Palestine, By Joe Sacco

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.

In my first year of high school, I was assignment a reading of the book Burned Alive by Souad for my AP human geography class. This book is written by a Palestinian woman who survived an attempted honor killing as a pregnant teenager. Despite controversy around the book’s authenticity, it had an impact on my naïve mind, and it brought global conditions to my attention.

To sum up, this art piece asks for Americans to dare and pull off the blindfold. It dares people to question what is written in the media, and whether or not what is written truly matters in the grand scheme of world events. Knowledge is the first step in the process of justice, and the Palestinians deserve

Conclusion- Summary of first two paragraphs. We are witnesses to terrible injustices. As Israel responds to real and perceived threats, the Palestine's of the West Bank in Gaza remain dominated by military occupation or under siege, subjected to violent military incursions, and continually traumatic lost. We are witnesses to the world's impotence to achieve justice. Stone by stone, Israeli settlement in the West Bank expand seizing land and water, reducing Palestrina's hope, and increasing their despair. We are witnesses to structural violence. Within Israel itself, Palestine's have full citizenship and legal equality, but their reality is largely shaped by legally enforced injustices such as unequal funding for their communities infrastructures and schools, and the symbolic violence of being treated as a potential fifth column. We are witnesses. The convulsions that are

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.

Imagine living in a conflict that has divided two nations, literally, by a concrete barrier. This turbulent and heated confrontation has left many dead and even more injured. Welcome to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The documentary “5 Broken Cameras” is a portrayal of this modern day dispute through the personal lens of self-taught Palestinian cameraman, Emad Burnat. This compelling documentary provides a realistic presentation of the hatred that surrounds these two divided nations. Movie viewers will be drawn to this film is because it demonstrates the harsh realities of what it is like to live in the midst of a conflict and how the lives of those affected are altered as a result of this prolonged struggle.

Kanafani’s novella “Returning to Haifa”, is an uplifting tragedy that talks about two Palestine refuges, Said and Saffiya, trip back to Haifa after they lost their child in exile. Both were still living in their rough past, enduring all the memories from their rough past. Later in the story, they find out that their firstborn son Khaldun is grown up to be a Jew working in the Israeli military. Kanafani uses style and figurative language to aid the readers understanding of with the harmful repercussions associated with loss the characters experienced.

As nationalism comes into its own by the riots of 1936, the definition of who are traitors or collaborators began to take a more specific role. Whether they were “opportunists,” village leaders, patriots, or moralists, all found themselves at odds with the rising forms of nationalism. Common responses within the Palestinian narrative

This confusion is very much present in Israel and the Palestinian territories, where foreign activists are a notable feature of the landscape, and where international NGOs and numerous arms of the United Nations are among the most powerful players, wielding billions of dollars and employing many thousands of foreign and local employees. Their SUVs dominate sections of East Jerusalem and their expense accounts keep Ramallah afloat. They provide reporters with social circles, romantic partners, and alternative employment—a fact that is more important to reporters now than it has ever been, given the disintegration of many newspapers and the shoestring nature of their Internet successors.

In Shelly Oria’s collection New York 1 Tel Aviv 0, many of the characters have something in common: They want what they can’t have or they want what they can’t fully have. While the characters are peculiar, sympathetic individuels, they are also frustrating human beings. Their lack of confidence is a pity. This also stops them from living a happier life. Two stories centered around this conflict will be examined. The first, New York 1 Tel Aviv 0 and the second, The Disneyland of Albany. Oria shows her two protagonists’ inability to better their lives by letting us into their interior thoughts. Oria uses a similar technique with both stories. Every few passages, we hear their

It begins by explaining conditions in Palestine at the end of World War 2 and the crisis

In the second Intifada, which lasted from 2000 to 2005, Palestinians were shown regularly to be “appearing in a variety of new roles.” “Israeli journalists, in both the electronic and the printed press, conducted interviews on a regular basis with political leaders, ordinary people, and even terrorists.” (Liebes & Kampf, 2009) what happened to the reasons listed above as to why Israeli media did not shed much light on Palestinians. It went from “protecting the public from seeing death” to now interviewing so called “terrorists”. This is a drastic change from what was seen in the 1st intifada. The authors talk about their reasons as to why these changes took place. Among these reasons is the easy access to photo and video technologies, and the

The recent affair in Israel seems to be escalating everyday as the Israelis and Palestinians are clashing over the costs of past events and the conflict has been one of the most unstable and constant wars in modern world history. The Israeli military have continued to occupy Palestinian Territories and on a daily basis, inhabitants of those lands have been killed, injured or kidnapped. Despite recent major Israeli violence, Palestinians have created pacific marches and demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza, to retaliate. There have been attempts by other nations such as neighbouring Arab nations, the USA, Britain and USSR, to solve the crisis, although, their intervention have seemed to make the situation even worse. According to

“Photography endows place with a certain freedom, liberating place from the commitment to a specific point in time and space, exposing some generic dimension that exists there, enables place to be a ‘sort of place’ (…).” Taking into account the sentence of Miki Kratsman, I would like to present his photographs entitled Territory and the way in which they relate to the concepts of space and time. First, it is necessary to emphasize that the author, born in Argentina and later having immigrated to Israel, during his career has often documented the difficult Israeli-Palestinian situation. Moreover, his interest in reporting from this area of conflict is significant since he appears as “one of the few Israeli journalists who still cross the border today” The project “Territory” was realized in 2005, seven months before the evacuation of Israeli settlements present in the South of the Gaza Strip. Thus, the photos do not show the direct conflict between two populations or what remains of a place tormented by war, on the contrary, they exhibit a zone, an agglomerate of houses and lives about to disappear forever. Although when Kratzman has reached Gush Katif only a small part of the inhabitants has already left their home, what emerges through the images is a feeling of absolute desolation and emptiness. Therefore, despite its being populated, this piece of land seems to be

In the novels Midaq Alley and The Yacoubian Building, we are shown the ongoing, daily struggles of the working-poor in both colonial and postcolonial Egypt. Both share central, overarching themes such as debauchery, desperation, and unstable political situations. The two settings are both examples of microcosms, “cities within a city”. Midaq Alley is a small, dead-end neighborhood in 1940’s Cairo that consists of various shops and apartments. Within each of these buildings are characters that live completely separate lives but all have the same aspirations, to experience the world outside and the wealth it has. The Yacoubian Building is also set in Cairo during the turbulent 1990’s. Similarly, the characters were all tenants of a large apartment building, living in cramped and decrepit spaces.