The student news site of Carlmont High School in Belmont, California.

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The student news site of Carlmont High School in Belmont, California.

Scot Scoop News

The student news site of Carlmont High School in Belmont, California.

Scot Scoop News

The fight over Jerusalem

Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, holds some of the most sacred sites and artifacts of the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Because of Jerusalem’s value to many groups of people, since its creation in 1948, the country of Israel has had numerous wars with its neighbors and within itself, specifically between Palestinians and Israelis.

The United States has sent trillions of dollars throughout the years, and now about $3.1 billion per year, in addition to military support and technology to Israel to help reduce conflict.

Through the relationship with Israel, the U.S. has tried to take a neutral stand with the interior conflict with the Palestinians (the Palestinians were the original inhabitants before the 1948 Establishment of an Hebrew state in the Middle East, which had been conceived in the Balfour Declaration).

William Dahu, a senior at Carlmont, commented, “As a Palestinian-American, it bothers me how we support one side. It should end.”

The Balfour Declaration, written in 1917, stated that “His Majesty’s governments view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”

The United States claims it has a neutral stand but it seems that the U.S. wallet has favored Israel greatly over the Palestinians.

Was a new country granted for the displacement of Palestine?

To this day, many lives have been lost to the fighting inside Israel. Lives have been lost on both sides. One cannot say one side is solely responsible for the lives lost, but the uncooperative and rigid Israeli government and America’s hefty support has been under much criticism for their mistreatment of the native Palestinians.

But does this criticism justify the $3.1 billion given in aid?

Just last week, the White House released a press briefing stating that they would no longer be giving tours because of lack of funding.

We can not even give tours of one of the landmarks in our country but we are giving all of this foreign aid to other countries, is this right?

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The fight over Jerusalem