...instance like in developed countries, but the need for survival is a day to day function. "Poverty is defined as the state or condition of having little or no money, goods or means of support (Poverty)." Many around the world ask the constant question of why we should care about developing the world. The connectedness of the world shows when problems arise in other countries it has the abilities to affect us and their allies. The paper will look into the underdevelopment of Gaza by identifying the weak institutions that make it so difficult to advance development, analyze the specific actions that the leadership of Gaza has taken and discuss whether or not the state's private institutions are working to improve development in Gaza. Gaza is the developing country I chose to further research about developing countries and citizens and governments way of life. Gaza is located in the country of Israel on the west coast called the Gaza Strip along the Mediterranean Sea northeast of Sinai Peninsula. The Gaza Strip is under Palestine control and considered separate from Israel. The country of...
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...Arab Israel Conflict 1948 War started when 5 Arabs nations (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan & Iraq) invaded territory in the just-ended-to-be-British Mandate. It happens right after the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on 14th May 1948. The fight has actually begins before that, because of the Partition Resolution, the United State Resolution (that would divide Great Britain’s former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states) on 29/11/1947. Arab do not want to accept the arrangement that they think Jewish get more benefits in the arrangement. The United Nations resolution sparked conflict between Jewish and Arab groups within Palestine. Fighting began with attacks by irregular bands of Palestinian Arabs attached to local units of the Arab Liberation Army composed of volunteers from Palestine and neighboring Arab countries. These groups launched their attacks against Jewish cities, settlements, and armed forces. The Jewish forces were composed of the Haganah, the underground militia of the Jewish community in Palestine, and two small irregular groups, the Irgun, and LEHI. The goal of the Arabs was initially to block the Partition Resolution and to prevent the establishment of the Jewish state. The Jews, on the other hand, hoped to gain control over the territory allotted to them under the Partition Plan. The fighting intensified with other Arab forces joining the Palestinian Arabs in attacking territory in the former Palestinian mandate. On...
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...During the lecture we discussed how the Hamas ruled Gaza in the first place and what really triggered the war and tension between them and Fatah. We viewed a short video of the location of Gaza. Gaza is a Palestinian region on the Mediterranean sea that borders Egypt and Israel. Gaza is populated with the estimate of 1.8 million people. The Hamas were founded in 1987 as Palestinian branch of the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood. After the death of the PLO leaser in 2004 Hamas began to gain more politics ground. In 2006 Hamas won the Palestinian elections against the Fatah. Hamas won 76 seats in the Parliament compared to Fatah. Because Hamas won the election there was a long tension between them and Fatah leading to a dividing government. There was an attempt to unite them to but unfortunately failed. From 2006-2007 there was a civil war in a way between Fatah and Hamas and eventually the Fatah’s were driven out. This is said to be a preemptive cue of the Hamas because Fatah has plans to run the Hamas out as well. However Hamas found and took action first leading to the full control of Gaza. Hamas was then seen as the terrorist organization to Israel, US, and Canada. Eventually there was a blockade from Israel and Egypt. What seemed to have caused the war was the kidnapping and murder of the three Israeli teenagers. Israel blamed it on the Hamas, which they denied. Come to find out the murder was by a Palestine clan from the Hamas. Israel used that reason to literally do a sweep...
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...and abuse. As a result of including the Inquisition in southern Europe, many Jews chose the 1500 - and 1600's to settle in Palestine again. It is estimated that the total population of Palestine was then at 200 000, while the Jewish population accounted for approximately 15 000 The organized Jewish immigration to Palestine began in 1882. This happened as a result of the rise of Zionism in Europe. Zionism was a political movement working for a Jewish state in the Middle East. Zionist movement got its diplomatic breakthrough in 1917 with the so-called Balfour Declaration. This was a statement in which the British government promised to work for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Jewish immigration to Palestine After World War I, the Ottoman Empire, as Palestine was part of, in solution. Palestine was under British mandate, which gave impetus to Jewish immigration. The...
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...Wales University Providence, Rhode Island Feinstein Graduate School WHITEPAPER “The Port Development of Gaza” A Written Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the MBA Degree Course: Global Economic Environments-IBUS 5511 Qiong WU 12/11/13 INTRODUCTION My name is Qiong Wu, and I am a consultant of international trade and safety in Gaza. My job is controlling the maritime passage into and out of Gaza thus allowing the safe transport of goods to and from the rest of the world, finding problems and offering solutions to improve the situations there. The purpose of this document is to provide my solutions for the port development of Gaza. Gaza needs to create a new policy to suit the changing global environment that will protect the safety of people’s lives as well as boost Gaza’s economy. BACKGROUND 1. Political Environment Gaza has very long history in the world, and it is also a place that suffered a lot. It has been ruled by both Egypt and Israel and is beloved by neither, which is a problem for all. Gazans are emphatically Palestinian, a national identity forged from the trauma of losing their land to Jewish armies in 1948, the year Israel was established. Many defeated Arab landowners fled to Gaza, where 3 out of 4 residents are classified as refugees. The Jews initially made no claim to Gaza, and the strip of coast became a holding pen administered by Egypt's military. The West Bank was annexed by Jordan...
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...And still other people may say it was when the first war between the Israelis and Palestinians broke out. However, the key to resolving any conflict is to understand it’s roots and causes. It seems to be that it began when the ownership of the land was [is] disputed primarily between two different groups: Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs (“The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”). This would be the start of the tension, but not the violence between the two people. The true problem potentially lies in the basic fundamental perspectives and views of the Israeli Jews and the Palestinian Arabs about who owns the land or who deserves to inhabit it. Jewish Israeli’s, whose ancestors began migrating to the area in the 1880s, say their claim to the land is based on a promise from God, and also for the need for a safe haven from widespread hostility toward the Jewish people (known as anti-Semitism). The Palestinian Arabs say they are the rightful inhabitants of the land because their ancestors have lived there for hundreds of years” ("The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"). The dispute has simply and undeniably gone on for much longer than necessary, and with each new offense, each new murder, each war, or new emotions of hatred, it takes a turn for the worst on...
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...identification using conflict tree 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 What conflict tree Identification of conflict tree Root causes of the conflict Core problem of the conflict Result of the conflict 3. Time line of the WAR 3.1 List of battle 4. Time line of peace process 4.1 4.2 4.3 List of peace attempt Identification of failure of peace process Conflict through Galtung conflict Triangle 2 5. Possible answer for the conflict 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Common third party policy Identification by the United Nation One State Two State Three State 11 12 13 13 13 13 13 14 14 6. 7. . Recommendation Conclusion Bibliography 3 1. Background 1.1 Geographical history of two states Understanding Israel and the broader Middle East requires understanding the difference between a state and a nation, two words often used interchangeably. A state in the traditional sense is the political apparatus that governs a territory; a nation is a people who share a heritage, a culture, or perhaps a system of beliefs Israel, officially the State of Israel is a country in Western Asia, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It shares land borders with Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories (or State of Palestine) comprising the West Bank and Gaza Strip on the east and southwest respectively, Egypt and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea to the south, Palestine is a geographic region in...
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...5/8/2014 Israeli–Palestinian conflict - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Israeli–Palestinian conflict From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Israeli–Palestinian conflict (Arabic: اﻟﻨﺰاع اﻟﻔﻠﺴﻄﯿﻨﻲ - اﻹﺳﺮاﺋﯿﻠﻲ al-Niza'a al'Filastini al 'Israili; Hebrew: הסכסוך הישראלי-פלסטיני Ha'Sikhsukh Ha'YisraeliFalestini) is the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians that began in the mid-20th century.[1] The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is sometimes also used in reference to the earlier sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine, between the Zionist yishuv and the Arab population under British rule. The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has formed the core part of the wider Arab–Israeli conflict. It has widely been referred to as the world's "most intractable conflict".[3][4][5] Despite a long-term peace process and the general reconciliation of Israel with Egypt and Jordan, Israelis and Palestinians have failed to reach a final peace agreement. The remaining key issues are: mutual recognition, borders, security, water rights, control of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements,[6] Palestinian freedom of movement,[7] and resolving Palestinian claims of a right of return for their refugees. The violence of the conflict, in a region rich in sites of historic, cultural and religious interest worldwide, has been the object of numerous international conferences dealing with historic rights, security issues and human rights, and has been a factor hampering tourism in and...
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...believe in Zionism, which allows them to believe Palestine should not have a state because that is Israel's Land. Israel is self-determined to get the land they are entitled to back in their possession. Since Israelis and Palestinians cannot agree on diving land to resolve disagreement there is the need a mandated two-state solution that gives Jews their own land. With this solution, Israelis and Palestinians can both exist together as a nation. Whereas some may want to give all the land to either Palestinians or Israelis if they each have their own land there will be less conflict. As the both coexist, it becomes the two-state solution. By doing this, it will get rid of both places becoming one nation and reduce the amount of disputes and war. With separate land they can try to work on their own conflicts as their own states with their own regulations. Borders...
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...role in war. The second would be personal feeling towards war, how the lady or mad in the poem copes with the idea of conflict. The first line of the poem “I slice sentences” straight away could show how all the time the media are chopping up stories, embellishing them or cutting them down to fit the target audience rather than give people the cold facts of way. The word “slice” is a very fluid motion, which could represent the media manipulating the news to make it less harsh. The second stanza is where the reader starts to become aware of the message Imtiaz Dharker is trying to show, that war and conflict have become such a normal part of day to day life. “At my back, the news is the same”. The phrase at my back shows how to person in the poem is unfazed by the news and carries on with whatever they were already doing, the average person has become numb to the idea of death. On the other hand it could also show the lack of awareness and understanding we have about what is actually going on, which links back to the idea of the news manipulating stories and sheltering the rest of the world from the horrors that occur else were in the world. Imtiaz darker, at the end of stanza three suggests that we are all responsible for the war in our own way, whether that be fighting in it or not doing anything at all. “I don’t need to see, through onion tears, my own hand power the knife”. This line in my opinion is a very bold statement as it shows that even though we cry over war “onion...
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...Armato Gloria Cheung Adam Yankelevits Robert Purviance ! ! ! ! ! Table of Contents South Sudan Topic Background Past International Involvement and Attempted Solutions Case Studies 1 | Sudan 2 | China Questions to Consider Works Cited Palestinian Refugees Topic Background Past International Involvement and Attempted Solutions Case Studies 1 | United States 2 | Jordan Questions to Consider Works Cited ! ! 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 7 7 8 9 9 9 10 11 ! ! 1 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! South Sudan Topic Background It has been slightly over three years since this fledgling nation seceded from Sudan in July 2011. Now the country is fraught with a major political upheaval, a debilitating famine, a declining economy, and an impending civil war ripe with ethnic tension. The South Sudanese political and social schism erupted after President Salva Kiir began to crackdown on the supporters of his rival, former Vice President Riek Machard. Mr. Machard attempted a coup to overthrow the President shortly after Mr. Kiir dismissed the entirety of his government due to suspicion that they were plotting to overthrow his regime. The conflict boiled over and turned violent between the feuding army factions on December 15th 2013. The political struggle between these two factions quickly escalated into a full-scale ethnic conflict and has created a violent schism within the country. Mr. Kiir identifies with the Dinka ethnic group, South Sudan’s majority, whereas Mr. Machard is a member of the...
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...York, NY 10017 Dear Secretary-General, I am writing with some important recommendations as you embark on your trip to address the crisis in Gaza. We see an urgent need for measures and mechanisms that will protect civilians, provide long-term as well as short-term humanitarian relief and rehabilitation, and ensure accountability and deter future violations of international humanitarian law. We therefore urge you to give priority to these areas in your discussions in the region and your public calls for action. Protection of Civilians Given the exigency of protecting civilians in Gaza, we urge you to send several clear messages to both parties to the conflict and neighboring states. In particular, we would urge you to: * a strong statement, underscoring the importance of both parties' full and stringent compliance with international humanitarian law. All those who violate the laws of war must know that they will be held accountable in the future for their actions; a firm warning from you now can help save lives. * Insist that Egypt and Israel do the maximum to permit the evacuation of civilians through their borders as there is no safe place for civilians within Gaza. As the UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres told the Security Council on January 8, Israel and Egypt must respect the universal right of those fleeing war to seek safety in other states, as well as their right to return upon the conclusion of hostilities. * Urge that Israel take all feasible...
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...ARAB STATES DECLARE WAR AGAINST ISRAEL The conflict between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East was over land of historic Israel and Palestine. The conflict has led to several wars, beginning in 1948, among Arab nations, Palestinian refugees, and the state of Israel. Since 1979 several peace accords have been signed, addressing parts of the conflict. The area is the homeland of the Jewish people, who immigrated to the area beginning in the 13th century BC as Hebrew tribes. The tribes confederated as the Israelites who ruled much of the area from the 11th century to the 6th century BC. The Jews formed an identity as the people of the covenant but subsequently came under the rule of others until they succeeded in establishing an independent Jewish state called Judea in 168 BC. The Romans expelled the Jews from Judea in ad 135. In subsequent centuries many Jews maintained the idea of regaining control of the area, which they considered home. In the 1890s Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist living in Austria, advocated reestablishing a Jewish state in Palestine. Palestine was already inhabited, however. The countryside was home to Arabs, most of them Muslims, while the larger towns contained both Arabs and Jews. Some of the Jews were long established there, while others were religious pilgrims from Europe who had come to live near the holy sites in Jerusalem and other cities. (Because the vast majority of Palestinians were Muslim Arabs, the term Palestinians now usually refers only...
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...facts) 2. Give a brief history of the country. 3. Give a short summary of what the film was about. (NOT a review!) 4. What was the most interesting thing you learned through this film? Lemon Tree is a film set on the border between Palestine and Israel near the West Bank. The State of Israel is a parliamentary democracy with a modern economy. Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and East Jerusalem as a result of the 1967 War. In accordance with negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in 1994. Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007 and exercises control there. The division of responsibilities and jurisdiction in the West Bank between Israel and the PA is complex and subject to change. PA security forces are responsible for keeping order in certain areas, and the PA exercises a range of civil functions in those areas of the West Bank. Official guidance on entry, customs requirements, arrests, and other matters in the West Bank and Gaza is subject to change without prior notice or may not be available. (http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1064.html) The total area of the State of Israel is 8,630 sq. miles, of which 8,367 sq. miles is land area. Israel is 290 miles in length and about 85 miles across at the widest point. The country is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan...
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... The Human Shield The debate over the use of human shields in combat has gone on for years and it is a hot topic as it pertains to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. Even though the act of using human shields can be traced all the way back to the 13th century when it was a tactic used by the Mongols in combat, the issue seems to have become an international focus especially under the microscope placed on the Israeli-Palestine conflict. The question now is why has so much attention been placed on the use of human shields by Israeli and Palestinian troops when there is documentation in one form or another of this “tactic” being used in every major conflict or war that has occurred over the last 300 years? As it relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are numerous articles and news reports which offer insight and accusations as to why this tactic is being used so liberally in this conflict. Whereas Pro-Israel reports shift blame to Palestinian fighters, likewise Pro-Palestinian reports shift blame to Israel. Finding any Israeli or Palestinian report offering a non-biased report going against its government or nation is quite difficult. For the purpose of military affairs, human shield is defined by freedictionary.com, as a person who takes a position at a likely military target as a means of forestalling an enemy attack or a person used by military forces to act as a shield or barrier...
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