Gaza Strip

Egyptian-Israeli issues. The first document was called, “Framework for Peace in the Middle East Agreed at Camp David.” This document concerned the future of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Palestinian refugee issue, and a five year transitional period. The five year transitional period had to do with how Israel would withdraw from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The idea was for the Israeli Military to slowly leave the area allowing the Palestinians to take over and have an elected…

Imperialism is the imposition of one group's way of life on another. The British, interrupted the Chinese economy by selling them opium, which ended up disrupting their economy. The Spanish, captured the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan and built in its remains Mexico City. The Jewish people, who were offered the state of Israel by The United Nations, took on the Palestinian Arabs in four separate wars. In the late 1700’s, British merchants began making profits from the Chinese by selling…

Revolution is the attempted overthrow of a group in power. Revolution appears in Asia when nationalist leader Gandhi led a salt march to show his dissatisfaction with the British salt monopoly. Another example of a revolution occurred in Central America when Toussaint L’Ouverture led a group of Haitian rebels to victory against France resulting in the abolition of slavery. Finally, the third example of revolution occurred in the Middle East where the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), as…

The Co-Curricular I attended was a presentation given by Professor Daniel Kurtzer on the possibility of Israeli Palestinian peace. Despite a lifetime working to bring peace to the middle east with no definitive solution passing, Professor Kurtzer still remains optimistic about the chances of peace between Palestine and Israel. That’s not to say he did not acknowledge the difficulties that exist in solving the middle east crisis. Destabilization has existed within the middle east for decades, and…

2013. He provides in great details how the state of Palestine became to be known as Israel. As well as the struggles the Palestinians have to go through on a daily basis. “Maltreatment and Coping Strategies Among Male Adolescents Living in the Gaza Strip” by Abdel Thabet, Victoria Tishcler, and Panos Vostanis, discusses the maltreatment and behavioral discrepancies among young males. This will provide explicit details on how the young male population is affected and how one surpasses the…

Yasser Arafat: Father of Modern Terrorism “I come bearing and olive branch in one hand, and a freedom fighters gun in the other. Don't let the olive branch fall from my hand.” This was Yasser Arafat’s most famous 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…

Caroline Sloan April 4th, 2024 Environmental Justice Professor El-Tinay. The Environmental Globe: War on Life. There is a fundamental connection between the way that humans treat the environment and the way that humans treat each other. Modern social hierarchy and economics are driven by the ideology of domination, whose Judeo-Christian roots extend as far back as the 15th century. Genesis 1:26-31 states, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have…

Every country is at a different level of globalization as well as has been affected by globalization in a different way. A countries level of globalization can be measured by various factors. Israel and Palestine is a unique case as their level of globalization depends on each other’s actions. Their advancement in globalization depends on each other’s economic, social, environmental and political actions. This is because Palestine and Israel share a “country” and there is a lot of conflict…

to keep the program only cultural so that the participants will be able to develop their Jewish identity, but because of this, Israel comes off as free of conflict and depoliticized. The participants only visit cultural sites and do not see the Gaza strip or the West Bank. Birthright Israel does not explain the conflict happening in Israel because they want the participants to have a purely cultural experience and feel comfortable in their homeland. But, Israel is not isolated from the…

1 The Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria are not located in an "occupied territory." The last binding international legal instrument which divided the territory of Israel, Judea, Samaria and Gaza was the League of Nations Mandate, which explicitly recognized the right of Jewish settlement in all territories allocated to the Jewish national home under the Balfour Declaration. These rights under the British Mandate were preserved by the successor…