A healthy landscape in the minds of Jewish nationalists meant a healthy Jewish populace‚ and early twentieth century Palestine was anything but. The mosquito infested swamps‚ filled with Arabs‚ were themselves diseased in the minds of the Zionist elite. They believed that it was their duty to cultivate the lands to rid them of these ailments to bring about a sort of Zionist
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viewed as the underdogs. The outcome of the war was an overwhelming victory by the Israeli who not only managed to defend their own boundaries but also gained much of the territory granted to Palestine. One of the major causes of the war was Resolution 181 which was the United Nations partition of Palestine. The partition was a major cause of the Arab declaration of war on Israel in 1948. Palestinians‚ and Arabs were greatly unhappy with the partition plan because they believed that the Palestinians
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On March 13‚ 1941 Mahmoud Darwish was born in Al Birweh‚ Palestine‚ into a landowning Sunni Muslim family. During the beginning of the existence of the State of Israel in 1948‚ his village was destroyed and his family ran away to Lebanon. Darwish faced imprisonment for his political activism and for publicly reading his poetry. He lived in exile for twenty-six years‚ between Beirut and Paris‚ until his return to Israel in 1996. I believe that without being exiled Darwish would not have been the
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withdrew from their mandate after years of terrorism. In its first day of existence it was attacked by all of its neighbouring Arab states simultaneously. This was because of a joint opinion between the Arab Nations that the State of Israel was in fact Palestine‚ and an “indivisible part of the Arab homeland”. Its creation therefore united the Arab countries in their hatred of Israel and gave them a common cause to fight against. This unity through their non-recognition of Israel’s borders clearly boosted
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Arabs to the Origins of the Arab Israeli conflict • The Arab-Israeli conflict refers to the dispute between the Jews of Israel and the Arabs of Palestine over the land of Palestine. • The Arab-Israeli conflict has its origins both in events in the last 200 years and indifferent interpretations of 2000 years of history‚ within the ancient territory of Palestine‚ at the Eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea in the Middle East. • The issues and roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict have arisen from the claims
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look at in the conflict. Palestine does not have military power‚ while Israel does have military power and strength (Metaxas). This is an idea of hard power where Israel dominates in military aspects or material areas opposed to Palestine (Goldstein). This contributes to the conflict because Israel has the ability to get the different things that they want or need‚ while Palestine is left with less resources and is usually defeated in wars (Isseroff). Since Palestine does not have the military
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a revivification of old Arab thought and ideology. Theodor Herzl depicts the Zionist nationalist movement‚ which includes mass immigration of Jews to Palestine as well as getting Jews to rally behind their cause. The Palestinian National Charter lists what the Palestinians deem as their declaration of independence‚ which calls for having Palestine as their homeland‚ where they feel a sense of identity‚ and thereby reviving Palestinian nationalism within the state. These movements reflect the ideals
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The “relational paradigm” that Zachary Lockman also addresses in his introduction to his book “Comrades and Enemies‚” is the historical framework that he chooses to use. This relational paradigm attempts to mend the inaccuracies that are found within the dual society paradigm. For this reason‚ the relational paradigm takes into consideration economic‚ political‚ social‚ and cultural interactions between the Arab and Jewish communities. It acknowledges the existence of both societies and attempts
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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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