Positions of authority

Nelson Mandela once said, “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner” (Mandela). This quote signifies everything 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…

Operation Badr is the codename given to the joint Syrian and Egyptian attack on Israel. The surprise attack began on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur at 1400 on October 6, 1973. Coincidentally, not only did this war start on the holiest of Jewish holidays, but it was also fought during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which is why it is still referred to as the Ramadan war in the Muslim world. The purpose of this essay is threefold: first, to explore exactly why this war was fought in the…

The Intifada is a Palestinian uprising in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. In December 1987 an outbreak of violent eruptions broke out. It was caused by the feud between the Palestinians and Israelis. The reasons why this happened were that the Palestinians were frustrated with Israeli concern, the war in 1973 caused hostilities, and the Israelis settlement policy was traumatic (Beitler). It had been 20 years under Israeli control for the Gaza Strip and West Bank and the Palestinians began to feel…

A part of President Eisenhower’s new deal was the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA. TVA, founded in 1933, was a region in the Tennessee River valley with “hydroelectric powered dams” that powered cities around them. This created more jobs and stopped flooding which got as high as six feet each year. By building these dams, power was generated to more farm based areas so the citizens were able to live off of electric. A benefit to TVA was that it helped with soil not being…

political agendas toward the One State and Two State Peace Agreements. Throughout the peace process, Palestine has offered differing opinions through the Palestine Liberations Organization (PLO), the State of Palestine, and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA.) These are just a few of the internal political conflicts that compromise the peace process. Numerous players within each government have advocated different peace agreements, while attempting to directly or indirectly…

Yasser Arafat had many controversial actions and ideas, and he was considered an unlikely mix between peacemaker and terrorist. He was a very important leader throughout a large portion of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as well. Throughout his career, he caused a lot of tension between Palestinians and Israelis. Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian extremist who had many contributions to the Arab-Israeli conflict like the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Oslo Accords, and his status…

The Co-Curricular I attended was a presentation given by Professor Daniel Kurtzer on the possibility of Israeli Palestinian peace. Despite a lifetime working to bring peace to the middle east 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…

I/ Introduction: This paper was commissioned by Ms Xiang Gao, a lecture at International Pacific College (IPC). Its purpose is to examine and analyse the conflict between Palestine and Israel in Middle East. The conflict between Israel and Palestine can be considered the most intractable conflict in the world. This conflict has been started since the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. Israel is the country, which is the only Jewish state in the world. It locates in the East of the…

The Palestinian/Israeli conflict is an ethical issue that has been going on for half of a century. It has affected many innocent lives and there is no sign of this issue being solved in the near future. The Palestinian/Isreali conflict correlates into International law in many ways. State sovereignty is one of the principal ways in which this issue relates to international law. Palestine wishes to be be recognized as a state, wishes for sovereignty and wants to be their own country. Not all…

The right of return for the Palestinians is still an ongoing discussion, whether the Palestinians deserve to come back, or the Israelis will let them come back. During the Arab - Israeli War 800,000 Palestinians were forced to flee due to the conflict. The Israelis were going into Palestinian cities and forcing them to leave, while other Palestinians left before the Israelis came. Nearby countries and territories like Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Gaza Strip, and the West Bank set up…