ISRAEL
Israel is a young country in an ancient land with a diverse history, topography, and population. A visit to Israel is an archaic experience, rich with biblical and Roman ruins and memorialization of the immensity of anti-Semitism, culminating in the National Holocaust Museum. Simultaneously, it renders poignant reflection on the contemporary as an area abundant in technological development at the epicenter of military, medical, and environmental innovation. The Israeli occupation of Palestine (the West Bank and Gaza), along with the expanding settlements outside of Israeli borders, are the subject of intense international debate as concerns human rights allegations and diplomatic solutions.
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** A note on language: Arab and Israeli are not synonymous labels, both in reference to ethnicity and nationality. The term ‘Arab’ in ‘Arab-Israeli’ is utilized to convey the historical regional participation of surrounding countries in conflict with Israel. Similarly, not all Arab countries align against Israel or in solidarity with Palestine. There are Israeli-Arabs, Jewish Palestinians, Jewish Arabs, and Muslim Israelis. Therefore, designating this conflict as Israeli-Palestinian and designating some events throughout this conflict as Arab-Israeli are the most accurate ways to describe this conflict.
[i] ulpan
[ii] historical immigration
[iii] football culture
[iv] exposed for the first time
[v] symbolic and bureaucratic source
[vi] Yad Vashem
[vii] Birthright
[viii] remaining population
[ix] structured
[x] Zionism
[xi] clean-cut
[xii] securitization
[xiii] export
[xiv] tourism industry
[xv] Partition
[xvi] Intifadas
[xvii] securitization
[xviii] normalization deals
[xix] Uganda
[xx] Alaska
[xxi] Argentina
[xxii] New York
[xxiii] Madagascar
By Abbi North