HW 4/6

This question is posed to a member of the Washington Institute who'll be visiting on April 8th. Your question should couple a detail from the Institute with one from the history we've been studying so far. Below is a description of the Institute from its website:

"Founded in 1985, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy* was established to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East. Under the guidance of a distinguished and bipartisan Board of Advisors, the Institute seeks to bring scholarship to bear on the making of U.S. policy in this vital region of the world. Drawing on the research of its scholars and the experience of policy practitioners, the Institute promotes an American engagement in the Middle East committed to strengthening alliances, nurturing friendships, and promoting security, peace, prosperity, and democracy for the people of the region."

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HW 3/30

This question is one posed to a representative of the ZOA (its mission is below) who's visiting April 1. Your question should combine a detail from the ZOA's mission and a specific piece from the history we've studied so far. Post your questions below by midnight Wednesday, 3/30.

"The ZOA is the only organization that documents and exposes Palestinian Arab violations of the Road Map plan. The ZOA leads the efforts on behalf of American victims of Palestinian Arab terrorism. The ZOA's campaigns have repeatedly led to the defeat of hostile critics of Israel who were nominated for important government positions.

The ZOA has played a key role in Congress regarding victims of terrorism, keeping Jerusalem unified under Israeli sovereignty, fighting Hamas and Fatah, and working on the imposition of sanctions on Syria and Saudi Arabia."

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3/17 (2)

"Israel is guilty of genocide agsint the Palestinians and Arabs" (The Accusation, 140).

"To be sure, Palestinian civilians have died in the seventy-three-year-long war, but their numbers have been infinitesimal in comparison with the number of Palestinians and Arabs killed by Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Iran during the same period [...] Moreoever, the Palestinian deaths have resulted primareily from terrorists hiding among their own civilians, as in Lebanon, whereas the Israeli deaths have resulted from innocent civilians being specifically targeted. When Palestinians have been accidently killed in a legitimate effort to prevent terrorism, Israel has expressed genuine regret. The murder of innocent Israelis, on the other hand, has generated celebration among Palestinians" (The Proof, 143).

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3/17 (1)

"... a book on the history of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, published in 1925 in Jerusalem, uses the term Urshalmim in the title, and the term al-Quds al-Sharif to describe the place of publication. This vestigial reluctance to use the common Arabic name, with its Islamic overtones, even in works referring to the name somewhere on their title pages, represetns the last flcikering of a rivalry for control of Jerusalem between Islam and Christianity - a rivalry that began in the seventh century with the city's conquest by Muslim armies from Byzantium, was greatly intensified during the Crusades, and abated only in the early twentieth century. More recently, the devotion of some fundamentalist Western Christians to Israel, and their visceral hositility to Islam and the Arabs, shows theat a few embers of this ancient rivalry have not been entirely extinguished" (Palestinian Identity, 16)

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