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    The Struggle for Land in Israel and Palestine: What’s the Problems Ahead? Abstract The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a continuing conflict, which is a part of Arab-Israel conflict and the Middle East war. This paper mainly explores the conflicts which caused the struggle for land in Israel and Palestine. Why Is It So Hard to Stop Struggling For Land? The land struggle between Israel and Palestine have never ended for almost a century. Today, though there are a lot of agreements, the conflicts

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    The Bible begins with the scripture, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” Genesis 1:1. This scripture defines the introductory theme of the Bible, God is the creator and God over everything. God assigned positions to entities and defined their functions. Then the main characters of the Bible are introduced when God creates humans. God created people in his image, meaning every individual on earth has been created with God’s imprint regardless of their ethnicity or culture. With

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    The Bible is composed of many different stories and narratives. Each one of these individual stories contributes to the greater story of the Bible; sometimes called the Grand Story of Scripture. Within each Story, they have elements that define the setting, characters, climax, and themes. The overall Grand Story of Scripture contains these elements in each of the five divisions: prologue, epilogue, and three acts in between. The first division of the Grand Story of Scripture is the prologue. In

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    Joshua was excited and eager to show God his desire to complete the task of conquering the Promised Land. He sent some men to spy out the land of Ai. The commanders, full of enthusiasm over their battle at Jericho, recommended that they send only two or three thousand men. He agreed and the army left. The men began their attack with confidence and determination to clear the land for Israel, but soon in utter shock they were forced to retreat. Thirty-six of the men died and in fear Joshua fell prostrate

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    The bible begins with the scripture, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” Genesis 1:1. This scripture defines the introductory theme of the bible, God is the creator and God over everything. God assigned positions to entities and defined their functions. Then the main characters of the bible are introduced when God creates humans. God created people in his image, meaning every individual on earth has been created with God’s imprint regardless of their ethnicity or culture. With

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    from bondage and prepares them for the gift of land, giving them specific instructions about how to live and act. In Leviticus, Moses further unfolds the divine-human relationship coded on Mount Sinai, assuming that Israel is sinful and impure, and describes how to deal with sin and impurity so that the holy Lord can dwell in people’s midst. God gives the Israelites specific instructions on how to live and prepare for the journey to the Promised land, but the Israelites disobey Him. However, God is

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    name is only mentioned twice surprisingly. Ezekiel was one of the more youthful men taken to Babylon in the first captivity, which happened in 597 B.C. In spite of the fact that Ezekiel existed amid a period when the Babylonians consistently crushed Israel his confidence stayed solid with one God, Yahweh. Not at all like Ezekiel, countless Israelites in the midst of this time had faith in more than just one god. Yahweh did not agree with this in light of the way that the Israelites went into a concurrence

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    The book of Genesis began with the covenant with Abraham, which was a binding- relationship with God. God promised numerous descendants, land, and a relationship with him. God’s first blessing would provide Abraham with numerous descendants. In turn, God would make Abraham and his descendants a great nation. His second blessing would provide him and his family with a place to call home. His third blessing stated that Abraham would have a relationship with God. This meant that, anyone who blessed

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    Truman and the Creation of Israel With the growing pressure for a new state of Israel after the atrocities committed against the Jews in World War Two, President Franklin D Roosevelt's adopted a neutral policy towards Palestine. Roosevelt felt like the United States needed complete cooperation from Jews and Muslims before they could get involved. When Roosevelt passed away in April of 1945, Harry Truman was thrown into the presidency of the United States. Along with the ongoing war with Japan

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    The book of Joshua is a great example that Yahweh is a promise-keeping God even if He works on His own time and in His own way. For example the Promise land was promised to the Israelites back in Genesis 15:18-21 where God states: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river the Euphrates. The land of the Kenites, Kenizites, Kadmonites; the Chitties, Perizites, Refaim; the Emorites, Canaanites, Gigashites and Yevusites.” The main purpose for the

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