cameras, radar observation, towers, and touch sensitive pads. Too add to that, the electrified fence stretches across 60-100 meters long with one military road (144). The wall separating Israelis from Palestinians is one of many efforts between the two parties to come to a mutual peace agreement.
One of the repeated efforts of Israel authorities to make peace with Palestinians policy makers includes several different offers of a two-state solution. The two-state solution was a plan to make two independent states for Jewish and Palestine communities. It was first offered to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1937, but they rejected the offer. One researcher argues that the repeated refusal of the two- state resolution was an implication
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