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Israel has said that they disagree with Kerry’s talks of peace in early 2015, saying the US will give up too much to reach a compromise. David Horovitz of the Times of Israel has said “It seemed inconceivable that [John Kerry] would have drafted an initiative that… did not require the dismantling of Hamas’s rocket arsenal and network of tunnels dug under the Israeli border.” His draft-released on July 25, 2014-was very commonly called “Pro-Hamas”by Israelis due to the fact that Kerry didn’t call for Hamas to end the rocket attacks on Israel. A poll taken in 2014 by Israel’s Channel 10 showed that 86.5% of Israelites were against the cease fire due to the fact that Hamas is far from a

On the 17th of April 2012, Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicating the only way the Palestinian Authority would agree to move forward with peace talks is if Israel would agree to freeze the building of settlements in the West Bank1. Israeli settlements in the West Bank have become the largest obstacle in negotiating a two-state solution and it appears the continued expansion of Israeli settlements may render a two-state solution impossible. Inside the Israeli government following the 1967 war there was a debate about how to deal with the newly occupied territories of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, and Golan Heights. The debate revolved around two

The State of Israel formerly known as Palestine is known as one of the most conflict infected areas. Problems between the Palestinian Arab population and the Israeli one constantly happen. But how did this come to be? Palestine was an area that was home to an Arab majority prior to World War II, but do to many factors the Jewish population increased. These factors included heavy migration into Palestine after the establishment of the British mandate and the Balfour Declaration, which was signed in 1917. Migration increased as well due to anti-Semitism in Europe and the Holocaust. Due to Britain’s lack of control of migration, and problems arising in the region as well, the decision was given to the U.N. It was a partition plan in 1947 between the Arabs and the Jewish population, but soon after that Israel declared its independence.

Still, the government of Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, argued that remaining in Gaza was too costly

Hamas used its power in Gaza in 2000 to repeatedly fire rockets to both Israeli territories and settlements along the strip; these attacks were met with Israeli warplanes that kept up their bombing of Gaza. In 2005, Hamas rocket attacks continued, even with the decision to unilaterally withdraw all Israeli presences from Gaza, forcing the Israeli Defense Forces to invade the area of Gaza twice. President Obama reached out to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu willing to facilitate a cessation of hostilities between the two

On a sunny morning in the end of July I was patrolling in Gaza to save my beloved country, Israel. Not only the Gazans but Palestinians in general were the greatest enemy of Israel of all time since they willed to destroy the Holy Land at all costs.

Since the last failed initiative to make peace between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 2014, which was an American led initiative taken on by Secretary of State John Kerry, it has only become more evident that the death of the two-state solution is slowly approaching. Settlement growth in the West Bank, which is deemed internationally illegal, has continued to expand at an unprecedented rate and is often cited as detrimental to the peace process. The rise in power and hostility of Hamas in the Gaza Strip is also a large security concern to the Israelis and a political fear for the Fatah led government in the PA. Despite these issues, the two-state solution is not dead yet. With a

Israel is a very well developed country, which helps them acquire the resources needed to meet Millennium Development Goals. The country is slightly larger than the state of New Jersey. Located in the Middle East, it borders the Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, and Sinai Peninsula (Middle East: Israel, 2014). Israel has been a topic of consistent power struggle regarding its borders, and over the past years, the “Gaza Strip.” The Gaza strip is a small piece of land that runs about is twenty-five miles along the Mediterranean coast and is under Hamas jurisdiction (Middle East: Israel, 2014).

The Arab-Israeli conflict resulted not from a century long feud between Islam and Judaism, but from “claims to the same territory by competing nationalist movements.” These two movements, Zionism and Arab Nationalism, showcase the emerging question of identity during the 19th and 20th centuries. The Arab states, long ruled by Western colonial powers, emerged from the Mandate system weak and powerless. Why British troops did not leave Palestine until May 1st, 1948. Prior to this, the British proclaimed their support for a Jewish state through the Balfour Declaration (1917). In 1947 the United Nations released resolution no. 181 which created two states, one Palestinian-Arab, and one Jewish, leaving Jerusalem and Bethlehem as an international zone. The state of Israel was officially established in 1948. The Arab states refused to recognize the legitimacy of Israel, prompting Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, to declare war (1947-1958). This decision proved embarrassing as Israel, winning the war, forced out 700,000 Palestinian refugees. In turn, Israel refused to recognize the Palestinian state. The Zionist movement gained the momentum it needed to strengthen the state of Israel.

     Ariel Sharon is a big bully. I do not justify Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians, and I do believe that Yasser Arafat supported terror strikes, but Sharon knows that he has the upper hand in the whole situation. America is going to stand behind Israel, so Sharon makes all these crazy demands from the Palestinians. He will give them some of their land, but Israel will control the air space in the new Palestinian territory. Of course Palestine is not going to agree to that, demands like that are absurd, but Sharon has the world on his side because when he blows up a house full of Palestinians, it is referred to as a military action, but when Palestinians attack Israel it is looked at as terrorism.     President Bush and his cabinet of maniacs has created this entire scare of terror attacks, and Ariel Sharon was the first person to jump on that bandwagon. This was exactly what he

A large number of Arabs were shot to death, including civilians, by Israeli soldiers (Shavit, 2013). 　In July 1948, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion required dispossession of all the Palestinians in Lydda (Shavit, 2013). About 19,000 of the 20,000 Palestinian inhabitants were forced to migrate (Munayyer, 2012). Now Lydda is called Lod, and about 25 percent of the residents are Arabs (Martin, 2013). This Jewish-Arab mixed city has poor public safety (Martin, 2013).

This was the first of among many terms whose meaning was effectively nullified by the “constructive ambiguity” of the Oslo Accords. Abd Al-Sahfi furthers this argument stating that, through the Accords, the status of the West Bank and Gaza strip was being blurred from being recognisably ‘occupied’ to only being ‘disputed’ as well as Ben-Ami stating ‘there is nothing in the letter of the Oslo accords that prevents the creation of settlements’ . Israel capitalised upon this ambiguity through its settlement expansion programme, to them, a provision merely implied could not be relied upon, especially as there were no provisions for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories, even as a final status issue. To the Palestinians this was ‘indicative of Israel’s inability to take a decision that would recognize these as Palestinian territories’ , even if the Israelis claimed this was a matter of interpreting the terms as only applying to the legal status of the occupied territories rather than to the demographic and geographic status-quo. Though the Accords enumerate a number of contentious issues to be deferred to a later date, with even reference being made to UN Security Council Resolution 242 (the withdrawal of territories) the Israelis profited from the openness of the terms so as to ‘exploit their powers as occupiers to the hilt’ so that by the time final status negotiations discussing Palestinian statehood

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Post WWII, Jew’s wished for land separate from European Anti-Semitic beliefs. The Holocaust had further pushed Zionists agenda to take Palestine due to their historical and religious background within the land. Thus, a significant amount of Jews from Europe and America called for a separate Jewish state. During this time, Britain had a mandate over Palestine and were authorized to rule the land. However, given that the dispute was becoming increasingly controversial, the British withdrew from the conflict and gave authority of the land to the UN. Then the UN had formed the UNSCOP, United Nation Special Committee on Palestine. Their objective was to separate Jewish and Arab land. There the UN authorized the Israeli state and caused the displacement of thousands of Palestinians. They had forced the Palestinians to flee their villages in order to place arriving Jewish settlers. Various tactics were used to remove Palestinians from the land. For instance. Israelis used arab radio broadcasts to inhibit fear within the arab community. Such

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