The Need For Peace in the Middle East The quest for peace in the Middle East has been going on for decades. It all started in 1948 when Israel declared its independence and fought Arab nations to secure it. However, the Arabs were left unsatisfied while the Israelis wanted more control over...

(A) Introduction Pentateuch is considered to be the most important part in the Old Testament. It recorded the account of creation, the fall of man, the Law Code as well as the experience of the Ancient Israel. Among them Genesis is the first book recorded incidents happened from the creation of ...

Theodor Herzl and ZionismOne of the most important influences in the movement that led to the creation of the state of Israel was Jewish writer and journalist Theodor Herzl. He was born on May 2, 1860 in Budapest, Hungary. Herzl studied law in Vienna, but later on went into a literary career. Th...

The subject that I will be focussing on is: Why has there been instability in Israel from its formation in 1948 to present day. This question can be broken down into several key areas: The Balfour Declaration of 1917; The creation of Israel; The subsequent four wars; Egyptian-Israeli peace talks; Tu...

The Sabbath day is on the seventh day of the week in the Jewish calendar. The Sabbath begins around sunset Friday night and ends around nightfall Saturday night. In some Western languages the word for Saturday means The Sabbath, such as El Sabado in Spanish. The Sabbath celebrates the day G-d rested...

Elie Wiesel is a very devout, young boy living in Sighet at the beginning of the war. He along with the rest of the Jews refuses to believe that anything so bad as the concentration camps could happen to them. However, on Passover, the persecution of the Jews begins. At first, they are only forb...

Mending wall is a poem written by Robert Frost. The poem is about the building of a wall between two neighbors. Both neighbors are dominant over the other. Both neighbors do not agree with each other and form a boundary, this wall. "Good fences make good neighbors." This suggests that this...

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...

During the twentieth century, conclusions of wars created the conditions for subsequent wars. Whether it was the conquered or the conqueror, few ever remain content past an initial truce. Two examples of this can be found in the events that lead up to WWII and the constant conflict in the Middle Eas...

The City of God Catholic World View Jesus was born around 4 to 8 A.D. For the first thirty years of his life we know close to nothing about his life, except for the simple fact that his occupation was a carpenter. Jesus was very much like Socrates in the sense that he himself never wrote any...

Understanding the sublime is one of the keys to understanding Judaism. The sublime infuses the writings of the Torah. The ancient writers wrote of the sublime and the sublime has colored the interpretations of the Holy Scriptures throughout history in Jewish thought. Heschel and other writers wrote ...

An ancient Roman expression states, "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum"; "Therefore whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war". Throughout much of the twentieth century, nations have attempted to resolve conflicts and ensure peace. The most preeminent conflicts...

WHO IS ENTITLED TO THE LAND? In this paper, I will discuss the conflict that has occurred between the Palestinian Arabs and the Jews, it has been in existence since the 20th century. Although both groups have religious differences, this is not the essential cause of the conflict. The strugg...

Philosophy "Belief in God can never be rationalised" Discuss. For centuries the enigma of God's existence has plagued mankind, and society has seen many philosophers and wise individuals attempt to argue the case in both directions. I, myself have been raised as a Christian, and over th...

Palestinian Conflict Report The origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be traced back to the Balfour declaraition by Great Britain in 1917. Ironically the declaration called for the establishment of an independent Jewish state within Palestine, as long as the civil liberties of existing i...

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 ...

Israel is in a situation unlike any other country around the world. Israel has been fighting for its survival since it became a country in 1948. It is surrounded by hostile nations that want to destroy or at least diminish it. There is tremendous tension between the Palestine Liberation Members and...

In a time of war, it is far too easy to get caught up in the violence and forget that the true goal is peace. Hate, death, and pain make it difficult for the belligerent nations to think rationally and come up with a plan to end the violence. This is why a third party is necessary. A third party see...

Imagine walking to a bus stop with some friends to go shopping. On a bench sits a bag of candy. You reach for it, to take it or possibly just to move it, and the next thing you know you're surrounded by white coats and blurry faces. You find out your two best friends and dead and you're mi...

WEEK 2 „X Balfour Doctrine of 1917- British government¡s support of a creation of a Jewish state in Palestine „X After WWI, Jewish immigration increased along with violence between the Jewish and Arab communities „X Britain attempted to slow the immigration, but was met with i...

The Palestinians have faced many problems in trying to develop a state of their own in Palestine. One of the biggest problems is their economic development. The Israeli government has put many restrictions on the Palestinian economy, making it an underdeveloped, low-performance, dependent economy,...

The stories of the Yahwist and the Elohist have many similarities as well as differences. The main reason why they are this way is because they each have their own separate accounts of Yahweh. They are however linked together by the "Older Federation Story." In this essay I will attempt to compar...

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The State of Israel was founded on May 14, 1948, creating a national homeland for all Jewish people throughout the world. The establishment of a uniquely Jewish state in the Arab controlled Middle East has created serious tension between the Jews and their Arab neighbors, and more specifically, th...

The ten-week-old conflict, which has caused as many as 300 deaths mostly by Israeli troops doesn\'t seem to end even after both the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak issued public statements calling for the end of violence in the Holy Land. On November 2, 2000, on...