Palestinian refugee

get to a refugee camp. (BS-2) The author uses real world events to develop the story and create conflict. (BS-3) The camps that the refugees stay at have varying conditions. (BS-4) Suzanne Fisher Staples uses real world conditions of the camps to show how Najmah's life is affected by the war. (TS) Suzanne Fisher Staples uses real world event to create a story and create conflicts for the characters. (MIP-1) The refugees have to make harsh and treacherous journeys to get to a refugee…

The farmers are under a nonstop risk of being beaten, shot at, having their water contaminated, their land torched and their trees uprooted (Karkar, 2007). Israel is responsible for the eradication, torture and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people, along with an uncountable amount of war crimes (Said, 1979). Israel controls Palestine’s drinking water, education, access to the sea (Al Mezan, 2013), has taken thousands of political prisoners (Adameer, 2014), and is involved in systematic…

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 would be the Six Day War and that consisted of the…

which officially marked the beginning of Palestinian nationalism. Both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism defined themselves in relation to what they opposed and eventually identified the motives of their movements with the same geographic location. Jewish immigrants…

as Israel, there was no state for Jews, there was no place that all followers of Judaism could call home. So when World War II concluded the United Nations declared that the Palestinians would have to abandon parts of their land so that the Jewish people could form their own country named Israel; consequently, the Palestinians as well as many surrounding Arab countries were absolutely furious.…

Human right article stated “Israel has strongly resisted allegations its troops violated international law, claims that could have serious implications after Palestinians joined the International Criminal Court, where they are pursuing war crimes charges against Israel” (“UN human rights”, 2015). The troops are allegedly killing Palestinian civilians. They are killing women and children that are just trying to have the best life possible for them and their families. The Israelis countered that…

In class discussions, one thing that really stood out to me was the discussion regarding the integration efforts within the Israeli society. Specifically, the author questions what kind of system is necessary in order to have smooth integration with the least amount of tension and culture conflict. The author then describes how he believes it is democratic pluralism. Which has been seen in Switzerland and Canada. Also how one had to maintain silence, as it talks about when the author explains…

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…

“The Problem is Palestinian Rejectionism,” by Yosef Kuperwasser and Shalom Lipner and “Israel’s Bunker Mentality,” by Ronald Krebs attempt to dissect and solve one of the most complex geopolitical conflicts in recent human history, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yosef Kuperwasser and Shalom Lipner discuss that the one thing that’s stopping this conflict from being resolved is Palestinian reluctance to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. On the other hand, Ronald Krebs argues that it’s in…

The two elements of thought that most significantly challenged the Israeli commander as he executed his mission to remove settlers from the occupied territory in Gaza are Point of View and Implications and Consequences. The element of Point of View posed the greatest challenge because the commander understood both the frustration of the settlers due to his emotional and personal ties to them and the strategic goals of his government. As a result of his compassion, he was further challenged by…