Al-Nakba 1948 Research Paper

We see a clear example of this on page 21 when Saeed is talking to the people in the mosque and they're all asking him if they know any of their loved ones from the cities they were forced out of. One woman said of her city “they demolished it and evicted everyone”. Soldiers destroyed people’s homes and property and forced them to leave when they had done nothing wrong. This is a violation of their “inalienable” right to property because the soldiers just destroyed people’s properties and even the homes of the innocent. They didn't do anything wrong to get that punishment but the soldiers did it anyway. Another example of the denial of the right to property that Arabs face in Israel is on page 125 when Saeed asks why the Arab houses are being demolished near the prisons and he is told that they “demolish their homes when they're outside [the prison], but when they’re inside prison we let them occupy themselves building”. The man Saeed is talking to then goes on to say that they use the space the Arabs’ houses were to build new prisons and jail cells. This shows their right to property being diminished because they should be allowed to keep their homes that they own even while they're in jail (most likely for a harmless ‘crime’ that they couldn't afford to pay the fine for) and not be worried about where their families will

The forcible eviction of the Palestinians and the denial of their right of return, has led to them becoming refugees, this has translated into the adoption of aggressive tactics and strategies to achieve their goal of a sovereign nation. Palestinian society is territorially disjointed by the divisions of the West Bank (administered by Fatah) and the Gaza area (administered by Hamas) creating a disharmony in interest articulation towards the goal of

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the one of the world’s oldest conflicts, and it is still an ongoing problem in the world. Zionists and Arabs: two groups with conflicting beliefs who both claim Israel as their own. In wake of the Holocaust the U.N decided to gift the Jews a homeland for the lives lost in the genocide. In 1947, the U.N Partition divided the land of Israel (Historic Palestine) into two separate states: Arab and Jewish. Since then, the state of Israel has been the center of conflict between the Arabs and the Zionists. As time passed the Zionists gained more land from winning the Six-Day War, and consequently the Palestinians had to live as refugees in other Arab countries. Additionally, more than 75% of the land belonged to

This tension came to a climax in 1936 during Arab Revolt, leaving 300 Jews and 5,000 Arabs dead, and over 15,000 Arabs injured. After WWII, large amounts of Jews were left as refugees, and on the eve of the expiration of the League of Nations Mandate, Israel announced its independence. A day latter, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon joined forces in order to stop Israel from becoming a state. There were a total of around 15,000 killed. A Palestinian’s journal explained the brutality when they wrote, “They took about 40 prisoners from the village. But after the battle was over, they took them to the quarry where they shot them dead and threw their bodies in the quarry” (10). Almost one million Palestinians were forcibly relocate. The war ended in 1949 in a ceasefire.

The country of Palestine has a unique history that distinguishes it from other nations. In 1948, Israel became an independent nation, covering a large portion of another country called Palestine. Eventually, as time continued, Israel seized the rest of Palestine by 1967. This dominance resulted in the Palestinians lack of a homeland. Due to this, various altercations between both groups of people, the Israelis and the Palestinians, arose. The prospects for a peaceful settlement between both, Israelis and Palestinians, are minimal.

As of recent years, with the rise of right-wing, nationalistic politicians in Israel, the hunger for settlement of Palestine has increased. Seeing the land as theirs to take, more and more Jewish settlements have been improved and expanded on in the West Bank, culminating and high profile confrontations between the new Jewish settlers and the Palestinian

In MacDonald’s article, The barbaric cultural practice of election pronouncements, he looks at how the current Canadian political election has created this barrier between Muslims and Canadians.

“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

I had the pleasure of teaching Ayman AL-Adawi in my biology class during his 4th year in high school. He was an inspiration to me his teacher as well as his classmates and other students in his age. He was the kind of student who would like to know everything with passion even if it wasn't in the curriculum he always make me search new things I've never searched before.

According to Louise Cankar, Palestinians owned nearly 20 percent of all small grocery and liquor stores in Chicago which displays the importance of Palestinian migration to the City. Nearly 45 percent of Palestinians worked in the retail trade market and approximately 14 percent of Palestinians were professionals. These statistics are huge, that is 1 in 5 small grocery stores in Chicago are owned by Palestinians. “By the 1990s, Palestinians had maintained this niche, but they also diversified into used-car dealership, gas stations, auto repair shops, ethnic stores, and fast-food restaurants…” (Cankar, Encyclopedia of Chicago). Palestinians see Chicago as an economical hub to provide a better life for their own family. Also, many Palestinians came to Chicago since they were able to work hard for their money here in order to provide money and support for their family overseas since not everyone has the opportunity to come to Chicago to

Nakba also known as the “catastrophe” is where approximately 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and land by Zionist forces in order to make way for a Jewish state this was the turning point for the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Between 1948 when Israel declared its independence and 1966, Palestinian citizens of Israel were subject to military rule. Although martial law was lifted they continue to suffer from all around discrimination affecting everything from land ownership and employment opportunities for family rights even to this day. There are approximately 1.2 million Palestinian citizens of Israel, about 20% of the population. (http://ifamericaknew.org/history/)

While the Abbasids seized power on the Arabian Peninsula, the Umayyad leader Abd al-Rahman fled to the Iberian Peninsula and built a magnificent kingdom. When he reached Spain, he made it Al-Andalus, also known as Muslim Spain. He gained power by uniting the factions that were already there and defeating the ruling factions. Al-Andalus became a glorious kingdom in the Muslim empire because they had powerful leaders, a stable government, and effective tactics for expansion. The reasons for their decline will also be mentioned in this essay.

With half of the Israeli nation being split into Arab or Jewish, people do feel a huge amount of aggression towards one another. The war between to the sides of the country results in wars that will never be solved; the wars create problems among its people. With the problems among its people, it is hard for citizens to live their everyday life. Women do feel the most hardship in wanting to escape the country. All of these factors result into

In 1948, the British mandate announced their intentions to terminate its mandate in Palestine due to the conflict between the Palestinians and the Jews. Britain faced difficulties trying to bring peace to Palestine. After the British mandate left Palestine, the Jewish people declared the establishment of a Jewish state (Israel). On the same day, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq intervened and this marked the first Arab-Israeli war. After this war, over 800,000 Palestinian Arabs became refugees as a result of the independence of Israel. Also, Jews in the Arab countries were made to abandon their properties and flee.

Throughout the period of World War II, many Jewish people had fled to Israel seeking a place for sanctuary due to Hitler’s reign of terror, but who knew that one of the most largest movements in the history of Europe would cause one of the biggest renowned issues that still remains today. We can easily conclude that both Palestinian and Israeli people both believe that Israel is a land of sacred, where both religions had made history in this land. Although one of the biggest issues that still remains today is who really deserves the land the most. The Palestinian people currently live in the land of Israel before the Jews had made their movement, but after letting in countless Jewish refugees into their land, the Jewish people had realized