Palestine

In 1947, the British government was frustrated. They had spent significant time and resources trying to find an acceptable solution to their problems in Mandatory Palestine. Things were getting so bad that the British foreign secretary was quoted as saying “The Arabs, like the Jews, [had] refused to accept any of the compromise proposals which HMG had put before both parties.”1 Instead of a compromise, tensions were rising. Britain was facing an increase in Jewish terrorism, significant pressure…

What the author meant was that he using the representation of the photographs to interpret the images of Palestinians of how they were unfairly treated in Palestine and eventually in hope of reclaiming their identity. Nevertheless, the Palestinians cannot be able to tell their past experience as the majority of the people in different countries considered to be less sympathetic about the Palestinians. In addition…

promised the Arabs throughout the region to create a great Arab nation, the British disown their promise and promote the establishment of the Jews in Palestine by the Balfour Declaration in 1917 (Cohen). Britain, which received the mandate over Palestine after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, promised the Zionist leaders the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews, provided they do not disturb non-Jewish populations. This shift corresponds indeed better to the British interests…

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…

At the end of World War II, 1947 the Jewish State of Palestine established a state of Jewish sovereignty, the United Nations in November of that same year voted to establish the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state. That was the creation and establishment of Israel. Israel is known as the “Holy Land”, a country of rich history and distinguishable conflict. It is a nation state known for its incredibly notorious history with war, conflict, and strength. Through history religion has played…

influx of Jews to Palestine from the time the Great War ended. As new immigrants, they purchased land to live and farm on, but then banned Arabs from living on that land. The Jews’ goal was to establish localities based around farming. Additionally, these communities would be for Jews only, meaning they would not hire any Arab employees. The Arabs in the Palestinian Mandate greatly resented this trend. The British sought to make peace between the Zionists and Arab nationalists in Palestine, but…

Jewish homeland in Palestine, writing “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object...” This shows Britain promised the Jewish people that they will favor the establishment in Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people. To continue, the Sykes-Picot agreement led to the division of Turkish-held Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine into various…

discusses Palestinian women’s involvement until 1967 foremost as divided along class lines, but also as reactionary to national emergencies, or as limited to charitable work. Beginning as early as the 1880s, when Zionist immigration into Palestine began, women in rural Palestine fought along men to resist the earliest Zionist settlements, an example of women’s participation in response to a national emergency. When the 1917 Balfour Declaration was issued, there are records of women protesting…

until the 19th century. (source?) The religious revivalism of the 1700s and the early 1800s led many Americans and Europeans to be brought up on the romanticization of Holy Land, and to the Jews, Palestine had always been that land of milk and honey. in addition, the Western ideas of and interests in Palestine were very relevant politically, as these powers had the potential make Zionism, or, if they so chose, Palestinian nationalism, a reality. To understand the Western…

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is between two nations who claim the same land. The conflict began when Palestine became the land where Jews wanted to construct a sovereign Jew state. Before Jews began migrating to this land it was a multicultural land with a population of approximately "86 percent Muslim, 10 percent Christian and 4 percent Jewish-living in peace"(If America knew). As Jews continued to arrive the indigenous population which was Arabs became alarmed that their land was being…