the Camp David –era autonomy plan and revolve it around Palestinians. The Palestinians didn’t autonomy and wished for statehood‚ but that was denied (“Israel”). Fortunately Palestinians gained self-government through the Oslo Accords (“Palestine”). In fact‚ it was during Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s term that the Oslo Accord was established (“Israel”). Rabin’s foreign minister‚ Shimon Peres‚ was the person negotiating with the Palestinians via Norwegian diplomacy
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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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Roots in the Holy Land Judea Pearl recounts his family’s emigration from Poland to Palestine in 1924 to rebuild an ancient city. George E. 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
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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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WHY HAS TERRORISM BECOME SUCH AN IMPORTANT ISSUE 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
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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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Drugs have been an active part of society ever since healers in Europe first discovered the antiplatelet properties of Willow Bark. However‚ the area of drugs has expanded far beyond pharmaceutical use‚ and has taken hold as a recreational substance. This has led to the start of a new method of profiteering; Illicit Drug Trading. Billions of dollars are made every year through this illegal trade and yet still nothing substantial has been done to stop them. Illicit Drug trading is a globally occurring
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the siege. let me pause and state some historical data‚ the camp is a 2.11 square‚ was established in 1957 for the Palestinian refugees to shelter them after the 1948 catastrophe. Although it’s not an officially recognized camp by UNRWA‚ it is the largest Palestinian community in Syria ‚ the life conditions seemed to be very good prior to the clashes‚ comparing to other Palestinians camps in Syria. Back then the camp was home to 170‚000 Palestine refugees. In December 2012 and in the months since
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Muslims. Additionally‚ the Jews made use of military force in creating the largest refugee population of the world‚ which was and is still heavily aided by the United States and its allies. 70 percent of the Palestinians live in exile‚ even today. Apart from that‚ the 1.7 million Palestinians of Gaza‚ who refused to leave their homes‚ were brutally tortured and punished by the Jews. It is imperative to realize that though Jews were the first race on the land of Palestine‚ they could not claim
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invaded what was then Palestine. The territory had been recognized as Palestine since the end of World War I. The invasion of the land led to the 1948 Palestine War. As a result of the war‚ the United Nations 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
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