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Essay on Israeli Conflict
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or Arab-Israeli clash, or whatever name it goes by, is possibly one of the more perceptive issues that is discussed. In light of the suffering that we Jews have experienced ourselves, especially in the past century, we object to the ruthless security methods employed by the Israeli government against Palestinians. These include the deployment of bulldozers, tanks, helicopter gunships, and fighter planes; the use of lethal force, as a matter of policy, even against civilians armed with stones and slings; the targeted assassination and extra-judicial killing of political leaders and activists; the "collective punishment" of Palestinian communities; the demolition of homes, destruction of farms, and uprooting of olive groves; and the stringent curfews and roadblocks that make normal life impossible and create a daily ritual of control and humiliation.
These unbearable practices, jointly with the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, invite condemnation of the Israeli government and give rise to further resistance against it. Despite vicious attacks on Israeli civilians, similar to those carried out by the fundamentalist terrorist groups, these groups are at least nominally wedded to a political solution to the conflict and profess allegiance to Ararat. There is moreover neither evidence to indicate that Fatah Tanzim or the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have ever considered using WMD, nor that they have any means to do so. This analysis therefore focuses on groups with a longer history in the region--groups with sufficient organizational experience and ideological background to allow an assessment of the potential WMD threat they fake. (Danzig, Gabriel (2003)
In view of the fact that the onset of the peace process in the early 1990s, the academic market has witnessed the emergence of a plethora of general books on the Arab-Israeli conflict designed for undergraduate use. Calvin Goldscheider (sociology and Judaic Studies, Brown University) has provided us with another replete with a wealth of demographic and sociological......
