Arab citizens of Israel

9/11 Generation: Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on the Terror, is an ethnographic study of youth organizations and solidarity to understand the mobilization of Muslim youth in different communities in the Bay Area. After 9/11, many Muslim, Arabs, and South Asians increased in partaking in political subjectivity and orientation related to Islamophobia, global politics in the Middle East, and US policies. Many Muslim students took part in youth organizations as according to Sabina, a…

shot him dead. Soon his brother-in-law would also have the opportunity to be the hero. One hero inspires another. The Bicycle Rider and the Bulldozer In 2008, while riding his bicycle down the main street of Jerusalem, Moshe P. notices a commotion. An Arab terrorist has come up with yet another original idea, he is driving his bulldozer into people on their lunch break, he is turning over cars, he runs his bulldozer into a commercial bus filled with people. The bus is overturned and several…

Israeli forces launched a highly successful surprise attack on Egypt, Israel occupied the final 22% of Palestine that had eluded it in 1948 – the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Since, according to international law it is inadmissible to acquire territory by war, these are occupied territories and do not belong to Israel. It also occupied parts of Egypt (since returned) and Syria (which remain under occupation).During the Six Day War, Israel attacked a US Navy ship, the USS Liberty, killing and…

had been decimated. Their honor was in tatters. And there was very little they could do about it. As a result, something was needed to fill the void. That something was the growth of Palestinian Resistance Movements (PRMs)6. The environment in the Arab world was something of a perfect storm for the PRMs. In addition to providing much-needed hope to the Palestinian people, the PRMs emerged at time when many other revolutionary movements were gaining momentum (such as one in Cuba).7 To…

to fix views throughout the world, the country has to manage the anti-American sentiment within its own borders. Appealing to other countries and raising favorability will be extremely difficult for a country where people view some of their fellow citizens as part of “a totally foreign culture” and will not accept change (“Background” para 3). In addition, America needs to attempt to cut down on involvement in conflict. In the Middle East and Afghanistan, favorability is exceptionally low in…

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…

orchestrated due to United States government continued support of Israel by providing military support presence in the middle east. The 9/11 planners, attackers or terrorists did not like the fact that United States government officials supported Israel. They did not like the invasion of Iraq nor the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia. The terrorists believed United States government officials and citizens should be punished for supporting Israel. The al-Qaeda group at the time of the attack…

Committee 1 405807 Peacekeeping Conduct and Discipline Japan Position Paper Part 1 The peacekeeping system has been used by the United Nations since 1948 to prevent conflict from breaking out between Israel and Arab neighbors. Peacekeepers were used to monitor the Armistice Agreement and prevent disagreements. Since 1948, the United Nations has deployed troops to 69 peacekeeping operations across the world. The UN operation in Congo was the first large mission for peacekeepers. The UN…

Rasha Diab, author of Shades of Sulh: The Rhetorics of Arab-Islamic Reconciliation, states that the literal definition of the word sulh means “reconciliation”, and that it “captures the practices, rituals, processes, and goals of sulh, a very old sociopolitical traditional reconciliation practice in the Arab world that relies heavily on mediation” and attempts to realize the people’s rights in any act of aggression (Diab 42). Diab asserts that not only does sulh discourse merge both judicial and…

INTRODUCTION: (JERUSALEM 2004-2006 AND PART ONE: JERUSALEM 1898) Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author, Amy Dockser Marcus, wrote the novel Jerusalem 1913: The origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the year 2007. Marcus was a journalist working for New York City’s The Wall Street Journal in 1991. She flew to Tel Aviv, Israel in September. The stories and facts she has about this topic are interesting because she has actual historical background and knowledge about it. She is able to…