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World War II, the Palestinian leadership actively supported the Nazi party (Beinin). The israeli-Palestine conflict is one of the longest ongoing conflicts throughout history dating all the way back to 3,000 years of conflict between these two very different cultures, and the land they live on. Even though the Palestinian death toll has been unfortunately very high throughout this ongoing conflict, Israel must and should take necessary action to defend itself from the Palestinian terrorism, and Israel

We Need a Precise Definition of Terrorism In early 1974, the Secretary General of the United Nations, U Thant, invited the Palestinian Liberation Organization to attend the General Assembly gathering on November 13, 1974, and in doing so gave legitimacy to the Palestinian Liberation Organization as a governing body. In Yasser Arafat’s speech to the General Assembly, he thanked the United Nations for recognizing his organization and its legitimacy. When Arafat addressed the General Assembly,

R1. The Richman poll may have placed a positive spin on the figures, but there remains a substantial and highly vocal portion of the Israeli public that does not support a two-state solution. Other polls have shown even more dismal support for a Palestinian state and left-of-center policies in general. According to NPR in 2010: "if elections were held today, left-leaning Labor, the party that used to control Israeli politics, would only get nine seats in the 120-member Knesset. Left-leaning parties

The history of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict is so deeply ingrained in both the Arab and Jewish population that the viability of self-determination rests on the recognition and management of past conflicts and disagreements. It is crucial to recognise that both Zionist and Palestinian movements are based on nationalist ideology and both peoples seek self-determination. The argument for self-determination needs to be framed within the historical and political context of the area. Key considerations

Samuel Philips Huntington, an American political scientist brought an idea stated that the conflict in this world will not merely about ideology or economy, yet, it is about cultural and religious identity as the clash of civilization. Civilization itself meaning the highest cultural grouping of people and it is defined by common objective elements such as language, history and religion. The strong bond among one culture and religion create a strong kin at the same time. Even though coming from different

development of Palestinian identity: Palestinian Diaspora after the 1948 war, coupled with Jordanian and Egyptian rule over the West Bank and Gaza. The dispersion of the larger part of the Palestinian population and the presence of almost three million Palestinians in occupied territories today have created different conditions for the evolution of identities. These identities remain somewhat distinct despite the Oslo Agreement that brought the PLO leadership from exile to the Occupied Palestinian Territories

the Jews in what today is known as Israel. It began with the birth of two boys, Ismael and Isaac; born to two different mothers and fathered by Abraham. That conflict has become more intricate, more serious and much more complicated" ("Israeli-Palestinian Conflict."). "Beginning with the Diaspora and furthered by the British Mandate post World War I and the Holocaust during the period of World War II, Jews sought to return to their Homeland only to find that they once again were unwanted; this time

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

and Palestinians. It loaned unfair backing to the Zionist cause and destroyed the eventual fate of eras of Palestinians, who will constantly consider it as the first move that made decades-long clash in their territory. The Balfour Declaration had negative impacts on Palestine. The Balfour Declaration prompted mass displacement of Jews amid the period between the world wars, in this manner bringing about the dispossession and outcast of the Palestinian individuals from their own territory. It also

partition should stand upon, or be situated inside, the de-facto border: The Pre-1967 Armistice Line (see fig. 1.2), alternatively known as The Green Line (hereby referred to as GL) - so named as green ink was used to geographically mark the factions’ territories with respect to their military distribution before the 1967 war. This act situated 78% of Mandatory Palestine as Israel and was carried out on the arrangement that: “No provision of this Agreement shall in any way prejudice the rights, claims,