Politics of Israel

“The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil” (Herzl, 1896). The Palestinian-Israeli conflict arose because of confrontations over land. Both the Muslim Palestinian Arabs and the Jews wanted the same land and they each had their own valid reasons for why it was justified their permanent occupation of Palestine was justified. In the late 1890s, Jewish Europeans started to migrate to Palestine because they believed that Palestine was their…

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 1960s to late 1990s and both had similar…

for terrorist attacks on the British military presence in Israel, culminating in the notorious bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in which 91 people, British, Arab…

According to an article “Arab-Jewish Musicians and the Politics of Performance” by Galit Saada-Ophir, discusses the Arab-Jewish music borderland which occurred after Israel’s independence of 1948 (Saada-Ophir, 2006). The conflicts emerged not simply between the borderland and the prevailing Israeli musical genre, but in the course of internal resistance between different Arab-Jewish styles competing for cultural visibility (Regev, 1996). Although Israel stood up for democracy yet for Arab Jews…

population, exist on the margins of the conflicting worlds of Jews and Palestinians. However, while remaining a segment of the Arab people in culture and identity and disputing Israel's identification as a Jewish state, they see their future tied to Israel. In the process, they have adopted Hebrew as a second language and Israeli culture as an extra layer in their lives. At the same time, they strive to attain a higher degree of participation in national life, greater integration into the…

ravaged Iran and Iraq in the 1980’s and the latter is currently in the midst of what seems to be endless occupation by the United States that threatens to turn into a civil war. In 1981, Israel attacked Iraq to end their aspirations of becoming a nuclear power. Now, the Jewish…

Zoë Marks-Rowe had the potential to be a good writer and researcher. She wrote an interesting conference paper, which I think was politically urgent, about the politics of “pinkwashing” of Israel. In the discourse of travel and gender, Zoë’s research provoked a question of what it means to claim a space as ‘gay friendly’ and erase the facts of colonialism and violence. The paper examined pink washing through various perspectives, LGBT, tourism, and human rights discourses. Some important…

During Leila Khaled’s escapades the state of Iran was facing political turmoil that eventually became intertwined with American politics (“Iranian”). Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh had become immensely popular among Iranians and was planning to nationalize the oil reserves of Iran (“Iranian”). However, the nationalization of oil reserves would result in high oil prices for the…

1969 was 50 acres of land. This mainly affected the two thousand rich landowners, in which these reformed destroyed their way of living. In June of 1967 the Six-Day War took place and Egypt, Jordan and Syria fought against Israel and Arab. Egypt, Jordan and Syria lost to Israel and Arab. Ashamed that he lost Nasser resigned on public radio, but the resignation was only temporary. Egypt then fought in another war named, the War of Attrition from 1967 to 1970. Nasser died on September 28, 1970…

from Ottoman rule to British and French mandates. The second of these time periods came at the end of World War II, when the post-colonial ride of Muslim-Arab nations was prominent in the Middle East. Furthermore, the founding of the Jewish states of Israel and the pressures of the Cold War were significant, which complicated matters in the Middle East and assisted in forming the third phase. The thirst phase took place in the 1990’s, at the end of the Cold War. Even at the end of the Cold War,…