Department of English Writing III Section (10) Third Assignment The Israeli Occupation of Palestine Alaa’ Waleed Sbitan #21112289 Dr.Hasan Hamad First Semester 2013/2014 Writing III Dr.Hasan Hamad Essay Skeleton Outline Topic: The Israeli Occupation of Palestine Style: Conventional Mode: Global Description Macro: Definition Micro: Exemplification
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recognized home in Palestine. The Zionist cause strengthened greatly during World War One‚ as the British support for a Jewish state increased (Cleveland 225). The British aimed to strengthen wartime alliances with countries such as the United States and Russia‚ and the support of a Jewish state in Palestine did this. The British captured Jerusalem in 1917‚ and this allowed them to allocate the land to the Jewish. In the Balfour Declaration (which gave support for a Jewish state in Palestine) the British
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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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it’s based on endurance. One day‚ Karim sat on the edge of his bed‚ grabbed a piece of paper and a pen‚ and wrote “‘The ten best things I want to do (or be) in my life‚ by Karim Aboudi‚ 15 Jaffa Apartments‚ Ramallah‚ Palestine. 1. Champion footballer... 3. The liberator of Palestine and a national hero... 7. Inventor of an acid formula to dissolve reinforced steel as used in tanks and helicopter gunships (Israeli ones)... 9. Alive. Plus‚ if I have to get shot‚ only in places that heal
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A healthy landscape in the minds of Jewish nationalists meant a healthy Jewish populace‚ and early twentieth century Palestine was anything but. The mosquito infested swamps‚ filled with Arabs‚ were themselves diseased in the minds of the Zionist elite. They believed that it was their duty to cultivate the lands to rid them of these ailments to bring about a sort of Zionist
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viewed as the underdogs. The outcome of the war was an overwhelming victory by the Israeli who not only managed to defend their own boundaries but also gained much of the territory granted to Palestine. One of the major causes of the war was Resolution 181 which was the United Nations partition of Palestine. The partition was a major cause of the Arab declaration of war on Israel in 1948. Palestinians‚ and Arabs were greatly unhappy with the partition plan because they believed that the Palestinians
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On March 13‚ 1941 Mahmoud Darwish was born in Al Birweh‚ Palestine‚ into a landowning Sunni Muslim family. During the beginning of the existence of the State of Israel in 1948‚ his village was destroyed and his family ran away to Lebanon. Darwish faced imprisonment for his political activism and for publicly reading his poetry. He lived in exile for twenty-six years‚ between Beirut and Paris‚ until his return to Israel in 1996. I believe that without being exiled Darwish would not have been the
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withdrew from their mandate after years of terrorism. In its first day of existence it was attacked by all of its neighbouring Arab states simultaneously. This was because of a joint opinion between the Arab Nations that the State of Israel was in fact Palestine‚ and an “indivisible part of the Arab homeland”. Its creation therefore united the Arab countries in their hatred of Israel and gave them a common cause to fight against. This unity through their non-recognition of Israel’s borders clearly boosted
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The “relational paradigm” that Zachary Lockman also addresses in his introduction to his book “Comrades and Enemies‚” is the historical framework that he chooses to use. This relational paradigm attempts to mend the inaccuracies that are found within the dual society paradigm. For this reason‚ the relational paradigm takes into consideration economic‚ political‚ social‚ and cultural interactions between the Arab and Jewish communities. It acknowledges the existence of both societies and attempts
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under is nothing short of Apartheid in South Africa during the twentieth century. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a constant political‚ military‚ and economic plight since the mid-twentieth century. Over the last fifty years‚ the State of Palestine has dramatically downsized due to illegal settlements built by Israel on Palestinian land (taken by force or annexation). Furthermore‚ the current Palestinian land is so alienated
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