Look at this section:
It wasn't the "two state solution" that had been originally envisioned. The choice for the Arabic population of Palestine, whose ancestors had lived there for centuries, was to live under control of the Jewish state, or leave a homeland their ancestors had lived on for 16 centuries and become refugees in one of the neighboring countries.
There hasn't been a peaceful resolution to this problem. Displacing several million people from the only homes and lands they had ever known as their own, and where their ancestors had lived for 13 centuries, isn't an easy problem to resolve. Since its establishment, Israel hasn't permitted autonomous areas to exist within its borders for the Palestinian population, which would be the way a "two state solution" would work out, and they have conquered and taken the land that was initially proposed for this purpose. And while some Arabic Palestinians did choose to remain, and become citizens of the Jewish state, the majority became refugees in neighboring countries, including Jordan, which controlled the West Bank, and what was known as the United Arab Republic, made up of Syria and Egypt, which controlled Gaza. The Gaza strip was established in a treaty in 1950, which is why there are some two million Arabic Palestinians living there now.
No mention of the genocidal war the Arabs started in 1947 which is the real cause of the nakba. The author insinuates that Israel is the cause of the refugee problem because they didn't want to "live under control of the Jewish state". Pretty sure Arab Israelis are quite happy livingb in Israel, with the kinds of rights found in a liberal democracy and not seen anywhere else in the ME and Gulf.
There is no archeological or anthropological evidence that Palestinian Arabs have been living in the Levant for 16 centuries as claimed.
The author seems unaware of the Oslo Accords and the role it plays in resolving 242 and 338.
The person also ignores the thousands of years that Jews have been living in Israel, Judea and Samaria.
How do you write an essay about the underlying causes of the conflict and fail to mention the war of independence, 6 day war and the Yom Kippur war?
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