Period 7
Mrs.Matthews
Promises Essay The movie “Promises” was about the religious conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis. In this movie the talk to kids and follow them around to see what daily life was like for them. They also asked a lot of questions about their opinion on this conflict and in this essay you will learn what they said and what their opinions were. This conflict in this region has grown a lot throughout the years and many people are unhappy. The things that are causing this are borders, government, and religion. Many people don't know how much this is affecting both religions and what they have to do to follow their religion. Also all of these kids have very strong opinions about what they think …show more content…
I would create a Palestinian state for the purpose of defining a location at which a historically hostile force can exist. The creation of the Palestinian state would be a precautionary action against the new Palestinian state, so that if another war was to occur, the Israelis would know where a sizeable amount of attacks would be plausible to originate from. Moishe and his sister Raheli are very passionate about killing the arabs and they think that they should get the land because they have never experienced it before. They seem to think that everything should go their way but that is what every other kid thinks …show more content…
Even though this needs to happen it probably won't happen for a while because of the amount of terrorists in this region. Also the religion controlling the land probably won't let it go without a fight. I hope that this look at the historical record concerning the root cause of the Middle East conflict will give second thoughts to all who have previously supported Israel's actions. There is a lot of things that need to change before anything is done to this reason. To end most of the kids had valid points that make you think differently about this conflict and I hope my essay does the