Ellie's Final Thoughts on Peace Summit

I feel that peace plans in class could be reached, but it would take a lot of effort. Most of these ideas that were talked about in class would lead to peace. One of the ideas was that the checkpoints, walls, and occupation is the problem that begins the violence between these two sides. In my mind I think Israel and Palestine should go back to the separation of religion, like they did before the 1967 war. I liked the idea that the U.S. should stop giving aid to Israel, and shouldn't give aid to Palestine. I feel strongly that we shouldn't promote the ongoing war with Palestine and Israel, and both sides should (by themselves) fix what they started.

One thing that struck me in the discussion was the grudges that a few people held against the Palestinians and Arabs. How could anyone hate some group of people so badly, that you just wanted them to leave their homeland, and live somewhere else? But I quote Sanabel on a very valid point: "No Palestine child ever tried to explain the Jews' situation." The Israelis do have a few reasons to dislike the Palestinians, and no Palestinian child has mentioned something that the Jews have had to go through, like the Holocaust, or that they bomb many of their buses.

A way that could implement peace is having more of the new generations (kids) meet each other on movies or just by school, and form relationships. Essentially these sides are both going through bad situations, yet they don't realize that.