In his book Where the Line is Drawn‚ Raja Shehadeh‚ a Palestinian lawyer‚ recounts his experience of living through 50 years of Israeli occupation in the West Bank area of Palestine. Shehadeh details the nature of life in the occupied territory through years of events and interactions with other Palestinians and Israelis. The most important of these interactions‚ though‚ is with a Canadian Jew named Henry who had immigrated to Israel. As covered extensively by Shehadeh‚ his friendship with Henry
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The Boycott‚ Divest‚ Sanction Movement Introduction In 1948‚ the British invaded what was then Palestine. The territory had been recognized as Palestine since the end of World War I. The invasion of the land led to the 1948 Palestine War. As a result of the war‚ the United Nations proposed a plan to divide the land between the Arabs‚ the Jewish population‚ and a shared territory in what is today Jerusalem. While the Jewish Agency for Palestine‚ an organization interested in Jewish settlement in Palestine
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Layla Werner Per 4. Middle East 5-28-13 The Palestinian Peoples Party The Palestinian People’s Party (PPP)‚ which is the communist part of Palestine‚ has worked with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to establish a Palestinian state for their people. Palestine’s government is mainly self-run. There are many other organizations‚ such as the PLO‚ and the Palestinian Authority (PA)‚ which later renamed their group to the Palestinian National Authority
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The United Nation’s Guidance for Effective Mediation proposes eight ‘fundamentals’ for a successful mediation process. Identify and discuss what you consider to be the two most important fundamentals. Refer to one or more of the following mediation case studies to illustrate why your chosen fundamentals are more important that the others; Aceh‚ the Israel-Palestinian conflict and Syria. Introduction The international community‚ under chapter VI of the UN Charter‚ has adopted and integrated mediation
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was to guide the Palestinian people towards their interpretations of the Qur’an. This movement has been manufactured into the Palestinian Authority‚ Hamas and Islamic Jihad Movement. The Palestinian Authority (PA) was sanctioned in 1993 under the Oslo Accords that acted as a medium between the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) and the government of Israel ("Palestinian National Authority."). Hamas (Arab for enthusiasm) was formed in 1987 and governs the Gaza Strip located on the East coast of
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war. From that time on Israel has build and grow its population about 220‚000 (In a Nutshell: Israeli Palestinian Conflict P. 2). This has been mostly in the West Bank. As a result Palestinians insist withdrawal from the territory. In the Camp David Accord Israel agreed on giving full Palestinian control over the Gaza Strip and most of the West Bank. These would certain conditions such as: The state would not have an army with heavy weapons and Israel would lease areas in the Jordan Valley or maintain
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Parallels drawn between Israel-Palestine and Kashmir In the world media‚ the propaganda war rages fiercely‚ paralleling the conflict it describes. Nighty talk shows air programs with Israeli or Palestinian guests screaming a bewildering array of claims‚ counter claims‚ propaganda and information‚ leaving the uninformed westerner with the impression that this is a bad family feud far from which a wise person should remain. It is virtually impossible to sort out the arguments presented by Israelis
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Book Reviews Water as a Source of Contention and Cooperation Water Resources in the Middle East: Israel-Palestinian Water issues — From Conflict to Cooperation edited by Hillel Shuval and Hassan Dweik. Berlin: Springer‚ 2007. 454 pp. Olli Ruohomäki Dr. Olli Ruohomäki. former deputy representative of Finland to the Palestinian Authority‚ is currently .senior advisor with the Ministiyfor Foreign Affairs. Finland. The arid landscape ofthe Middle East and the expanding human settlements suggest
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Rachael Morrison Challen Nicklen International Studies- 02 November 7‚ 2011 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Solution? The conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians is one that has been going on for thousands of years. In recent years it has become a global issue because of the two countries’ inability to cooperate with each other without the use of violent actions. With the help of the international community‚ two solutions to this conflict have been proposed: the one state
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What Does The Future Hold for Israel-Palestine? The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has proven to be one of the most complex and “intractable” conflicts of modern history – or as some may even add – of all time. And after many decades of failed attempts at peacemaking in this region‚ there still seems to be no conceivable end to the conflict. During those same decades‚ most of the parties involved as well as the international community have embraced the idea of a two-state solution‚ but the question
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