In eight pages this paper discusses how the Israelis have continued to deny Palestinians their rights and how these people continue to live in oppressive conditions. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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Jewish state, Israel. Since that time, Palestinians have been displaced from their homes and denied the basic human rights of freedom of education and freedom of financial independence due to
the restrictions on their politics, religion, education and economic opportunity imposed by the Israelis in an attempt to suppress the Palestinian people. Recently the international community has pressured Israel to
remove these restrictions to the Palestinians and reconfirm their rights and their land from which they were illegally displaced. Israel has not complied and the Palestinians continue to live in
an oppressed society. On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a partition plan for Palestine which would divide
Palestine up into six parts: three of which were to become the Jewish state, 56% of the total area, and the other three which were to become an Arab state
holding 43% of the total area. The year of 1948 is referred to as the year of al-nakba (the tragedy) as many Palestinian Arabs were left without a state and
in many cases, without homes as a Jewish state was born (Nassar, 1997). The two states would consist of the Jewish state with a population of 498,000 Jews and 497,000
Arabs excluding the nomadic Arabs of the Negrev, and the Arab state would consist of 725,000 Arabs and 10,000 Jews. Two decades later during the war of 1967, the Palestinians
tried a campaign to regain their independence from the Arab administration and Israel also fought against its Arab neighbours. While it was assumed the Israelis originally fought to establish peace
in the area, it soon became evident that they instead wanted to establish its control over Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. At this point