Palestine Liberation Front

encapsulates the fears of the non-Jewish people of Palestine. The people of Palestine feel that the Jewish people have invaded the region and have gained too much influence. The cartoon depicts a Jewish man eating all of the bread meant to be shared by the people of Palestine and the Jewish people. This is an obvious metaphor for the Jewish people gaining political influence in the region, and the fear that they will erase the already established people of Palestine. Document seven continues to…

Against the boundaries of states, religion, and beliefs forms a friendship that is continually tested by the turmoil of war and a deep-rooted resentment that has lasted for centuries. In Sandy Tolan’s book The Lemon Tree a narrative is formed around the real-life stories of Bashir Khairi, a Palestinian revolutionary, and Dalia Landau, an Israeli woman who grew up in the Khairi family’s home after it was abandoned. Growing up in separate worlds, Bashir and Dalia cross paths when Bashir journeys…

invasion by Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, entered Palestine and took control of the Arab areas and immediately attacked Israeli forces. This resulted in the victory of Israel.…

conflicting obligations to both the Jews and the Arabs, the United Nation Special Committee on Palestine was created by the UN General Assembly, to create a solution for the problem in Palestine. Two proposals emerged: a federal state plan and a partition plan – the latter being passed and submitted as a report to the UN General Assembly on 3 September. The UN Partition Plan was passed on 29 November to partition Palestine into two states. Zionist politicians accepted the plan at first…

Lior Bar-El Sinai Scholars Essay 4/10/16 The First Roman Jewish War The First Roman Jewish war was a conflict with great ramifications. It resulted in the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and started the transformation from a Judaism centered on temple sacrifices to a Judaism dominated by Rabbis and the interpretations of scripture. Militarily, this conflict was important as it saw diverse militaries fighting with contrasting tactics. The Jewish rebels fought with irregular tactics…

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…

According to an article “What are Israel and Palestine? Why are they fighting?” in Vox by Zack Beauchamp (2015), both Israelis and Palestinians have had many difficulties and disagreements with sharing the same state. Their biggest argument is over who should have full control of Israel, the Jews (Israelis) or the Arabs Muslims (Palestine). Israelis believe that they should have full control of Israel because of the Zionism, Israel should be there holy land and they should have a place to call…

The devastating Arab-Israeli War commenced on Saturday, May 15. It escalated from a conflict between Israel and the Arab state for Palestine. Although Israel fought with no allies, there unstoppable military overcame the fearless Arab states. Because Israel won the war, they were officially recognized as a state and were able to gain land that had not been previously promised to them. Palestinians were forced out of their homes in a Catastrophe and till this day, many of those displaced were…

The debate surrounding Israel has been ongoing since its creation following World War II. The Holocaust killed millions of Jews and it focused Europe to do something and make a place for the Jews to go. Arabs want to destroy Israel and Jews and because of that most Israelis believe that the conflict between them is a result in the Arabs wanting to get the Jews out of the land but most arabs believe that that regardless to the small size and vast larger land mass of the surrounding Arab lands…

The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians over territorialism and the establishment of a Jewish land and that of “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland between the largely Catholic Nationalists and the majority Protestant Unionists have many key similarities. Both “Northern Ireland the State of Israel emerged out of war, the breakup of empires, and international agreements.”1 (ESEP 93)The main phase of both the Northern Ireland conflict and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict occurred around mid…