Palestine College Essays Samples For Students

Causes and development of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

The conflict between Palestine and Israel has been proceeding for almost a century, and it remains unsolved up to this day. None of the parties wants to make the large-scale concessions, following the minor conditions of a shaky truce. The origin of the conflict can be seen even before the First World War. Precisely, the main causes of the conflict have the religious and racial nature based on the territorial issue. In addition, it is worth considering that the escalation of the conflict has been associated with the creation of the State of Israel, which was corroborated by the ...

In Palestine and the Arab Conflict: a history with documents (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), Charles D. Smith (2013) gives the audience insights into the underlying conflicts, the factors of culture and religion, the impact of foreign policy and hegemony, and in this direction, the ushering of the contemporary era that helped in molding the issues as well as the dynamics of the region in the present day. One of the more significant issues in the Middle East is the adoption of the “Balfour Declaration.” The Declaration has long been regarded as a milestone in the relations of the Jews with ...

Introduction

The Middle East has experienced more conflicts compared to the other regions of the world. As a matter of fact, the partitioning of this region after the First World War facilitated an increase in instability as well as unrest. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a continuing conflict between the Palestinians and the state of Israel since 1948, the year when the latter gained independence. It is depressing to note that this conflict has remained one of the most problematic dilemmas facing the global community. In essence, no real success has been achieved in spite of several peace plans, which have ...

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Nationalism is a significant transitional power in the annals of history. Though the concept of loyalty is generally believed to be of a more contemporary vintage, theories as to the actual origins and the development of nationalism as a concept abound. Allegiance in the Arab world and the Palestinians in particular, have remained unexamined not due to lack of significance, but due to deliberate omission. Those who hold that nationalism comes about as a natural sociological process cannot sufficiently expound the segregation of the United States and Britain or the union of the English and French quarters ...

There is no specific country today that can be called Palestine. Instead, the area known as Palestine consists of the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The name originates from the Roman province Palaestina. Others have called the region as the Land of Israel, and is the southern area of the regions also known as Syria, Canaan and the Levant. It is acknowledged as the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity. The area has also had a long and colorful history, with a multitude of tribes and peoples populating the same area. Today the area is occupied ...

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Establishment of Jewish homeland in Palestine
Stability of the Middle East remains questionable up to nowadays. An important part of the Middle East conflict is the struggle for the control of Jerusalem between the Jews, Christians and Muslims.
In the field of International Politics, it can be considered to be a very deep-rooted conflict. It was considered, and remains to be, one of the most widely- and passionately-debated conflicts in the Middle East.
‘The Arab-Israeli conflict in the modern era is now in its 67th year (1948-2015), and is paralyzed’ (Anderson 2015). In my opinion, it can be explained ...

The general assembly of UN approved an arrangement for dividing Palestine in 1947, which offered a chance for the establishment of Jewish State, as well as Arab State and Jerusalem, left under worldwide status. The Jewish and the Arab States rejected such an arrangement. The United Kingdom dropped its mandate or control on Palestine, which led to the proclamation of Israel state. As a result, the Palestinians with the help of Arab States declared war on Israel (Koops et al., 2015). Israel also fought many wars with other states; however, this paper focuses on factors causing internal conflicts within ...

In the Middle East lies a territory where two civilizations collide. Some refer to the region as Israel, while others call the same land Palestine. The two entities, one a declared nation, the other a territory seeking statehood, are separated by a giant wall in many areas, and, if you consider the settlements in the West Bank, a road in other areas. Politically, the two are miles apart. Most people might assume that they are culturally separated by vast distances also, but, is this actually the case. This paper compares and contrasts Israel and the Palestinian Territories based on ...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Introduction
The Israel-Palestinian conflict, as its name implies, is the ongoing struggle between the two nations of Israel and Palestine that began in the middle of the 20th century. This conflict is complex and involves many issues between the two nations such as recognition of each other as a separate state, matters of territories and boundaries, control of Jerusalem, water issues, Palestinian freedom and rights, among other things. Since there are many issues at hand, the conflict between the two countries is ongoing until now, with no chance of a solution or point of compromise in the near future. ...

The modern world is divided into two major geopolitical axes concentrated around the Middle East. One of the axes consists of the countries that resist to Israel (Iraq, Lybia, Syria, Russia, China, Iran, Palestine), and the other one includes its supporters (the USA, Saudi Arabia, France, UK, Egypt, Turkey). The aim of this paper is to analyze the reasons that divided the two geopolitical axes and united each of them at the local, regional, and international levels in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lybia, and Palestine-Israel wars.
Palestine-Israel conflict has a long story. After the end of the Shah monarchy in ...

The conflict between the Israelites and the Palestinians is due to struggle for land and territorial boundaries. They both believe that the land belongs to them. Israelites believe that the land they are fighting for, called Israel, is theirs and they are entitled to it. On the other hand, the Palestinians believe that they are entitled to the land, called Palestine. Both the sides claim over the same land, only that they call it different names. The Palestinians believed that the land was given to them by Allah, and therefore it is rightfully theirs. The Israelites believe that God ...

One of the most elongated conflicts in the world has surely been related to the Jews and Arabs over the territory that defines the modern state of Israel. What many people fail to notice is the gravity of the conflict and how the conflict surely is not recent. What makes both the conflict and the peace process so complex between these two groups is that their cultures and religious beliefs date back thousands of years, (Jospe, R., 1995). To this end, they have many religious holy sites, for example, that are sacred to both faiths due to the territorial ...

U.S. and the Middle-East Conflict
Amid bouts of political and economic instabilities brought about by unending chaos and internal conflicts in the Middle-East particularly between Israel and Palestine, most political scientists argue that the US is largely to blame. For instance, according to Admin (6), the engagement or intervention of the US in the ongoing Israeli-Palestine war is viewed by many as being skewed towards Israel as a key American Ally since the end of the WWII. Moreover, the “Israel First” approach adopted by President George Bush helped to fuel the chaos due to what were seen by Arab ...

How significant is the Palestinian refugee crisis in the search towards a working peaceful and lasting solution in the Middle East crisis? Is the solution political or religious? And what role does the international community play in the process of resolving the humanitarian crisis? This research proposal seeks to answer the above questions by exploring the historical trajectory of Palestinian refugees and how their movement has contributed to the worsening of the Israeli-Palestinian relations. The paper will rely on literature on Middle Eastern politics.
This research is important because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has raged on for half a century ...

It is widely understood that the 9/11 attacks were acts of terrorism and involved certain Islamic individuals who were against the liberty, democracy and freedom practiced in the United States of America. The reality of the attacks and their motives are completely different from the claimed reasons. The attacks were mere reciprocity of their years of wrongdoing in Middle East through American foreign policies. Years after the attack and several first hand interviews of the attackers, it can be proven that the attacks were related to the American wrongdoings related to their foreign policy such as, supporting Israel, poor ...

The Iron Wall

The film exposes the colonization attempts of Israel towards the Palestinian people. “The Iron Wall” is an official and unspoken name of policy adopted by the Israeli government in order to deepen its influence on the Palestinian territory. It includes a few steps: making settlements to ensure Israeli foothold on the Palestinian ground and building a barrier wall to separate people who define themselves as one nation.
Settlements are the latest project that is implemented to weaken Palestine from inside. The purpose was clear: after the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, Israel needs facts o the ground to ...

In December 2016, the US Secretary of State stated that, Israel would either have to be a Jewish State that does not intrude into Palestinian “land” or it should be democratic whereby Palestinians would be given equal rights as dignified citizens of one-state of Israel. This was something many Republicans and Conservatives found to be negative and Anti-American. The purpose of this paper is to argue that the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians cannot be solved. This paper will use elements of persuasion to establish a case to prove that America must stay away from imposing its will on ...

JEWISH IDENTITY IN HISTORY AND MODERNITY2

1. The Sacrifice of Isaac by Rembrandt..2
2. Jewish Torah scroll..3
3. A Sephardic family celebrates the Passover4
4. Jews in the Middle Age..4
5. The origins of anti-Semitism..5
6. Abraham Geiger tries to change Judaism..5
7. Hirsch and Frankel oppose Judaism reformation..6
8. Jewishness and anti-Semitism7
9. Jews are always guilty7
10. Jews come back to their promised land8
III. DESCRIPTION OF THE EXHIBIT9

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The exhibit Let my people go: Jewish identity in history and modernity is dedicated to a longsuffering way of Jews who have been struggling for their identity for centuries while living ...

Christians and Jews have different perception and attitudes towards the state and the land of Israel in the post-1948 period. This difference is based on the fact that Jews seem to oppress inhumanly the Palatines yet oppression is not acceptable in the Bible. Moreover, there are some Palatines who are Christians and the Jews unconditional thirsty of imposing their influence and extending their borders exploit the Palestine’s rights.
The basis of the attitudinal differences is that Jews perceive and connects everything about the state of Israel and the Holocaust. On the other hand, Christians perceive the two issues ...

The world has witnessed many examples of discrimination, persecution, and genocide throughout history. These various practices have occurred due to differences in race, culture and religion. One way a society discriminates against a particular group of people is through laws. In ancient times, the Roman Empire used laws to discriminate against Christians, and since then, we have seen many other examples of a state using laws to negatively control a group of people. One current example of Israel and its laws that discriminate against the Palestinian people. This is a brief look at some of the ways the state ...

In the 21st century, it is convenient to categorize groups fighting against established governments as terrorists. Throughout the globe, disparate protest movements are fighting against persecution by governments based on religious, cultural and political differences. It is difficult to differentiate between terrorists and freedom fighters. In most cases, a group that one calls a terrorist movement might be categorized as a freedom fighting movement. This paper seeks to examine characteristics that changes the categorization of protest movements from legitimate freedom fighter movement to terrorist organization. The argument put forward is that the means and targets of protest movement are ...

For quite some time, there has been an international debate as to whether it is possible to bring peace to regions affected by conflict without instilling justice. Though the sequence of peace and justice is debatable, there is no doubt that peace cannot be attained without justice. While it is easy to attain peace, that peace cannot be maintained without justice.
The best case study that highlights the fact that justice provides stability in a region in Liberia. Liberia is a small country found the western part of the African continent. Like many other regions of Africa, Liberia has ...

President Bill Clinton was the leader of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was a very visible public figure who did not escape public scrutiny. One could describe him as a servant leader. He is one who easily connects with the people who he works with, and these people are motivated and inspired to the job on hand and finish it with flying colors. In the 2000 Camp David Summit, he brought together the leaders of the two longest-feuding nations – Ehud Barak of Israel and Yasser Arafat of Palestine. Israel and Palestine have a history of feuding ...

A half century ago, the terrorism and extremist forms of thought were not prevalent in certain sectors of Middle Eastern society as they are today. Up to the years between 1968 through 1979, Middle Eastern countries remained relatively benign with no outstanding threats of violent political Islam (Bar 127). The rise of international Islamic terrorism was born in the fragmentation of society brought on by the departure of colonialism. Economies had by this time been fundamentally disrupted. In major urban centers, oil contracts (particularly in the GCC) gave rise to rapid scales of development. Government systems were restructured. The ...

Born in Russia into an impoverished family in 1898, Golda Meir endured a difficult early life, before moving to Milwaukee in 1906. She developed an interest in Zionism and socialism, which drove her to immigrate to Palestine. She was driven to make an impact, even at the lowest levels of society, both at a personal and other level. At just 14, for instance, she ran away to stay with her sister, before moving out two years on to stay with her sister’s friend, following an argument. Moved by her mother’s plight, she moved back home, where she came face ...

Oil Prices Fluctuating In the Middle East

Introduction
Oil being a commodity is subject to high levels of fluctuations as opposed to the stable investments like bonds and stocks. In particular, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) plays a significant role in influencing the prices of oil across the globe. As a result, OPEC controls around 40 percent of the global supply of oil by setting the production levels that caters for the world demand and it can determine the prices of gas and oil by reducing or raising the levels of production.
At a particular point in time, OPEC vowed to maintain the prices above $ ...

Abstract

This paper evaluates Hassan’s essay concerning suicide bombing with the aim of gaining an understanding of the phenomenon. In his discussion, Hassan offers three main explanations for the motivations behind these attacks. Initially, he argues that suicide bombers rarely suffer from mental disorders. According to the author, it is also inaccurate to refer to suicide bombers; rather they are more motivated by political reasons. Vengeance also drives some attackers. Such individuals or groups believe that injustices are being or were committed against the population they represent. As a result, if need be, they are willing to sacrifice their ...

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Developing countries are those countries which have not yet attained economic stability. Most of them thrive on debts and donations from other nations. They rely a lot on what others have to offer them in addition to the little they can produce using their natural resources. Such countries export primary products. They are yet to industrialize so that they can process their products and sell them to other nations as finished products. Developed countries take advantage of the developing countries. They buy their raw products at lower prices, process them, and then sell them back to these nations ...

The religion of the Hebrew provides us with monotheism; it offers us the concept of the rule of law this is according to Genesis 17:18 (1900 BC). It provided us with the thought of the divine works for human history of the events of people. It establishes the concept of agreement which describes that God has a unique relationship with the community of man. In the Middle East, in the West, and in Asia and Africa the Hebrew legacy permeates everything that is observable since it highly influences the human culture. The development and history of the Hebrew monotheism ...

Hardly is it possible to find a region in the world that would have such complicated history as the Middle East has. Due to a broad array of reasons that include sectarian nature of conflicts, religion in general, beneficial geopolitical position as well as protracted subjection to great world powers are just a few of them. Moreover, even now, when the region is fully independent and coherent it still remains one of the most turbulent places in the world in which literally every state is engulfed in a conflict, religious war or territorial dispute. In this paper I am ...

Since September 11, there has been a proliferation of programs to fight terrorism, accompanied by a tremendous increase in the resources allocated for the same purpose. However, not much effort has been directed towards determining the effectiveness of the programs. The question of effectiveness must be raised because if the programs are ineffective, the massive resources that have been allocated have been going down the drain. It is only recently that serious attention has been paid to this question (Lum, Kennedy, & Sherley, 2009). The paucity of research in the area is testament to this.
Measuring effectiveness of terrorism strategies ...

Architecture of Madain Salih

One of the mysteries in the historical science of our time is the origin of the monuments Hegre in Saudi Arabia. In the historical literature, it is assumed that this city was built by the Nabataeans - the people, the basis of the life of which was to ensure the caravan trade. These people, who lived here from the III century BC to the I century BC, carved facades of tombs, built many kilometers of waterways in the rocks to collect rainwater and left behind a lot of mysteries about their religion and language (Khairy, 167).
Madain Salih (Hegra, ...

Theoretical Essay

In the world of law punishment (alternative name – penalty) is considered as an “infliction of some kind of pain or loss upon a person for misdeed (i.e., the transgression of a law or command).”1
Penalty may take different forms and vary from forced labor, flogging, body mutilation, fines and imprisonment to the capital punishment. The punishment has been very retributive, mostly in the form of revenge, during the pre-modern ages and usually the prosecution was executed by the victims or their families. There was not any proportion between the quantity and quality of wrongdoing and the punishment. The ...

Geopolitics is simply the study of geographical position in relation to politics both internally and internationally. Geopolitical threats are, therefore, factors that can hinder the cordial livelihood of communities in the same geographic area and with different political agendas. This paper will focus on the various levels of threats (tickers, slow tickers and talkers) in the nations selected for discussion. It will seek to justify their levels of threats according to their past and present political issues.

Tickers

The first ticker country to consider is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). From the very beginning, North Korea started ...

The Lemon Tree Film Review

The film is about the story of Salma as she fights for her lemon grove after the Secret Service views it as a threat to the Israeli Defense Minister Israel Navon and his family when they move into a house located on the border between Israel and the West Bank. The security forces set up a guard post and barbed wire fence around the grove after which they obtained an order to uproot the lemon trees in the land. Salma is facing the challenge along as her children have moved to another country and some of them are also ...

Notably, the Arab World consists of around 385 million people living in 22 countries stretching from the Atlantic coast of Morocco to the Arabian Sea (“Data; Arab World”). Ninety percent of the population in the Arab world belong to Islamic religion, while the remaining ten percent belong to other religions, for example, Christian and Jewish religions. The idea of unifying the Arab nations started with the formation of the Arab League in 1945. Most Arab states gained their independence from British and French colonialists in this era. The Arab League allowed the independent states to maintain their sovereignty as ...

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In late 1987, the Palestinian community in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip started a mass civil disturbance designed to overthrow the “occupying” Israeli forces in their territories. The rebellion, or the Intifada, was not called for or mobilized by the leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from its Tunis base; rather, the uprising is a mobilization of the general public as well as the groups and entities that were developed during the occupation of Israel in the area.
The movement engaged a large number of the population, with a good number of them without ...

I am extremely passionate about a number of environmental causes, such as global climate change, deforestation, and technology. Thus, I consider myself be a fairly-well rounded person who has ideals that do not necessarily fit into the realities of global capitalism and environmental degradation, at the expense of biodiversity, and our aesthetic experiences. That is, I am concerned that we will lose our precious planet, and even our species, due to a number of significant issues, including nuclear warfare.
I have signed a number of online petitions that call for better political decision-making regarding issues such as health care ...

Pan-Islamism

The evolution of the contemporary nation states across the entire Arab world is an interesting, yet, distressing process. Almost a century ago, a majority of the Arabs were part of the Ottoman Caliphate or the Ottoman Empire, which is actually a vast multi-ethnic state based out of Istanbul. Currently, the Arab political map appears more like a highly complicated jigsaw puzzle.
A manifold and convoluted course of incidents that took place during the early 1910s brought the Ottomans Empire to an end, while also resulting in the emergence of many new states whose borders apparently spread throughout the Middle ...

The Name of the School

Cold War Ideology and Third World Conflict
The Cold War was an ideological, political and military (proxy wars) between the United States and the Soviet Union. It has been termed ‘Cold’ War as there were no large scale wars between the two countries but their battles were instead fought through other countries in different parts of the world. The main reason for the conflict was ideological-between the capitalist United States and the Communist Soviet Union. However it can also be said that the cold war was a result of the race for resources and market domination. Although there are ...

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The Hashemite family incorporates the Royal families of Iraq, Hejaz, and Jordan. This family belongs to the Hasanid Shariffs of Mecca. Hussein ibn Ali Al Hashimi as the amir of Mecca and Grand Sharif was also the custodian of the Muslim holy places. In 1908, Abdul Hamid II appointed him as such and he was after that together with his sons Faysal and Abdullah allowed to return to Hijaz, which is now present-day Saudi Arabia.
During the First World War, the Ottoman Empire cooperated with the Central Powers in fighting against the Allied countries. This collaboration allowed Hussein as ...

Book Review; A World of Trouble by Patrick Tyler

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Authoring books on international foreign affairs is a challenge to many authors. Above every other thing in regard, researching and analyzing in an unbiased and realistic manner is quintessential to great books. The United States plays central role in shaping the world affairs but very few authors have dared to go beyond the conventional view of the U.S in world affairs to explain their view point on international affairs. Viewing the world foreign affairs through an unbiased frame, the focal spot that the security of Israeli hobbies possesses in American foreign approach appears ...

Back in 2011, a wave of peaceful and violent protests swept across the Arab world. These protests later came to be referred to as the Arab Spring (Haerens and Zott 5). The civil protests began in Tunisia when a fruit vendor burned himself in front of a government building (Haerens and Zott 2). These civilian uprisings led to the eviction of rulers from power in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen (McCaffrey 5). However, the reception of the Arab Uprising varied from country to country. In some countries the uprisings were met with violent opposition from the government while in ...

Research on anti-Semitism in the contemporary age is fraught with so many difficulties. Ani-Semitism constitutes one of the most politically and socially contentious topic. The first challenge is trying to make sure that one’s opinion does not affect the information they gather and how they analyze that particular information.
Since this topic is based on contemporary developments in the relations between people of Jewish origins and other groups across the globe, most of the research and sources available on this topic are newspapers opinions and think tank research which often produce information that support the ideological views ...

Cold War and Decolonization

After the end of World War II, the world somehow split into two halves and two large groups of countries were formed: the communist block and the western democratic-capitalist states. The first block was led by the Soviet Union, which developed its economy and military force that was equal to the one from the US. Another block was led by the United States of America and included other countries such as Great Britain and France, as well as the defeated post-fascism countries like Germany. The aim of this block was to enforce the necessary reforms in the world in ...