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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…

the Office for the 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…

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 arrived to support the efforts of the Arab Palestinian forces. Foreign involvement was most certainly a highly important factor in the initiation of the first Arab-Israeli war. The UN, US, and British all had they are separate causes for involving themselves in the situation at hand in Palestine.…

“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,…

Argumentative Essay In discussions of the Palestinian and Israeli conflict one issue has been the rights to the land? On one hand the Israelis argue that it had been their land since before biblical times. On the other hand, Palestinians will contend it is and always has been their land and refuse to give up without a fight. My feelings on this issue are mixed. I do support the Israelis on retrieving their land if in fact it was theirs to begin with, but since there is no proof whose land…

Operation Badr is the codename given to the joint Syrian and Egyptian attack on Israel. The surprise attack began on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur at 1400 on October 6, 1973. Coincidentally, not only did this war start on the holiest of Jewish holidays, but it was also fought during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which is why it is still referred to as the Ramadan war in the Muslim world. The purpose of this essay is threefold: first, to explore exactly why this war was fought in the…

The Intifada is a Palestinian uprising in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. In December 1987 an outbreak of violent eruptions broke out. It was caused by the feud between the Palestinians and Israelis. The reasons why this happened were that the Palestinians were frustrated with Israeli concern, the war in 1973 caused hostilities, and the Israelis settlement policy was traumatic (Beitler). It had been 20 years under Israeli control for the Gaza Strip and West Bank and the Palestinians began to feel…

he was considered an unlikely mix between peacemaker and terrorist. He was a very important leader throughout a large portion of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as well. Throughout his career, he caused a lot of tension between Palestinians and Israelis. Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian extremist who had many contributions to the Arab-Israeli conflict like the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Oslo Accords, and his status throughout the years. Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt, but…

Palestinians and Israeli people have been in a conflict for over 70 years over land. Many politicians have been searching for answers to the conflict, with the most prominent ‘solution’ being called the two-state solution. The two-state solution is the idea the Israel 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…

compact and not nearly as glamorous as what I was used to. Other than that, I was somewhat confused as to why I was forced to land in another country and then cross the border into Palestine. As I would later understand, there is no airport in the Palestinian territory, and the only other airport was in Israel. If I had landed in Israel, I would have faced a multitude of problems with the Israeli government. As we arrived at the border of Jordan and the West Bank of Palestine, I began the…