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My interview explored both the views of my father and I. My father’s religious upbringing was another focus of this interview. Throughout my interview I came to realize things about religion and spirituality. Religion is a very important aspect of my dad’s life and mine, both of us emphasis the sense of community that religion gives us. Another thing the conversation reaffirmed was my belief that questioning your beliefs is key part of religion. These ideas and others were reflected upon after…

itself through Palestinian’s rejection of the U.N’s decision to divide Palestine. Coming to its modern incarnation around the late eighteenth century as a result of European Colonialism opposition, Arab nationalism further grew to oppose the state of Israel along with western powers they believed were allied with Israeli forces as a means to conquer the Arab region, which is known for its abundant oil reserves. Nonetheless, upon the U.N’s resolution being passed that Palestine be split, Arab…

ravaged Iran and Iraq in the 1980’s and the latter is currently in the midst of what seems to be endless occupation by the United States that threatens to turn into a civil war. In 1981, Israel attacked Iraq to end their aspirations of becoming a nuclear power. Now, the Jewish…

As Hamaoui translates from the memoir Night “The passage uses the poetry and language of faith to affirm a shattering of faith”(Hamaoui 128). The Jewish people struggling to survive the Holocaust are using faith and religion to keep themselves alive. Over time the Jews begin to question God’s willingness to stop the Holocaust. The loss of faith is hard for Elie to keep moving forward in the fight for freedom. Elie starts to believe God has left them to die, so they begin to abandon religion. In…

economy, and is the pillar of their food security. However, the agriculture industry in Palestine is being controlled and restricted by the Israeli government. Israel continues to use the Palestinian agriculture as a means to inflict collective punishment on the Palestinian people to confiscate more land in the Occupied Territories’ (OT). Israel continues to confiscate Palestinian agricultural land and aquifers by denying Palestinian civilians access to their crops and their harvest (UN General…

expanded with much violence on both sides in the 2000s. On May 14, 1948 the British withdrew from Palestine and the Jewish National Council proclaimed Israel as a state. With the departure of the British it was decided that Palestine would be divided in half. The Arab nations rejected the partition of Palestine and decided to invade the state of Israel. Essentially there has been fighting…

general. In the interview faith made her value for he culture known and how important it is for her and her family. This is seen by the motivation to explore their culture by ways such as birthright, which is visiting the Jewish native country of Israel.…

According to German film theorist Siegfried Kracauer “films are the mirror of the prevailing society.” Through films viewers can understand the culture and sentiments of the people during the time of the film’s creation. Film directors study popular trends in their society and have those trends reflected back in their films to gain viewers and economic profit by providing something the audience can relate to. The preservation and study of films allow for the observation of the political…

over territorialism and the establishment of a Jewish land and that of “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland between the largely Catholic Nationalists and the majority Protestant Unionists have many key similarities. Both “Northern Ireland the State of Israel emerged out of war, the breakup of empires, and international agreements.”1 (ESEP 93)The main phase of both the Northern Ireland conflict and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict occurred around mid 1960s to late 1990s and both had similar…

The destructive effects of genocide impact the lives of its victims and survivors further than others often understand. During the Holocaust, the entire memory of the Jewish people’s cultural and religious values were intended to perish along with the collapse of their population. Today, we remember the lives of the Jewish people to honor their continued presence among us and to ensure that their culture overcomes the multi-generational desecration that the Holocaust caused. According to Dr.…