Zionism

more to the characters in their stories. There is no story where this is truer than in Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral”. Christopher Hitchens compared alcohol to a master/servant relationship in his book The Quotable Hitchens: Alcohol to Zionism, while Peter Flax claims that just about everyone in America has a drinking problem and that, without regard to reason, alcohol is never a good thing, in his article “The Drinking Problem You Already Have. In her article, “Raymond Carver’s…

Is it necessary to know the author in order to fully understand his/her story? The question is answered through the example of Chaim Potok’s life. The Chosen is one of Potok’s most famous works, for both its eloquent writing and its addressing of pressing issues for Jewish people. Chaim Potok, in his novel, The Chosen, alludes to aspects of his own childhood, education, and career to reveal and further characterize both Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders. The life of Chaim Potok is one which can…

In the article, Does Taglit-Birthright Israel Foster Long Distance Nationalism, it discusses how participants from the program feelings were affected based on attachment to Israel and their political standpoint. The commonly known belief that attitude towards your homeland is linked to ethnonationalism, which is connected to the work done by Benedict Anderson. Anderson’s theory of long distance nationalism is that diasporans feel disconnected because of the distance between themselves and their…

Time and time again, the irrational and unprecedented conquest of nationalism has yet to serve its purpose in relinquishing and retorting its supremacist feelings over other countries. However such purposes or ideologies have not yet to be relinquished due to man’s subjectivist fallacy or relativism, man’s hypocrisy. Even though conceptions such as that of nationalism convey connotations of security, loyalty, social communications, and furthermore human interactions, they also convey and…

haZikaron, “the Mountain of Memory” is an 834 meter hill located on the outskirts of West Jerusalem. It is considered to be one of the highest points in Jerusalem offering a 360 degree view of the Holy City. It was named after the founder of the modern Zionism, Theodore Herzl, who dedicated his life to the idea of Jewish self determination and the return of the Jews to their historic homeland. In 1896 Herzl wrote a pamphlet called "The Jewish State" which years later would have a far reaching…

frustrate the region as it is forced to deal with the imposition of a state the Arab nations all voted against. The state of Israel is the fulcrum in a much larger debate concerning nationalism – Arab nationalism (Pan-Arabism) and Jewish nationalism (Zionism). Both nationalistic movements regard the lands of Palestine as their own and while both movements continue to exist it is difficult to imagine a peaceful coexistence. The Balfour declaration in 1917 set the wheels in motion for the…

I believe that this course can be best described by using the title of the assigned text. Untangling the Web is what I would say if I only had three words to describe the course, but three words wouldn’t nearly be enough to encompass the complexity and depth of the material. The course is more specifically focused on the Middle East. It is about how by analyzing historical events from as far back as 2000 BCE, we can denounce why the Middle East has been a mess. This course is about explaining…

This site is OK for background but it’s misleading. I always used to wonder what was it about Jews that made people throughout history despise them. If they were indeed "God's chosen" I thought, they had to be the unluckiest people in the history of the world. Why were they persecuted throughout history? Why had the Nazis herded them into cattle cars and taken them to "extermination camps" to dispose once and for all of the "Jewish problem?" I suddenly recognized that if Hitler had developed a…

culture since biblical times, have always inhabited the Middle Eastern country of Israel. In 1881, the first Aaliyah, or wave of Jewish immigration, came into the nation, and four waves followed in the next 60 years. It wasn’t until the creation of Zionism, however, that the Jewish people began to covet the Land of Israel as the place promised to them by God to be the Jewish homeland. Thus tensions with close Arab countries began, as the Jews took over and “forced out” the previous inhabitants.…

Looking some of the language Joseph II’s language choices, in the Edict of Tolerance, we can see that the purpose of his reformist policies was to benefit that State’s economic standing. For instance, Since it is our purpose to make the Jews more useful and serviceable to the state, principally through according their children bette instruction and enlightenment, and by employing them in the sciences, arts, and handcrafts. The State intended to fix their economic position, by pushing the…