Politics of Israel

died (roughly 6,000), and 7,000 of the troops of the Arab nations, the victor was still Israel; it had taken more land than was proposed to be given to them, it’s own religious based legal country, and had survived attack at it’s birth. Involvement of international countries, well planned out command, large and successful military, incentive to succeed and bad planning on behalf of the Arab League led Israel to win the war in 1947-49 (1948). “The end result of the 1948-49 Israeli War of…

Internet, technology and the resultant rapidly amplified globalization has made their restricted circumstance increasingly apparent and more and more intolerable. Resistance, in its various forms, has increased with their growing unhappiness with politics, society, and their lack of freedom. In an article titled “A Different Struggle for…

The Gentile mission caused mixed emotions of support and opposition due to particular people’s initial struggles with their viewpoint on the matter, as Gentiles held an unfavorable status among the Jewish society, and some wavered between where they stood. The result, however, was ultimately a division between groups of people who either supported or opposed such an outreach. The key earthly players leading up to the outreach of the Gentiles included Cornelius, Peter, and an angel of the Lord.…

source of the prophets’ call and NT exhortations is overlooked and dismissed for being legalistic. That said the purpose of this paper is to investigate and present the Biblical view of social justice for those who did not belong to the community of Israel established in Deuteronomy, and its implications for contemporary application in the church. By focusing on the “resident alien” or “sojourner” in Deuteronomy, with particular emphasis on the so called Deuteronomic Law Code , we can have a…

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The title of the movie appears to be a pun on words. It offers multiple meanings of who the real protagonist of the movie is and how could a viewer understand the meaning and purpose of the story. The sting of death is like a pinch on one’s skin that makes one think about the act of pinching and also the pain involved in it. The one in pain would reflect on his or her skin as the platform that lives with a destiny of experiencing a pinch or an injury, and the…

Mohit Ray’s Shakespeare’s Construction of the Jew discusses the complex nature of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. The central argument is that Shylock’s construction relies more heavily on “historical imagination” than on “historical reality” (Ray 1). Shylock is created using the contemporary and prejudiced views of the audience; this image “becomes the stereotype and historical image of a Jew” (1). Although Shylock is a very strong adoption of the traditional image of the Jew, Ray points out…

Imagine that you are having a completely normal night at home. You have just eaten dinner, and now you are sitting on the couch watching TV with your family. Then, out of nowhere, someone storms into your house waving a gun around and threatening to kill your family. What do you do? Do you grab a gun, or if you do not have one, do you storm the intruder and try to stop him from hurting your family? Or, do you just stand in front of him and risk getting you and the rest of your family killed?…

Avram Bornstein explores how citizenship, sovereignty, and national identity manifest themselves in 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…

Conflict”, Jerome Slater studied the effects terrorism had on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. He contends that while terrorism is ethically wrong, it is both conceivable and alluring to recognize degrees of good misleading quality. Slater realizes both Israel and the Palestinians have turned to terrorism at different times during the course of their long conflict; After studying a wide diagram of this history of common fear mongering, he concluded the direct of both sides in wording drawn…

Regulation, in its broadest implication, represents all the rules of order enforced by a presumed administration of government, with regard to the practices of those under the government 's control. Historically, many regulations prescribed by oppressive autocratic leaderships have caused sequences of misery and torment for the ruled. Granting all this, the fate of Spain in particular, took a dramatic yet positive turn in the early 700s when Muslim forces invaded and reigned over the Iberian…