Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Creation of Israel

Zionism is the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish authority in the Land of Israel, from its inception, tangible as well as spiritual aims. Jews of all persuasions, left and right, religious and secular, joined to form the Zionist movement and worked together toward these goals. Disagreements led to rifts, but the common goal of a Jewish state in its ancient homeland was attained. The term "Zionism" was coined in 1890 by Nathan Birnbaum. The conflics that this new country was that it was attacked by the combined forces of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt, just a day after it declared independence, is an important part of the Israeli consciousness. After the war the Palestine people did not like the holy land so, after the 1948 war, Israel possessed approximately 8,000 square miles of Palestine, reducing the Arab lands partition by some 50 percent. Jerusalem was divided, with Arabs on the east side of the armistice line the Green Line and the Jews on the west.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid is a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. Also there was an organization of Afrikaner National Party in the 1948 election. Nelson Mandela was born in South Africa under the Apartheid system of government meant bad things for growing up in South Africa, but Nelson Mandela was a fighter. Instead of bowing down to this unjust system of government, he became a lifelong warrior in the battle to free South Africa. When he was a leader his underground political movement called the African National Congress (ANC). His career was very short and what to prison, but he never gave up so that why he was a good leader.

Monday, May 7, 2007

African Independence

What i think this of the map means that African people, after that had there independence they did a big change and so little time, what i think is that when one of the country got there independence the other help the other and soon they all had there independence. One of the leader of their largely nonviolent protests was Kwame Nkrumah which lead to the independence of Ghana. Also Ahmed Ben Bella, a leader of the FLN who had been imprisoned by the French, was named the first prime minister and president. Ben Bella reestablished national order, began land reforms, and developed new plans for education. Also there was an organisation of called the Algerian National Liberation Front, or FLN.