Israelis

For our group presentation, we researched and found that Sahar Khalifeh had many limits because of her gender, that there were plenty of differences between Judaism and Islam, and the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Since Sahar Khalifeh was a girl, she felt constrained and unacknowledged. She was born into a family of five daughters. Her parents wanted a son so they could pass on their legacy. She gained confidence through writing and was able to divorce her husband from an arranged…

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…

Israel has historically been riddled with various conflicts and issues. In recent years, many of the problems facing the Jewish-state relate to Israeli and Palestinian relations. The Jewish people settled in and established what is biblically known as the kingdoms of Judea and Samaria. Later while under Babylonian rule, the Jewish people were exiled/dispersed from their ancestral homeland during the Jewish Diaspora. Years later, the Arabs settled the land and formed Palestine. Years after that,…

Prime Minister of the country from 1999 to 2001. Barak was the leader of the Israeli Labor Party from 1997 to 2001, before leaving with four other members of the party to create a new party that was centrist, Zionist, and democratic. Before Barak’s time as a politician, he served in served in the IDF, or Israel Defense Forces, which he joined in 1959. There, he served 35 years, and rose to the highest rank in the Israeli military -- Rav Aluf, and the Chief of General Staff. Barak served in the…

Discuss the importance of Golda Meir’s role throughout the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973. Golda Meir was an active Zionist and Israeli politician who played a crucial role in the 1967 and 1973 Arad-Israeli Wars. From being a leader in the Histradrut, working as Foreign Minister of Israel and eventually becoming the fourth Prime Minister of the country, Meir’s diplomatic and controversial role in Israeli politics was highlighted. In the lead, up to the Six Day War, Meir’s hard work as…

and Egypt stamped on September 17, 1978, that drove in the going with year of a peaceful course of action between those two countries, the first such deal amidst Israel and any of its Arab neighbors. Facilitated by U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian Pres. Anwar el Sadat and formally titled the "Framework for Peace in the Middle East," the understandings became known as the Camp David Accords in light of the way that the game plans happened at the…

resources.This was only one of the many Arab-Israeli conflicts to occur. The reasons for the conflicts in the Arabian Peninsula is narrowed down to the control of land and resources between the nations. In the Yom Kippur War the best understanding…

In order to further understand why Iraqi Jews and non-Jewish Arab Israelis were attracted to Communism, it is important to explore Communism in Israel on a base level, as well as some characteristics of the Party which made it irresistible. It should be noted the Communism was an evolving ideology in pre-1948 Israel and post-1948 Israel. There were different groups that were the official Communist parties, which changed over time. Before there were any established official Parties, there were…

I remember the very day I became Israeli. I was born in Israel and lived there for two years, but I only recognized my true identity on the first day of elementary school in Closter, New Jersey, almost three years after I had left Israel. I walked into the unfamiliar school clutching my mother’s hand like a safety rope that was holding me back from certain death; I was absolutely terrified to be away from her for so long every day. I was an extremely nervous child and I clung on to my mother…

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…