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Traveling to Palestine was less about the fact that I am going on vacation and more so the idea that I would finally face those who stole our home. In my mind, the images of the mountains serving as a backdrop to the grass holding a place for each of the thousand tall, dark olive trees contradicted what my eyes saw on CNN as Anderson Cooper describes the use of a monstrous tank to massacre innocent Palestinian children. While I sat on a torn up seat of an rusty, twenty-year-old bus with one almost

Ninety nine years ago on November 2, 1917, Lord Balfour, Foreign Secretary of the British Government, wrote a letter that stated the British support to facilitate a Jewish homeland in the Middle East. This letter, the Balfour Declaration, is viewed as one of the founding documents of the State of Israel that was birthed some years later in 1948. However, the foundation of the formation of the State of Israel was not an easy task. It is important to understand the historical context to the Balfour

One of the two most important obstacles to peace is which side has Jerusalem has their capital? First in the Torah (The Jews Holy Book) it says that the land was given to the by God. And in 1000A.D Saul, David, and Solomon ruled the land and now the Arabs/Muslims are trying to take it all away.second is that the Arabs because they have owned that land since the 7th century and the Jews are trying to claim it again and the arabs have had that land since 1800 even though the jews had that land in 1000

The Arabians and the Jews have not been in good terms leading up to this war. A combined forced of Egypt, Jordan and Syria invaded Palestine taking over the Arabs and some of the jewish towns. The aftermath of this war was Arabians lost their land and no state was created for them, while the Jewish state gained about 60% more land that previously belonged to

In antiquity, Syrian territory was much larger than today and included modern Lebanon, most of present day Israel and Jordan, and part of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, which were created by the Treaty of Versailles following World War I. Syria later flourished as a province of the Ottoman Turkish Empire from 1516 until World War I, when the Ottoman Empire broke up. Political stability

The Israeli-Palestinian issue has been an ongoing conflict since 1917. This conflict started right after the Holocaust as a huge number of Jews fled to Palestine. Later on, the Israeli forces almost occupied the whole land over the years. Currently, the Palestinians own about 11-15% of the land, while Israelis own the rest of the land (Farah 40). As of today, there are about five million Palestinian refugees in foreign camps and they are unable to return (Farah 40). Not only the Israeli forces occupied

Syria's civil war has been the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. With more than 250,000 people who have died in this violent outbreak in Syria during 2011. During the course of the civil war at least 11 million people out of a 22 million populated country have fled their homes. Many families in Syria are struggling to make life for themselves, or even other neighboring countries. While others are risking their lives on the way to Europe, hoping to find acceptance and opportunity. And the onset

My reaction to the VICE video on Syrian Refugees was that it saddens me on how these innocent civilians have to flee their home countries and basically leave everything behind to find a new life somewhere safer. The video brings a lot of things into perspective, specifically the hardships of every pitstop in the journey to safety. It seems that even though refugees move to one country, they must move onto another one because they see that the conditions are not even habitable. For example, they migrated

Navraj Singh Period-3 Argumentative Essay Syrian should not be allowed to come to Unites states. America is the one of the most famous country in the world. Peoples from different countries visits and lives with their families. Eleven million Syrians have fled their homes since civil war broke out in 2011.Some of the syrian might be innocent and they have right to live their new life.Syria should not allowed to united states because they might harm or make other people's angry

In the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been one of the most controversial conflicts in modern history, dating back to when the region was dominated by British rule. Beginning long before the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, Israel and Palestine have clashed over who can claim the holy land. The Israelis believe that they should solely have possession of the holy land, being a gift from God to Abraham to Isaac, according to the Bible. Contradicting the Israelis, the Palestinians