Arab and Israeli conflict - source related study.

History Coursework Arab and Israeli conflict In this coursework I will be studying sources and show their effect and purpose also I will give my own views on the Arab and Israeli conflict. From looking at sources A and B I have learned the motivation of the members of the PLO was that the people of Palestine wanted to regain their land and would do anything to get it back from the Israeli. Another thing I have learned from these sources was the people who wrote them were anti-Semitism and had feelings of hatred towards the Jews. I can tell this because the way the source was written was to persuade people that the Palestinians were eager to get their land back from the Jews and would kill them if necessary. In addition to this they had waited to long and were impatient "For twenty years our people have been waiting for a solution to the Palestinians problem." This shows that the people had been waiting to long and wanted the problem resolved this is why they joined the PLO. Some other things mentioned in these two sources was the Palestinians refused to remain as refugees and wanted their land back. When concluding both sources A and B the purpose of both of them was to get an message across that the PLO was ready to regain their land and they were ready to fight "we are ready to shed our blood for you!" this show the people of the PLO were willing to clash with the

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Terrorism. What is terrorism? 2. Why do terrorists use terror tactics? 3. What caused the September 11th terror attacks on America?

Terrorism . What is terrorism? 2. Why do terrorists use terror tactics? 3. What caused the September 11th terror attacks on America? Terrorism is the unlawful or threatened use of force or violence on people or property to compel or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives. However it is difficult to define terrorism because all acts of terrorism are open to interpretation. One form of terrorism is war terrorism which is violence used indiscriminately against a civilian or non military population, the motive of the people who use this type of terrorism is to win a war. An example of this is, is the first dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. This instantly killed 70-10,000 people and a possible 200,000 dead from radiation sickness in the next five years. The arguments for this was to end the war, to avoid the potentially massive allied losses an invasion would cost, revenge for Pearl Harbour and to justify the money spent on the development of the bomb. The victims for this were civilians and not military so this could be interpreted as an act of terrorism even if it was justified by the government as a necessity of war. This is similar to international terrorism as it has an effect on another country, in this case, the civilians of Japan. This differs as the people

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Israel and Iran

0/3/07 Evaluate the impact of the state religion on government and law in any two countries In this essay I will be evaluating the impact of the state religion on government and law in Israel and Iran. Israel provides an interesting study of the interplay of religion and politics because it is a state that was created as a homeland for a specific religious group, and, on the other hand, Iran has also been greatly affected by its state religion in the more political area. I shall evaluate first, the state religion's impact on government and law in Israel, and then move onto the state religion's impact on government and law in Iran, and then finally draw up a conclusion. Israel's government is obviously influenced by its religion because the state was created a group as a result of Zionism and its various movements. It has to a notable extent, affected the government. In 1948 the different Zionist groups reached a compromise as to the nature of the Israeli state. The existing political status quo would be maintained after Israeli independence through the implementation of a system of proportional representation in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament). This would assure the different Zionist factions that they would receive some degree of representation in the Knesset.

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Today's world and its leaders.

Satirical Essay Opinion Column Today's world and its leaders 9th September 2002 In this democratic world we live in today there is a balance of power and there is no one country that dominates world opinion. There is freedom of speech, equal rights and privacy in the democratic countries around the world. One fine example of these counties is the USA, which is governed by George W. Bush. I am writing this article to show my admiration for George Bush, as I believe he is the only magnanimous leader left in the world. Bush excels in many areas of leadership. He is widely known to be a great scholar in many different subjects especially in foreign history, classical civilisations and English. He has written many books in his time before he was president. He studied at Yale a top university in USA. He excelled there and received the highest marks in the final exams that year. The teachers all praised him to the highest degree and there was not a hint of corruption as there had been in the past. He then went on to get a PhD in English literature and he has said that he greatly enjoys reading. He has extraordinary oratory skills and he uses the most sophisticated of words. His rhetoric is of the highest degree and compromises of extremely good arguments, which convinces the public and the large majority of the time congress. He was elected to be the president in

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Book Review: Seeds of Terror

Book Review: Seeds of Terror The book entitled, "Seeds of Terror", examines evidence of terrorist activity in Southeast Asian countries. It is an eyewitness account by Maria A. Ressa, about Al-Qaeda's Center of Operations emerging in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. She recollects her own, as she has lived through many of the terrorists' attacks in the region. Over the years, al-Qaeda successfully infiltrated and co-opted homegrown Muslim movements in: North America, Europe, the Middle East, Chechnya, Kashmir, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Groups from these regions have their own domestic agendas, but they are also pushing al-Qaeda's anti-Western goals. Through al-Qaeda, terrorist organizations around the world have exchanged tactics and information. This book shows the silence that has been slipping beneath the sensors of intelligence and law-enforcement agencies since 1988. Maria Ressa travels to four nations in the region, talks with common people on the street and in the highest levels of government and intelligence, and gives us an unprecedented look at the region, the growth of al Qaeda, the players at work, and the future of terrorism. Al-Qaeda has encouraged local groups to carve out autonomous Islamic areas that can be linked together worldwide. Much like fascism and communism before, their goal is political power and world dominion, but mainly to

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Why are attempts to find a peace settlement proving so difficult? The Palestinians and the Jews have been fighting over the land of Palestine

Why are attempts to find a peace settlement proving so difficult? The Palestinians and the Jews have been fighting over the land of Palestine. Both believe that they have greater claim than the other. The Jews believe the land is theirs because they had lived there centuries ago, it was the land promised by God to Abraham thousands of years ago. The Palestinian Arabs believe the land is theirs because ever since the Jews left, the Arabs have been living there. In 1993 the Jewish and Palestinian leaders (Rabin and Arafat) signed a peace agreement which promised; Israeli troops would be withdrawn from most of the West Bank and Gaza, elections would be held for a Palestinian leadership for five years, during these five years a final settlement would be discussed. Sadly this peace agreement was not fully implemented, as the Jewish Israeli leader Rabin, was shot by another Jew in 1995. I think the peace agreement was not fully carried out because the hatred and mistrust between the two sides and also because of the ongoing disagreements between them. The trouble began at around 1880 because the Jews wished to settle in Palestine, these Jews were called Zionists. After WWI Britain was given a mandate (where a country controls another country until they are deemed fit to rule themselves) of Palestine, the Palestinian saw this as a betrayal because during the war Britain had said

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Choose 3 events which are particularly important in the history of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Describe your chosen events and explain how they have shaped the views of todays a) Israeli Jews and b) Palestinian Arabs.

Choose 3 events which are particularly important in the history of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Describe your chosen events and explain how they have shaped the views of todays a) Israeli Jews and b) Palestinian Arabs The current conflict in the Middle East between the Israeli Jews and the Palestinian Arabs has many historical roots. Several events in the history of this conflict have been very important and also have a strong connection with the current situation between the two sides. One of these important events was the Nazi Holocaust. During the Second World War the Jews were persecuted by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps. By the end of the war in 1945 6 million Jews were killed and 250,000 were freed from the concentration camps. As news about the holocaust emerged there was widespread sympathy for the Jews especially in the U.S.A. which had a large Jewish population. As a result of this, President Truman said that 100,000 Jewish refugees should be allowed to enter Palestine immediately but the British government knew that this would anger the Arabs and said that that it should be limited to 1,500 Jews a month. This resulted in hatred of the British rule especially among extremist Jewish terrorist groups like the Irgun when in July 1946 they entered the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which were the British military headquarters in Palestine, and set off

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'Read and synthesise information from two extended documents about a complex subject' - Subject: Israel's 'Security' Wall.

Communications 'Read and synthesise information from two extended documents about a complex subject' Subject: Israel's 'Security' Wall Israel has planned and is currently building a 397-mile apartheid wall around the Palestinian people costing in the region of £400 million and is expected to take two years to complete. The wall pushes as far as 17 miles into Palestinian occupied territories. It will separate 300,000 Palestinians from their land and trap 95,000 outside the wall. The wall is being built in defiance of UN resolutions and basic human rights. In order to analyse or understand the implications of the wall it is important to place it in a context and not view it in isolation. The conflict in the Middle East is long-standing and centres around the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948 in the land of Palestine. Numerous wars have been fought between the Israelis and Palestinians, the most notable one being the six-day war in 1967. As a result of this war the Israelis gained a lot more land, extending their borders. This extra land, including the city of Jerusalem, is not referred to as the occupied territories. Since that time there have been two Palestinian uprisings protesting the Israeli occupation of their land. The latest 'intifada' began in September 2000 and since that time there has been an escalation in a cycle of

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Why is it difficult to keep peace talks going in the Middle East?

Why is it difficult to keep peace talks going in the Middle East? The inability to resolve the land dispute, which began in the late nineteenth century and intensified after the setting up of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948, lies at the heart of the Arab conflict. Reaching a peaceful solution is essentially difficult because the dispute is fraught with many disagreements and lack of trust between and within the Palestinian Arabs and Israeli fractions that remain locked in battle. The Arab basis of the claim is that they conquered the land in 600AD and have lived there ever since. However the Jewish viewpoint is Jews lived there first and that this is their biblical land. This was taken from Jews as a result of a war with the Romans causing Diaspora and they have simply reclaimed the land that was taken from them. Arabs feel if Israel continues to claim the entire land, extending its boundaries then the millions of Arabs in the country would be required to live under Israeli sovereignty but without basic democratic rights. However Israel argues that there has never been an independent State of Palestine. Israel feels that the majority of Palestinians reside today in Jordan on the eastern side of the Jordan River if a Palestinian state was declared on the Western side of Jordan than this would clearly be a second nation for Palestinians. Accordingly Israeli

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Using events from 1968 onwards explain why the PLO moved making peace with Israel in 1993.

Using events from 1968 onwards explain why the PLO moved making peace with Israel in 1993. After WW2 the leaders of the superpowers of the world (America, Britain, and France) felt it was right to give the Jewish people a country of their own, after the horrors they endured at the hands of Hitler. They decided that the small country of Palestine, in the Middle East would be the ideal place, even though there were many Arabs living there already. They would rename the Jewish part of Palestine Israel. This would obviously anger the native Palestinians because they were forced to give up half of their land, which they had had for thousands of years, and all of the people living in those areas would lose their homes. This naturally brought about conflicts between the two religions. I will be trying to explain why the PLO moved making peace with Israel in 1993. I will use the factors: The PLO; Israel and the USA to back up my points. The PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) was formed in 1964 as a direct consequence of the Jews living in Palestine and they are the also the largest Palestinian group of freedom fighters. In 1968 Yasser Arafat became the leader of the PLO and he has remained there, forever since. He believes that Palestine cannot defeat Israel through war, but instead they should use terrorism to try and destroy Israel. He said: "When we hi-jack a plane it has

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