by Jim Segal

Created on: June 23, 2008   Last Updated: July 04, 2008

WILL THE CURRENT PEACE PROCESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST YIELD LASTING RESULTS?

The current peace plan promotes the idea consisting of an Israeli and a Palestinian state, living in peace and security, sharing the scarce resources that are needed by the two territories. The issue of borders and how the land will be divided is a struggling topic between the two sides. Not only will the peace process consist of the borders itself, but also the people living amongst these borders will be forced to move in order to complete the deal. Israel agreed recently to give up land and development to the palestinians in support of the peace plan, which forced Israeli settlers to move from their homes. A plan backed by the United States to pacify the peace process yet with conflicting results. Though the Israeli government has taken steps to live in peace with its' neighbors, violence still exist for the jewish state.

The borders is not the only current problem facing a peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel has battled conflicts between itself and nearly every arab nation in the middle east since its' existence. When the jewish people proclaimed the new nation of Israel in 1948, fighting began almost immediately between Israel and surrounding arab nations. A United Nations truce ended the fighting in 1949, but many conflicts occurred amongst the Israeli-Arab borders.

With the world environment in which we live today, a peace plan in the middle east will never work between Israel and the palestinians. Both sides believe that all the land belongs only to them, and no one else. The outside forces concerning Iran and other arab states has pressed tensions in the middle east to an almost breaking point. Also, many arab nations have supported anti-Israeli terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah to continue to terrorize the jewish state and its' citizens. Even though the United States has supported the survival of Israel, the hands of the U.S. have been tied to the ever growing demand of foreign oil supplied by the surrounding arab nations in the middle east.

As beings living amongst this Earth, that has been created for the benefit of our very lives, we have and uphold the desire for peace, though history itself has never shown peace amongst nations to have ever existed. Nations have fought for a variety of reasons, concerning lands and territories, economical and survival resources, from greed and envy to world domination. As we have seen during World War II which

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