... for land and the rights and freedom of the people residing there now. The claim is to the land which lies between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Both sides have reasonable arguments and it is the fault of neither side that this conflict began. However, over the course of the past 50 years or so, both sides have committed abominable acts against the other and this must end. The conflict is between Jews ... and Palestinian Arabs, including Muslims, Druze, and Christians. The goal of the Jewish people ... ...

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... clashes. Arab-Israeli acrimony over the exploitation of the headwaters of the Jordan River, had been ongoing since 1950.The Jordan River ran through Lake Tiberias which was in the DMZ between Syria and Israel. In 1956 the completion of Israel's National Water Carrier marked a turning point. The main aim of this carrier was to channel water from Lake Tiberias throughout the country for agriculture and drinking ... began a long chain of Israeli-Syrian clashes in the DMZ that became significantly violent. The Israelis started to provoke the Syrians by sending tractors to plough the fields in...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... your side. Everything that the government did was in there best interest without any consideration of the people. Imagine that your government was in a conflict with another government and this government had the power to say if you were getting food eat and water to drink. Imagine that in this so called nation the kids instead or going to school would rather throw rocks at members of the other ... Winston Churchill claimed he created, "in an afternoon," Trans-Jordan which separated Palestine into two parts(Kifner)." The new area east of the Jordan river was an Arab nation and called Tr...

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• Grade Level: High School

... War II, during which both sides cooperated with the British. The crisis of Palestine reached the worst point in the years immediately after the war. With international world taking the side of the Jews because of the Holocaust, Zionist leaders pressured the British to accept thousands of Jews in Palestine. At the same time, Jewish groups as the Irgun and the renegade Stern Gang started a campaign of terrorism against the British. The problems increased when Britain decided to leave. Britain ... invitation that socialists must support the struggle of the Palestinians for national liberat...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate