Should Palestine be a State

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Introduction

On November 29th, 2012, Palestine gained observer status to the United Nations with the General Assembly voting 138-9-41. With this accomplishment, the Palestinian people are one step closer to having their own state. However, Israel continues to build illegal settlements on Palestinian territory in the West Bank, which makes the creation of a separate Palestinian state more difficult. There have been many attempts in the past to try and create a peace solution between these two sides, as well as try to create a separate state for the Palestinian people. However, most, if not all these attempts have been unsuccessful. The question still remains; will there ever be a Palestinian state? The Palestinians want their state to consist of the Gaza Strip as well as the West Bank, which Israel gained after the 6-Day War in 1967. This would mean that the Palestinian state would coincide with Israel. Most countries in the world support this idea, including Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama. Some in Israel, however, have objected to this idea due the threat of terrorism that has come from the Palestinian side, mostly in the Gaza Strip, as well as the idea that all of the region is Israel’s God given land.

In this paper, I will discuss why the Palestinians should be able to govern their own state alongside the state of Israel. I will also discuss why Palestine should not have their own state, as well as why the one-state solution would be the right way to solve the solution.

Reason for an Independent Palestinian State

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The first argument I am going to present is that under International law, Palestine is considered a state. Under the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and D...

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