second draft of the essay
SOME EFFECTS OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
By: Rocio Moreno
Palestinian suicide attacks against Israelis aim to kill and injure as many people as possible, and create the greatest amount of fear. The victims are, most often, civilians going about their daily life. The attacks, and the death, injury and destruction they cause, have become one of the most dramatic effects of the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Even though Yasser Arafat declared a cessation of violence several times, terror, suicide attacks and Israeli reprisals have not stopped. The Palestinians executed successful suicide attacks daily while the Israelis continued with their plan of killing wanted men in the Palestinian areas. Israel started a massive attack called “Operation Defensive Wall” which proposed to cut out terror infrastructure and to reoccupate territories like Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm and other towns. The Palestinians blamed Israel of assassinating around 500 people but the Israelis pronounced that only about 50 were killed in the Jenin refugee camp, mostly members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs suicide brigades. After this, the suicide attacks were fewer but they did not ended completely. Later, Israel captured several documents providing evidence that Yasser Arafat personally approved the organization of terror cells. Consequently, the Israelis captured and assassinate many people involved in terrorist activities. The creation of the “Operation defensive wall” brought its advantage indeed, because even though the objective was to put end to the suicide attacks that were happening in that moment, it made them decline which was a great step in the fact of eliminating completely this brutal acts of terrorism. (Operation Defensive Wall paragraph I AND II).
After the “Operation Defensive Wall”, Israel was directed to remove from the territories immediately (Resolution 1402). Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited the US in May of 2002. This because the US administration was demanding him to propose a solution that the Palestinians and the Arab States accept in order to give end to this conflict that was creating innumerable victims. (Operation Defensive Wall, paragraphs III and IV).
Despite the cease fire, several attempts occurred during August and September 2002. Consequently, the initiatives of peace were blocked by some groups who refuse to participate of this peace programs and also because Israelis kept killing people. In this list of assassinated men’s were Salah Shehadeh -head of the military wing of the Hamas- and other 13 lives due to a missile attack on Gaza. On the first days of September, the security forces of Israel obstructed some suicide attack attempts and detected a truck laden with 1300 pounds of explosives and gas tanks. This unquestionably belonged to the Palestinians because it was an important material for them to commit a suicide attack. (Operation Defensive Wall, paragraph 7).
After a time of relative clam, suicide bombings in Umm El Fahm and in a Tel-Aviv bus awaked the terrorism all around this territories. Attacks to Gaza including entry into Gaza city and besieged Yasser Arafat and an estimated 200 others in the Muqata compound in Raodmala was proceeded by the Israeli government like also the destruction of all the buildings in the compound except the main one, promising not to harm Arafat. (Operation Defensive Wall, paragraph 9).
British, US and Australian forces entered Iraq on March 20, 2003. The regime of Saddam Hussein was supported by the Palestinians in the fact of offering money for those who approved to participate of suicide bombers. Then it came the intervention of the United States whose President ordered US forces to enter Baghdad on April 9, and subsequently the President Bush declared the war over on May 1. (The Iraq War, the Roadmap and Palestinian Reform).
As time passed, there was no great improvement on the relation between these territories. Several acts of terrorism and aassasination kept being executed. one clear example of this is the death of the newly elected Hamas leader Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantissi on April 17, 2004. Another person called Dr. Mahmoud Zahar was apparently elected in his place, but this was very quietly because there was still much fear about the Israelis response. (Assassination of Abdel Azis Rantisi). It proceeded a time of relative calm during spring and summer of this same year because even though there were many attempts, there were no successful major terror attacks within Israel. Israel continued to arrest and kill Palestinians belonging to terrorist organizations, and to occupy Palestinian cities in the West Bank. (Security situation in 2004).
There was an uncertain future after Yasser Arafat death on November 11, 2004. Due to Yasser Arafat´s death a time of relative calm came in which there were no terroristic attacks. Israel´s interest was to occupy Palestinian West Bank so thats why they kept arresting and assassinating Palestinian terrorist leaders. Many Palestinian children were killed during these raids. The Israeli army was criticized in Israel and abroad for carelessness with civilian lives and possible war crimes. (Death of Yasser Arafat).
Across the world they are widely condemned as brutal acts of terrorism, though the attacks are pointedly not condemned by some Arab or Islamic governments. Some signs have indicated that the death of Arafat has opened up new possibilities for peace, as well as for reform and democracy in the Palestinian authority. For me there is nothing for real, just the fact that this war is having numerous effect that are not only affecting the ones that approve this terrorism acts but also the ones that have nothing to do with it. Why should children, women elderly people suffer what they are not guilty of? The suicide attacks must end because this is creating a great pain among the ones who are victims of them. They are destroying cities and they are evaporating the faith of people in having a world full of peace.
SOURCES
http/www.mideastweb.org/briefhistory.htm
By: Rocio Moreno
Palestinian suicide attacks against Israelis aim to kill and injure as many people as possible, and create the greatest amount of fear. The victims are, most often, civilians going about their daily life. The attacks, and the death, injury and destruction they cause, have become one of the most dramatic effects of the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Even though Yasser Arafat declared a cessation of violence several times, terror, suicide attacks and Israeli reprisals have not stopped. The Palestinians executed successful suicide attacks daily while the Israelis continued with their plan of killing wanted men in the Palestinian areas. Israel started a massive attack called “Operation Defensive Wall” which proposed to cut out terror infrastructure and to reoccupate territories like Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm and other towns. The Palestinians blamed Israel of assassinating around 500 people but the Israelis pronounced that only about 50 were killed in the Jenin refugee camp, mostly members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs suicide brigades. After this, the suicide attacks were fewer but they did not ended completely. Later, Israel captured several documents providing evidence that Yasser Arafat personally approved the organization of terror cells. Consequently, the Israelis captured and assassinate many people involved in terrorist activities. The creation of the “Operation defensive wall” brought its advantage indeed, because even though the objective was to put end to the suicide attacks that were happening in that moment, it made them decline which was a great step in the fact of eliminating completely this brutal acts of terrorism. (Operation Defensive Wall paragraph I AND II).
After the “Operation Defensive Wall”, Israel was directed to remove from the territories immediately (Resolution 1402). Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited the US in May of 2002. This because the US administration was demanding him to propose a solution that the Palestinians and the Arab States accept in order to give end to this conflict that was creating innumerable victims. (Operation Defensive Wall, paragraphs III and IV).
Despite the cease fire, several attempts occurred during August and September 2002. Consequently, the initiatives of peace were blocked by some groups who refuse to participate of this peace programs and also because Israelis kept killing people. In this list of assassinated men’s were Salah Shehadeh -head of the military wing of the Hamas- and other 13 lives due to a missile attack on Gaza. On the first days of September, the security forces of Israel obstructed some suicide attack attempts and detected a truck laden with 1300 pounds of explosives and gas tanks. This unquestionably belonged to the Palestinians because it was an important material for them to commit a suicide attack. (Operation Defensive Wall, paragraph 7).
After a time of relative clam, suicide bombings in Umm El Fahm and in a Tel-Aviv bus awaked the terrorism all around this territories. Attacks to Gaza including entry into Gaza city and besieged Yasser Arafat and an estimated 200 others in the Muqata compound in Raodmala was proceeded by the Israeli government like also the destruction of all the buildings in the compound except the main one, promising not to harm Arafat. (Operation Defensive Wall, paragraph 9).
British, US and Australian forces entered Iraq on March 20, 2003. The regime of Saddam Hussein was supported by the Palestinians in the fact of offering money for those who approved to participate of suicide bombers. Then it came the intervention of the United States whose President ordered US forces to enter Baghdad on April 9, and subsequently the President Bush declared the war over on May 1. (The Iraq War, the Roadmap and Palestinian Reform).
As time passed, there was no great improvement on the relation between these territories. Several acts of terrorism and aassasination kept being executed. one clear example of this is the death of the newly elected Hamas leader Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantissi on April 17, 2004. Another person called Dr. Mahmoud Zahar was apparently elected in his place, but this was very quietly because there was still much fear about the Israelis response. (Assassination of Abdel Azis Rantisi). It proceeded a time of relative calm during spring and summer of this same year because even though there were many attempts, there were no successful major terror attacks within Israel. Israel continued to arrest and kill Palestinians belonging to terrorist organizations, and to occupy Palestinian cities in the West Bank. (Security situation in 2004).
There was an uncertain future after Yasser Arafat death on November 11, 2004. Due to Yasser Arafat´s death a time of relative calm came in which there were no terroristic attacks. Israel´s interest was to occupy Palestinian West Bank so thats why they kept arresting and assassinating Palestinian terrorist leaders. Many Palestinian children were killed during these raids. The Israeli army was criticized in Israel and abroad for carelessness with civilian lives and possible war crimes. (Death of Yasser Arafat).
Across the world they are widely condemned as brutal acts of terrorism, though the attacks are pointedly not condemned by some Arab or Islamic governments. Some signs have indicated that the death of Arafat has opened up new possibilities for peace, as well as for reform and democracy in the Palestinian authority. For me there is nothing for real, just the fact that this war is having numerous effect that are not only affecting the ones that approve this terrorism acts but also the ones that have nothing to do with it. Why should children, women elderly people suffer what they are not guilty of? The suicide attacks must end because this is creating a great pain among the ones who are victims of them. They are destroying cities and they are evaporating the faith of people in having a world full of peace.
SOURCES
http/www.mideastweb.org/briefhistory.htm
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