Politics of Israel

A mix of religion and politics is what hardens Hamas as it allows them to win the hearts of the Palestinian people. Since Hamas governs by the doctrine of Islam and are helping to end Israeli occupation it comes as no surprise that the population highly approves of them despite their acts of violence and crimes. Hamas uses religion to push political messages. Just looking at Article 6 of their Covenant, explains exactly how they mix religion and politics. Furthermore, the preamble clearly identifies the political side of Hamas. In fact, Hamas got the easiest and most reasonable way of mixing religion and politics. Islam clearly encourages the destruction of Israel and the force that the Palestinians are against happens to be Israel. Leaders…

known to exert their authority amongst each continent of the world. The Middle East is not exempt from such, and has a history involving America, Britain, France and Russia. In order to assess the influence of these powers, the following essay will analyse how they shaped Middle Eastern politics from the eventful years of 1914 until 1990. This will be done by looking at the continuities and the discontinuities in Western policies towards the Middle East, starting from World War One in regards to…

with no definitive solution passing, Professor Kurtzer still remains optimistic about the chances of peace between Palestine and Israel. That’s not to say he did not acknowledge the difficulties that exist in solving the middle east crisis. Destabilization has existed within the middle east for decades, and hostility between Israel and the Arabic nations has always prevented real solutions of peace. Further detriments to peace between these two nations comes from mutual distrust and suffering at…

In the following essay I will claim that the Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the central themes in Middle East politics since 1948. The creation of the state of Israel and subsequent claims of territory has been the cause of many wars in the region. The displacement of the Palestinian population has caused resentment among the Palestinians and aggravated neighbouring states that were the recipients of the displaced populace. Backing by the imperial power of the United States of America…

looking toward Israel where the topic of Wagner’s music seems to be most controversial. Despite the general consensus that he was an anti-Semite, many people still try to down play his racism and try offer an alternative explanation. Several of these usually involve people bringing up his many Jewish friends, claiming that his Neue Zeitschrit…

The 1967 Six-Day War Mahlee Heperi. The Six Day War was a war amongst Israel and her neighbouring nations – Syria, Egypt and Jordan - which was led from June fifth until June tenth 1967. The pressures amongst Israel and the Arab nations escalated from the mid 1960 's because of different psychological oppressor assaults and penetrations of Palestinian fear mongers from Syria, Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula into Israeli domain. These activities were motivated due to the backing…

The threat that Al Qods and Hezbollah present not only to Israel but do they present a threat to the rest of the world? They are the epitome of a Hybrid Threat to the Middle East and United States interests. Are they the same? Do they have common goals? What exactly are they? The Al Qods are special operations branch to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG), considered a state actor, I would consider them very similar to our Special Operations branch. They are highly trained,…

In the Israeli political sphere, controversial issues fly through society each day. From the Knesset to the Shabbos dinner table, politics is a central component of living in Israel. Avigdor Lieberman is the leader of Yisrael Beiteinu, a right-wing, nationalist party. While his party is certainly far from being the largest in government, he often plays the role of kingmaker when building right-wing coalition governments. Lieberman’s variant of conservatism involves strong nationalist tendencies…

Avigdor Lieberman Avigdor Lieberman, the current Foreign Minister of Israel, is on the far right on the spectrum of Israeli politics. His political party, Yisrael Beiteinu, which Mr. Lieberman founded and leads, has been described as ultra-nationalist, and argues that Israel should take an aggressive stance in protecting itself from terrorism. Mr. 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…

article “What are Israel and Palestine? Why are they fighting?” in Vox by Zack Beauchamp (2015), both Israelis and Palestinians have had many difficulties and disagreements with sharing the same state. Their biggest argument is over who should have full control of Israel, the Jews (Israelis) or the Arabs Muslims (Palestine). Israelis believe that they should have full control of Israel because of the Zionism, Israel should be there holy land and they should have a place to call their home…