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    schools because of the construction of settler bypass roads. Home annihilations and removals by Israeli powers proceed. Israeli checkpoints, detours, and the division divider hinder and limit development inside the Palestinian domain. Since 1967, when Israel vanquished these regions, Palestinians have been living under Israeli

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    pitifully dependant, Palestine clings to futility; while Israel terrified about security, digs its boots in pursuing expansion. Reframed through a Constructivist lens this could become: Capturing ideas; resilient; resourceful and intertwined, Palestinians maximise restorative

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    Hamas (Arabic: حماس‎ Ḥamās, an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah Islamic Resistance Movement) is a Palestinian Islamic[10] organization, with an associated military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades,[11] in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere in the Middle East including Qatar.[12] Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by the European Union,[13][14] Canada,[15] Israel,[16] Egypt,[17] Japan,[18][19][20][21][22] and the United States.[23] Australia

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    Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad in Gaza in July 2014? Israel’s military action against Palestine There has been an ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, after Israel pulled out its forces from the Gaza and the West Bank since its occupation from Six Day War in 1967. Recently in July 2014, Israel launched a military action against Palestinians in the Gaza which is under control of Hamas. After 7 weeks of the campaign, there were over 2,100 deaths which the majorities are Palestinian. I would

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    HAMAS, an Arabic acronym meaning “Islamic Resistance Movement”, is the name of the socio-political organization currently in power over the Gaza Strip. For decades Jews & Muslims and Israelis & Palestinians, often one in the same, have fought for control over the region. Each have killed thousands of the other, destroyed infrastructures and used underhanded tactics to gain an advantage. Nations such as Japan, the European Union, the United States and (of course) Israel classify the group as terrorists

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    of a sovereign territory. In 1948 Britain withdrew its mandate from Palestine causing the United Nations to split the area into two separate states, creating Israel and Palestine. Being the only Jewish state in a region of Muslim controlled governments, this was the cause for decades of conflict between Israel and various Muslim states. The outcome of these conflicts was Israel occupying East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and the West Bank since 1967, making these territories the longest current

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    Bias Against Israel

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    recently ISIL forces. HAMAS (The governing arm of the Palestinians in the Gaza strip) and Israel should be forced to come to the negotiation table to eliminate the conflict and bring stability to the region. After several failed peace talks the two factions have commenced the launching of missiles into each other’s territory; both sides lack of regard for collateral damage has led to the deaths of over 2,000 civilian casualties alone from Palestinians

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    Edward Said Essay

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    In "States" the author, Edward Said, discloses the story of his people, the Palestinians, in an epic to express to the world the disconcerting challenges endured by the struggling Palestinian culture. The underlying claim is that of which is fair for any people to aspire, the dream to be master in your own house. Thus translated into the ideals of nationalism: blood and belonging. Said uses a combination of both photographs and writing style to tell a story that is deeper than the plain text.

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    today’s world” (46). It is just this challenge that confronts many Palestinian women involved, either explicitly or implicitly, in the Palestinian national project. For in this project, they are doubly marginalised, both from the national movement with which they attempt to engage, and in the patriarchal structures that are reinforced by the militarisation of the national movement and its commemoration. However, women within the Palestinian liberation movement are not merely subjects of patriarchal and

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    Radical Islamic Palestinian nationalist groups, the most prominent of which is Hamas, adamantly resist any concessions to the state of Israel and maintain that the PA should not be negotiating with the Israeli government. While there is little question that Hamas and similar organizations have had both the intent and the effect of erecting impediments on the road to a peace in the Middle East, this paper aims to dispel the notion that Palestinian opposition groups have completely

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