How To Disagree With George Bisharat

As an Israeli artist, his work can relate a lot to the experience of Jews and the Holocaust. This was a horrific event. This event showed us how the beauty of the human body can

The west had been essential to the nation’s creation, and exerted its power in Israel. Israel’s leaders developed allegiances with western countries which had been essential in the formation of their country. Tension in the area grew, both inside and outside of the state, and violence was used against both sides. However, measures were not taken to undue the problems that had arisen from the unfair nature of the agreement. “Palestinians had been branded as ignorant, hostile, and violent” and non-Jewish groups found it difficult to practice their religion as they had before. Despite the obvious inequities that were growing, the west did little to alleviate the pain that it played a large part in creating. It seemed as if “People in the west seem so taken with material things, It’s as if they have nothing in their spirit, so they need to surround themselves

Chaim Potok’s use of silence helps to exemplify the utter sorrow and angst of the Anti-Zionist Hasidic League (led by Reb Saunders) when the bloody fighting is occurring in Palestine. The League, which was previously contesting Zionism and the development of Israel without the coming of the Messiah via papers, flyers, and rallies, grew oddly silent with the

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.

The essay States, by Edward Said, describes the trouble for Palestinians to find their identity due to the loss of their homeland. He also describes the situation of the Palestinians and the isolation that they feel through photographs that he had taken. Said has many different pictures throughout this essay and each of them play a part in supporting the main point of this essay. Said believes that, without a homeland, the Palestinians cannot have an identity and the Palestinians should not be content with being exiles forever. So the purpose of the pictures is to support and further strengthen this idea. The photographer wants the viewer to understand the struggle that the Palestinians are going through.

Israel’s dominance of Palestine affected the country itself and its inhabitants. Through the entire process of Israel seizing Palestine, millions of lives have been changed forever, for reasons that will never be

Once Usama returns, he is disgusted to find streets filled with complacent Arabs who have accepted the Israeli rule and “workers who bought things greedily, ate well, dressed well.” ‘Greedy’ is an important and interesting adjective the author uses to describe the people of Palestine, as it carries a very negative connotation that describes the people with a naked and selfish ambition along with a voracious lust for riches and wealth. Through this integration of ‘greedy,’ as the audience we are averse to the Palestinian people and empathize with Usama as he paints himself as the lone hero that will save Palestine. Through this crude description of the Palestinians, we can see that in his eyes, they have traded 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.

“If the state of Israel is a Jewish state in which the life, culture, and spirit of the Jewish people are being renewed, and if the Jewish people are living in heritage then it's worth living here, and fighting or dying for it.”  Pg 98

Approximately six million Jews and German Jews were killed by the Nazi Regime. Amichai, with his family escaped when he was only eleven. He also refused to mention the Holocaust. Then, the troubles for many Jews were not over: the Arab-Israeli War. The war was about the tensions between the state of Israel and the coalition of Arab states and Palestinians. Israel took victory over the Palestinians and as a result of the war, territorial changes were made. During the 40s, Israeli territory lines were not well defined. As a direct result of the war, to better separate Jerusalem from the Palestinian’s, Israel built a wall which divided the city from 1948-1967. In the mist of the Israeli-Palestinian tensions, we meet Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008). There are two things that are striking. Among the poets he admired, he admired Amichai. Even with these two nationalities clashing, during the 20th Century, it just seems striking that he admired a poet, in which Darwish’s nationality was fighting against and claimed to be

The movie “5 Broken Cameras” by discusses a story about a Palestinian farmer known as Emad Burnat. Through this movie, Burnat captures the brutalities him and his community face when trying to protest against the army setting up a barrier between their hometown and a Jewish settlement. A few of his brothers were hurt significantly from the soldiers throwing tear gas and capturing other individuals. Many of the community members where furious with the tradegeies that took place during their protest. Yelling at guards, the community members were not treated faily as the soliders were pushing and fighting indivuals as an attempt to back people off from the wall being built.

In the article, Stinemetz talks about her recent visit to Palestine, a nation that is currently being attacked by Israel’s armies. This is due largely in part to desires by the Israeli government to have Palestinian citizens comply with their laws which are violating the Palestinian’s human rights, rights that every single human deserves.

Ahmed Zewali, “In the Middle East, it is clear that peace will never be reached without solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A two-state solution must be found and enforced.” This quotation means that war is a continuous thing between Israel, and Palestine, and peace is an unsolved topic. This quotation relates to the stories Refugee-land from Palestine written by Joe Sacco, and Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi because they both relate towards the Middle East conflicts. Both Refugee-land from Palestine written by Joe Sacco, and Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi have many similarities and differences.

The graphic novel Palestine, published by Maltan journalist Joe Sacco in the early ‘90s, is a journalistic piece that represents his recollections of two months spent talking to and living with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. The casual narrative style, which some might say is too shallow for such heavy subject matter, in fact allows Sacco to avoid many of the pit falls that have made Western reporting on non-Western conflicts unhelpful at the very least and more often incredibly damaging.

Supporting the Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar, the thesis of Wild Thorns addresses the dilemma of accepting and rejecting the Israeli regime which causes division within the Palestine community (9). In fact, Khalifah, the author of the novella, uses the characters, Usama, Zuhdi, and Adil (Usama’s cousin) to support this thesis. In each instance, she tells how the path that the character chooses either supported their acceptance or rejection of the regime. Specifically, she shows how Usama and Zuhdi’s rejection (fighting against the Israeli regime) contrasts Adil’s acceptance of the Israeli regime (taking care of the dead Israeli Soldier’s wife), thus creating a division. Using the three characters to represent the Palestine community, Khalifah’s purpose is to illustrate the division within the Palestine community (divided community: one side rejects while the other accepts the Israeli regime). In essence, the thesis and of Wild Thorns can be seen through the fate which resulted in the decision of Usama, Zuhdi, and Adil.