It’s Complicated: The problem with not identifying the Palestinian-Zionist conflict, and the reality of peaceful resolutions

Abstract

Recognized as one of the most complicated conflict in the human history, the Palestinian-Zionist conflict finds itself unidentified or recognized internationally, at least not a recognition that most agree on, or even labelled something other than a conflict, which could be argued that it either oversimplifies it, or adds to its complexity. Theorists, politicians, and scholars have been looking for answers and solution to this “conflict” and even suggesting a two-state solution, but how can we find a solution to something we have not given a name? How can we find a solution, or start thinking about conflict resolution if the conflict itself remains unidentified? What would be the solution for that? The reason this conflict, or one of the many reasons actually, this “conflict is complicated, is because it could examined as many thing; it could be a war, it could be armed conflict, it could be territorial dispute, and it could be an military occupation. We can start thinking about real solutions for each and every one of those categories, but only when we start seeing the “conflict” for what it is, which is all of these categories, and by re-examining the reality of efforts and attempts for peace the Israeli government claims to support, and historically contradicting.