The State of Irael is not the Promised Land
'The State of Israel is not the Promised Land' Discuss According to the Bible, the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael) was promised to the descendants of Hebrew patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by God, making it the Promised Land. Firstly people can considered that the state of israel is not the promised land because if God had considered to only allow the Jews to have it as there promised land he would of interferrred with the amount of invading and scattering the jews which has occurred thoughout there history. For example this is displayed in Colin Chapman's 'who's promised land' where he shows how many times the Jews have had corruptions in there history and the movement of their people, one example is he describes the Babylon exile the 'cream' of Jewish society. As well as describing the Roman, Byzantine, Arabs and Seljuk Turks, Crusaders and Palestine invasion in to the land of Israel. Therefore from Chapman's summary of the invasions it is considered that the Jews have been forced out of Israel many time and as an outsider response this shows that even though the Jew are meant to be the chosen people and live in the promised land, God does not protect them from their invaders therefore it can truly be said that Israel is not the Jewish Promised land. It can be seen from Biblical transcripts that the state of Israel is the Promised Land. This is featured particularly
How important was the Holocaust in the establishment of an independent state of Israel?
How important was the Holocaust in the establishment of an independent state of Israel? During the nineteenth century there was the demand for Jewish people to have a country of their own. This was influenced by the growth of nationalism. By the 1920s many Jewish people started to immigrate to Palestine. The number of people emigrating had increased by 1935 due to the Nazi government in Germany. The Holocaust was one of the factors that led to the state of Israel. Nationalism was based on the idea that a people who speak the same language, share the same culture, and are from the same ethnic group ought to have their own state. Some nations like French or Spanish had their own states, while others like Germans only managed to get theirs after many years of struggle. In 1884 a key figure who believed Jewish people should have their own country was Theodore Herzl. His ideas were based on the fact that Jewish people had their own language and their own culture, but had no homeland. He was a journalist for a newspaper in Vienna, where he was send to Paris to cover one of the most famous law cases, the trial of the Jewish army Captain Albert Dreyfus. He was accused of spying, although the evidence against him was faked, he was found guilty because he was Jewish. Herzl was appalled by the violent Anti-Semitism he saw in France. It was this that gave him the idea that Jews ought
The Geography and History of Iraq.
Introduction Hassig and Al Adely argue in their book known as Iraq: Culture of the world, that Iraq has been a major discussion featured in news all over the world in the last ten years of the 20th century and in the early years of the 21st century. Its ancient history has fascinated and owed many though triggering the international community to have many negative reactions. In ancient days, Iraq was known as Mesopotamia meaning “land between two rivers-the Euphrates and the Tigris” with Arabs, Sumerians, Turks and Babylonians contributing to the prosperity of the country. This has made Iraq to be known as “the cradle of civilization.” They later discuss Iraq's climate, geography, fauna, governance, economy, flora and the country's history as discussed below. Geography Iraq's geography is made of mountains in the north, marshland on river banks and deserts in the south. The Iraq terrain is rugged seen in the citizens who live in poverty and war though still holding to their religion, beliefs, customs and interests. The country's geographical location is in the south western region of Asia. Iraq's fertile land is found between the two rivers which has supported agriculture for many years. Although besides the lands fertility, the country's topography and vegetation is changing drastically with west and southern parts changing into deserts and the north transforming
Why has it proved so difficult to find a solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict?
Why has it proved so difficult to find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Israeli-Palestinian conflict emerged after the Israel was formed. The reason was that Palestinian land was given to Israelis, by the UK, after the WW2 in order to create new state for Jews so they could prevent things like Holocaust happening to them in the future. There were conflicts in the Middle-East that time with Israel but real fight began only in 1980s. From the 1980s the Israel-Palestinian conflict became the main focus of attention in the Middle East. On December 9, 1987, an Israeli truck driver accidentally killed four pedestrians in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians soon took to the streets throwing stones and violently protesting Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. No group was in charge of the intifada though the PLO as well as militant Islamic groups such as Islamic Jihad and Hamas quickly became involved. At root the PLO was nationalist group seeking an independent Palestinian state, whereas the Islamic militants wanted region – wide Islamic state that would include present-day Israel. As time passed, violence grew and the militant groups became more popular among Palestinians living in densely populated and impoverished conditions. Israel responded with arrests, economic sanctions and the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. These
The Arab Israeli - Conflict.
MODERN WORLD ASSIGNMENT: THE ARAB ISRAELI CONFLICT Candidates name: Thomas Lawrence Centre number: 59010 .During the fighting between 1948-9 between Israel and other neighbouring states around 700 000 Arabs fled from there homes. Most of the refugees from Palestine fled to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Also large amounts of the refugees went to neighbouring countries like Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. To this date the United Nations (UN) reckons there are around 2 500 000 Palestinian refugees. This is one of the major contributing facts to why the war between Israel and the Palestinians is still going on to this day. From a source in a book Jonathan Dimbleby, a British observer comments on the conditions around the refugee camp. He describes the conditions as atrocious; families are huddled in overcrowded tents. They are without adequate or sanitation. When it started to rain the earth was churned into mud, which oozed into the tents and blocked the narrow paths. The clothes that they lived in were wet and dirty and the blankets they slept in were sodden. Dew to the poor living conditions Influenza reached to an epidemic proportions killing the young and the old. This led the people with no more will to live so this is why there are extremists blowing themselves up. There is a source from a book where a mother is commenting on her sun blowing him self up. She says that I
Arab-Israeli conflict
Calday Grange Grammar School History Department Arab-Israeli Coursework Exercise 2005 Entry Alex Norton 10BX .) Why are both Arabs ad Jews willing to take such extreme measures as those described in the sources to further their causes? The Arabs and the Israeli's both are resorting to this violence because of security. Security is the underlying point. If the Arabs do not feel secure or the Israeli's do not feel secure then peace will not be able to happen. The extremists, such as the Hamas group are resorting to this violence to exact revenge. The World News article called it, "A cycle of killing." When an Arab throws a stone, the Israeli's throw a bomb and then the Arab's throw two bombs and the cycle continues. The dispute over land is another factor stimulating the violence. Since 1967, the Israeli's have occupied Gaza, the West Bank, Golan Heights and Sinai. Since 1967, the Arabs have been trying to get the mentioned territories back. As neither the Arab's or the Israeli's want to compromise, to them violence seems to be the only option. Therefore, when the use violence, to them it seems as though it is getting them somewhere. Refugee camps also have a direct connection with violence. The problem that comes is when a terrorist group attacks a refugee camp. This then makes people in the camp angry and they want revenge. Therefore, the refugee camp becomes
Arab Israeli Conflict
Arab Israeli Conflict There has been a significant Palestinian refugee problem for the last 50 years. Do these sources allow you to come to a firm conclusion about who or what is responsible for this War? The Arabs said it was their right to live in and lead Palestine because simply they had been living there for about 1300 years. Because of the holocaust (the Germans blamed the Jews for losing the war so the Jews were getting killed) and the pogroms (where the Russians blamed the Jews for the assassination of Tsar Alemandre, so the treated the Jews as slaves) more and more Jews were coming into Palestine. The Palestinians got mad so they asked the British to step in; they stopped unloading Jews to get on the land. The British promised land to both the Arabs and the Jews and when the British helped the Arabs the Jews got jealous so they decided to bomb Britain, Britain then got scared and decided to hand the problem over to the UN. In 1948 the UN decided to split the land 50/50 but the Jews got greedy and decided to take all the land by doing this they set up the operation Dallet This was when the Jews attacked a peaceful village in Palestine called Deir Yassin and killed a lot of the Arabs in the massacre, they did this to get the Arabs scared and get them out of the land which they did in their thousands. The Jews felt it was their land because God promised them it
Arab israeli Conflict
The Arab Israeli conflict is a Modern phenomenon which began around the turn of the 20th century. Although both sides have different religions, the Israelis being mainly Jewish and the Arabs containing Muslims, Christians and Druze, it is fundamentally a fight over land. Land has always been a fundamental issue between the Zionists and the Palestinian-Arabs. The Jewish claim to the land goes all the way back to biblical times when God promised Israel to "Abraham and he's seed forever". This promise has stayed with the Jews, prompting many of them to think that Palestine is meant to be there homeland. However the Jews were expelled from Israel by the Romans in 135AD and afterwards spread out in Europe, this is more commonly known as Diaspora. While in Europe they experienced many anti-Semitic attacks such as the Pogroms in Russia it was this that motivated Theodore Hertzle to unite Jews in the Zionist movement. This was to bring Jews together into a homeland. The Arabs also have a valid claim to the land. After the Roman Empire fell many Arabs drew together and conquered Palestine in the 7th century. These Arabs became know as the Palestinian Arabs. They lived there for hundreds of years until the Turks took over the area and the Arabs came under Turkish rule in the 16th century, this lasted until 1914 and it was this that made Arabs dream of an independent Arab state.
Arab Israeli conflict.
Arab Israeli conflict By Sara Booker On October 3rd 2000, the observer reported that "violence raged across Gaza, the west Bank and Israel itself yesterday, unchecked by international appeals for calm, and fuelled by a steadily rising death toll, which last night had reached at least 47 in 5 days. Seven years after the Oslo accords, the already dying peace negotiations appeared to be over". The situation has not improved since October 2000 and violence continues to the present day. Source A is a reliable source. It has been written from a Palestinian point of view, about how Palestinians feel about the conditions they have been forced to live in. It tells you that the Palestinians are angry with the appalling economic conditions they have been made to live, nothing has happened to make the conditions better, even though people have talked about making it better. They are feed up with the slow pace the peace process is taking. The source is saying the problems lie deeper than the small things which set off the intifada, it's a built up provocation of years of anger which is set off with something small. It explains the long-term factors effecting the Palestinians such as the backwardness to the economic conditions. Millions of people are still living in the refugee camps, some know no different because they have never lived anywhere else. Source B has been written in a
To what extent is the city of Jerusalem vital to the followers of three main world religions in the present time?
To what extent is the city of Jerusalem vital to the followers of three main world religions in the present time? In this course-work, I will be examining the significance of Jerusalem to the current followers of the three main religions. In order for me to do so, I must examine Jerusalem's history and its significance to the three monotheistic faiths. I will also be discussing whether Jerusalem's importance is due to religious or political reasons, and whether the Middle East conflict arises from spiritual or political differences. Jerusalem is the ancient city, which has great significance to the three religions of the Book- Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. For many years, Jerusalem, the Scared, or the Holy city has peacefully accommodated Christian, Jewish, and Muslim people. Jerusalem has been numerously occupied, around twenty times. There are four main influential periods, which Jerusalem has witnessed. Christians dominated the Holy land for the least period of time, around 427 years, followed by the second shortest time, which saw the Ancient city being dominated by the Jews for 543 years, it is believed that the Pagan's dominated Jerusalem for around 800 years, leaving the Muslims to reign over Jerusalem for the longest period of time, 1193 years1. But there are some common beliefs, which the three religions share when it comes to Jerusalem. That is that Jerusalem