Tag: roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

• Know Your History: The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part III

  PART I: HERE! PART II: HERE! In 1978, Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli President Begin signed the Camp David Accords which brokered an official peace between the two nations. Israel gave back the territory of the Sinai Peninsula it had gained during the 1967 Six Day War and Israel received Egypt’s diplomatic recognition of their right to…

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  July 31, 2014

  History & Culture

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• Know Your History: The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part II

  Read Part I: HERE! The tragedy of the Holocaust during WWII provided an ample amount of sympathy toward the Jewish race, and with the establishment of the newly formed United Nations, the world body (minus some key states) looked to solve the dilemma in Palestine once Britain signified that it no longer wanted anything to do…

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  July 27, 2014

  History & Culture

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• Know Your History: The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part I

  With all the chaos happening between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, I thought I would take a few blog posts to break apart what is going on in short and hopefully digestible snippets which will help us all understand the roots of this conflict. Before I get into the first section, let’s just clarify…

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  July 22, 2014

  History & Culture

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