Palestine

Bricks: The Influence of Space on Identity ‘In Hebrew culture throughout the ages, the Land of Israel has been perceived and depicted as the center, the homeland of the Jewish nation, and the role of the land in the Zionist narrative has been pivotal.13’ (Weiss 2015: 61). From this description of Israel, it is clear to understand why the theme of home is important to the development of identity in both When I Lived in Modern Times and A Pigeon and A Boy. In this chapter, the title ‘Bricks’…

Shihab Naomi is related to the current situation of Israel/Palestine for this part of the world. The past conflicts of the situation between Israel and Palestine have been happening for a while for the last decades for example the Palestinian war in 1948 when five Arab nations which were Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt who invaded the territory of former Palestinian mandate, which lead the United Nations to declare Palestine and Israel there own country. Another example in 1967…

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…

of people. One of the best-known and most drastic cases of this is known as the Palestine Nakba. The word, Nakba, translates from Arabic meaning “disaster,” it is the term used to define the “exodus” of the Palestine people in 1948. Born from Zionist ideology, majorities of the Palestine people were kicked out of their homes and relocated in order to make room for a Jewish State. In Nur Masalha’s book, “The Palestine Nakba,” she discusses the methods that were used to try to cover up this wound…

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…

Jerusalem is one of the holiest cities in the entire world. Home to holy places, synagogues, mosques, and churches, millions of people visit the city of Jerusalem. It is also a place of conflict as the three major world religions view Jerusalem as one of the sacred places for their religion. In addition, history has shown that each of these religions wanted to take control of Jerusalem, and destroyed the holy sites belonging to the others. Finally, none of the religions want others to control…

as well as in a political sense. Although he died in January of 2014 at age 85, he has left a legacy and plan for Israel that will continue to grow and bring Israel closer to peace. Ariel Sharon was born in 1928 in a Jewish settlement in former Palestine (now Israel), which was controlled by the British. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia, and from a young age he was taught to fear the Arabs, as they were a threat in the Jewish settlement that he grew up in. This may have contributed…

The Six-Day War, which began on June 5, 1967, was the third Arab-Israeli war in the long line of conflicts between these two entities. The Arab-Israeli conflict is between Palestinian Arabs and Zionist (now Israeli) that began in 1948 and continues to this day. The conflict began over the occupation of land and since 1948 the Middle Eastern territories have been massively reorganized. Moshe Dayan, Israel’s Minister of Defense, initiated the war by attacking Egypt’s air force in the morning of…

Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 11,412 Israelis and 72,504 Palestinians have been injured in addition to 1,195 Israelis and at least 9,131 Palestinians killed since September 29, 2000 due to pointless wars. As nationalism rises in Israel and Palestine, two opposing ideas rise in response to what will happen to the strip of land between Egypt and Jordan, thus starting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Multiple wars have broken out due to the feeling of unfairness with land separation, so it…

My first theme to choose from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the 2011 against authoritarianism is Zionism. First off, Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people felt that they had a right inherit a rightful state of their own during the end of the 18th and 19th centuries. Jews believed that such a Jewish state should be located around central Europe and even at one time in North America. The decision was later decided that the final resting place was the holy land in Jerusalem, Israel…