Should we build a wall? One political leader emphatically believes that a wall must be built between the U.S. and Mexico. If we take a look at Israel’s success with walls, we may be able to determine if it’s a good idea or not. Jerusalem is full of many types of people: Jews Arabs and Christians. If you are familiar with the Jewish- Arab conflict, then you would know that they haven’t always gotten along. The Jewish-Arab relationship has been rocky for quite awhile, but things really escalated in 1967. Prior to 1967, Jordan controlled Eastern Jerusalem and was strictly for the Arabs. The country, Israel, controlled Western Jerusalem which was for the Jews. After tensions between the two, the six day war broke out. Israel easily won the war and was able to secure Eastern Jerusalem or the West Bank, from Jordan. After this, Jews started to settle the West Bank and lived right next to Arab settlements while the Arabs started to live in Western Jerusalem amongst the Jews. Tensions between the two only increased. Fast forward a few decades to 2001. With tensions higher then ever, the second intifada began. Various terrorist attacks would occur daily. Arabs would attack and kill Jews in Jerusalem. No one was safe and Israel needed to figure out a solution to this problem. Once Israel did some research, they discovered something extremely interesting. All the terrorist who were apart of the attacks hailed from the West Bank. None of the terrorists were from Gaza. Israel was able to deduce that since Gaza had a separation wall from the rest of Israel, the people living there were unable to get into Israel and commit terror attacks. This begs a new question. Should there be a separation wall in Jerusalem to separate the Jews and Arabs? If so, where would it be built? At first, this option seemed very appealing. Separating the two would limit the number of terror attacks and the Jews and Arabs would be separated, lowering the tensions. Israel decided to build a wall right in the middle of Jerusalem. The wall separated the West Bank from the rest of Israel. The outcome did not end up as planned. The Arabs in the West Bank switched their focus from the Jews in Jerusalem to the Jewish settlements already developed in the West Bank. In addition, there were still Arabs and Jews living together in Jerusalem. The wall did not stop the attacks nor separate the two people. In this specific situation we see a wall which separates land, but heightens conflict. The tensions had calmed but recently there has been another surge in terrorist attacks. The separation wall was a solution that the government settled on for security measures, but it never addressed the problems between the citizens and actually caused new ones. This entire situation begs for reform and should be addressed sooner rather than the later.