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    or leadership. This competition caused major wars/conflicts. These conflicts caused many people to die and a bunch of problems to occur. The Arab-Israeli conflict had many political disagreements. They were competing for land and competing nationalism. It wasn't caused by religion, where as many other conflicts had been triggered by religion. The Israelis were mostly Jewish but the Arabs were Palestinians and mostly Islamic. Both blamed each other for violence and we're both searching

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    British who controlled Palestine for three decades is seen as the creation of the states of Israel. The U.N’s decision to partition Palestine in 1947 ensured 50 years of animosity, warfare, and negotiation. The film follows the development of the Palestinian Liberation Organization as well as the Arabs struggle for statehood in 1948 and 1967. After the U.N saw the migration of Jewish refugees fleeing Europe to return to their former homeland Palestine. This

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    OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS? There are many reasons why terrorism has become such an important issue over the last 40 years. In this paper I will be exploring the answers to this question through three related topics; 1) the threat from terrorism; 2) why people join terrorist groups and; 3) dealing with terrorism. I will be using the sources provided and historical facts related to three groups; the IRA, the PLO and Al-Qaeda. Section 1 – The threat from terrorism Terrorism has been defined in many ways and

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    The Israeli and Palestinian conflict has been an unwavering conflict that has plagued the world for longer than any can remember. I, myself am hopelessly torn on whether I am Pro-Palestine, or Pro-Israel. I find it difficult to make an informed and unbiased decision on the conflict with the two conflicting stories being relayed by the pro-Israel documentary as well as by the Pro-Palestine documentary. I feel as though it would be impossible for me to make a decision on the issue unless I was able

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    Many of us would agree we live in an accepting and tolerating country or even world. We then remember how we ended up here, through wars, hate and discrimination. People can only assume the world has not improved completely, three authors/director had the same thought. Ursula K. Le Guin, Justice Brennan, and Lisa Gossels all agreed there were issues with our society and this included discrimination. Their books/documentary touches on aspects of tolerance and hate through fictional and real stories;

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    Israelis and Palestinian. Despite several attempts at negotiating a final peace agreement, all efforts have been idle . One specific issue remains at the core of whether Palestine should be granted statehood or not. The region known as Palestine was home to an Arab-Muslim majority, around 80 percent of the population was Muslim. Around the time when World War II was drawing near the end, The Jewish people began flooding back into Palestine. However the area in which the Jewish people wished to occupy

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    The special highlighted both Israeli and Palestinian culture and life through Conan's adventures across the country. Scenes show Conan having a mini Bar Mitzvah in Tel Aviv, haggling for a hookah in Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea, and many more activities of daily life across all of Israel. The audiences fell in love with the TV host's jokes and experiences in Israeli and Arab daily life. But, they were troubled when footage of a Palestinian father discussing his teenage son's killing

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    The Violence Of Being Human

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    confirmation. In Edward Said’s essay States, Said uses photos that add feeling and depth to portray the message of stereotyped Palestinians. The quote from States explains how photos can be very significant in some cases, “Identity- who we are, where we come from, what we are- is difficult to maintain in exile. Most other people take their identity for granted. Not the Palestinian, who is required to show proofs of identity more or less constantly. It is not only that we are regarded as terrorists, but

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    In his article shows Palestinian a hero protects Jewish safety. When he went to the refugee camp and saw the refugee dead by the slaying. The peace for the Palestine is very important because if people involved in the struggle will cause a huge number of death casualties, which mean the country lose a lot of population. In addition, he learns liberty form his American mother. The Jewish’s Zionism makes his dream of peace destroy. The Jewish victim’s revenge makes the Palestinian far away from peace

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    entitled: A letter to my Jewish brother. That was his first poem ever which started in the fifties. Later, Darwish became a seasoned poet and he had a very important role to play in the National Palestinian Movement as a prominent poet, thinker and intellectual who had much to do with the development of Palestinian political and literary consciousness. His frequent imprisonments only served to enhance his poetic abilities .In 1964, Darwish had the courage to challenge not only the Israelis but the whole

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