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What Problems will need to be overcome before Palestinians have an independent state
of the others religion. Tensions as high as this can only wreck the Peace Process, yet there seems to be no way around the matter. What can the Israeli’s do? They cannot donate the area to the Palestinians because there would be uproar in from every Jew in the World. However if the Israeli’s keep the area, the Palestinians will refuse to sign a peace treaty on those terms. Another factor on which both sides are likely to lock on is who owns Jerusalem. Israel claim that they will never let go of Jerusalem but the Palestinians would like to control of some of it. This is impossible due to the large number of Jewish settlers who have recently settled in what was formerly a mainly Arab area of Jerusalem (clever work from the extremists!) There are other smaller issues in Jerusalem and the rest of Israel that can be cleared up, but probably won’t due to prejudice and general hatred. Equal rights are not a problem but the Jews are treated in a better way than the Arabs are. It is common for a Jew with equal qualities and qualifications of an Arab to get a job ahead of the Arab. When an Arab does get a job, it is mostly for lesser pay than his fellow Jewish workers are on.
These are the problems that need to be overcome to finally allow the state of Palestine to be created. I don’t believe that as things are, this is a realistic possibility. I think it will eventually happen due to something more drastic than the crisis or than religion will occur. It will take something major that will unite the people together and make them forget their differences. The problems are not futile. The religion factor is more important than the world to some people. It is something that people are less likely to compromise than anything else. So I believe that unless, a nuclear bomb is dropped on the Middle East, God and Allah walk hand in hand into Jerusalem or Aliens invade the planet, the population is too big to be able to cope with such delicate decisions. There will be no peace in the Middle East, let alone an independent Palestinian state, for the foreseeable future.