Palestinian territories

letters, and meetings in New York and Washington. The objective was to gain Arab, Palestinian, and Israeli agreement on key points to start an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. Given the prospects, this relatively hands off approach was about right. Baker’s strategy was a two-track approach involving the Arabs and Palestinians. It was a two pronged initiative designed to get both the Arab states and West Bank/Gaza Palestinians into a negotiation with Israel. The peace conference would hopefully…

been a lot of news surrounding the fighting happening in regards to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. The roots of this conflict can be traced back to the Ottoman ruling over what is now known as the Middle East. During the eighteenth century, the Ottoman empire was thriving, stretching their ruling from central Europe all the way to Yemen and accords North Africa to Morocco (making of MME). Their vast territories allowed them to be a culturally rich empire with a vast a vast multiethnic,…

Ishmael and his descendants are the ones destined to inherit Canaan. Palestinians inhabited the land of Palestine from 1187 until 1448, when Israel invaded much of the land that was given to Palestine in the partitioning of Palestine and Israel the year before. Currently, Palestinians live in occupied territory, land which Israelis have settled in without permission or a right to do so, and they have limited rights. Palestinians are fed up with this and feel that they have divine right to…

Palestine and Israel throughout his book, Crossing the Green Line. His ethnographic study examines how the citizens of this area worked, lived, and interacted at the borders, boundaries, and frontiers of the two nations. Relationships between the Palestinians and the Israelis were further documented in the film, Checkpoint, which focused on dynamics at the border with special regards to the experience of crossing the border and interpersonal exchanges when at the international border. This area…

Arab-Israeli conflict. With this cauldron of ethnic and religious nationalism, self-determination and territorial disputes it is no wonder why this conflict is so heated. But if one were to examine the impacts of clashing nationalisms between Arabs and Palestinians as well as the rise and Pan-Arabism on the conflict from 1967 to 1993, one will see how the modern state of the Arab-Israeli conflict was formed. These two factors, nationalistic conflict and Pan-Arabism, have had some of the most…

were many different negotiations that Rice was involved with. The first one was the Gaza withdrawal. Within this negotiation, Rice worked hard to persuade Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories and free up commerce and travel between the two areas. Rice worked diligently with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Abbas to help with the peaceful process. She met with each group separately to discuss what they both wanted and allowed herself for some insight to…

November to partition Palestine into two states. Zionist politicians accepted the plan at first statehood, declaring the existence of the state of Israel on 14 May 1948. UN intervention and the passing of the plan ultimately gave the Zionists the territory they had been fighting for in order to create a Jewish homeland. Therefore showing the vital role Western intervention played in Israel’s establishment in 1948, where prior to, it was the main factor in the success of Zionism. However after…

something as an outside nation that can be done in order to help bring understanding? Can an outside influence to stop this, or should they? Not just in other countries, basically it comes down to a sense of who owns what. This long fight starts with territory, and who claims to own what. This is how the Israel and Palestine conflict began. They each firmly believe that if you’re not with us in Religion you 're against. This means you are automatically…

would flee into Israel, which triggered anger amongst the Palestinians because they “viewed Jewish independence as a betrayal of their own interests, and they attacked the Jewish state as soon as it was proclaimed.” This would spark a range of conflicts between the Israelites and Palestinians where Israelites continued to gain more territory of Palestine. Since the end of World War II, there were numerous battles between Israelis and Palestinians that stretched to the modern day era where Hamas…

CPO 2001-7383 In Barbara Tuchman’s book, The Guns of August, arguably one of the most important events mentioned is the decline of the Ottoman Empire. While Tuchman spends very little time detailing the decline itself, she does acknowledge that the Ottoman Empire was, going into World War I, the “Sick Man” of Europe. What would prove to be the end of the Ottoman Empire was siding with Germany and consequentially the former Ottoman Empire was divided into separate mandates by the Allied Powers.…