In "States" the author‚ Edward Said‚ discloses the story of his people‚ the Palestinians‚ in an epic to express to the world the disconcerting challenges endured by the struggling Palestinian culture. The underlying claim is that of which is fair for any people to aspire‚ the dream to be master in your own house. Thus translated into the ideals of nationalism: blood and belonging. Said uses a combination of both photographs and writing style to tell a story that is deeper than the plain text.
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The year 1995 was an optimistic year for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The Oslo Accords had been signed‚ which created a "framework" for a peaceful‚ two-state solution. Support for a two-state solution was high‚ and Israel’s Prime Minister‚ Yitzhak Rabin‚ was a strong supporter of the process. Then‚ on November 4‚ 1995‚ Yitzhak Rabin‚ the main supporter of the peace process in the Israeli Government was assassinated (Ravnitz ). The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin was not justified because
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In the early 1900’s the mandate system was created and it was signed in Germany. The intentions for this system was for the Allies in Germany and Turkish colonist and their pre-Armistice declaration to compromise. Around 1919 there was no ottoman empire that was still existent‚ the Britain and French had the authority of the land for the time remaining. Overall the British owned Iraq‚ Transjordan‚ and Palestine. The French had owned Syria and Lebanon. This soon caused many conflicts throughout the
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the land for the Palestinians despite the fact that it was the promise land for the Israelis. The Palestinians have set their communities and home and made their own nation on the land of Israel‚ therefore‚ it is not fair that the Israelis force the Palestinians off the land. Palestinians today are persecuted by the Israelis and have their homes on Israeli soil destroyed and land taken by the Israelis. Israel has no right to violate human rights‚ including maltreating the Palestinians. The land of Israel
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life of a Palestinian. Salt of this Sea focuses on a Palestinian-American from Brooklyn‚ Soraya‚ who travels to the West Bank and Israel to rediscover her roots as well as retrieve the savings from her recently deceased grandfather. However‚ Soraya soon finds out that her grandfather’s bank account had been lost during the 1948 war. This is just one of the many instances in which she faces the reality of the hardships of Palestinian life. While visiting‚ Soraya befriends two Palestinian men‚ Emad
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Edwars Said was born a Palestinian Arab in Jerusalem in 1935‚ and was American through his father‚ Wadie Saïd‚ who was a U.S. Citizen. Wadie Saïd‚ his father moved to Cairo‚ before the birth of his son . He spent much of his childhood travelling back and forth from Cairo to Jerusalem‚ visiting relatives. Saïd said that in his childhood he lived “between worlds” — like Cairo (Egypt) and in Jerusalem (Palestine). Here are some of his words from this period of life: "I was an uncomfortably anomalous
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Turkish people and their government‚ shows sincere efforts to help the truth and disenfranchised Palestinians‚ unlike Iran‚ whose leadership of the Palestine certainly is seen as a subject of bargaining with the West and America. However‚ it is possible that ordinary Iranian people‚ or at least part of it‚ cultivate sincere feelings towards Palestine. Turkey has successfully continued to provide support‚ we know that the supply of Iranian Revolutionary Guards to monitor the Turkish ship for their
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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‚ accepted the proposal‚ Palestinian Arabs refused it. This was the state of affairs for Palestine as it transitioned into becoming what is now the Jewish state of Israel. Part of the agreement was that Palestine would continue to exist within
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up possession of Palestinian territories to the Palestinians with the exchange of peace. This represents the value of perspective‚ because the Palestinians had finally reached the conclusion that coming at the Israelis with violence and weaponry would not allow the Palestinians to ever gain what they really want‚ and it caused the Palestinians to comprehend what the Israelis were feeling; harassed. They had learned that if peace were used as a substitution to attack‚ then the people of Israel would
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present our Palestinian cause effectively. Total Duration: two months (can be renewed or extended) Targeted Group: 20 fourteen-year child Main goals: • Release psychological stress through outdoor reading • Prepare leaders highly motivated to transmit library culture in the society • Cooperation with other local public libraries in execution • Break the cultural siege on Gaza through cultural visits to exchange knowledge with other countries • Present effectively Palestinian culture
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