In order to achieve peace in the Middle East the U.S. must stop completely supporting Israel.

"I am arguing that the United States must try to decrease its biased support of Israel and try to create real peace" Your resolution is much more staunch than that, though. You've stated that the US "must stop COMPLETELY supporting Israel." As well, you can't simply say that the US is biased in favor of Israel as if it is an unreasonable position. I mean, here you are in a biased position in favor of Palestine. The reality about the US's foreign policy as it relates to Israel, is that Israel is an ally. It would be like asking Palestine to stop being biased against the United States in favor of, say, Iran. Each nation has ideologies specific to their demographic. Consequently, this is how people make friends as well. People choose their friends based upon their likenesses and kindness. I don't see why nations would be any different. "oppression of the Palestinians and create a fair solution for both nations." First of all, much of the alleged oppression is grossly exaggerated and inflamed by Palestinians, Arab sympathizers, and liberal sympathizers who don't quite understood all of the details. For instance, welcome to Pallywood, where melodrama reigns supreme: http://www.youtube.com... And then of course there is the media itself which tends to be slanted towards Palestinians themselves. Reuters was busted big time during the Israeli/Lebanese conflict. (They aren't the only news agency to commit fraud that intentionally defames Israel). http://www.youtube.com... "I think that Israel deserves its own state, regardless of the fact that it was unfair for it to be placed where other people had been living for centuries." Well, actually there is a bit of a misnomer here. There was no such thing as a "Palestine" prior to the 1940's. The people that refer to themselves as Palestinians are actually Arabs (as in: lineage deriving from Saudi Arabia) who emigrated mostly from Israel's neighbor, Jordan. After the Romans sacked Jerusalem in AD 70, the Jewish Diaspora began -- the dispersion of the Jews to other lands. The Romans would later refer to Israel as Palestine, in commemoration of ancient Philistines, which have no ties to modern-day Palestinians, either by blood or by incident. This is where the name, Palestine, comes from. It would be well worth for ALL the readers to watch this video: http://www.youtube.com... "The United States' support for Israel is helping to create an unbalance in the Middle East which is making peace impossible to achieve." No, the support of Israel has to do with the fact that Israel is one of the only countries in the Middle East to embrace democracy. The US supported Lebanon for a long time before it was overrun by Muslim extremists that exterminated anyone not of their kind. We also loosely support Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The US does not want to have problems with nations, any nation, but least of all, in the Middle East. The reality is that the Middle East has a problem with the US. The US would love nothing more than to have the M.E. accept them... But they don't, so we have to deal with the reality of the situation. Seriously, why would the US want strife and enmity with a region saturated with oil, when the US consumes more oil than any other nation? Please substantiate your argument. "Although I do not condone terrorism of any kind, I also do not condone the control that Israel is exercising over the Palestinian people. The extremists basically have no choice except to use terrorism to scare Israel." That's either a pernicious lie or its profound ignorance of international affairs. Either way, some remediation on the subject is in order. Straight from the horses mouth: "Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel." -Yassar Arafat "Currently, Israel is building the separation wall around the West Bank inside of where the official line was declared by the United Nations. It is colonizing inside of Palestinian land and driving Palestinian people from their homes." You have it backwards. Israelis were expelled from their homes by the threat of force. Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com... "Palestinians are humiliated and often not even allowed to cross to get to the most basic and essential locations. All of this is simply unfair and needs to stop." It is unfortunate that nice, law-abiding Palestinians have to suffer for what their own people have done. But none of this would ever have been necessary if it weren't for inflammatory groups like the P.L.O. and Hamas constantly blowing Israeli's up and spreading the most vile propaganda to indoctrinate their own children messages of hatred and intolerance. Everyone do yourselves a favor and WATCH the video http://www.youtube.com... Seriously, can you accept the fact that little children are being taught the most vile things? And STILL Israel extends its hand in friendship: http://yaakov.newsvine.com...