... conflict between the people of Israel and the Arabs who are now known as the Palestinians. After the holocaust of World War II, many Jews fled to the land of Palestine which was better known as Israel by the Jewish people even before its official declaration of independency. The first political attempt at creating peace between the disputing sides was made by Britain, the controllers of the Palestine land up until Israel's independence. Britain suggested the partition of Palestine ... which would have divided the land into two ... ...

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... Hiro, 127) Arab forces often attacked Israel again and again. Finally the United Nations appointed a mediator to arrange an end to the hostilities. Dr. Ralph Bunch of the United States succeeded in bringing the fighting to an official end in January 1949. (Goldschmidt, 252) By July 1949, the War of Independence was over and Israel had won. Many Arabs living in Palestine became ... Arafat renounced terrorism and recognized the existence of the State of Israel at a special United Nations session in Geneva, Switzerland. (Tessler, 485) At a peace conference in Madrid, Spain in 1991, Palestin...

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... or even too much work, but it can easily be concluded by the gathered information that the British were huge liars. Also, another document that proves their disloyalty is the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration (1917) is a letter broadcasting Britain's decision favoring the establishment in Palestine as a home for the Jews in a famous letter written by Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild ... . This agreement linked the Jews and British stating that when the Jews withdrew their allegiance with Germany the British would grant them free land ... upon strength had been labeled...

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The Declaration of Independence of the United States states " We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain enaliable rights, that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." So why then are people of a different race, color, culture, or religion treated with disrespect and hate? Racism is a crime of hate, hate against another person ... , or social power. When one race feels their being dominated by another race they act hostile and cruelly towards that race or races. Racism stems out of fear. When ...

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... Britain recognized the rights of the Jewish people to establish a national Jewish homeland in Palestine. This made Palestinians very angry because they believe that it is their God-given land. Palestine was split into Jordan and Israel. The Declaration of Independence of the modern state of Israel was announced on the day that British troops left Palestine. This day is known as "Al- Nakba" or the Catastrophe to ... Palestinians. Jewish Holy Sites  The holiest site in Judaism is located in Jerusalem and is called the Western/Wailing Wall or "Haram al-Sharif." This wall ... ascended t...

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... was over. It ended in the bloody murder by two of his officers. With no more rivals, David was free to rule Israel and because there was no-one else left to lay claim to the house of Saul, the people flocked to David in Hebron. After this David faced threats from the Philistines who could not tolerate his declaration of independence on the part of a reunited Israel. This threat ... resulted in a battle, which saw the Philistines move into the mountains to try to cut of David at his most vulnerable point. Although this strategy which ... the philistines used was well worked out, it was ...

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... could do anything, unlike Rabbi Binder. The other side of Ozzie's conflict is doubt. Ozzie doubted the Jewish faith and what was being taught to him. Time after time he and Rabbi Binder would go "round and "round. When Rabbi Binder explained how the Jews were "The Chosen People" (1) Ozzie wanted to know how he could say that when the Declaration of Independence stated that all men were created ... equal. Rabbi Binder tried to explain to Ozzie the difference between State and religion but Ozzie insisted that wasn't his point. Ozzie's mother had been ... called in several times because o...

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... Arab State (Noble 102-108). The British departed from the Palestinian region on May 14, 1948. As the State of Israel was born, Golda Myerson was, yet again, on hand. She was one of only two women to sign the Declaration that established the Jewish State. Moments later, Harry Truman made the United States the first country to recognize Israel as a sovereign nation. The Soviet Union was close behind ... She now was responsible for explaining Israel's actions to the rest of the world. "Israel remains ever ready to defend itself if attacked, but it has never had and does not have now any agg...

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... between Jewish settlers and the Arab inhabitants. In April 1920, the Palestinian Arabs revolted, killing Jews and damaging property, opening the Arab nationalist revolution in Palestine. The League of Nations awarded the Palestine mandate in 1922, charging Britain with carrying out the Balfour Declaration, encouraging Jewish migration to Palestine and help create the Jewish "national home". But the Arabs suspected the British mandate would hold ... in ten years, providing Palestine with full independence. Jewish immigration would be limited until 1944, after which it could continue only...

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... known as the Balfour Declaration. But since the two sides couldn"t live with each other, the Balfour Declaration was unworkable. Britain then partitioned the country (http://www.levitt.com/misc/israel_history.html/beck-521). After World War II, a tired Britain referred the Palestine-Israel problem to the United Nations. The United Nations couldn"t partition a country without the consent of its people. The Jews welcomed the partition. The partition gave the Jews 55% of the Palestinian land ... since then, relations between Egypt and Israel have been going good. But problems between Israe...

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... into their culture. Many Arabs welcomed them at first and helped them on the land, but as more Zionists arrived, pressure on land increased. The Zionist aim of independence cut them off from the Arab societies and this is where it went wrong. It began a process of self-segregation against which the Arabs were forced to defend for themselves. It was this stage that ... so they established themselves in Egypt. The end of World War One destroyed the Ottoman Empire, which had been ruling for centuries. The region was divided for Britain and France. In the period between World War One and Two...

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... Britain. Britain main order of business was to implement the Balfour Declaration, which simply declared a national home for the Jewish people. Territorial restrictions weren't place on the Jewish homeland, though. Then in July 1922 the British divided the "Holy Land" into two districts. The land that was given to the Jews, west of the Jordan River, was only about 22% of Palestine. They didn't even receive a quarter of the land they were promised. Mandate ... passports went along with this division. In 1946, Britain partitioned Palestine and gave the TransJordan, the east side of the Jor...

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