A Brief Story of Yitzhak Rabin

Within the span of a few years, the political, social, and cultural climate in Palestine was whiplashed from being under the control of the Ottoman Empire, to colonization and state building by Jewish immigrants from the diaspora, to British rule through mandate, and finally the establishment of the Israeli state. The rhetoric that was used in both Zionist and Arab Palestinian propaganda created a situation that was very complex under the surface, and needs to be approached with delicate care. Taking this into consideration, as historians it is important to remain as objective as possible when reading documents from both the Jewish and Arab side because they both will show a view of the conflict that will benefit them most. As situations change, so will these views and the tone of newspapers and consumerism will change along with it.

Chapter three of Eyal Press’ Beautiful Souls follows Avner Wishnitzer, an Israeli combat soldier serving in the occupied territories during the Second Intifada. In the 6-Day War of 1967, Israel captured the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and has since kept the land under an Israeli military occupation. In 1987 to 1991, a Palestinian uprising involving resistance and civil disobedience, known as the First Intifada, occurred in the occupied territories. Consequently, Israel deployed many soldiers into the occupied territories, and an estimated 1,674 people were killed in total. The Second Intifada, a much more violent Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, transpired from 2000 until 2005. In response, Israel enacted Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale military operation, in 2002 to stop the terrorist attacks and suicide bombings of the Second Intifada. An approximate 4,426 people were killed in the Second Intifada. Avner Wishnitzer’s public refusal to serve in the occupied territories was worth getting kicked out of Sayeret Matkal and being disgraced by Israeli society because it made people question the occupation and the treatment towards Palestinians. Even if Avner had been my father, I would have condoned his choices because I could create my own reputation in the military. Additionally, the current controversy over the Israeli occupation legitimizes his stance and actions for many Israeli citizens.

Sadat’s controversial appeal to the Israeli’s, addresses the “huge wall between us,” as his perception of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict incited him on a call to action to bring, in the alliteration “permanent peace” to the Middle East, perceiving that the conflict has gone on long enough culminating in great human costs on both sides. The metaphor of the “huge wall,” evocative of the tumultuous relationship between Arab’s and Israeli’s exemplifies Sadat’s need for the breakage of the “wall”, thus eliciting a level of Blitzer’s exigence so that the warring nations can move forward together, unified. However, despite advocating for a unified future he laments the injustices that have been inflicted on the Palestinian people and thus implores the Israeli’s through his utilisation of Aristotle’s pathos powered by highly modulated words, for the recognition of Palestine and its citizens to have “their legitimate rights…no longer ignored or denied today by anybody,” in order for peace to become an eventual reality. He enforces this sentiment in the hypophora “What is peace for Israel? It means that Israel lives with her Arab neighbours in security,” hence Sadat’s is able to expertly voice his universal plea for stability by challenging Arab and

In addition, I will examine the current state of political and human rights in Israeli occupied West Bank and analyze how they are approaching a level of apartheid. Finally, I will summarize the effects of these social tensions between Israel and Palestinians in the terms of how potential open conflict could reignite.

“The problem is, simply put, a dispute over real estate” (Gelvin 3). This conflict has resulted in major wars during the period of time following World War II. The 1948-1949 Arab Israeli war began when Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded Palestine. The second war that occurred, was the 1956 Suez Canal War, at the end of this war Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza strip

In 1948, Zionist forces, due to their military pre-eminence, gained control over the territory which the UN designated to the Jews in the failed partition plan. On 14 May 1948, they declared Israeli independence and established the Israeli state (Fawcett, 2005; 221). The US recognised Israel quickly as a state and soon after that the Soviet Union did the same. The Arab League, formed out of six Arab states, did not recognise Israel as a state, because they felt the land belonged to the Arabic state of Palestine, not to the Jews. Subsequently, the six Arab forces (Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria) attacked the Israeli military. The Lebanese, Syrian, Iraq and Saudi Arabian forces did not produce many offensive operations, but they managed to block the Israeli’s march. The ‘real’ fighting came from the Egyptian and Jordan forces. In the beginning, the Arabs had an advantage of weapons and air-power, whilst Israel had problems with their strategy. However, after a few months Israel was provided with war supplies from Czechoslavakia. This included both weapons for using on the mainland and aircrafts. Due to these supplies,

Through intellectual and rhetoric qualities, intuitive responses are able to provoke social change. In 1977 on the 20th of November Anwar Sadat’s radical ‘Speech to the Israeli Knesset’ emphasised achieving justice on fair terms, ultimately establishing a basis for international peace and “Peace in the Middle East” during the tense Arab-Israeli conflict. Sadat utilises various devices of repetition to reinforce the main thematic concern of “permanent peace and justice”, expounding Logos through the immense detailed when laying out the conditions for peace. Moreover, as both countries were highly religious Sadat utilises the Pathos of religion to unite individuals, “Muslims, Christians and Jews (who all)

Yitzhak Rabin shouldn’t have been assassinated because he was an advocate for peace. In a speech Rabin exclaimed that there is hope for an end of war and prospects for peace between Israel and Palestine ( Rabin 1

The six-day war can go down in history as one of the worst wars between Israel and one or more Arab countries. The six-day war heavily impacted Israel and the participating Arab countries in many ways. Israeli and Arab relations have never been good, even before Israel was declared an independent state in 1948. The six-day war should not be considered a new war based on its impact, rather it should be considered as a continuation of a constant war between Israel and its surrounding Arab neighbors. A factor that has always played a major part in instigating a conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors is the refusal and rejection of the Arab leadership to indentify Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. The war began with all surrounding Arab countries lining up along each border ready to try and wipe Israel out using air attacks, as well as ground attacks. The Six Day War concluded with an evident victory in favor of the Israelis, which to some is surprising due to the overwhelming force of the three militaries, which were ganging up on one small country. The casualty numbers ended up in favor of the Israeli’s who only lost somewhere near 700 people with 2,500 injured, while, Egypt lost 15,000 people and had 5,600 taken as prisoners, Jordan lost close to 6,000 people and Syria suffered somewhere close to 1,000 casualties (Knesset). The Arab attackers lost close to 1 billion dollars worth of aircrafts, tanks and heavy machinery in total between all three countries

In his article shows Palestinian a hero protects Jewish safety. When he went to the refugee camp and saw the refugee dead by the slaying. The peace for the Palestine is very important because if people involved in the struggle will cause a huge number of death casualties, which mean the country lose a lot of population. In addition, he learns liberty form his American mother. The Jewish’s Zionism makes his dream of peace destroy. The Jewish victim’s revenge makes the Palestinian far away from peace hope.

Since the last shots were fired on June 11, 1967, countless writers, journalists, scholars, and politicians, have attempted to decode the complex circumstances that brought about the six-day war, which radically changed the Arab-Israeli relationship forever. A myriad of explanations of the different aspects of the war have been offered in an attempt to uncover the events that resulted in Israel’s greatest military victory they would ever achieve, and the greatest humiliation the Arabs would ever suffer, in their more than one hundred years of intractable conflict. In recent years, professional historians have also joined the investigation. Since forty nine years have passed, archives relevant to the period have been uncovered and many of the

In the 1980s, Arafat received assistance from Libya, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. This assistance helped him in reconstructing the PLO, which was destroyed by Israelis. Soon after this, the First Intifada occurred. This Intifada occurred because four Palestinian residents were killed in a traffic accident involving an Israeli killer. It started with riots and bombing and throwing rocks. Arafat was trying to end this disastrous Intifada while everyone else were fighting for their lives.'

For many centuries, Judaic and Arabian societies have engaged in one of the most complicated and lengthy conflicts known to mankind, the makings of a highly difficult peace process. Unfortunately for all the world’s peacemakers the Arab-Israeli conflict, particularly the war between Israel and the Palestinian Territories, is rooted in far more then ethnic tensions. Instead of drawing attention towards high-ranking officials of the Israeli government and Hamas, focus needs to be diverted towards the more suspect and subtle international relations theory of realism which, has imposed more problems than solutions.

Keeping these thoughts in mind I will investigate some key issues that affect the progress towards peace in the region including the relationship that exists between the United States and Israel; the 2002 Road Map to Peace and why it failed; and finally the effect of Arafat?s death and the implications for the future.

After more than 50 years of war, terrorism, peace negotiation and human suffering, Israel and Palestine remain as far from a peaceful settlement as ever. The entire Middle Eastern region remains a cauldron waiting to reach the boiling point, a potent mixture of religious extremism, (Jewish, Christian and Islamic), mixed with oil and munitions.