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PART II THE INTRACTABLE CONFLICT AMONG THE POLITICAL FACTIONS OF PALESTINE CHAPTER 3 AN INTRACTABLE CONFLICT: SOCIAL CLEAVAGES WITHIN THE POLITICAL STRUCTURES OF PALESTINE The Intractable Conflict: What It Is & How Does it Correlate with the Political Factions of Palestine? Intractable Conflicts go by many names, such as the Protracted Social Conflicts or the Identity Related Conflicts. These are long conflicts that are self-sustaining, deep-rooted and the product of long-lasting hatreds and

PEACE AND UNITY: REALITY OR MYTH? Peace is a stress-free state of security and calmness that comes when there is no fighting or war, everything coexisting in perfect harmony and freedom. Moreover, Islamic perspective defined peace from the root of the word Islam, silm, which refers to “making peace, being in mutually peaceful environment and keeping away from troubles and disasters”. Islam also emphasizes about making peace among people regardless of their positions. Everybody has their own perspective

aid annually from the United States of America, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an issue that is relevant to life in the U.S. However, to many it is no more than a distant battle fought in a land few will ever see. The documentary film Death in Gaza attempts to humanize the conflict through the everyday lives and voices of young children living in the war-stricken area. While the documentary is relatively one-sided, showing only the Palestinian viewpoint, it does serve the purpose of shedding

renewing itself”, “what you’ve made of my soul”. 3. Political/Philosophical act Mahmoud Darwish wrote A State of Siege in 2002 as an emotional reaction to the second Intifada. Or in other words, as a testimony to the tragedies on the political and humanitarian level that his people have suffered. Darwish considers that it is both a philosophical and political fact that it is necessary to refuse the status quo and fixity; he even considers it to be the engine for his survival. He refuses to accept

With the crisis going on in the occupied Palestine, people are escaping to the United States. American is scattered with people who think that people who escape theses harsh conditions are coming here to spread violence. As a result of increasing xenophobia and ignorance towards the Arab immigrants and refugees, people should research about the Palestinian/ Israeli Conflict to gain awareness. For bounteous decades, the countries of Palestine and Israel have been disputing over who has rightful

John Kerry is the US Secretary of State under President Barack Obama. He has made many contributions to the conflict in the middle east known as the Arab-Israeli conflict. John Kerry supports the Palestinian side of the conflict, but also supports a two-state resolution that would allow both groups to control pieces of land that they can each call official countries for their ethnic groups. In July of 2014, Kerry released a draft of a cease fire that heavily favored Hamas. The ceasefire did not call

The relationship between Israel and Palestine and its corresponding history is a long narrative of power dynamics, nationalism, and mutual aggression. While the interactions between these two groups cannot be easily simplified, this narrative and its themes are ever present throughout this conflict and in the ways that the people of these populations represent themselves. This sense of dissonance and this constant defensive state are rooted in the historical foundation of this conflict but have in

As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, Ron Dermer reluctantly accepted an assignment to argue that Israel should be condemned for its treatment of Palestinians.More than two decades and a renowned American citizenship later, Mr. Dermer is the Israeli ambassador to the United States, with such a close relationship to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he has been called “Bibi’s brain.” He is now at liberty to make a full-throated case for Israel.Ron Dermer was born and raised in

The Issue Of Israel and Palestine           In 1993, in Oslo, Norway a historic peace agreement was secretly drawn up with the hopes of bringing all the violence between the Palestinians and the Israelis to an end. Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the PLO, and Yitzhak Rabin who was prime minister of Israel at the time shook hands at the White House in front of President Bill Clinton to finalize the accords. This was the first step towards peace in

Israel’s primary strategy in terms of countering terrorism is to use force to eliminate threats to its sovereignty and security. Initially, Israel sought to occupy southern Lebanon as a response to the Abu Nidal Organization’s attempted assassination on the Israeli Prime Minister to the United Kingdom. This initial occupation had no relationship to Hezbollah, but is the source of Hezbollah’s establishment. Occupation to suppress violence falls under Audrey Cronin’s category of repression in her study