Palestinian territories

for the Zionist movement which had profound effects on the shaping of Palestine. Europeans, Palestinians, and even Americans affected the Zionist movement. Europeans reinvigorated the Zionist movement through continuous poor treatment of the Jews. Politically, Europeans supported Zionism due to their dislike of the Jews. They supported the Jews leaving. This had the opposite effect the Palestinians. They saw the Jews as essentially illegal immigrants who didn’t belong in Palestine.…

I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish takes place during the Gaza siege. The Israeli military had banned foreign media sources from entering the small Palestinian territory. Izzeldin Abuelaish became the prime source for news when the military banned the media. He told everyone in the refugee camp and a news reporter the daily things that were happening in the war zone. Izzeldin Abuelaish notified Sholmo Eldar, the news reporter, through a cell phone and Elder reported the news on Israel’s…

Using this information, it is apparent that diasporic nations are more prone to receive the effects of cultural globalization can be found within the Zionist movement. After the official formation of Israel 1948 the Jewish people finally had territory to call home; however, up until the formation the Jewish people were known as a diasporic nation, often inhabiting multiple Arab states nearby modern day Israel. This diaspora helped both the Jewish and Arab population gain cultural diversity and…

typically give the most common meaning of a word, many times people will, in a way, coin or redefine terms in order to best fit their views. This is especially seen in Edward Said’s work, “States.” In his writing, Said explores what is means to be Palestinian. The clear answer may simple be someone of the Arabic culture who has descended from Palestine. Overtime, however, Palestine has become a question of legitimacy in and of itself. Since the mid 20th-century, more specifically 1947, Palestine…

in 1967, which can be attributed to the Six-Day war between Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Israel. During this war, Israel won control over the Egyptian armed forces by using surprise and guerilla warfare. The war resulted in the broadening of Israeli territory into the Gaza Strip. Additionally, the war ended with a coalition of Arab states…

The Oslo Accords were the name given to two sets of agreements between the government of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). These accords signified a drastic change in relationship between the two parties. “The Oslo Accords marked the first time that the state of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) formally recognized one another, and publicly committed to negotiate a solution to their decades-long conflict based on territorial compromise” (Al Jazeera…

Obama betrayed Israel. President Obama’s refusal to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution that would allot Israel territory the Western Wall resided in caused many Americans to claim that Obama betrayed Israel. However, Obama and others backed his decision by claiming that Israel had violated human rights laws agains Palestinians, and Israel and Pakistan should work out a two-state solution to settle the land dispute. In the columns “ The Unkindest Cut of All, Right in the Back of…

Strip alone in July and August of 2014, at least 2,100 Palestinians were killed, 1,500 of whom were civilians. This battle alone injured 11,000 people, and displaced 108,000 people from their homes and communities. These shocking statistics are no surprise because events like these happen quite frequently in this area. Most of these events are acts of terrorism carried out by extreme members of terrorists organizations from either Palestinian or Israeli communities. A great depiction of this act…

1 The Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria are not located in an "occupied territory." The last binding international legal instrument which divided the territory of Israel, Judea, Samaria and Gaza was the League of Nations Mandate, which explicitly recognized the right of Jewish settlement in all territories allocated to the Jewish national home under the Balfour Declaration. These rights under the British Mandate were preserved by the successor…

Magazine read simply “Pirates in the Sky.” It was referring to the hijacking of four planes by the Palestinian militant group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or the PFLP. This incident was one of the first cases of airplane hijacking as a took for political blackmail, and it played a significant role in king Hussein’s decision to attack the Palestinian organizations on his territory in the month now known as Black September. On the date of the hijacking, Jordan was under…