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American Media coverage of the Israeli-Arab conflict What is an Arab? In a great number of movies Hollywood provides the answer to this question: Arabs are cruel murderers, sleazy rapists, religious fanatics, oil-rich dimwits, and abusers of women (Shaheen 2). This is how Hollywood shows Arabs to the world. Throughout the history we can trace the discrimination in several media industry against African-American, Jewish, and Hispanic people. However, in some North America’s media Arabs are depicted

In the Television Show, Arab Labor, viewers were shown the personal identity issues that the main character, Amjad, battled with. The personality of Israelis and Palestinians has affected their vulnerability to certain situations following the 2009 Gaza Conflict. They have faced distressing repercussions from war such as posttraumatic stress disorder. In the film, Waltz with Bashir, a young man struggles with reoccurring dreams that stemmed from his time as a solider in the 1982 Lebanon War. Just

the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,[3][4] which in its Gaza branch had been non-confrontational towards Israel, refrained from resistance, and was hostile to the PLO.[39] Co-founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin stated in 1987, and the Hamas Charter affirmed in 1988, that Hamas was founded to liberate Palestine, including modern-day Israel, from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.[40][41] The group has later stated that it may accept

Palestinians On July 14, 2014, Mohammed Suliman, a Muslim living in Gaza City, tweeted, “Amir, 12, and Mohammed. 10, want to buy yogurt. Things are calm, they tell their mom. They leave the house. A blast is heard. They 're dead” (Hosford). Tragic though it is, this is not a rare phenomenon in this region. In fact, 2,314 Palestinians were killed and 17,125 injured just in 2014 alone as a result of Israel’s activities in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and East Jerusalem, according to the annual report by

The long and winding road to peace between Israel and Palestine is fraught with complications that impede the establishment of stable coexistence in the troubled region. For as long as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been ongoing, it has largely been recognized as a dispute over land, borders, and sovereignty. Within the core conflict of land rights lies the equally important and inseparable issue of water rights. Inequality between Israeli citizens and Palestinians in the occupied territories

How would you feel if you saw your house crumble to pieces in front of you? What would your reaction be during that millisecond where the bomb went off, burning your family to ashes? Young and old children of Palestine see these things every day. The Israeli-Arab conflict affects the children growing up in these countries, during the modern day, in a negative way because first of all, it puts high risk to their physical health, possibly disabling them for life. Secondly it crumbles their mental/emotional

Arab-Israeli War). Six years earlier, in 1967, Israel had embarrassed the Arabs in the Six Day War. After the war, Israel had four times the amount of land as they did before. They took territory from Egypt including the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, they took the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and Syria lost the Golan Heights. In 1970, Anwar el-Sadat became president of Egypt. He wanted peace with Israel, but after the war in 1967, it was unlikely that Israel would do anything to

countries supported aid for economic and humanitarian development in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Foreign aid was also used to support the initiation of a peace process between the Palestinians and Israelis. There was a hope of an improvement in the economic standing in the region from both the international community and majority of the Palestinian population. However, it is arguable that the economy of the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank has in fact plummeted to an even worse condition than before

and Israelis. In 1967, Israel captured the remainder of the mandated Palestinian lands held by Egypt and Jordan. Hamas was founded in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as part of the First Intifada and is currently located mainly in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It developed from the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and presents a strong opposition to the peace process in Middle East politics. Its current highest ranking official is Khaled Mashaal, a former physics teacher who directed Hamas's

Life for many of the 1.5 million Palestinians who live in the Gaza strip is difficult. Mostly because Israel controls its coastline and all of the entry and exit crossings into Israel. They have no working airport and because their access is so limited not many goods get into or out of Gaza. There is food allowed in but aid agencies claim families aren’t eating much meat or fresh vegetables and fruit. The power cuts out often so they don’t have power for hours at a time. Many of the people are unemployed