Yasser Arafat

There has been a centuries old conflict between the Muslim Arabs and the Israeli Jews over the rights of ownership to the holy land. Arabs and Jews began to express nationalism for their religious beliefs which was part of the reason for the conflict between the two sides. Because of this the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensified in the 1940s and has expanded with much violence on both sides in the 2000s. On May 14, 1948 the British withdrew from Palestine and the Jewish National Council…

being a citizen, of course), Barak was obligated (but willing obligated) to side with Israel. Barak is pro-peace, as shown by the Camp David Summit in 2000, where he met with United States President Bill Clinton and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to discuss and hopefully end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The agreement being discussed was either all or nothing, leading it to end up without an agreement, leaving the conflict to continue through the nations. The evidence shown by…

History of Israel Palestine Relationship and Negotiations: A full timeline of Israel 's key events is contained in Appendix A. The country of Israel was established in 1947 when the UN voted to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, wish Jerusalem and Bethlehem to be controlled by the UN. In the following years, around 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from Israel, and up to a million Jewish refugees from Arab countries and 250,000 holocaust survivors settle in…

President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, attendees included Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad, King Hussein of Jordan, and the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat. Bush stood before the delegates of the Middle East, in an unprecedented meeting that many hoped would help resolve a conflict that had been in existence since 1948. President Bush, in his opening remarks, stated the “objective must be…

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict of 1947 is an on-going conflict between the two middle-eastern countries of Israel and Palestine. After the end of World War II, the Jewish people were displaced as were the Palestinians, but before World War II the Ottoman Empire devoured most of the land-now known as the Middle-East this land had been divided among the Islamic people who already inhabited the lands. The Jewish people had no place to go, having been dehumanized for centuries within Europe and…

The organization of Maoz-Israel cited in 2002 that: "There are currently about 30 terrorist attacks per day in this tiny country of 5.2 million Jews. What if there were 30 terrorist attacks per day in Chicago or Los Angeles or Paris or London?" (“War” n. pag.). The Camp David Accords since the 1978 signing did not help in the Middle East, as stated in a study of Israeli terrorist attacks in 2002. U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, wished to help with Middle Eastern peace but everything he tried did…

5.7 Foreign Policy under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon (SBY) was the sixth president of Indonesia after Megawati Sukarnoputri. SBY was the Indonesia military office, political and government official who was the first popularly elected president of Indonesia since 2004 till 2014. After Indonesia strengthen domestic politics and reaffirmed its role in international affairs in 2004, “Indonesia managed to hold direct presidential elections and general elections in 2004, created…

President Carter negotiated the Accords with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar al Sadat, which set the framework for the Middle East peace process, set a precedent for two states Palestine and Israel, and ultimately marked the legacy of Carter as the President. A stable and an unwavering Middle East was the focal point of the Carter administration’s main diplomatic mission. With the diminishing influence of the Soviet Union, Carter saw this as an opportunity to…

Nelson Mandela, Activist, prisoner, president, the face of equality. Nelson Mandela is an inspirational man to millions of people and most people don’t know everything about him. Mandela has won more than two hundred and sixty awards, more than any one in history, ranging from the Nobel Peace Prize to Philadelphia Liberty award, presented to him from former United States president Bill Clinton. His struggle anti-apartheid has led him to write many novels, but what most people don’t know is that…

This investigation will closely examine and provide a detailed evaluation and explanation of the role played by Jimmy Carter in the Middle East peace process and will answer the question: For what reasons and in what ways did President Carter mediate the Camp David Accords and set the precedent for future peace agreement between Arab World and Israel ? The primary source which will be evaluated are a biography of the life of Carter, which unfolds in orderly manner the events that led up to…