Saturday, May 5, 2012

Whos land is it anyways?

Israel is a place of war. Israel is never at peace. This is because there are many different religion's that believe that the land they are living on, or were chased out of, was THEIR land. The children that were being interviewed in this documentary, sometimes only lived 20 minutes or less from each other. The four groups of children being interviewed had different religions from each other. One group was Jewish, but didn't like to be around the "hardcore" Jewish people. The two twins believed that they could all live in peace, and that fighting was unnecessary. One little boy that was being interviewed believed very strongly in his religion, and believed that the people who bombed his grandmothers house and chased them out of their land should die, and that they should be allowed back in their land. In this documentary, there were check points set up through out Israel. Sometimes if you didn't have the right credentials, you were not allowed past that check point, which was usually on a different religions land. But, if you has a certain license plate, you would just be waved through with out anyone looking at pass ports, or birth certificates.
Some of these children, mostly all of them, live in fear each day. They never know is they could be attacked by an opposing religion, or if the army protecting them might start a fight. One child that was interviewed talked about how his young friend was shot by a soldier trying to protect the opposing religion. The two children were throwing rocks, trying to leave their mark for their religion, while the opposing religions soldier shot the child and killed him. On his grave something was written on the tomb stone, saying the child was murdered. The one child being interviewed told us that they only write that certain saying on the tomb stone if that person was murdered.
Their lives are a lot different than ours. In the United States, we have tried to make peace with different religions. Some of us tho, have not. Their are still arguments out there that are saying some religions should not be welcomed on earth. Sometimes the people who don't believe in a religion, or God, are told that they will go to hell. No one knows what religion is correct, or if any religion is correct. We don't even know if theirs a God. So, there is no point in fighting over it. We, as people discriminate against different religions, because they believe in different things. For intense, when we see people wearing turbans we automatically think they are terrorist. Why can't we all just make peace with different religions? In Israel, this poor country is broken up into different parts because of religion. Just think how much easier, safer, and less stressful it would be for children and parents to not have to be afraid of being killed because of the religion they believe in. The war of religion could end, and children and parents could have a safer, and less stressful life. They just need to make peace with each other.

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