1948 Arab–Israeli War

Egypt. Regarding a duty of Egypt as a leading Arab country, Nasser was trying to help the Palestinian refugees to fight for their rights to return. So he provided Palestinian armed groups with financial and military aids. By 1956, Israel was no longer capable of ignoring the tricks Nasser was playing in the region. Collaborating with British and French, who had their own interests to overthrow Nasser’s regime, Israel invading Egypt, known as the Suez War. Although Egypt suffered heavy loss…

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a major issue in the Middle East. The two-state solution refers to a solution for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which calls for two states for two groups of people. Numerous people contend that the "two-state solution" of creating an independent Palestinian state next to Israel would be the best way to deal with the situation. Various other people oppose a two-state solution for different reasons. For instance, some are against the creation of a…

Israel & Palestine Conflict It is interesting to think that such that the modern conflict, like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, started almost hundred years ago in the heart of both eastern and western Europe. Today Jewish nationalism is now known as Zionism, its origins stem from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. There are many political and social actions that created a foundation for Zionism. Most notably three stand out the most, the first being Dreyfus Affair of 1894, secondly the…

In the early hours of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Zionist groups Irgun and Stern Gang, attacked the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin with the intent to kill as many Palestinians as possible. The Zionist gangs fired at the entire village, families were rounded up and executed, and about twenty five pregnant women were killed. The final death toll was about 254, half of whom were women and children. Hayat Al-Balbisi, a 19 year old schoolteacher and Red Cross worker, heard about the massacre…

The genocide in Gaza has resulted in 20,674 innocent civilians dead, all murdered by the IOF. Malcolm X fought against racial discrimination and advocated for the rights of African Americans, while the situation in Palestine involves the fight for their holy land and the rights of Palestinians, there are many similarities. Malcolm was also wrongly portrayed in the media, just like the Palestinians who are painted as terrorists. Malcolm would organize speeches that would raise awareness for the…

UN Partition Plan had on the Arab-Israeli Conflict was colossal as the tension was transformed into violence after the plan had been implemented. This was due to the reactions that both Arab and Jewish people had regarding the plan, the wars resulting from the plan and the results and consequences of these wars. In its simplest form the Arab-Israeli Conflict did not begin when the UN Partition Plan was implemented but was heightened from the tension between the Arabs and Jews. The UN Partition…

Accords, understandings amidst Israel and Egypt stamped on September 17, 1978, that drove in the going with year of a peaceful course of action between those two countries, the first such deal amidst Israel and any of its Arab neighbors. Facilitated by U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian Pres. Anwar el Sadat and formally titled the "Framework for Peace in the Middle East," the understandings became known as the Camp David Accords in light of the way…

tensions have existed between the Jewish and Palestinian peoples of the middle east due to the existence of the Israeli state in the majority of the area that formerly consisted of Palestine. Historically, tensions have been centered around the displacement and perceived mistreatment of Palestinians, who have lived in masses as refugees throughout the Middle East since the War of 1948 ended with the formation of Israel. Sahar Khalifeh is a Palestinian writer who was educated in the United States…

attendees included Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad, King Hussein of Jordan, and the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat. Bush stood before the delegates of the Middle East, in an unprecedented meeting that many hoped would help resolve a conflict that had been in existence since 1948. President Bush, in his opening remarks, stated the “objective must be clear and straightforward. It is not simply to end the state of war in…

down in history as one of the most controversial events in the greater context of a long lasting and brutal Arab-Israeli conflict. In a conflict predicated on hate, violence and retribution, Plan Dalet stands out for its long lasting and far reaching implications on both sides. In this essay, I will argue that Plan Dalet was a military strategy aimed at protecting Israel from invading Arab states, unintentionally resulting in an ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. I will start by analyzing…