Proposals for a Palestinian state

The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the day the state of Israel declared independence, days ahead of the official end to the British Mandate in Palestine in 1948. While there were some minor conflicts and skirmishes between the Arabs and the Jews prior to 1948, those ongoing tensions erupted into a full civil war and countless bloody battles that have claimed the lives of many innocent people and have dominated the international political arena for over seven decades.…

presence of many desirable states of mind (Barash & Webel, 2002). The US’s indirect involvement has only led to an intensity of Israeli occupation in Palestine. The US provides billions of dollars of annual aid that has allowed the Israeli government access to some of the most advanced weaponry in the world. To start, let’s take a look at the long and tragic history of this ongoing…

as a rebellious military leader, going against orders twice. He was the head of very violent attacks against the palestinians, and sided with powerful allies. He gained more land for the Israelis, but took it away from the palestinians in the process. And in an attempt at “peace”, he only makes matters worse. At the age of 14, I joined the war between the british and the Palestinians. I was on the side of the Jewish, but I was severely injured in battle. In 1953 I was the head of attacks in…

anti-Israel rhetoric by downplaying Israel’s actions, rejecting Israel’s role in the causing the conflict by pushing blame on the Palestinians, and by appealing that Israel is the perfect democratic state. Jimmy Carter’s The Blood of Abraham on the other hand takes a country by country approach to provide a personal experience and interpretation based account on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the beginning of The Blood of Abraham, Carter already displays a misunderstanding on the…

the fight for their holy land and the rights of Palestinians, there are many similarities. Malcolm was also wrongly portrayed in the media, just like the Palestinians who are painted as terrorists. Malcolm would organize speeches that would raise awareness for the Civil Rights Movement. He believed in the right to self defense, something that the Palestinians have been criticizing for years. I think Malcolm X would be very supportive of the Palestinians fighting back after decades of being…

The history of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is as tumultuous and complicated as the conflict itself. In his article “From Oslo to Taba: What Went Wrong?” Ron Pundak breaks down the underlying reasons of the failure of the Oslo Accords, Camp David and The Taba Summit. The main premise of his argument was that peace, or a pathway to peace, were squandered by mismanagement and miscalculation of the entire process by Israeli, the United States, and the Palestinian Authority. Although his…

space which later allowed them to be able to conquer more land. Israel became known as a state around 1948. In 1964 the Arab league, Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO which later on was important against the Israelis. In 1967, Israel was in the middle of a war, known as the Six Day War. The Six Day war is where Israel took over land from several countries which made a big impact in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel gained places such as East Jerusalem, all of West Bank, Gaza, Golan…

By the early 20th century the United States had established itself as a major world power, its policies characterized by both interventionism, the political practice of intervening in sovereign state affairs, and international diplomacy. These global pursuits are reflected in the American involvement of Middle Eastern affairs, as made evident in both the Oslo Accords of 1993, and Camp David I. The Oslo Accords set the precedent for the meetings to follow at Camp David. The Camp David Accords of…

to work together under a common goal. Palestinian politics was stratified and was weakened by a…

The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians 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…