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throughout his book, Crossing the Green Line. His ethnographic study examines how the citizens of this area worked, lived, and interacted at the borders, boundaries, and frontiers of the two nations. Relationships between the Palestinians and the Israelis were further documented in the film, Checkpoint, which focused on dynamics at the border with special regards to the experience of crossing the border and interpersonal exchanges when at the international border. This area of turmoil,…

June 5, 1967 transformed the middle east into what it is now. The Israelis were the only ones actually ready for a war. The Israelis attacked Egypt, Jordan and Syrian soldiers one morning as they were eating falafel and cucumbers. It was said that the Israelis flew so low to the ground that the Egyptian soldiers could make out the pilots faces. Within minutes the Egyptian air force was obliterated and ceased to exist. The Israelis instead of bargaining for security, kept the land to themselves…

communities. These shocking statistics are no surprise because events like these happen quite frequently in this area. Most of these events are acts of terrorism carried out by extreme members of terrorists organizations from either Palestinian or Israeli communities. A great depiction of this act being carried out is in the film Paradise Now. The film portrays two young Palestinian men who are members of an elite Palestinian terrorist group. Their mission is to suicide bomb as many people as…

The impact that the UN Partition Plan had on the Arab-Israeli Conflict was colossal as the tension was transformed into violence after the plan had been implemented. This was due to the reactions that both Arab and Jewish people had regarding the plan, the wars resulting from the plan and the results and consequences of these wars. In its simplest form the Arab-Israeli Conflict did not begin when the UN Partition Plan was implemented but was heightened from the tension between the Arabs and Jews…

Rachel Samuels 001665731 HIST 1390 Professor Burds Israeli Espionage Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars examines the history and exploits of Israeli intelligence from the country’s founding in 1948 to today. Instead of moving through the history chronologically, the book looks at the history through various stories and examples of intelligence successes and failures. The book also gives insight into the other major and minor organizations that play key roles in providing…

The UN Resolution 242 states “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict” (Tal, “Arab-Israeli”). When this statement is translated into other official UN languages “the” precedes “territories”. Only the English translation lacks the term “the” in front of “territories”. Since the Israeli’s used the…

still exists today with one. Although Zionism was successful in creating a Jewish state, around two-thirds of the world’s Jews are currently not in Israel. Jews from around the world devote themselves to Israel, but do not see themselves getting an Israeli citizenship or living there. Following World War II, most of Jewish life left Europe and fled to North America, Latin America and Israel. The rising issue that still occurs is the divide between the Jews from all over the world. With this…

The Six-Day War, which began on June 5, 1967, was the third Arab-Israeli war in the long line of conflicts between these two entities. The Arab-Israeli conflict is between Palestinian Arabs and Zionist (now Israeli) that began in 1948 and continues to this day. The conflict began over the occupation of land and since 1948 the Middle Eastern territories have been massively reorganized. Moshe Dayan, Israel’s Minister of Defense, initiated the war by attacking Egypt’s air force in the morning of…

John Forbes Kerry impacts the peace process in the Arab-Israeli conflict through putting forth actions to get both sides closer to peace. His main goals are to target and eliminate fighting extremist or intensely opinionated groups. By removing the violence between the Palestinians, the Arab side, and the Israelis, each side can communicate on peace terms. Kerry has made valiant attempts at ending fighting through recognizing the Palestinian demand for a country of their own, ceasefires, and…

Operation Moses began on November 18th, 1984 and ended on January 5th, 1985. During this short period the CIA and Israeli government flew 6,500 Ethiopian Jews to Israel from transit camps in Sudan and Ethiopia. The missions ended when the campaign became public knowledge, creating a divide in many families with parts living in Israel and others still in Sudan or Ethiopia…