The majority of the population of Palestine had been Arabic since the seventh century A.D. so they are the people who have the right in Palestine. In short, Zionism was based on a wrong, colonialist world view that the rights of the original people of Palestine didn't matter. The Zionists wanted to establish a nation for the Jews in Palestine and this was the beginning of the problems in Palestine. The Arabs' opposition to Zionism wasn't based on anti-Semitism as some of the Jews say but it was on a reasonable fear of the Palestinians losing their homes and their country. Th...

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Imagine living in a nation were the government wasn't on 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 nation instead of going to school. Imagine that one day that that kid that was throwing rocks might one day strap a bomb to himself and g...

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Peace and Conflict Studies: Core Unit Conflict resolution is one of the most powerful ways of making positive contribution to the field of international relations. Conflict, be it behavioural or based on attitude, is currently creating grave world inequalities and furthering deep rooted problems. Conflict resolution sets out to provide lasting just solutions to these often seemingly endless problems and lay the ground for a lasting peace. In the twenty first century one longstanding international dispute that continues is the known as the Middle East Conflict or the Arab-Israeli Conflict. T...

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The Conflict between Israel and Palestine The Palestine-Israel conflict is essentially not a religious one, but a fight 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 Mus...

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Religious parties in Israel The religious parties aim to establish a Jewish State governed by the Jewish religious code, the Halacha. Some parties do not recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel and are thereby making a concession towards their ideology by participating to the democratic electoral proceeding. They explain it by the necessity to access to political power to create a religious State. All of them consider the pursuit of the Jewish colonization on the territory of Great Israel as legitimate ( «  Eretz Israel   ») and are opposed to the creation of a ...

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