Gaza Strip

Kyle Pettine November 16, 2015 HONR238R Abu Nidal Sabri Khalil al-Banna hails from a very wealthy family and had 25 half-siblings and siblings. Sabri and his family were displaced from their home many times in his life. He was displaced in his childhood and early adult years because of a conflict between Arab and Jewish forces. This developed a hatred of Israel for Sabri, which led him to take up the alias of “Abu Nidal” and become the leader of one of the most feared and dangerous terrorist…

The conflict began when Israel started implementing Jewish settlements in ex-Palestinian territory, which were the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. Critics of the settlements argue that “the continued growth and construction of Israeli settlements assert that under international law, all of Israel 's West Bank settlements are illegal” (“Israeli Settlements”.) Although,…

failure, and I will give a personal opinion at the end on the entire peace process and future of the Middle East. After WWI, the League of Nations established the Mandate for Palestine. It included all the land that was Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (League of Nations, 1922). The 1917 Balfour Declaration supported the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, “Nothing shall be done to prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non Jewish…

should take an aggressive stance in protecting itself from terrorism. Mr. Lieberman believes that Israel is a Jewish state, and many of his political stands have been viewed as hostile not only to the Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, but to the Arabs and Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. He believes that the conflict of the last fifty years should be viewed as between Jews and Arabs, instead of between Israelis and Palestinians. Mr. Lieberman…

contravenes international law. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in its 2004 advisory opinion to the UN Assembly on the subject of the separation barrier that East Jerusalem is occupied territory, like the rest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and that the measures that Israel took to annex East Jerusalem are not valid according to international law. Both international human rights conventions and international humanitarian law apply to this area. These norms…

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is between two nations who claim the same land. The conflict began when Palestine became the land where Jews wanted to construct a sovereign Jew state. Before Jews began migrating to this land it was a multicultural land with a population of approximately "86 percent Muslim, 10 percent Christian and 4 percent Jewish-living in peace"(If America knew). As Jews continued to arrive the indigenous population which was Arabs became alarmed that their land was being…

questions have been raised and the research objectives have been formed. Depending on these different case studies in several parts of the world, and in West Bank; the research follows similar methodology of analysis to apply the investigation on Gaza strip taking in consideration the different conditions and individual objectives. The sources of these photos have been taken from internet, books, assessment reports, and human participants who basically work as photographers. Provided to…

the 3 key political entities on the Palestinian side, only Fatah would support the two state solution and that Hamas and the IJLP want a one state solution with Palestine replacing Israel. Taheri also mentions that Gaza would not be an ideal mold for a Palestinian state by stating, “Gaza has more political prisoners than any Arab country” (Taheri). Taheri seems to use a combination of pathos and logos in his writing, presenting his readers with a potent cocktail of facts and hard hitting emotion…

The United Nations (UN) was established in 1945 to promote global peace and international cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations which was deemed as ineffective since it failed to prevent the Second World War. The organization enjoys a membership of 193 nations with the privilege to operate extraterritoriality. The UN also ensures that human rights of member states are not violated in any way. To ensure that the body achieves the task, UN has established a global structure that oversee…

“Apartheid is not Normal” “Normalize This” is a free form, spoken word poem from Remi Kanazi. Kanazi is a Palestinian-American born to Palestinian immigrants. Kanazi’s grandmother was pregnant with his mother when she left Palestine in 1947. Around this time there was a great exodus or “nukba” of indigenous Palestinians, just as the land was being annexed to create the new state of Israel. Kanazi’s father left Haifa after the occupation had already taken place. Born in New York City in 1981,…