Rekhess examines the changing nature of mutual images of Arabs and Jews in Israel. The relationship between Jews and Arabs in Israel have undergone significant changes since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, in response to internal socioeconomic developments within Israel, the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and armed confrontations between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
HRW says thousands of Bedouin were displaced following the establishment of Israel in 1948. In the 1950s and '60s, Israel passed laws enabling the government to lay claim to large areas of the Negev where the Bedouin had formerly owned or used land. Planning authorities ignored the existence of Bedouin villages when they created Israel's first master plan in the late 1960s. Tens of thousands of Bedouin live in "unrecognized" villages in the south of Israel. Israel considers them "illegal", and has refused to connect them to basic services and infrastructure. It is clear to us that this action by the Israeli government is politically motivated and systematic discrimination. Here we have a large group of Israeli- Arabs who want to be part of Israel and this is how they are treated. It ap...
As shown in the Republican debates of Dec. 10, Newt Gingrich, a self-professed "historian," is a phony. Saying that Palestinians are an "invented people" shows gross ignorance. The Palestinians -- "Beach-Danaans" -- were Minoan, Indo- Sumerian, pre-Greek people, Danaans on the island kingdoms of Crete and Santorini (formerly Thera and before that Kalliste). They were called "Pelusati" by ancient Egyptians under Rameses III. In 1633 B.C., they had the most technically advanced and peaceful society on Earth. In that year, they began a mass exodus to safer mainlands when the giant volcano on Kalliste began violent eruptions, accompanied by earthquakes. They have been in Palestine in great numbers since that time, more than six centuries before the establishment of the united dual monarchy ...
Born to a distinguished Christian Palestinian family in Tiberius, Palestine, he established the Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) in Haifa in 1943. Since relocating to Beirut after the establishment of Israel, CCC has grown into the largest multinational corporation in the Middle East and one of the largest contracting companies in the world.
WASHINGTON, May 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Dennis Hastert, Senate Majority Leader Frist and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to the Capitol today at a luncheon after his address to a joint session of Congress. Below are Pelosi's remarks: Thank you Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to join you and the distinguished leadership of the Senate in welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Olmert to the Capitol and to this celebratory lunch.
During World War II, before the establishment of Israel, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt proposed that Europe's mortally imperiled Jews be resettled in Alaska. Novelist Michael Chabon used this obscure but intriguing fact as a springboard to "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," a unique and memorable blend of alternative history and hard-boiled murder mystery. In the remote Sitka, Alaska, of Chabon's imagination, Yiddish- speaking refugees from Eastern Europe walk the winter streets through yellow fog with "the translucence of onions cooked in chicken fat." These Jewish transplants, the "Frozen Chosen," run the local political establishment, the businesses and - as weary, cynical cop Meyer Landsman knows all too well - the crime syndicate.
Many factors underlie the role of religion in the origin of the Middle East conflict. The Jewish state of Israel was established within a largely Muslim region. Israel's claim to the land in Palestine was based on divine promise to the Jewish people. The formation of the state of Israel led to a displacement of substantial Arab and largely Muslim population by Jewish international communities. A political home for the Jews was authorized by the British in 1917, when the Arab world was just transiting from an era of Islamic rule under the Ottomans to a semi-secular national rule under the (Christian) European colonial mandate system. Right or wrong, Arabs felt that Israel was a Western Christian creation designed to relieve the guilt of Europeans who discriminated against the Jews for ce...
...The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, as a home for the ...
The Nakba - Arabic for "catastrophe" - is the defining Palestinian experience. In 1948. Israel's leaders knew that a predominantly Jewish state could not be established in Palestine peacefully. Israel's first president, Moshe Sharett, said "We have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it. By the end of 1948, Palestinian society was nearly destroyed. More than 700,000 Palestinians - two-thirds of the Palestinian population - were forced from their homes or fled in fear. Jewish forces depopulated more than 450 Palestinian towns and villages, and demolished most of them. In those that remained, Palestinian property was handed over to new Jewish immigrants. Many Israelis were raised in the homes of Palestinians; their childre...
...Yet this side of Israel's establishment and its inescapable connection to current strife w...
ON the Jewish calendar, today is the sixth of Iyar, when Israelis celebrate Israel Independence Day, commemorating the re- establishment of the Jewish state after two millenniums. It's an appropriate time to consider its achievements while surrounded by repressive regimes. Civil libertarian Alan Dershowitz places Saudi Arabia first among those regimes. For starters, it practices apartheid in gender, sexual orientation and religion. It prohibits women from working alongside men or driving cars. It imprisons and executes gays and lesbians. It prohibits open religious observance to all but Muslims. Even during the first Gulf War, when America was saving the Saudis from Saddam Hussein, U.S. soldiers were prohibited from openly praying. Saudi Arabia doesn't permit Jews to live there.
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