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The article “Problematizing a Palestinian Diaspora” by Juliet Peteet, outlines the origins and development of the Palestinian Diaspora during the post-colonial period in the Middle East as one of the most unresolved and controversial conflicts in human history. The year 1948 marks the beginning of the Palestinian al-ghurba (exile) as well as the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel. The founding of the new state is often described as Al-Nakba, meaning “the catastrophe or disaster”,…

opposition to some internal or external nemesis. All are defined by what they oppose.” Do you agree? Discuss in reference to state formation and colonialism in Palestine/Israel. Gelvin’s argument that all nationalisms arise in opposition to some internal or external nemesis is historically accurate and continues to be true. The mandate for Palestine was formally confirmed on Britain by the League of Nations in July 1922, which officially marked the beginning of Palestinian nationalism. Both…

The Shaping of Palestine Political and religious circumstances during the early twentieth century paved the way for the Zionist movement which had profound effects on the shaping of Palestine. Europeans, Palestinians, and even Americans affected the Zionist movement. Europeans reinvigorated the Zionist movement through continuous poor treatment of the Jews. Politically, Europeans supported Zionism due to their dislike of the Jews. They supported the Jews leaving. This had the opposite…

Have you ever wondered how Palestine became occupied? How people suddenly started calling it Israel? I was shocked to see that because of the occupation in my country, Palestine, my grandparents had to flee the country, and how some people refer to it as Israel instead of the true name Palestine. Yasser Arafat was the founder of the Fatah. He spent most of his lifetime fighting Israel and that is why many Palestinians admire and respect him. Arafat died at the age of 75 from a mysterious blood…

“Apartheid is not Normal” “Normalize This” is a free form, spoken word poem from Remi Kanazi. Kanazi is a Palestinian-American born to Palestinian immigrants. Kanazi’s grandmother was pregnant with his mother when she left Palestine in 1947. Around this time there was a great exodus or “nukba” of indigenous Palestinians, just as the land was being annexed to create the new state of Israel. Kanazi’s father left Haifa after the occupation had already taken place. Born in New York City in 1981,…

and Palestine are going to sign peace treaties and split the land they’ve been fighting each other for in half. The idea of Palestine and Israel getting along is strange, considering that while Palestinians don’t hate Israeli people, the country of Israel mostly hates Palestine. While the two-state solution could work in favor of Palestine and Israel, it is hard to see them agreeing on sharing land. The following arguments are against the two-state solution from the point of view of Palestine,…

Balfour Declaration, a letter sent from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild in 1917, stated the British’s support for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. In the letter it specifically announces, “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people…” This quote accepts that Jews need a home for themselves and shows that the British are willing to help. The Palestinians…

suggests that Israel was innocent in its endeavors in Palestine, that the Arabs started the war for aggressive purposes and hints that the eventual flight of the Palestinian Arabs was a result of the war and not a result of Israeli policy. Thus, as a defender of the old narrative, Teveth aims to discredit the main points of Morris’s new historical narrative. The notion that the original Zionists leaders had been planning the exodus of Arabs from Palestine was the first to be shot down by Teveth,…

their own country. In the 1920’s and 30’s the Jewish movement back to the Middle East truly began to ignite surrounding countries’ fury. According to Gale Student Resources “This population movement led to conflicts with the Arabs already inhabiting Palestine that the British could not settle. There were armed battles as Jews protected kibbutzim (agricultural settlements) from attacks by Arabs, beginning in the 1920s and continuing through the founding of Israel” (Birth of…

West Bank were, at one point, collectively know as Palestine.The right to own the land is being fought over by the Israeli Jews and the Palestinian Arabs, who are also known as the Muslims.After the Arab-Israeli War of 1947 was over, the land of Palestine was split into the three regions, Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. the Israeli Jews state that they have the right to the land because it was promised to them by God through the birth of Isaac, son of Abraham. The Palestinian Arabs, on the…