David Ben-Gurion had no interest in helping the Jews during the Holocaust. Even though Ben-Gurion tried to put in effort to help the Jewish people‚ people will say that his motives for doing so were to create a Jewish statehood just to spread Zionism. Zionism is the belief that there should be a Jewish statehood. Though there are many that disagree with this because‚ Ben-Gurion was creating a Jewish state so he could fight for the democracy of the Jewish people. There was no ulterior motive on
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Palestine‚ or is it Israel? Either way‚ it is a highly contested land between two major Semitic groups: the Arabs‚ and the Hebrews. From the late 19th century‚ and throughout the 20th century it has been the focal point of Arab nationalism and Jewish Zionism. Today‚ it has become the Jewish state of Israel with occupied Palestinian Territories called the West Bank‚ which lies on the West side of the Jordan River‚ and the Gaza Strip‚ which borders Israel and Egypt. But‚ should the Palestinians deserve
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In the Western society I was raised in‚ a mother is usually understood as one of two ways. A mother is either a selfless and hardworking nurturer‚ or a protective and “helicoptering” figure that will do anything for her child. While numerous mothers‚ in actuality‚ encompass neither or both of these roles along with several others‚ the definition usually encompasses much more than just somebody who has given birth. The factual and textbook definition of being a mother is simply to be a female parent
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The Arab-Israeli Six Day War began on the 5th of June 1967‚ with Israel in the position of being surrounded by extremely hostile forces on 3 sides‚ out numbered in troops and weapons‚ limited in resources‚ and a significant possibility of annihilation as a nation. Their selected defensive option was an extremely well planned and exactingly executed pre-emptive strike on the air and ground forces of Iraq‚ Jordan‚ Syria‚ and Egypt. The primary objective was to gain early air superiority‚ eliminate
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Due to this‚ there is a tendency amongst scholars to show a disproportionate amount of attention to the Jewish historical context‚ such has the Yishuv and Zionism. The majority of information that has been accumulated has been pieced together post 1948 and 1967‚ after the forced dispersions of Arabs from their lands. The forced removal of Arabs resulted in the destruction of important historical documents
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entity. In the region of Palestine the people did not always identify as Palestinians‚ instead they identified with their families or their clans. “Palestinian” itself is a new term given to the people of the region in response to the development of zionism and Israeli nationalism. This is displayed in Mornings of Jenin when the community and mother of Hassan did not approve of Dalia due to her bedouin roots. However‚ as she began to live with Hassan and the conflict began to develop she was accepted
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The Dirty War was a period of strong political instability and violence that surged through Argentina beginning in the late 1960s‚ and lasting for nearly a decade. This epoch of violence emerged at the end of the era of Juan Peron‚ who was a beloved Argentine leader. The terrorism that followed was not a total shock‚ as Argentina is somewhat prone to violence and political instability. Jacobo Timerman‚ the author and protagonist in Prisoner without a Name‚ Cell without a Number‚ states that terrorism
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demand the Palestinian land. Prior to the United Nations vote on Palestine (the land)‚ “a civil war broke out between the two communities” (224). Zionism gave a religious community the right to call itself a nation in a way that the Palestinian national movement could not uphold. This is due to the “fact that Palestinian nationalism developed later than Zionism” and divisions within the Arab community (222). In James Gelvin’s book‚
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The Ottoman Empire is one of the largest and longest lived of the great empires of the Middle East. The Ottoman Empire survived for more than four centuries until it was finally dismantled at the end of World War I in 1918. The Ottoman Empire provides a direct link from the early modern period. At its height of power‚ the Ottoman Empire controlled a huge amount of territory‚ in the Middle East‚ North Africa and southeastern Europe including Greece‚ Hungary‚ the Balkans‚ Romania and Bulgaria. The
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Born in Rumania in 1847‚ Solomon Schechter was raised in a Chabad Chassidic community. He disliked his Chassidic roots‚ and left to study at the University of Berlin in 1879‚ where he became to be a famous rabbi and scholar. He later became leader of the Jewish Theological Seminary‚ a now famous academic and spiritual center for Conservative Jews‚ and in 1913‚ Schechter played a vital role in the development of the United Synagogue of America (an organization that encompasses every Conservative
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