The conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Jews is a modern phenomenon‚ which began around the turn of the 20th century. Although these two groups have different religions (Palestinians include Muslims‚ Christians and Druze)‚ religious differences are not the cause of the conflict. It is essentially a struggle over land. Until 1948‚ the area that both groups claimed was known internationally as Palestine. But following the war of 1948-49‚ this land was divided into three parts: the state of Israel
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ballian the movie portrays him all wrong. Also the longbow is another one that movie got all wrong. Last but not least was the landscape this was a big one that the movie gets wrong and i’ll explain this later on down the road. The landscape of Jerusalem in the movie is very wrong. First of the movie is filmed in Spain and in Morocco.The film also says that the Messina was the seaport to the holy land‚ but Messina is
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whose religious ways and how they practiced them set them apart from other groups. The Roman Empire would set decrees that allowed the Jewish people to continue to practice their religion‚ plus they had to pay taxes for the temple that was in Jerusalem. Even though the Jews could practice their faith there were still a lot of resentment and friction among the Jews toward Rome (Jews‚ 1998‚ pg. 171). There were other issues that caused the Jewish people to hate the Romans‚ such as‚ the corruption
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proposed as the author of this letter. However‚ the authoritative tone of the letter points to James the half brother of Jesus who became the recognized leader of the Jerusalem church (Acts 12:17). This conclusion is supported by the resemblances in the Greek between this epistle and the speech of James at the Council of Jerusalem (James 1:1 and Acts
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the cross". This was the beginning of the Europe’s waking up to use their growing power to look outside Europe and dominate more lands for religious‚ economic and political reasons. As many as 600‚000 crusaders left Europe and marched overland to Jerusalem to "save" the Holy Land of Christianity despite its many difficulties and danger facing them. So then why would all these many crusaders have left their home‚ family behind to face the threat of the diseases and most likely death? Would it really
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Since the United Nations partition of PALESTINE in 1947 and the establishment of the modern state of ISRAEL in 1948‚ there have been four major Arab-Israeli wars (1947-49‚ 1956‚ 1967‚ and 1973) and numerous intermittent battles. Although Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1979‚ hostility between Israel and the rest of its Arab neighbors‚ complicated by the demands of Palestinian Arabs‚ continued into the 1980s.<br><br><b>THE FIRST PALESTINE WAR (1947-49)</b><br>The first war began as a civil
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Interpretations of works by Islamic and Christians place start of Crusades ahead of accepted beginning in 1095 when Pope Urban II sent Knights to Jerusalem‚ instead referring to the Norman Conquest of Islamic Sicily (Crawford). 3. Accepted beginning of Crusades states November 1095 when Pope Urban II called upon Knights to liberate Holy Land‚ the city of Jerusalem as well as Christians from east from Muslim power (Philips).
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respective spheres of influence and control in Western Asia after the expected downfall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. On the night of April 9‚ 1948‚ the Irgun Zvei Leumi surrounded the village of Deir Yasin‚ located on the outskirts of Jerusalem. After giving the sleeping residents a 15 minute warning to evacuated‚ Menachem Begin’s terrorists attacked the village of 700 people‚ killing 254 mostly old men‚ women and children and wounding 300 others. Begin’s terrorists tossed many of the bodies
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During the Central Middle ages there existed a number of religious movements that challenged the traditional authority of both the church and state. New Christian movements such as the Crusades‚ the Knights Templar‚ the Franciscan order and the Dominicans. These movements challenged the traditional authority of the Church by taking the traditional ideals of the Church and moving them in different directions either to more aggressive techniques or to how the ministry should reach out to the common
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A final key failure of the Geneva initiative is its stance regarding the issue of return of refugees. “It does not explicitly give up the right of return‚ but it deliberately does not acknowledge it … there is a reference to refugee rights‚ but they are blurred.” (Phyllis 2). The GI states that the refugee problem addressed in Arab Peace initiative as well as the resolution 242 and 194 of the UNSC should be also used as a solution for the refugee situation within the GI. The GI is basically allowing
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