... logic of earlier Zionists like Herzl, Jabotinsky and Ben-Gurion into the present." (p.8) Oppressed and disenchanted with the PLO, the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation soon demonstrated their displeasure and mounting frustration by rioting. Armed with no more than rocks, the Palestinians effectively (though unofficially) threw ... off the mantle of PLO leadership as it sought independence and liberation from the appalling living conditions. It was under these circumstances that Hamas was born. In August of 1988, a few months after the first intifadah broke out; a new organizat...

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... the four corners of the world to the Jewish homeland- or the Land of Israel. From this portrayal stems a cry of origination based on historical necessity; however a moral high ground of anti-Semitism- with its culmination through the Holocaust, enacted a second reasoning. In spite of its clear retort to injustice upon inception, Israel falls prey to the very same ... guise of security. The economic development under the repressive conditions of the Zionist agenda utilized the framings of ideology to institutionalize policies that systematically impeded the Arab sector within Israel from...

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