Today was the last class of the semester and I thought I would reflect on some of the issues we have discussed but first I would like to make a few comments about the movie "Private" that we watched in class. I thought that the movie was very easy to understand and was a typical performance of how the Arab is Israeli conflict is damaging families. I thought it took a different spin on the movie when they introduced the sensitive Israeli soldier and sort of showed how people of both cultures do not even know what they are fighting for anymore. In other words, I thought the movie was appropriate and delivered the attitudes and feelings that it meant to to the viewers.
Next I would like to comment on the Palestinian Israeli issue:
The issue is very subjective and therefore makes a solution extremely difficult and complex. The British Mandate was in effect from 1920 to 1948 and it is offered that the recoil of this authorization has worsened the matter. When the mandate came to an end and British troops withdrew from Palestine, thousands of Jewish immigrants flooded in which created an overwhelming population of Zionist Jews in Palestine. The Arab people whom for many centuries dominated the land of Palestine were now a minority. The Israelis jumped on their golden opportunity to move back to their “holy land.” The Arabs were forced out of their homes leaving pots on the stove, leaving lives behind. Although the story may sometimes seem like it rightfully belongs to one group or another, a story has many sides. The Jewish communities had resided in Palestine during the first century but then they fled to Europe due to the Roman conquest. The Jews had always planned and hoped to return to Palestine, their “holy land” and it just seemed appropriate for them to go when the opportunity arose.
