Israel

relationship between the leaders, the reliance Israel has on the U.S., and the Israeli-Palestinian relations, which Israel is not trying to fix. The relationships between American government leaders and Israeli leaders are bad, perhaps worse than they’ve ever been. The U.S. President, Obama, and the Israeli prime minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, have different views, disagree with each other, and dislike…

betrayed Israel. President Obama’s refusal to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution that would allot Israel territory the Western Wall resided in caused many Americans to claim that Obama betrayed Israel. However, Obama and others backed his decision by claiming that Israel had violated human rights laws agains Palestinians, and Israel and Pakistan should work out a two-state solution to settle the land dispute. In the columns “ The Unkindest Cut of All, Right in the Back of Israel”…

Hebrew) or the Beta Israel community, have a complicated, controversial, religious history. There are several theories as to the history of the Beta Israel community, the first being that the Beta Israel are the descendants of the entourage that accompanied Menelik 1, son of King Solomon and Queen Shiba. The second that they are descendants of the Jews who left the conquered Kingdom of Judah in Egypt after the destruction of the First Temple in 586. The third is that the Beta Israel were from…

principal ways in which this issue relates to international law. Palestine wishes to be be recognized as a state, wishes for sovereignty and wants to be their own country. Not all countries will recognize Palestine as their own state and want them to join Israel. The United Nations votes on a decision and settlement bearing on affairs of International law administering to the conflict once a year since 1974.The way citizens are being…

groups engage in a process of reciprocal fusion. The phrase entered popular parlance with such élan that its origins still remain unknown and obscure to most people. Although one might safely attribute the wide-spread dissemination of the idea to Israel Zangwill, the Anglo-Jewish Zionist-turned-assimilationist, similar references had already been made by writers like J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Jackson Turner who used the crucible as a persistent metaphor…

Jonathan Cahn’s book The Harbinger constantly draws parallels and makes similarities between the United States and the Kingdom of Israel. The book tells us that Founding Fathers envisioned a country based on the rules of God and a “Light Unto the Nations”. The book also portrays that America was founded similar to ancient Israel. Jonathan Cahn constantly lists a series of signs and warnings, that were the cause of ancient Israel's destruction. The way Cahn does this is by portraying harbingers…

Oz’s In the Land of Israel: A Critical Academic Analysis Amos Oz is typically revered as Israel’s most famous author, having written many fiction and non-fiction books and short stories about Israel, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the Middle East, and the world. This Ben Gurion University of the Negev Professor of Literature has shaped the way Israelis view themselves and how others view them and one of his most powerful books that does this is In the Land of Israel. The Land of Israel is a series…

Adding to this, traveling to Israel is not as simple as it may seem. Numerous obstacles are involved, but overcoming them is worth it. The sites were monumental and the people were gracious and welcoming. Trying and enjoying new foods was a perk of my journey and meeting my family was incredibly exciting. Furthermore all these aspects of my journey are what caused me to learn more about myself and has changed my view on life. Realizing the way others live in Israel compared to the way I live in…

Is Israel Guilty of Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide? For a while now, the Israelis and Palestinians have been dealing with a conflict over land. To very briefly sum things up, the Palestinians want more land. Palestine is a stateless nation, and the only land the Palestinians have is the Gaza Strip and the Western Bank. The land the Palestinians want is occupied by the Israelis, and they definitely do not want to give anything up. Israel is a Jewish state, but the opposing side has a Muslim and…

Zionism is a complex but simple movement. In its simplest form it calls for a re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, in gathering of the exiles, and liberation of Jews from the anti-Semitic discrimination and persecution that occurred in their Diaspora. In a sense of Jews with their own nation taking care of their own for their own cause. The waters were muddied and the movement took on many ideologies, and had evolved in a dialogue among a plethora of ideologies: General…