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conflicts, and there was no doubt about it. He started his legacy as a rebellious military leader, going against orders twice. He was the head of very violent attacks against the palestinians, and sided with powerful allies. He gained more land for the Israelis, but took it away from the palestinians in the process. And in an attempt at “peace”, he only makes matters worse. At the age of 14, I joined the war between the british and the Palestinians. I was on the side of the Jewish, but I was…

to be true. The Israeli welfare state demonstrates favoritism for certain sects of Jewish society while at the same time marginalizing and excluding marginalized populations such as Arabs and Palestinians. Furthermore, the neoliberalization of the Israeli economy and introduction of neoliberal policies fosters inequality in the form of wage inequality and rising poverty among certain groups. Neoliberal policy, however, positively benefit the traditional dominant players in Israeli society,…

Avigdor Lieberman Avigdor Lieberman, the current Foreign Minister of Israel, is on the far right on the spectrum of Israeli politics. His political party, Yisrael Beiteinu, which Mr. Lieberman founded and leads, has been described as ultra-nationalist, and argues that Israel 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…

Euphrates River.” Despite this Biblical assertion of the shared belonging of the strip of land East of the Mediterranean, its ownership is cause for a major conflict between two groups in the world today. Since the development of Zionism in the 1940s, Israelis and Palestinians have been in a constant state of disagreement over the physical and political boundary, resulting in treacherous war and terrorism. With this in mind, the proposal of the unification of the two groups in a single political…

Palestinian feminism is a global movement through which Palestinian women oppose patriarchal values and the violence of the Israeli occupation, and fight for human rights and equal treatment for all Arabs regardless of gender or sexuality. Palestinian feminism’s story is largely unknown. From the birth of powerful women’s organizations to viral Internet campaigns by young progressive activists during the Arab Spring, the motives and successes of Palestinian and Arab feminists rarely make…

In the article, “Terrorism and the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict”, Jerome Slater studied the effects terrorism had on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. He contends that while terrorism is ethically wrong, it is both conceivable and alluring to recognize degrees of good misleading quality. Slater realizes both Israel and the Palestinians have turned to terrorism at different times during the course of their long conflict; After studying a wide diagram of this history of common fear mongering, he…

It is no surprise that the US has chosen to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The diplomatic Israel-US relationship over the past century has consisted of emphatic one-sided US support towards Israel. The US has and continues to provide Israel with military and financial support, sympathy, and defense in the United Nations (Walt & Mersheimer 39). Why the US continues to unconditionally provide Israel with such support is blurred among varying constructed rationales. The most…

short conflict pitting Israel against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, was a decisive Israeli victory that stretched from the 5th through the 10th of June, 1967. Despite the short duration of the war, Israel greatly improved their military reputation worldwide, as well as gained significant territory within the region. While controversial in that Israel launched a preemptive strike against nations that had yet to engage, the Israeli tactics highlighted the importance of quick, decisive military…

recognized conflict of our time is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This bloody struggle has endured for over a century and involves a complex web of players, alliances, and grudges that have brought about the death of many and disrupted the lives of countless others. According to one source, at least 1,104 Israelis and 6,836 Palestinians have been killed since 2000 alone, and many more have been injured. The same source states that while the number of Israelis who are being killed has…

I. 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…