Political Environment Gaza has very long history in the world‚ and it is also a place that suffered a lot. It has been ruled by both Egypt and Israel and is beloved by neither‚ which is a problem for all. Gazans are emphatically Palestinian‚ a national identity forged from the trauma of losing their land to Jewish armies in 1948‚ the year Israel was established. Many defeated Arab landowners fled to Gaza‚ where 3 out of 4 residents are classified as refugees. The Jews initially made no claim
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attacked the suez canal‚Israel held the Gaza Strip and had advanced as far as Sharm al-Sheikh along the Red Sea. 7. The Six-Day War took place in June 1967. Arab countries attacked isreal‚ and Isreal gained control of old city Jersalem‚ the Sinai Peninsula‚ the Golan heights‚ and the West bank. 8. On October 6‚ 1973‚ hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war‚ in 1967‚ Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur‚ the holiest
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statehood. When the mandate was enacted‚ and the British withdrew its troops‚ came the declaration of independence of the Jewish state Israel. This quickly turned into the war between the Arabs and Israel. This war would be fought with ostensibly impossible odds for Israel‚ as they were not simply fighting the few Arabs currently residing within the mandates borders. Israel was attacked by a coalition of
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ARAB ISRAEL WAR (06 Oct -– 24 Oct 73) General 1. The war between the Arabs and the Israel which broke out in the Middle East on 6 Oct‚ 1973 is known to the Arabs as the War of Ramadan to the Israelis as the Yom Kippur War and generally to the others in the West as the Oct war. The Arabs tried to regain their territories lost in the earlier wars against Israel. After the defeat of 1956 war Egypt was helped by the Soviet Union and began to rebuild her armed forces from the grd up. Conti for six
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1. From the perspective of biblical authors‚ what was the central religious crisis facing ancient Israel‚ and how did this crisis affect the development of monotheism? Jewish scriptures are referred to in Hebrew as Tanakh‚ however‚ for many Christians‚ these books are referred to as the “Old Testament”. For the authors of the Hebrew Bible‚ the central conflict was over one issue: Would Israelites remain loyal to their one God(YHWH)‚ or would they worship the deities of the nations that surrounded
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you will have to describe how and when the country became free of any Western‚ imperial powers after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.) Israel/Palestine (choose 1 research question) Why is the Golan Heights a conflict area‚ who disagrees over the land‚ and who should govern it? Why is the Gaza Strip a conflict area for Israel/Palestine and who should govern the Gaza Strip? Should Israel negotiate with groups like Hamas and Fatah? Women’s Rights How are women’s rights changing over time in _________ ?(Choose a country: Turkey
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the 25th of January 2006‚ the Islamic Resistance Movement or Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (Hamas) became the first Islamist party in the Arab World to democratically and peacefully take office. Despite this phenomenal feat‚ the Western world‚ Israel included‚ continue to brand Hamas as a radical Islamist terrorist organisation largely on the basis of its anachronistic 1988 founding Charter ￢ﾀﾓ a document hastily cobbled together nearly thirty years ago‚ under tumultuous circumstances (the First
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eviction of more than half of the Arab Palestinian population as a result of the Arab – Israel conflict of that year. Khalidi goes on to enumerate a few of the respective differing Arab and Israel accounts of how it was that a people that once constituted the majority of the population of a land‚ became the minority. Revisionist Israeli historians have attempted to debunk traditional accounts that absolve Israel of any wrongdoing‚ such as the notion that Palestinians attacked the yishuv first‚ by
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Each year as Israel celebrate their Independence Day‚ Palestinians commemorate al-Nakba or “the Catastrophe.” The day of festivity for one was the day of disaster for the other. In a famous poem‚ “The Story‚” written by Kamal Nasir (1961)‚ he tells the story of Palestinians who lost their state during the Israeli War of Independence. What makes this poem special is that it was written by a Palestinian Christian‚ a member of the Palestinian Christian minority that is only around 10% of the Palestine
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divine protection from it’s enemies. The idea of the covenant is fundamental to Judaism. Jews have certain obligations to God‚ and God has certain obligations to Jews. Genesis 17 states that circumcision is the mark of the covenant between God and Israel on the male Jew. Abraham left Mesopotamia and traveled to the land of Canaan with his followers and this journey was the birth of the Hebrews. Subsequent to Abraham‚ his son Isaac‚ and grandson Jacob continued with the covenant. Judaism
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