Arab citizens of Israel

from the widespread optimism following the Oslo Accords? The answer lies in both what the accords did and didn’t do, as well as the general opposition among Israelis towards the agreement. The Oslo Accords, created without the full backing of the citizens of both countries, were doomed from the start.…

overthrow an airline counter in Rome, but successfully hijacked an airplane and blown it up over Tel Aviv. In 2000, the Second Intifada started after a visit from Prime Minister Sharon for many years with violent riots and demonstrations. Fifteen Israeli Arabs were killed by Israelis. 3. Summarize the Palestinian Narrative. The Palestinian Narrative a timetable of the story of the Palestinian people. Hamas is another phrase of the Islamic Resistance Movement. In 1970 Hamas started a social…

In Israel, an intense hatred for Arabs resulted in the attacking of an Arab employee at a local restaurant and the firebombing of a Palestinian home (Strickland). Following the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11, several religiously motivated assaults also victimized Muslims. In Rakhine, Myanmar…

the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and killed thousands when the buildings collapsed. It is believed that al-Qaeda fulfilled these attacks as retribution for America’s military presence in the Middle East, and it’s support of Israel. The events of this day crushed Americans sense of security, and led to the rise in concern for terrorist attacks on American Soil (Huddy et al 2002). This attack on America pushed George W. Bush to declare a War on Terror on the middle east,…

on the Torah, and in the book of Genesis God gives Abraham the land. Therefore, Israel is tied to the Jewish religion through its involvements within religious texts. Furthermore, Judaism separates us from them by recognizing that their religious group was chosen by God to inhabit a specific region of the world. This creates a sense of isolation between those who were special enough to be chosen by God to live in Israel and those who were not. Judaism’s tendency of using the past to explain…

English school and her family was a traditional Egyptian family who had strong feeling of identity and love to their cultures. However, Amin was a Palestinian-Israeli successful doctor who lived in Israel. We read in “A Border Passage” and “the Attack” that both characters had…

Multiple Choice Answers: 1) D 2) D 3) D 4) D 5) D 6) E 7) B 8) D 9) D 10) E Essay Question #1 1. Sovereignty a. Definition i. Class- The common definition that was giving in class was that sovereignty is the right of the state to have country of its people. ii. Lecture- In the lectures we discussed that Sovereignty means that it has clear borders with a ruling government that that can decided any important decision or action within their state. iii. Slides- The…

quote spoken when he addressed the United Nations. This was his life, a constant battle to try to gain that olive branch, freedom for Palestine, through way of the freedom fighter’s gun or war. He was fighting a losing battle, losing more men than Israel was. Yet through all this he continued to fight. He was injured often, but continued to fight. He was devoted to the Palestinian cause all his life up to his death on November 11, 2004. Yasser Arafat lost his mother at age 5 and lived with his…

form their own defense groups Darfur conflict has been categorized as an inter-communal conflict for generations. However, in the eighties the conflict in Darfur became more vicious and many of them acquired an ethnic dimension, between the Arabs and non-Arab (African) identity groups . The Fur is the largest ethnic group in Darfur; they are farmers and depend on agriculture. The second largest tribe in this group, the Zaghawa, is mostly nomadic with some sects of the tribe practicing…

Middle Eastern leaders. As Ross points out “The major problem with this premise is that it is not true. There have been dozens of conflicts and countless coups in the Middle East since Israel’s birth in 1948, and most were completely unrelated to the Arab-Israeli conflict.”(Ross 13). This linkage myth has been used to shape western policy in the region as well as manipulate western decision…