What should we do about the conflicts between the Jewish and Arab states? Too many people have died from the conflict and it still continues. Peace talks have been tried but have failed miserably. Today all the Palestinians want is the land back from the war of 1967. If they get this they vowed to stop all terrorism and live peacefully. One would think that the people of Israel should give back the land and try to resolve this problem between these two cultures. This is where the but comes in. The people of Israel will not give up the land in total thus continuing the on going war between the two. In order to understand this situation a short history lesson is necessary.
             After WWII the Jewish people had no where to go. Many were afraid to live in Germany because of the racism. So most went on boats and looked for a new start. Some came to the free land of America and eventually we stopped accepting them. Now with no place to go the boats would be turned around with very little food and people crammed in the little ship. This is when the Jews decided to go back to their holy land Jerusalem. There was only one problem with that idea. The Palestinians lived on this land.
             In 1923 the British divided Palestine into two administrative districts. The Jews would be permitted only west of the Jordan river. In reality, the British had chopped off 75% of the originally proposed Jewish Palestinian homeland to lay the seeds of what would become in 1946 the Arab Palestinian Nation of "Trans-Jordan," meaning across the Jordan River. The Palestinian Arabs now had their Arab Palestinian homeland. The remaining 25% of Palestine was west of the Jordan River. This was to be the Jewish Palestinian homeland. However, sharing was not part of the Arab vocabulary and they were determined to get the rest of the 25% at any cost.
             Encouraged and incited by growing Arab nationalism throughout the Middle East, the Arabs of that smal...