Exile In Israel

Growing up in Palestine, I had contradicting Feelings towards my identity as a Palestinian. I often felt the euphoria and nationalism hearing the word Palestine, revolution, Israel, Yasser Arafat, and resistance. The ecstatic feeling of belonging to a glorious nation and dedicated countrymen equipped me with sufficient mental and emotional dosage to enjoy living in a war zone and ultimately a honourable goal worth sacrificing my life for- freedom.

Ever since, Palestinians have had to adapt to new places and cultures in order to survive, which makes it more difficult for them to preserve their own. Said presents several examples of transculturation throughout the essay. For instance, the use of the Mercedes, even though Said describes it in negative terms, the use of the Mercedes has come in handy for Palestinians. Enduring one disaster after another, Palestinian identity is arduous to preserve in exile. It is a struggle of having no country. Our country is a big part of who we are. As we are born, we are destined to become a part of it. It becomes part of our identity. Things that we grew up with meant something to us. We usually treasure things that became part of our lives. Even unconsciously, we take hold of it. Home brings us memories, memories that we want to hold on up to our last breath.

Said starts his essay "States" off with an attention grabber and sets the scene. He is reeling his readers in, making the reader feel sympathetic towards the lifestyle of the people outside Arab City by using words and phrases such as "meager", "surprised", "sad", and "slightly uncomfortable". He lays out the setting in a refugee camp during a disastrous time. I feel he does this in hopes of readers wanting to find out more about the Palestinian people and the lives they have led. His test is not arranged in the general arrangement of essays. Instead, Said talks about the history of the Palestinians while putting some of his own past of him and his family in. He uses pictures to help the reader grasp how times were for them, which is a feature

This shows Said’s sadness of being Palestinian because he has no home. Palestine no longer exists and Palestinians are considered aliens to the world, for they have no worldly home as it was ripped from them and they were left to be hermits in a foreign land. The first picture used by Said, actually the second image in the story, is split into two small images. The first of the two images shows a Palestinian woman holding her child.

To begin with, we as human beings must not be willing to accept each other for who we are and what we believe in. According to the text “My So Called Enemy” by Lisa Gossels it demonstrates Inas (Palestinian) saying “I see the Jewish girls as individuals, I love them and all of them are my friends, we talk every day and read together and watch the movies together. But when I read that they are Jewish I have many feelings at the same time. Because their people killed my father”. This illustrates on how Inas thinks of the others as her own friends, she is accepting others that are different from her. In addition, in the text

She begins the stanza with the epithet of “ignorant children”, the main protagonists of this poem. Children are considered ignorant, in the sense that they do not have a lot of knowledge because they are young and naive. Palestinian children “don’t even have a real world view”, because they have only been exposed to violence and suffering instead of having an actual childhood. She furthers this idea of a bleak future by saying “their future is shrouded: refugee shacks, unwashed faces, open sewers in the streets, infected eyes”. The cataloguing of these negative aspects demonstrates that the children do not have many positive things to look forward to. “Refugee shacks” alludes to the refugee crisis that happened after the Wars of 1948 and 1967, where Palestinians were expelled from their land by the Israelis and forced to take refuge in other countries. Living in these “refugee shacks” will only lead to “unwashed faces” and “infected eyes”, as the people cannot afford to take care of themselves anymore. The mass suffering would not end anytime soon, and the Palestinians would just have to deal with life as it came to

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.

Furthermore, the Israeli occupation of Palestine that the film depicts is a part of the 2000-2005 second intifada between the two nations (Manekin, 2013). Nablus, in Palestine is where Said and Khaled are based, and the mission is to take place in Tel Aviv across the border. A noticeable feature of the movie is the concept of deadness, the two main characters are not suicidal but the life they are trapped in has created a sense of them being dead already (Nashef, 2016) this is represented by the oppression and the lack of opportunity that is present. This theme can be further seen in their town – Nablus. Due to the conflict, the landscape and infrastructure is bleak, destroyed and very much discarded. The depiction of the lifestyle experienced during that period of conflict, highlighted to me potential motivations.

In the chapter titled “Reflections on Exile,” Edward Said discusses the different aspects of being an exile. His discussion of exile includes what it means to be an exile, the feelings that being an exile produces in individuals, exile in relation to nationalism, and the role of exile in the modern world.  Said first defines being an exile as a state of terminal loss. He states, “the achievements of exile are permanently undermined by the loss of something left behind forever” (173).  He then contrasts this terminal loss with the cultural impact that exile has had on the modern West.  He states that, “modern Western culture is in large part the work of exiles,” (173) and, “our age[...] is indeed the age of the refugee, the displaced

Joe Sacco’s graphic novel, Palestine, deals with the repercussions of the first intifada in Israel/Palestine/the Holy Land. The story follows the author through the many refugee camps and towns around Palestine as he tries to gather information, stories, and pictures to construct his graphic novel. While the book is enjoyable at a face level, there are many underlying themes conveyed throughout its illustrated pages and written text.

Estrangement is felt outside of Palestine, but even the return of the exiled Palestinians proves to hurt their connection towards a Palestinian identity because the reality sinks in that the occupation has caused them to still be strangers even in their homeland. El-Hassan , who was born outside of Palestine and then as an adult was finally given a permit to go to her family’s homeland stated “So when I returned to Palestine I thought that finally the theme of exile would be replaced by the theme of return” (El-Hassan 65). As a filmmaker she beamed with excitement stating that “I believed that now I would end up producing endless films about returning and the magic that accompanies it” (El-Hassan 65). While it was exciting for El-Hassan to

Gaith (2014) describes an incident where israeli soldier take children as young as 11 into custody and do many bodily harm to them in the process. The way children are treated goes against the promise that Israel made to protect children rights. “Violence against palestinian children detainees on rise” (2015) states that in the first 6 months of 2015 there was 10 percent increase of violence against palestinian children in israeli custody. They also say that children are forced to sign papers in hebrew a language they don’t understand stating that they weren’t abused and that it was only an interrogation. According to these statistics, “I’ll treatment of Palestinian children remains widespread and systematic in the Israeli military detention

These Palestinians have been working for decades to return to their homeland, but the Israeli government does not recognize this as a legitimate legal right. We believe that it is possible and essential to resolve this issue in a manner that would recognize the protests of the refugees, while still keeping the character of the state of Israel intact. Israel has acknowledged these claims during peace talkts, and has offered to allow a set number of Palestinians to return to Israel and would be given some form of compensation for the loss of the refugees’ property. This solution is not acceptable to palestine really, and more negotiation is crucial to finding a complete and lasting peace agreement between Israel and Palestine. Peace Now believes in the Geneva Initiative’s solution for the refugee problem. This would entail providing financial compensation to the Palestinian refugees and to the states that have been harboring them while they were exiled. There are several options for the Palestinian refugees and where they can take their permanent place of residence. Some of these are to create a future Palestinian state, they can remain in their current state, or several third party countries, including Israel, can allow them to migrate there at their choosing. The most fair and likely of these solutions for both sides would actually be a combination of all of these options.

Exile left about” three quarters of a million people as refugees” living “under Egyptian, Jordanian, and Lebanese rule” (Bornstein 125). Not every exiled Palestinian became a refugee living in a refugee camp; some were able to create a livable life in other Arabic countries like Kuwait and Egypt, or even the United States. However, even with better living conditions what the exiled did was it created “generations of Palestinians strange to Palestine” (Barghouti 61). The fact is even if a person leaving Palestine was actually “voluntarily, [it] was always difficult because for many it was a concession to Israel” (Bornstein 124). There is no way being exiled proved to be beneficial for Palestinians, especially when it came to understanding their Palestinian identity now that they no longer lived on the land. Exiled people that were labeled as Palestinians were not even able to go back to the country of Palestine or for the ones born in exile could not even step on the land of what is supposed to be a part of their identity. For a person who has “no passport, or no visa, or no residence, or because you are forbidden from entry” (Barghouti 135), it is hard to actually to have something that will claim one’s Palestinian

In "States" the author, Edward Said, discloses the story of his people, the Palestinians, in an epic to express to the world the disconcerting challenges endured by the struggling Palestinian culture. The underlying claim is that of which is fair for any people to aspire, the dream to be master in your own house. Thus translated into the ideals of nationalism: blood and belonging. Said uses a combination of both photographs and writing style to tell a story that is deeper than the plain text.