Palestine

joined Zionism and started migrating to Palestine. This particular movement was also established in order to bring independence to the Jewish people from anti-Semitism and prosecutions. Specifically, the cruelty they were facing in a foreign land was dire and they were in need of immediate freedom and emancipation (Horowitz and Lissak 89). The first Zionist meeting took place in the early 1890s in Basel, with Theodor…

The Balfour Declaration serves as evidence that the British supported a national home being made for the Jews in Palestine. The Brits supported the Jews with the hope that they would support them back as they go into World War I. After all, the final say in the publication of this document was determined by Britain’s War Cabinet. Forming a national home for the Jews would allow Britain to gain support of Jews in other countries that may serve as neutral. Having another country as an ally would…

The right of return for the Palestinians is still an ongoing discussion, whether the Palestinians deserve to come back, or the Israelis will let them come back. During the Arab - Israeli War 800,000 Palestinians were forced to flee due to the conflict. The Israelis were going into Palestinian cities and forcing them to leave, while other Palestinians left before the Israelis came. Nearby countries and territories like Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Gaza Strip, and the West Bank set up…

section of God’s promise reading: “I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand..and you shall drive them out from before you.”. This relationship between the Jews and their promised land created an irreplaceable aim for land located in Palestine, which was found to be former Jerusalem (Britannica, Diaspora). Moreover, the Zionist movement in 1897 speed the process of Israel being formed in Palestinian land. With the creation of Zionism, a battle for a national Jewish homeland was…

thousands of free meals to poor families during the month of Ramadan (Aljazeera, 2011). Palestine’s lack of resources due to the Israeli blockade has left other charities in shambles and unable to provide necessary materials for the citizens of Palestine. Therefore, they don’t have many resources. Yet, Hamas has still managed to fill the role of a multitude of other charities that ceased to function for a variety of reasons (Roy, 2013). They have gracefully discovered a way to establish a…

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…

Was the partition of Palestine necessary? Palestine and Israel have been almost constantly in the last 50 years been at war or tension between the two separate parties. This fighting began 1947 by the United Nations partitioning the land in Palestine to be given to Israeli groups to create a separate a state. This essay will ask, was this partition necessary, to for both Arab and Israeli to be accepting of each other and live peacefully next to each other. Some people claim that other methods…

29, 1947, to partition Palestine, then still under British mandate, into an Arab state and a Jewish state.” Though initially Arab guerilla forces, commanded by British officers were succeeding in capturing a number of settlements, including that of Jerusalem, by April the tide had turned and the Haganah seized the offensive and were recapturing areas. The day after the declaration of Israeli independence heavily supplied military forces from Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia…

“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,…

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,…