The Pros And Cons Of The Occupation Of Palestine

“Life, liberty and the pursuit of property (happiness)” is a familiar phrase known from the United States’ Declaration of Independence. It says that we believe these are the three inalienable rights of all human beings and that it is the government’s job to protect these absolute privileges. Extensive advocation of these inalienable rights of man date back to the time of John Locke, over 300 years ago. In Emile Habiby’s novel, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, we meet Saeed, a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel. Through his stories we are shown the inequality Arabs in Israel face and how the ‘inalienable’ rights we take for granted are being withheld from Israeli Arabs.

-Israelis—most political group in Israel also wants peace with Palestinians and come up with plans like the disengagement plan in 2005. But Zionism extremist suggests that they should takeover the occupied

On Friday night, the University of Washington played host to three of today’s greatest historians concerning the Israel/Palestine issue. Professor Anita Shapira, known for her contextual history of Israel ignited the room with her powerful comments about the circumstances for Arab removal from Israeli lands. Professor James Gelvin tiptoed on several touchy subjects, reiterating his concentration with causality history, nevertheless his historical background gave insight to nationalistic movements both groups have. The third historian, Professor Ilan Pappe concentrated the bulk of his talk on explaining the movement of Palestinian refugees while advocating for the acknowledgement of Israeli brutality in some Arab villages. Naturally, as it was the first time all three sides had come head-to-head, the debate got heated. This was especially true when comparing ideas of what the occupied territory should be described as. History of Modern Israel/Palestine student Erika Arias was able to mediate the debate, defuse tensions and at times draw laughs from the audience.

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

Moreover, In 1897 Theodore Herzl, the first Zionist Congress, gave the Jewish people the right to a national rebirth in their country. In document 1 it is stated, "...the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National home." For that reason, the Jewish people must have Israel back, and the Palestinians must give it

As of recent years, with the rise of right-wing, nationalistic politicians in Israel, the hunger for settlement of Palestine has increased. Seeing the land as theirs to take, more and more Jewish settlements have been improved and expanded on in the West Bank, culminating and high profile confrontations between the new Jewish settlers and the Palestinian

- Supports Palestine and Israel becoming two individual countries and establishing new borders between the two states

The Jews seem to have more support over the arabs in terms of re-establishing their national homeland than the Arab’s protecting their land even if the Great Britain protects their faith and rights as citizens in Palestine.

) because him having being born in Palestine he had experienced war and knew that the Palestinian liberation organization has fought Israel and vice versa, he truly believed that both nations were ready to seek a path for peace. Before even considering an agreement with the PLO he had already a peace accord and separation of forces

Prime Minister (PM) Ariel Sharon had ultimately made the decision to pull out of Gaza and the West Bank to “promote disengagement as Israel’s best way of extricating itself from the

His article argues that the Israelis won the Arab- Israeli War of 1948 and therefore were able to shape its history through their lens, but their version of the conflict is flawed and the information now available undermines what they claimed to be true. He stated that the Zionist version of the truth is just propaganda, spread in a way to make them look like innocent bystanders and the victims and the Arabs as the

Palestine was made into Israel, the land that is rightfully his ancestors’ was stolen from

The letter announced that the british were supporting the establishment called the Zionist movement that moved to create a Jewish homeland in the area of Jerusalem. The conflicting Arab-Israeli fight over land in the middle east has related to the conflicting promises made during world war 1. “Great Britain is prepared to recognise and

His statement, with emphasis on peace and the evacuation of occupied territories, indicates the Vatican’s hopes of one day seeing a future homeland for the Palestinians. Thus, the overall vindication of the Vatican’s beliefs is that creating an accepted and acknowledged Palestinian state is critical in order for peace to even begin.

“The conflict between Israel and Palestine is just one of the many facets that have