Israel and palestine is it justified?

Firstly, take an example like Jerusalem. Currently under the control of Israel, people from the West Bank (i.e. Palestinians) are required to have ID, Permits and other documents to enter the city, whereas Israelis go through the checkpoints without any hindrance. Evidently, this causes many unnecessary delays for those working in Jerusalem coming from the West Bank with some waiting times of over 3 hours! In addition, throughout the city there are numerous checkpoints and in one particular case a man has to go through four Israeli checkpoints to go to and from work every day. However, it can be understood why Israelis are taking tough checks after the horror seen in

Israel lately due to suicide bombings, but nevertheless should ordinary hard-working Palestinians have to suffer for the actions of terrorists from their own country? I don’t think so, but at the same time I can understand why the Israelis are taking the extra precautions.

Another controversial action from Israel is the building of a gigantic Israeli security barrier called ‘the Wall’ which separates much of the border between the West Bank and Israel. Not only does it have a massive effect on the people living by it, but as supposedly being the ‘border’ it swerves in and out of the West Bank which obviously shows that Israel are still trying to claim more parts of Palestine as their own. As a result of this ‘Wall’ families have to open their door to a 40m concrete wall and children don’t have anywhere to play since their gardens have been snatched from them in a blink of an eye. How exactly can the Israeli government justify the building of this Wall with the excuse of security? This is one of the major nonsensical examples where Israelis are taking an offensive action with a defensive excuse.

Furthermore, Palestinians are simply being treated violently and unfairly by Israelis in their own country. One area especially where this is happening is in Hebron, where Palestinians are getting stoned by Israeli children, and getting their houses attacked and destroyed by Israeli mobs. Clearly, this doesn’t improve the Palestinians’ view of the Israelis but this Israeli violence is just the result of misinformation circulated by families and friends and, most notably, the government.

The problem here is that Israel and Palestine have got themselves in a viscous circle where retaliation after an offensive action just accelerates the circle and more drastic actions are taken. The question is how both countries are going to get themselves out of this dispute- either through sorting out their differences independently or other countries such as the UK and the US having to educate the people and the government that two wrongs don’t make a right.