The conflict between Palestine and Israel goes back thousands of years and has led to a number of drastic consequences, affecting peoples and current events all over the world to this very day. One reason for this is geography; Israel is situated in the centre of the Middle East. Also, the Middle ...

Arab-Israeli Conflict The Arab-Israeli conflict came about from the notion of Political Zionism. Zionism is the belief that Jews constitute a nation (or a people) and that they deserve the right to return to what they consider to be their ancestral home, land of Israel (or Palestine). Political Zi...

"Throughout the war, the Israeli's were out numbered by the other nations; millions versus thousands, and yet they carried through," Prime Minister Eshkol remarked, concerning the events of the Six Day War. During the Six Day War, when Israel was attacked by the surrounding Arab nations, it was a y...

In the Middle East, specifically the region of Israel and its borders, violence has been the major means of action for attempted change. Between terrorism, rioting, and war, there's no debating that violent outbreaks have been a common occurrence. Numerous external forces have tried to quell...

Herzel believed that anti-Semitism was an "incurable gentile pathology." Zionism was developed as an ideology determined to lead its people out of "perpetual enemy territory." The Jews, he posited, should have a nation-state of their own. "Herzel himself would have been ready to contemplate any...

The present-day conflict that exists between the Israelis and the Palestinians can easily be related to the war that took place in Joshua and Judges. In both cases Israeli's had to fight for the land that they believe belongs to them. In the book of Joshua the Lord instructs the Israelites to conq...

After decades of war, peace talk efforts, and terrorism, Israel and Palestine still do not agree on what is keeping peace out of their grasp. Yet, they continue to fight and disagree. They continue to fight because they are fighting for two distinct classifications of peace. Israel wants safety; to ...

Today, not one week passes without news of another hurdle in the on-going struggle for peace in the region. Both the Israelis and the Palestinians blame the other side for the continuation of this crisis, but they are both to blame for the enduring strife in the region. Behind the political confl...