Palestinian territories

the Israeli Defense Force, in the Israeli-occupied territories during the Second Intifada. Israel won the occupied territories, also known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in the 6-Day War of 1967; however, they are not officially part of Israel. In 1987 to 1991, there was a Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, the First Intifada, involving resistance and civil disobedience. Israel deployed many soldiers into the occupied territories, and an estimated 1,674 people were killed in…

wrong with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Israelis and Palestinians have barely worked with each other, so they have not been able to make peace and they choose to remain enemies. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict had been on and off for 100 years. After World War II, six million Jews were killed, and the remaining Jewish people wanted a country to call their own. As a result, they were granted part of Palestine, and this event was the major cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today…

country, Palestine, my grandparents had to flee the country, and how some people refer to it as Israel instead of the true name Palestine. Yasser Arafat was the founder of the Fatah. He spent most of his lifetime fighting Israel and that is why many Palestinians admire and respect him. Arafat died at the age of 75 from a mysterious blood disorder but there are many theories about his death like how the Jews poisoned him which I believe is true. I already knew that Palestine has been occupied…

Lieberman believes that Israel is a Jewish state, and many of his political stands have been viewed as hostile not only to the Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, but to the Arabs and Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. He believes that the conflict of the last fifty years should be viewed as between Jews and Arabs, instead of between Israelis and Palestinians. Mr. Lieberman…

Anti-Semitism prevailed post WWI leaving the Jewish population desperate for safety in search of a Jewish state. The League of Nations entrusted Great Britain with the Mandate for Palestine after defeating the Ottoman Empire. Britain broadly carved Palestine and Jordan into separate entities and with the Balfour Declaration declared Palestine as a Jewish homeland. Even though the majority of the land was divided in sanjaks—Arab tenant farmers under Turk sultans, with the growing anti-Semitism in…

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in the early 1900’s. When Jews that faced persecution due to the Holocaust began to return home. However, when they got home they encountered 1.2 million Palestinians who were now calling the same land home. In 1948 the United Nations and the United stated supported the Israelis in establishing the state of Israel. Many Palestinians were forced out of their homes by Israeli military force however; some were able to say in Israel. Both groups have fought and…

Temple Mount’s compound and restricting Jewish prayer to the tattered remnants of the West Wall in an attempt to dissipate heated debate of this sacred location. After an attempted Palestinian assassination of a protuberant Israeli advocate, Yehuda Glick, Israeli governmental officials temporarily forbade all Palestinian men under the age of 35 from entering the complex. Preceding Muslim control, Jews originally constructed and settled the Foundation Stone, as they erected two temples under the…

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…

Returning to one’s homeland is an age old theme in literature and film. It often involves a character or group of characters returning to a land, state, or province that their ancestors fled or was once taken from them. Palestinian filmmaker, Annemarie Jacir has explored the theme in at least two of her films, Salt of This Sea and When I Saw You. Israeli filmmaker, Ayelet Menahemi’s film, Noodle also tells a story of returning home but her main character isn’t returning to her physical…

The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians over territorialism and the establishment of a Jewish land and that of “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland between the largely Catholic Nationalists and the majority Protestant Unionists have many key similarities. Both “Northern Ireland the State of Israel emerged out of war, the breakup of empires, and international agreements.”1 (ESEP 93)The main phase of both the Northern Ireland conflict and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict occurred around mid…