I been a Security Technician and have specialized in system integration, design, service and security consulting for over 20 years. It is this specializing of alarms that my expertise has advanced, working with the largest corporations down to an individual’s needs. Security for both Israel and Palestine is a critical element in peace.
Whenever someone comes to me for advice on security, the first thing I do is survey the buildings and land, and I look at it from different points of intrusion including the security of its infrastructure. I then set up recommendations, which may be locking down doors, increased lighting or maybe even cutting back bushes. Then, for increased measure, you need to limit your access points into the home, facility, institution, or in this case, a nation. While I was in Israel I traveled throughout the land surveying their exposure to outside infiltration and points of access. The Jordan Valley offers a great deal of open land that definitely compromises the Security of Israel as a nation. This additional open area also requires many troops to monitor and is frequently a point of contention with residents in the West Bank.
The West Bank has a need to have an open border with Israel because many families cross these lines daily for personal and work related issues, and today many Jewish people travel this too. For this reason it will be necessary for Palestine in the West Bank to allow Israel to patrol the borders and customs where people would cross into the West Bank from Jordan. The dream of the West Bank is to see the current Israeli checkpoints replaced with signs saying, “Now entering Israel/Palestine West Bank.”
In order to bring this security to Israel, Palestine’s West Bank would need to be encompassed within Israel and be included as part of Israel with a “Sovereign Nation Status” in the same ways that the Native Americans have within America. Palestine's West Bank should be allowed a representative in the United Nations and this would be a way that the world can truly acknowledge their right of existence. For true peace to occur, Israel will need to closely monitor its borders, which will open up the internal freedom that both the Israeli and Palestinian people truly desire and need. Additionally, all individuals in the West Bank would hold Palestinian Passports with the same international policies applying to the Palestinians as it does for the Israeli's. The reason for this is because of the degree of animosity in the neighboring countries towards Israel. Giving the Palestinian people an Israeli Passport drastically limits their abilities to visit neighboring Arab nations where relatives live.
The difficulty will be Gaza. In order for Israel to have appropriate security, Israel would need to either take over all customs for shipments and individuals coming into the land or establish strong borders between Israel and Gaza. If peace does take hold the way I believe it would, in time Gaza would want the same freedoms that there brothers in the West Bank have. It would probably be most beneficial to establish strong borders between Gaza and Israel for now and to patiently wait for this peace process to take root.
Israel will need to upgrade her personal security by working in collaboration with America by installing facial recognition systems, networking abilities, and sharing of information with American intelligence regarding personal recognition of suspected terrorists. This would increase the security for both Israel and Palestine, and America as well.
To assist in the reduction of Israeli forces in the area it would be beneficial to install cameras along the borders near the West Bank areas. Doing so would become a very positive move, increasing the security and minimizing the troops needed in the area.
