¶ … criminal justice and terrorism. Specifically it will discuss what the United States can, and should, do to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on ever since the United Nations created Israel out of a section of Palestine in 1947. The new country was supposed to recreate ancient Jewish lands in the area, but Arab leaders opposed it from the beginning. In fact, the first war fought over the new country occurred the day after Israel declared independence in 1948, and there has been unrest, fighting, and clashes in the area almost ever since. Because of this, it is difficult for the United States to interfere or intervene, because the conflict has been going on for so long, and it is clear that the two sides do not want to call an end to their violence and hatred for each other.

It does not seem that anything can be done about the conflict without some kind of agreement on both sides, and that does not seem possible. The United States (and other nations) have attempted to forge a peace process in the past, but it has never worked. Hostilities end for a while, but they always flare up again, due to hostilities or actions of one side or the other. Israel has inflamed the process by taking additional lands during wars, and the Arab world has inflamed the process by attacking Israel and her allies in suicide bombings and other violent incidents. There is so much hatred between the Arabs and the Jews that it is difficult to see them ever coming to some kind of agreement, and other countries sometime only inflame the process by getting involved. The United States should not give up on the peace process in the Middle East. They should continue to try to get the two sided to agree on peace, but it does not seem that anyone can really get the two parties to agree on anything, and so, even with U.S. involvement, peace seems to be a long time away from ever reaching the Middle East.