Palestine

Jewish people throughout their history have struggled to maintain a unified community in which their cultural, social , and religious beliefs can be recognized as a nation. “Real or fancied grievances are in themselves [in] sufficient to produce, however strongly they may favour, the emergence of active hostility against a social order. For such an atmosphere to develop is necessary that there be groups to whose interest it is to work up and organize resentment, to nurse it , to voice it, and to…

April 2024 War: the Hate-Induced Paradox of Evil “I will never forget Saturday October 7th. I will never forget what they did to my people.” I asked him if he thinks Israel and Palestine can ever achieve peace. He told me, “I believe that Israel will never be on friendly terms with Palestine[e]. Since Hamas now controls Palestine, Israel will never be on good terms with terrorists. For me personally, the Palestinians will be the worst people until my last days.” At only 14 years old and through…

are needed. With considerable thought, he accepts, for there is nothing more he could lose since he’d already lost his family. With this acceptance, he will abandon everything and join the Movement to free themselves from Israel for the future of Palestine.…

Golda Meir was an important figure to the people of Israel. The most baffling part about her was that she was a woman amongst many men apart of the Israeli government, who was indeed representing all of the citizens of Israel. She was the 4th Prime Minister of Israel, was elected on March 17, 1969. For as she was also considered the “Mother of Israel”. As Golda Meir strived for major change for Israel and wanting to establish peace with the Arabs, although, herself, did not acknowledge them as…

At the end of the 11th century, Western Europe had emerged as a significant power, causing a considerable amount of territory loss for the Byzantine Empire. After years of destruction and chaos from the civil war between the Seljuk Turks, General Alexius Comnenus sent envoys to Pope Urban II pleading for help to confront the Turkish threat. Little did he know that his cry for help would casue one of the biggest power struggles in history. Religious confliction, Pope Urban II, and the fight for…

According to a contributor at Fox News, Steven Crowder, religious extremism is not the only kind of extremism in the world. He states that a more alarming form of extremism is called secular extremism. Secular extremism demonstrates the same terrorist ideologies but is seen in a more positive light, as its battle is ‘moral’ against that of the ‘evil’ theistic terrorists in the world. He uses the example of James Lee, who held innocent people hostage in the Discovery Center building to further…

The hysterical tale of two moronic kidnappers and one terror of a child will make baby- sitters everywhere quiver and potential kidnappers reconsider. O.Henry’s short story “The Ransom of Red Chief “ is a high caliber comedy that utilizes irony and allusions to convey the conception that although it is not what seems most favorable, a sense of justice will play into everything we do. The irony in the story is very unexpected, making it even more hysterical, but at the same time making the reader…

The author of Ezra is most likely himself, an educated scribe who came out of Babylonia to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. Nehemiah, a cupbearer to King Artaxerxes I of Persia, also wrote most of the book called by his name. He came to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls. The events in Ezra happened from 538 to 457 B.C., with about a sixty year gap in the middle (during which Esther takes place). From 444 to 425 B.C., Nehemiah worked to rebuild the walls and realign the hearts of the people of…

In September 2015, Palestinian President Muhammad Abbas proclaimed that the state of Palestine was no longer under any obligation to follow the Oslo Accords, crafted over two decades prior. Citing Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Abbas argued that Palestine had been the only side upholding the terms of the once-heralded agreement, and that they were tired of being exploited as a “state under occupation.” How could the state have gotten here from the widespread optimism following the Oslo…

Tolan reflects the interaction between a Muslim and a Jew, two very polar ideologies, through anecdotes that exemplify the possibility for understanding between opposing groups. Throughout the book, Bashir and Dalia met with each other on numerous occasions to discuss the tension between their two cultures. Dalia tries to explain to Bashir how much more alike they are than he might think, “‘We can see ourselves in you, Bashir,’ Dalia said. ‘We can remember our own history of exile over thousands…