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    when the United Nations gave the Jews Israel, and kicked out the Palestine people, there has been conflict between the two groups, which is well known as the Arab- Israeli conflict. One of the most influential people in the conflict is Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin. He is one of the many leaders for the Arab side, but he is one of the most important leaders out of all of them for the Arab people. Yassin has changed many peoples view on the Israeli state and of the Jews that live inside of Israel as well

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    The conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs is a struggle over land that began around the turn of the 20th century. Unfortunately, ever since the conflict began, little to no progress has been made in solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There is a tremendous amount of history encompassing the dispute because it changes dramatically depending on which side is describing their point of view and when they believe the conflict started. The United States, Great Britain, the United Nations

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    “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. ” This statement, a cornerstone of pro-Israel activism and discourse, and the bane of activism for Palestinian rights, in fact reveals the complexity of propaganda, and of the critical importance of narratives and framing. It perfectly embodies George Orwell’s astute observation that “All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. ” This paper argues that Israel is particularly adept at using propaganda because Israel is able to use it

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    Hollywood Stereotyping is a very common tool used by film makers because it is a simple way of establishing a trait of a character in a movie but it provides a single-sided portrait of certain people based on their sex, gender, religion, race or age. As an example the way Arabs, particularly Palestinians, are portrayed in cinema. The American cinema has painted a picture full of misconceptions about them and created a stereotype that has been exacerbated in many movies since the dawn of hollywood

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    by Cherien Dabis who is a Palestinian-American director. She explains the suffering of immigrants through the misfortunes that they are forced to confront. She focuses on the Palestinian citizens’ journey by viewing the harsh times and the joyful moments they faced. Moreover, she begins by explaining how the Palestinians suffer in their own home from the occupation and from different other things like the dikes that are newly built. Furthermore, showing how the Palestinian immigrants, Muna the mother

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    To a Palestinian that has been displaced from his/her long time homeland, completely displaced by a foreign power. The tone of victimization is easily created. But to an Israeli, that has found security from, long term discrimination, in Israel’s own borders, it is easy for an Israeli perspective to claim the Jewish people had a legitimate claim to the land. Accounts from the Palestinian narrative will often, as Sylvain Ehrenfeld a writer for Ethical Culture, writes “[F]ocus on victimhood, their

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    after her family escaped the Holocaust, while Goldberg was an American Jew that traveled to Israel in his early adulthood. They also had to confront the Israeli and Palestinian conflict with other Palestinians. Oddly enough, they both became close friends with the Palestinian that they met. Eshkenazi was sought out by her Palestinian friend who wanted to return home. Goldberg on the other hand did the initial search for the

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    association between the Palestinian identity and land, and then again, the Palestinian resistance against Israeli endeavors to delete the Palestinian identity in the occupied land. The Palestinian identity has dependably been at the heart of the Israel-Palestine struggle not just on the grounds that it inseparably connects Palestinians with their country but since it is additionally a method for resistance. It is a steady indication of what was detracted from the Palestinians and an image of the continuous

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    famous Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani is Returning to Haifa. Returning to Haifa is a story that describes the Palestinian- Israeli conflict in an objective point of view. The story contains a tremendous amount of figurative language that added more to the coral meaning of the story. Symbolism plays a major role in the story as it transfers the ideas from the smaller scale of the story to the larger scale of reality. Three of the major symbols that helped in understanding the Palestinian- Israeli

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    state of Israel and the coalition of Arab states and Palestinians. Israel took victory over the Palestinians and as a result of the war, territorial changes were made. During the 40s, Israeli territory lines were not well defined. As a direct result of the war, to better separate Jerusalem from the Palestinian’s, Israel built a wall which divided the city from 1948-1967. In the mist of the Israeli-Palestinian tensions, we meet Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008). There are two things

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