What should the United States do?

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is causing incredible amounts of tension not only in Israel and Palestine, across the world. The United States is stuck in the middle of the conflict. For the most part, it’s Israel on one side with the support of the U.S. and several European countries. On the other side we have Palestine with the support of many other Middle Eastern countries and is reaching out for Arab support. Israel is an important U.S. ally and over the years we have continued to show our support. In the past few decades the United States has also been building relations with other countries in the Middle East.

The United States is in a difficult situation. If the U.S. decided to become impartial to the conflict and simply do nothing it would upset a key U.S. ally and possibly send the conflict into a downward spiral. On the other hand, if the United States were increase their support for Israel it would upset many of the countries in the volatile Middle East and most likely damage or destroy political relations with many Middle Eastern countries. To be honest I can't make a concrete decision about what I think the U.S. should do but for the mean time I would continue our support for Israel until the US believes that Palestine should be granted statehood.