Analysis Of President Abbas's Adherence To The Power Of Power

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.

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 Israeli wall has cut off important towns and made extremely travel difficult. This wall has cut off important resources needed by the Palestinians. But not only are the resources affected but the Palestinian culture have also been affected. Dr. Bihan Waimari, the head of the psychology department at Birzeit University near Ramallah says, “People are unable to visit relatives on the other side of the wall. It had a very big impact on the psychology of Palestinians. Social life stopped,” this quote shows exactly how severely this wall is affecting the Palestinian people and their social lives. We as people need to interact with each other and security has made this

Movement in Palestine has been becoming increasingly restricted. These restrictions have occurred through the creation of countless checkpoints, installments of roadblocks, construction of isolating walls, and ever-growing settlement connecting roads. Dividing land and decelerating movement among Palestinians has ultimately resulted in debilitating the Palestinian economy and compelling Palestinians to flee or turn to resistance methods. (Bornstein, 106) While these

The format of this source is a primary journal news article, published by The Slate Group on 4th November, 2004. Warren Bass, the author, is a senior editor at The Slate and the author of ‘Support any friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S. Israel-Alliance’, and hence, is highly credible in a field that excels in historical writing. Bass discusses Yasser Arafat’s legacy, durability and the impacts he contributed to Palestine as a ‘terrorist pioneer,’ addressing both the Oslo I Accords and the PLO’s establishment. This source is extremely useful to the Historical Investigation Process, exemplifying the legacy of Yasser Arafat through evaluation of both positive and critical interpretations and providing relevant information

For the last sixty years, the Palestinians and Israelis have been involved in a nearly non-stop game of tag, except this form of tag involves suicide bombers, Qassam rockets, hell fire missiles and tanks. This paper will examine how public opinion has affected the intricacies of this game of tag and attempt to prove that no matter who leads the Israeli government, the response to Palestinian aggression has always been violence in one degree or another.

Israeli occupation controls all aspects of my life as a Palestinian. I live in a country that is occupied by the most battle trained armed forces in the world. I have no power over my own daily life. I always live in a state of fear. The fear of losing people I love or even losing myself. This major problem has been faced by Palestinians for more than 67 years. As a young Palestinian female who has the opportunity to study aboard, It’s a must that I try to convey the truth and let people know that while all the unjust and outrageous things that happen to us, we still stand in front of the occupation with rocks in one hand and education in the other.

Responding to this concern, Bassem Tamimi, a Palestinian activist, listening to the conversation, added: “Our enemy is so violent that he doesn’t give us a chance to be nonviolent. So it is no wonder that Palestinians do not believe in nonviolence.” (Bronner). However, what Israeli Barak Raz calls Palestine’s violent resistance is just throwing stones. This is nothing comparing to guns, arms and bullets and bomb. This cannot appall Israeli soldier. The main reason that makes Israel soldier scare is non-violent resistant. One Israeli activist says, “Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.” (Budrus). Thus, what made Israeli soldiers as well as government to reroute their barrier was not because they scare of violence, but because

These identities remain somewhat distinct despite the Oslo Agreement that brought the PLO leadership from exile to the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). It was believed that this step would lead to the reconciliation between "interior" and "exterior" political cultures. However, the post Oslo period has witnessed competition between various strains of Palestinian political culture, such as that between the mainstream national movement and the Islamic fundamentalist movement.

Hertz “Between 1993 and 2001, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) signed six agreements with Israel and conducted countless

On June 8, 1974, during its 12th meeting, the Palestinian National Council (PNC) accepted the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Ten Point Program. The PLO wanted to establish national authority “over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated” with the aim of “completing the liberation of all Palestinian territory” (Laquer & Rubin, 2001). The reason the PLO created the Ten Point Program, or “Phased Plan”, is due to a previous failed surprise attack against Israel. In the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Egyptian and Syrian armies “launched a surprise attack against Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar” (“The PLO’s Phased Plan,” 2015). The goal of the surprise attack was to take over and eliminate Israel for good.

Oddly the liberal peace model is effective in the Palestinian– Israeli conflict. It is supportive of Israel as a liberal democratic state while bidding to produce a liberal democratic state in Palestine (xxx, xxx). This is actually the mockery of the liberal peace model as confirmed by scholars such as (xxx,xxx) in views that it is serving to generate a deviant liberal peace. The commonly reiterated arguments here is that democracy, human rights and the rule of law are far from universally apparent. Because Israel is not an all-encompassing democratic state and the Palestinian National Authority would barely operate as a political entity as the execution of human rights and rule of law is at best fickle and at worst useless. The existing procedure

Israel has made travel between major Palestinian population centers (Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Hebron) in the West Bank easier over the last several years. Several major checkpoints in the West Bank that restricted direct movement between and into these cities have been removed or modified. However, in general this opening is less the result of an overall easing in movement restrictions than the result of the institutionalization of movement controls into a formal and permanent regime of restrictions that has replaced roadblocks with gates that can be opened and closed at the whim of the military and that has reconfiguring how Palestinians travel.

With the failure of Oslo accords, the divided Palestinian territories separated between Israeli and Palestinian authorities led way to the development of an Israeli system of permits and passes for Palestinians to travel within the occupied territories. This was the start of many policies against Palestine. The Palestinian economy is now isolated from world markets, and also from the restriction of moving goods and people between the West Bank, Gaza Strip, as well as cutting off transit between Palestinian population centers within the Palestinian territories. This policy of closure is said to have been established as a security measure to prevent or reduce the chances of a Palestinian attack on Israeli citizens or security. My sense of the Closure Policy is not only did this policy restrict movements of people and good, the external closure (limiting Palestinian

In 1994 Palestinian Authority (PA) was formed by the PLO, which had the “self-governing” powers in the areas, which were being redeveloped by the Israeli forces. In January of 1996, Palestine held election for the presidency of the