Politics of Israel

that, I was somewhat confused as to why I was forced to land in another country and then cross the border into Palestine. As I would later understand, there is no airport in the Palestinian territory, and the only other airport was in Israel. If I had landed in Israel, I would have faced a multitude of problems with the Israeli government. As we arrived at the border of Jordan and the West Bank of Palestine, I began the six-hour process of simply…

While Germany is a very pretty place. Germany is a tragic place as well. What comes to people’s minds when they hear the word Germany is to think of the Holocaust. Many people just know that Hitler killed a variety of people. However, that is not the whole story. He did not only kill people, but also he emotionally and physically hurt them. Hitler did not only kill Jewish people, but he also killed Soviet prisoners, gypsies, the mentally ill. The Jews were the only ones set out for total…

Late May of 1946, all over the world people attempted to restart their lives. Millions had become displaced due to damage or causalities, the Holocaust, being drafted and many others. Tuviah Friedman for example, like many others was looking for a fresh start. With no family or home left for him in Poland due to Nazi cruelty he along with many others hoped to leave. His home in particular in Radom, Poland was overtaken by a new family after the Jews were cleared from the area. He joined the…

Our world ladies and gentlemen, is constantly changing. From politics, to the environment, to technology, ‘we’, society, from the beginning of time have been subject to such rapid dynamism. Look around…we have cars, computers, televisions and even watches that measure your heart beat. Such incredibly powerful devices being mass-produced because society is diversifying. Built because society is constantly changing and evolving. Now your probably having trouble drawing the connections, or maybe…

referred to as “narratives”. This paper will explore narratives documented by Western and Arab media through a critical examination of “Control Room”, a documentary by filmmaker Jehane Noujaim. Evidence from the film will be analyzed in relation to the politics of fear to develop a nuanced understanding of military…

“Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world”, Mishnah Sanhedrin Rescue in Albania Introduction The Holocaust was the biggest disaster in modern Jewish history, and the largest genocide in the 20th century; the Nazi regime and their allies brutally killed close to six millions innocent Jews (more than two thirds of Jewish population in Europe at that time). With Adolf Hitler’s appointment as a chancellor of Germany, life of Jews changed very significantly. Starting in…

The extent to which the zionism movement is responsible for the present conflict between Israel and Palestine is significant. Zionism is a historic movement which centres around the desire for Jewish independence and a secure homeland in Zion. Palestine is where the land of Zion is located, also known as Jerusalem (Aviv and Shneer, New Jews, pp.4). The period before the zionism movement, the factors that contributed to the emergence of zionism and the aims of the movement have all been crucial…

Jewish life in America) if this were to be true why did the Jews not disappear and assimilate if they had full equality or at least prosperity? 3. This theory in no way accounts for periods of Jewish independence such as the Davidic kingdom, or modern Israel. In short, this theory does not explain away the reasons for the survival of the Jewish people through the…

ARIEL, DOMINIQUE H. "Queering Zionism." Jerusalem Post, Mar 11, 2016, pp. 12. eLibrary A 16 year old, Shira Banki at a Jerusalem pride parade was stabbed to death by a zionist or pro-israel man. This caused a meeting of LGBTQ Task Force and other national LGBT organizations to sit down and discuss the action that will be taken to reinforce anti-hate. As a result, complaints were made when a leader of a prominent LGBT organization in Jerusalem, Sarah Weil came out as a zionist. While the…

There is common idea in Israel that the standing for women, economically, socially and culturally has improved enormously in recent years, particularly the last two decades, and that mainstream society in Israel is moving towards an era of full and complete equality, regardless of gender. This opinion is extremely encouraging to many women and young girls have high aspirations for their part in Israeli society. It is also encouraging to men in Israel, who now can believe that their wives,…