The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict In The United States

How would most people living in the United States of America feel if they were forced to live under oppression for the remainder of their lives? How would most people in the United States of America feel if they were forced to show proper permits when traveling to a different city? How would most people feel if their children could not effortlessly access a school? What the Palestinians have been living under is nothing short of Apartheid in South Africa during the twentieth century. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a constant political, military, and economic plight since the mid-twentieth century. Over the last fifty years, the State of Palestine has dramatically downsized due to illegal settlements built by Israel on Palestinian land (taken by force or annexation). Furthermore, the current Palestinian land is so alienated
To further conflict, Israel constructed the Israeli West Bank barrier, separating Israeli territory from Palestinian territory. The Israeli West Bank barrier has been internationally condemned as a ruthless tactic to simply keep families apart. This is the captivity that news outlets such as Cable News Network, Fox News, and CBS News choose not to report on. After spending almost half of a year in Palestine (over a few summer breaks), I myself have experienced the deprivation and heartbreak that the Palestinians experience daily; my motivation to express the captivity Palestinians endure stems solely from my personal observations while traveling through the holy land during the summer after the eighth grade. The elongated list of conflicts instantaneously symbolizes that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will most likely linger on the foreseeable future, but I am here to elucidate the hidden captivity that the Palestinian community experiences