... 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 refugees. About 1.3 million Jews living in Arab countries were also kicked out of their homes by the Arabs. Nearly all of ... Yasir 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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... 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 ... 's. Up until that time they were actually identified as Arabs (Stand With Us, page 2). The media has giv...

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... little for health, education, welfare, etc. This concept would later mirror the administrations policy after independence. The second legacy Great Britain left for the Egyptians, and the rest of the Arab world was their signing of the Balfour declaration, and the consequential implications of the birth of Israel. The history between the two countries is ancient and complex, and the new situation would come to be one of the most primary global issues since their creation. Returning back to ... 1967 "dragged the pride of the Arab nation through the mud" written in a school textbook would ...

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... to suppress their power to fight against Britain. However, the tables had turned as the British also made a pact with the Jews in America, stating that Palestine would be theirs after the World War unless they enlist the support of the United States government to the British cause. This Pact was known as the Balfour Declaration (1917). Arabs were shocked to find out that their ... came into Palestine in large numbers from Europe and America ready to establish a Jewish presence in the country. Arabs complained to the British about the problem and Britain responded by having a limit on th...

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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 ... so west coast politicians and pressure groups turned to racial attacks that questioned the loyalty of the entire Japanese community. These groups spread rumors abou...

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... 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 ... Israel's ancient order as its legitimate successor, and to advertise the state as the patron and protector of the sacral institutions of the past. With his own state consoli...

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... The Arab-Israeli conflict came about from the notion of Political Zionism. Zionism is the belief that Jews constitute a nation (or a people) and that they deserve the right to return to what they consider to be their ancestral home, land of Israel (or Palestine). Political Zionism, the belief that Jews should establish a state for themselves in Palestine, was a revolutionary idea for the ... 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 o...

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... ways. In order to be nonbiased when reading about the history of the conflict, one must understand that while anger and a desire for land play a role in the fighting these are not the main causes of the conflict. It is necessary to look beyond these common myths in order to look for the true causes of the killing. A deep underlying truth that could explain ... reclaim what they considered to be their rightful homeland in the Middle East. Soon the Israeli forces became victorious and declared its independence. The Jews controlled 77% of Palestinian Land and over one million Palestinians ...

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