A major conflict came from the idea of Palestine being “where the holy places were and the reminders of the last Jewish Kingdom”‚ everyone wanted a piece of Palestine (MacMillan 412). Not all jews supported a jewish state in in Palestine because‚ “The country was not yet capable of supporting a large population”(MacMillan 419). There was also the issue of the people whom already resided in Palestine‚ “What is to become of the people of the country?” (MacMillan 416). Taking
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land of Palestine‚ which has caused many conflicts between the Jews and the Arabs who both claimed it to be the land of their ancestors. Over the last century‚ foreign powers have become involved in the conflict and therefore played a significant role in the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. These foreign powers include Britain‚ France and the United States of America and the role they played in the creation of Israel varied in significance and impact. French interest in Palestine became
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Middle East been so intractable? The conflict in the Middle East focuses on the tension between Israel and Palestine which stems from the early 20th century‚ specifically after the Second World War‚ to this day the conflict still hasn’t been resolved. Neither Palestine nor Israel are satisfied with the current situation. Israel is internationally recognised as a sovereign state whereas Palestine is not‚ it’s built up of the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank. The term intractable basically
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quickly became a polarizing issue between European who reject the refugees and humanitarians who seek to help the refugees. In 1947‚ similar concerns of illegal immigration were happening in British-controlled Palestine. European Jewish refugees were illegally leaving Europe to settle in Palestine‚ despite concerns from the British government of the rise in tension with the native Arab population. Clearly‚ the British Empire regarded this as part of their interest despite the consequences that it could
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matters. The Poet’s feelings and emotions towards the situation in Palestine and how he relates to it‚ the actual situation in Palestine and his one and only desire. The poet’s purpose is to take us on an emotional journey of his melancholy using simple terms intertwined together to form metaphors and imagery that best portrait the morbid and sad image of Palestine. He is addressing anyone who has affinity towards the subject of Palestine or otherwise. First‚ he talks about a major sadness in his
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To what extent was racial conflict the dominant social tension in the USA in the period from 1919-1929 During the period from 1919-1929‚ many social tensions came to the fore‚ however the social tensions however were to a large extent dominated by racial conflict. The economic boom of the 1920s saw a growing divide between the upper class and the working class‚ and a large amount of these workers where immigrants and African Americans. The growing disparity saw trade unions being formed‚ which aided
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with economic unity; and turning the ethnic members into legal citizens. In pre-WWI Palestine‚ most Arab Palestinians felt a strong family or village identity but there was no such thing as an “Arab Palestinian” national identity. There were many struggles for power between the many tribal families and villages in Palestine yet there was no “banner” to unify all of the different peoples living in Palestine. The only item that came close to unifying all of the different Arabs was religion. Some
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tension between rival Jews and Arabs as they both believed the land of Palestine belonged to them. But on 14th May 1948 Ben Gurion announced the newly formed state of Israel and that is the main reason to what was the cause of the ‘War on Independence’. After the First World War Britain was given mandatory powers over Palestine as the countries of the Western World believed the Arabs could not have looked after Palestine themselves but the League of Nations put lots of terms on the mandate that
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After witnessing the devastating‚ yet human-induced tragedies of World War I‚ the psyche of America was never the same. They abandoned their fundamental beliefs that the Western Civilization was not a model‚ but flawed society and turned their attention towards internal affairs‚ signaling the beginning of American isolationism. As William Allen White put it‚ Americans were “tired of issues‚ sick at heart of ideals‚ and weary of being noble.” The Roaring Twenties reflected this rejection of tradition
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years. An extremist Jewish group called the Zionists‚ emerged in the late 1800s ‚ seeking to find a homeland for the Jews‚ and searching in both Africa and the Americas before finally settling on Palestine. This did not appear as a problem or threat at first but as many more Zionists immigrated to Palestine with the intention of taking over the land to create a Jewish state‚ fighting broke out with the Palestinians‚ increasingly surging with Hitler’s rise to power during World War I. To this day‚ Palestinians
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