A group of people with the same religion and system of values has for hundreds of years lived together in what they consider their country.

Then, suddenly another group of people with another belief system is given this piece of land by someone other than the inhabitants of it, and they call it their Holy Land.

In 1947, after the end of the Holocaustin Europe, most nations and the UN agreed on the creation of a partition Palestine, which came to consist of a Jewish state, an Arab state and a UN-controlled Jerusalem. Since then, the conflict has been growing with few pauses.

If we ever want peace in the Middle East, we must recognize the unjust bias favoring Israel. We must realize that Palestinians and Israelis are of equal human value and start treating them as such. Israel’s illegal settlements in Jerusalem have to end as soon as possible and Palestine needs to be freed from the Israeli occupation.

Yes, it would be great if the people who have lived in Diaspora for at least a thousand years could have their own country-it only seems fair. However, the decision to give them that exact piece of land was hastened and rather foolish, although it certainly is understandable that it happened.

After the Holocaust, the world’s leaders quickly had to come up with a form of repayment for Hitler‘s horrific so-called ethnic cleansing of Jews in Europe.

Today when Palestine fights for the right to land, it’s considered “terrorism” by Western media and politicians. But when Israel’s bombs kill innocent Palestinian children, it’s called “defending their territory.”

Both Israel and Palestine are breaking international warfare laws and humanitarian rules, making children orphans and destroying parts of historically significant sites. It’s not fair to condemn only one of the two. Since both Arab and Jewish children are killed in Israel and Palestine’s bombings we ought not to view them differently.

We cannot blindly support Israel and shut down our senses when seeing reports of oppressed Palestinians.

Perhaps Obama agreeing with the UN chief on how Israel’s illegal settlements in Jerusalem has to end is a step toward a more balanced understanding of this complex situation. But the relationship between the U.S. and Israel is getting shaky.

The current conflict between Israel and Palestine is known as the reason for many other conflicts in the Middle East. So, if we want to end the turmoil in many other parts of the Middle East, this conflict must be solved.

If we continue to only support Israel without acknowledging the rights of the Palestinian people to live freely in the land in which they have lived for so long, no other Arab nation is going to be willing to invite America or any other allied nation over for peace conversations.

And after all, we are all made of the same bones, flesh and blood.