One of the main questions asked first about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is "who has the right to legitimate claim to the land", and in my opinion; Israel legitimately claims this territory. The pro-Israeli position I advocate is based on the fact that Israel has maintained its military dominance over the disputed territory. I view the conflict as survival of the fittest, where Israel proved its supremacy by defeating all attempts at invasion and elimination, such as the Yom Kippur War, the Six Day War, and the War of Attrition. The creation of a Palestinian state has also been a subject of debate. I would create a Palestinian state with the aim of defining a place where a historically hostile force can exist. The creation of the Palestinian state would be a precautionary measure against the new Palestinian state, so that if another war were to break out, the Israelis would know where it would be plausible for a significant number of attacks to come from. , the problem of defining the borders of the newly formed state arises. With the new State of Palestine, the entire Gaza Strip, the West Bank and a five-mile-wide stretch of land connecting the two provinces would be permitted, so that transit between the two provinces would be permitted for the Palestinian people. The entire West Bank will not be ceded for the purposes of a Palestinian state. A ten-mile-wide strip of land running from the top of the West Bank to the southern West Bank would be given to Israel for transit between the northern part of Israel and the southern areas. Jerusalem, the neighboring city of Bethlehem and the surrounding lands would become an international city-state, similar to the Vatican. This new city-state would be guard...... middle of paper ....... 2014.Sorce #3: Lustick, Ian S. "Two-State Illusion." New York Times. September 15, 2013: SR.1. Researcher on SIRS issues. Internet. April 27, 2014.Sorce #4:Hueston, Harry Raymond, II, Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr. and Sherifa Zuhur. “Hamas: Israeli-Arab wars”. A world at war: understanding conflicts and society. ABC-CLIO, 2014. Web. April 27, 2014. Source #5: Geary, Brent. “Camp David Accords: Arab-Israeli Wars”. A world at war: understanding conflicts and society. ABC-CLIO,2014. Internet. April 27, 2014. Source #6: Curtiss, Richard H. “Dangerous Myths About the Late Great Peace Process,” from the Washington Report on MiddleEastern Affairs. November/December 1996; Fathers, Shimon. The new Middle East. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993. Source #7: Watts, Tim. “Wye River Agreement: Arab-Israeli Wars”. A world at war: understanding conflicts and society. ABC-CLIO,2014. Internet. April 27. 2014.