Bisharat tells of his Palestinian grandfather’s hospitality before his West Jerusalem home was expropriated by Israel in 1948. Los Angeles Times. May 16‚ 2008 Judea Pearl: What Israel means to me I was born in Tel Aviv in 1936 and‚ quite naturally‚ my feelings toward Israel are suffused with the love‚ pride‚ memories‚ music and aromas that nourish and sustain all natives of any country. As the years pass‚ I discover that these same feelings toward Israel are echoed by people everywhere‚ including
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Throughout a selection of Mahmoud Darwish’s writing: A Poem Which Is Not Green‚ from My Country‚ Diary of a Palestinian Wound‚ Sirhan Drinks His Coffee in the Cafeteria and Birds Die in Galilee‚ Darwish conveys a constant theme of ones homeland. Darwish himself lived in an Israeli-controlled area of Palestine where those in power frowned upon his writings‚ frequently resulting in imprisonment for Darwish. It was through these poems that Darwish conveyed where his homeland was figuratively located;
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The Lemon Tree composed by Sandy Tolan introduces a personal side to well known war between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Tolan is a very well educated man who attended both Harvard and UC Berkeley. He has made great contributions to research and documentary based media. In 1967 Bashir Khairi who at the time was a 25 year old Palestinian‚ took a trip to Israel to see his house that him and his family had fled 19 years earlier. Bashir had been waiting for this trip since he was 6 years old. When
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OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS? There are many reasons why terrorism has become such an important issue over the last 40 years. In this paper I will be exploring the answers to this question through three related topics; 1) the threat from terrorism; 2) why people join terrorist groups and; 3) dealing with terrorism. I will be using the sources provided and historical facts related to three groups; the IRA‚ the PLO and Al-Qaeda. Section 1 – The threat from terrorism Terrorism has been defined in many ways and
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Israel’s success in dealing with the treats it came across was due to many factors. These included Israel’s military tactics; which is one of the most important ones. Israeli determination for an independent state‚ the disunity between the Arab people‚ territory and the role of the US all played a part in the triumph of Israeli survival in the years 1948 – 73. Israeli military tactics were a long-term factor of why Israel was so extraordinary at dealing with everything that was thrown at them
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critically important to note that the right of any region belongs to the majority of the people living in that particular area. Based on this rule‚ partitions have been done in the past as well as the present. In 1948‚ when the Jews announced their independence‚ they claimed the right to Palestine. However‚ in the process‚ they were directly responsible of dispossessing 750‚000 people of Palestine. The people were mainly Muslims. Additionally‚ the Jews made use of military force in creating the
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Since the beginning of the Syrian Civil war‚ Syrian refugees began pouring into Europe to escape the fighting. This 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
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motive of this photograph is essentially a global history of the Jewish people. It is very specific‚ sad and instructive. In order to properly clarify this picture‚ we have to start from the beginning‚ shed light on the history of the Jewish people‚ and pay particular attention to the dark times during the Holocaust‚ and particularly refer to the Jewish understanding of the holiday. Jewish history tells us about how the Jewish people lived from the time when they appeared up to the present day. The nation
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talks about his mother’s handkerchief which I believe is used to show the sadness he is experiencing and that he is in need of the tenderness of his mother to wipe away his tears. I think that the last verse of that stanza is about Palestinians’ surrender‚ he wants his people to be rebellious again‚ there is nothing to die for now‚ which I believe means that he lost hope‚ and faith. In the second stanza‚ he is kind of giving a title to the stanza‚ by changing the adjective of
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A Home away from Home Getting into Bethlehem university wasn’t one of my initial options of the number of available universities at all. To be honest‚ I didn’t know we even had a university in Bethlehem‚ until my dad told me about it and even then I still wasn’t so sure about applying there... I always had that dream of going abroad to study‚ you know‚ every teenagers dream is to break free and just wander. I so wanted to leave the country and I was torn between whether I should study medicine or
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