Noah Katzman
10D
Israeli and Palestinian conflict
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians that began in the early 20th century. The collision between those two forces in southern Levant and the emergence of the Palestinian nationalism in the 1920s, eventually escalated into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 1947, and expanded into a wider Arab and Israeli conflict later on. The first Palestinian uprising began in 1987, as a response to regional stagnation. By the early 1990s, international efforts to settle the conflict had begun, in light of the success of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty of 1982.
In the book, Hour of Sunlight by Sami al Jundi, the Israeli- Palestinian conflict affected him because one of his friends died while he tried to overthrow the Israeli Occupation. He was trying to build a bomb to use against the Israeli police, but it exploded earlier and killed his friend. Since Sami al Jundi is Palestinian, this portrays the hatred the two sides have for each other. It shows how far Sami al Jundi will go, to fight for what he believes in, even if it’s dangerous. After leaving prison, he still wanted to fight for his peoples rights, but he used a less violent approach, and cofounded the Middle East program of Seeds of Peace Center for Coexistence, which brings together Palestinian and Israeli youth.
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