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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…

Women in Modern Israeli The Zionist movement was not travelling along the traditional Jewish way. On the contrary it created the basis for the religious society when it changed the role of women in society. Because traditionally, Israeli women were groups of religiously observant who believe that they should be able to pray at the Kotel and read the Torah scroll as well as wear the Tallit. Israeli women are defined as Jewish and Palestinian Arab. However, the Equality of Israeli women can be…

However, it is recently the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis have been intense. Their conflict goes back far, constantly fighting over the land. But, it was at the end of World War Two where it has started again. As of now, it seems as though the two of them will never get along. They have a lot of hate toward each other…

laptops. In Chapter 2, Battlefield Entrepreneurs, it is described the Israeli military culture and that mostly the tactical advance comes from bottom ranks and flows upward. Examples in the book are the individual tank commanders and their officers. The soldiers don’t have to ask the higher ranked officers to solve a problem, even though that they might not have the official authority to act and make decision on their own. Israelis learn to adapt to new and constantly changing quickly. In the…

American presidents) and proven that Israel can be confident in a lasting friendship with the United States. Embedded in the proclaimed support for Israel is the American interest in Israeli peace. However, under current circumstances, Israeli peace can only materialized when Arab-Israeli peace is attained, as Arab-Israeli tensions directly threaten stability in the Middle East. This instability is highly problematic because an unstable Middle East is a dangerous Middle East, especially from…

Equality of Women in Modern Israeli The Zionist movement was not travelling along the traditional Jewish way. Traditional Jews have a great deal of attachment to their faith and doctrine, and the Zionists wanted to bring about the identity of Zionism with Judaism which includes both Jewish and non-Jewish. It created the basis for the religious society when it changed the role of women in society. Israeli women are defined as Jewish and Palestinian Arab. Traditionally, Israeli women’s were…

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,…

this quote from an unknown Israeli special forces operative “Lie down, don’t get up. The army is here, the army is here”, during an active hostage rescue mission. When Air France Flight 139 took off from Tel Aviv bound for Paris, no one on board could foresee the flight being hijacked. As the plane stopped in Athens for fuel, 4 terrorists boarded. Eventually, the plane landed in Entebbe,Uganda, where 94 passengers and the 12 crew were kept as hostages. 6 days later, Israeli Sayeret Matkal…

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 Assembly, 2014). The Palestinian land had even been inundated with waste water (UN General Assembly, 2014). Israeli has…

Chapter three of Eyal Press’ Beautiful Souls follows Avner Wishnitzer, an Israeli soldier serving in Sayeret Matkal, an elite direct action and hostage rescue unit in the Israeli Defense Force, in the Israeli-occupied territories during the Second Intifada. Israel won the occupied territories, also known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in the 6-Day War of 1967; however, they are not officially part of Israel. In 1987 to 1991, there was a Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, the…