The conflict in Palestine between the Zionists and the Arabs has made all kinds of colorful history in the last century. The issue in question is extremely steep and problematic because there is a lot of heavy history behind it. During the first half of the twentieth century (and after that as well)‚ the division of Palestine was a controversial issue for the leaders of Britain‚ and after World War Two‚ the United Nations. Nobody was exactly sure what to do about the issue because it was practically
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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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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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the French. Then British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour issued a declaration that in the next coming years will change the lives of all Palestinians. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 is the official document of the British view of a Jewish home in Palestine‚ assuring the crown’s assistance for the Zionist movement. However‚ even though with the assurance towards the Zionist movement‚ they still somehow guaranteed the “non-Jewish” sector of assistance for
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Wars Ian Allan Ltd.‚ Shepperton‚ Surrey‚ England‚ pp 9 - 43 Bible (1976)‚ Old Testament American Bible Society‚ pp 4 - 88 Bromley‚ S. (1994)‚ Rethinking Middle East Politics Edited by Polity Press‚ Cambridge‚ U.K. pp 6 - 16 Cattan‚ H. (1971)‚ The Palestine Problem: The Palestinian viewpoint in the Middle East: a handbook Edited by M. Adams‚ Great Britain‚ Anthony Bland Ltd.‚ pp 146 - 160 Harper‚ P. (1986)‚ The Arab - Israeli Issue. Wayland Publishers‚ West Sussex‚ England‚ pp 8 - 43 Mansfield‚ P. (1992)
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Palestine during the 1950s-1970s was overcoming great obstacles and many political changes‚ changes that have impacted the social and cultural climate of the area. During this time frame‚ Israel became a recognized country‚ illegally occupying Palestinian territory and showing no efforts to stop‚ and the Six-Day war also occurred during this time period‚ not only affecting Palestine but other surrounding Arab countries. One of the many ways that Palestinian’s expressed resistance towards the occupation
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The Israeli and Palestinian conflict is the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians that had begun in the mid 20th century. The term is also used in reference to the earlier conflict in Mandatory Palestine‚ between the Zionist Yishuv and the Arab population under British rule. Along the Eastern shore is the Mediterranean Sea which is at the center of a conflict between Arabs and Jews. Both of the groups claim territorial rights over the small piece of land. The land is approximately 10
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The Declaration was a letter from Arthur James Balfour to a British Jew‚ Lord Rothschild‚ which spoke of the need for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Bombing of the King David Hotel: The militant right-wing Zionist underground organization Irgun carried out an attack on 22 July 1946 against the British administrative headquarters for Palestine‚ in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. 91 people of various nationalities were killed and 46 were injured. Chaim Weizmann: A Russian-born Jew living
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From the beginning‚ both sides immediately attempted to seize territory. Israel claimed a large majority of the state‚ while Arab forces captured‚ most notably‚ the Gaza strip‚ now held by Egypt through the Sinai Peninsula. The central hills of Palestine were annexed by Jordan and labelled the West Bank‚ lying between Israel and Jordan that is to the east. Finally the Golan Heights‚ to the north‚ were captured by Syria. They had been hustling for control of the area for a long time‚ and finally they
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E D W A R D W. S A I D : T R U T H ‚ J U S T I C E A N D N AT I O N A L I S M Jan Selby University of Sussex‚ UK ................ Said Foucault Chomsky nationalism Palestine ................ Within post-colonial debates‚ Edward Said has tended to be viewed by critics and admirers alike through a predominantly postmodern lens: as an (albeit inconsistent) Foucauldian genealogist of the relations between western truths and oriental subjugation‚ and as an opponent of cultural
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