...David Ben-Gurion was born in Plonsk, Poland in 1886 and educated in a Hebrew school established by his father, an ardent Zionist. By his mid-teens, Ben-Gurion led a Zionist youth group, "Ezra," whose members spoke only Hebrew among themselves. At the age of 18 he became a teacher in a Warsaw Jewish school and joined the Socialist-Zionist group "Poalei Zion" (Workers of Zion). Arriving in the Land of Israel in 1906, he became involved in the creation of the first agricultural workers' commune (which evolved into the Kvutzah and finally the Kibbutz), and helped establish the Jewish self-defense group, “Hashomer” (The Watchman). Following the outbreak of World War I he was deported by the Ottoman authorities with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (later, Israel's second President). Ben-Gurion traveled on behalf of the Socialist-Zionist cause to New York, where he met and married Paula Monbesz, a fellow Poalei Zion activist. He returned to Israel in the uniform of the Jewish Legion, created as a unit in the British Army by Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky. Ben-Gurion was a founder of the trade unions, and, in particular, the national federation, the Histadrut, which he dominated from the early 1920's. He also served as the Histadrut's representative in the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency, and was elected chairman of both organizations in 1935. Having led the struggle to establish the State of Israel in May 1948, Ben-Gurion became Prime Minister and Defense Minister. As...
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...Abstract This paper discusses Airport security throughout the world and in the U.S. The lack of security in the airports in the U.S. compared to other countries even after 9/11. The resources not being used for security and training; the different security sections that should be made developed for more thorough security checks before any passenger even steps foot onto the airplane. The airport should run their security like it was a military base where everything out of the ordinary is scrutinized with undercover security personnel asking suspicious passengers questions. Airport Security How many times have you, your family member or friend gone through security in a U.S. Airport? Is a metal detector really going to stop a terrorist from hi-jacking a plane? I have been to different Airports in the U.S. and to Hartsfield International Airport too many times. I have noticed one thing in all of these airports in the U.S., lack of security and the business like approach to it. After we all pass through the metal detectors, what other security measures are there, from preventing a person to get on a plane with bad intentions either smuggling something or passing through the metal detectors which, they don’t catch a terrorist with bad intentions. After the initial security metal detector check point, we are all free and on are way to the airplane. If the security guards at the metal detector check point, don’t catch the person with bad intentions the first time, who will? The...
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...Airports And Terrorism: A Critical Study Submitted By: SHUBHANSHU URMALIYA Course : MALATM NALSAR UNIVERSITY Medchal Road, Justice City, Shamirpet, Secunderabad, AP EMAIL ADD: shubhanshu02@gmail.com Contents 1. Terrorism 2. Major Terrorist attacks on Airports 3. Major Terrorist Attacks in Airports – A Brief Description 4. Airport Security 5. Enhanced Security Measures in Airport 6. Airport Security Challenges & Issues 1. Terrorism While there are many definitions of terrorism the central definition adopted by UN is given below: "Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them” Generally Speaking, or in common terms, terrorism refer to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror); and are perpetrated for a religious, political, or ideological goal; and deliberately target or disregard the safety of civilians. Till date , terrorism has hit almost all sectors of urbanized world catering to service to general public across all nations. Aviation is one such sector which has been worst hit by terrorism at different times and at different parts of the globe, in the name of various agendas. Terrorist attacks in flight and in land have now...
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...Chapter 5 This chapter is about the story of how herzl worked for Zionism and Zionist agenda through out his life… His idea was that the jews need a home land… He floated the idea that unlike other religions that can work transnationally, Judaism needs a state to function… He saw an opportunity in 1896 with turkey…. He tried to meet the sultan directly to get a jewish state directly… He just managed to meet the grand vizier after a lot of effort… his proposal was that he would pay off the Sultan’s debts and in return the sultan will give him Palestine… Five years later he met the sultan himself but the sultan didn’t agree to it…. He turned down herzl’s offer… His first ally in UK was Rothschild however he was a sceptic ally…. He supported herzl but then he regretted it and thought that it was very dangerous because he was ‘english’ first and jew next… He founded the first Zionist congress in Switzerland… For the jews he went to the german emperor kaiser for diplomatic purposes….. took the similar offer to Kaiser (support in Palestine for payoff of the foreign debts…) however he didn’t agree… Herzl visited Jerusalem for the first time in October 1898. Was disappointed because he thought that the locals had destroyed the country like animals…. First Zionist Congress. At the first Congress, Herzl was elected President of the Zionist Organization, with Max Nordau and Moses Gaster two of the three vice-presidents. The main...
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...The Jewish people have been beaten down and persecuted since the beginning. Historically the Jewish people are constantly being attacked to end their existence. The Jews’ intensely difficult historical past seeded a special zeal in their hearts to continue in the face of adversity. The most notable attempted extermination of the Jews not only failed but also opened the door for the Jews to finally be able to hold their own lands. The End of the Holocaust sparked a new fire in the hearts of the Jewish people looking for a place to call home. The Jewish peoples’ hunger for their own state had its roots in the hearts of the Jews’ long before the proposition of Israel’s creation. The establishment of Israel marked the first Jewish held state in...
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...The History of US-Israel Relations Against Our Better Judgment The hidden history of how the United States was used to create Israel Louis Brandeis, flanked by Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, founding secretary of the American Federation of Zionists (right) and Nathan Straus, co-owner of Macy’s (Source: Library of Congress) By Alison Weir April 18, 2013 Alison Weir is Executive Director If Americans Knew and President of the Council for the National Interest. She is available to give presentations on this topic and can be reached at contact@ ifamericansknew.org. How the U.S. “special relationship” with Israel came about W hile many people are led to believe that U.S. support for Israel is driven by the American establishment and U.S. national interests, the facts don't support this theory. The reality is that for decades U.S. foreign policy and defense experts opposed supporting the creation of Israel. They then similarly opposed the massive American funding and diplomatic support that sustained the forcibly established state and that provided a blank check for its aggressive expansion. They were simply outmaneuvered and eventually replaced. Like many American policies, U.S. Middle East policies are driven by a special interest lobby. However, the Israel Lobby, as it is called today in the U.S.[1], consists of vastly more than what most people envision in the word "lobby." As this article will demonstrate, the Israel Lobby is considerably more powerful and...
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...During the time of the Mandatory Palestine, the Balfour Declaration signed in 1917, stated that the government of Great Britain supported the establishment of a "Jewish national home" in Palestine. This exacerbated tensions between the Arabs living in Mandate Palestine and the Jews who emigrated there during the Ottoman period. Signed in January 1919, the Faisal–Weizmann Agreement promoted Arab-Jewish cooperation on the development of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East, though this event had little to no effect on the conflict. In 1920, the San Remo conference largely endorsed the 1916 Anglo-French Sykes–Picot Agreement, allocating to Britain the area of present day Jordan, the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and Iraq, while France received Syria and Lebanon. In 1922, the League of Nations formally established the British Mandate for Palestine and Transjordan, at least partially fulfilling Britain's commitments from the 1915–16 McMahon–Hussein Correspondence by assigning all of the land east of the Jordan River to the Emirate of Jordan, ruled by Hashemite king Abdullah but closely dependent on Britain, leaving the remainder west of the Jordan as the League of Nations Mandatory Palestine. While the British had made promises to give both Arabs and Jews land, the British claimed they had never promised to give either side all of the land. Rising tensions had given way to violence, such as the 1920...
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...INSY 5337 Data Warehousing – Term Paper NoSQL Databases: An Introduction and Comparison between Dynamo, MongoDB and Cassandra Authored ByNitin Shewale Aditya Kashyap Akshay Vadnere Vivek Adithya Aditya Trilok Abstract Data volumes have been growing exponentially in recent years, this increase in data across all the business domains have played a significant part in the analysis and structuring of data. NoSQL databases are becoming popular as more organizations consider it as a feasible option because of its schema-less structure along with its capability of handling BIG Data. In this paper, we talk about various types of NoSQL databases based on implementation perspective like key store, columnar and document oriented. This research paper covers the consolidated applied interpretation of NoSQL system, depending on the various database features like security, concurrency control, partitioning, replication, Read/Write implementation. We also would draw out comparisons among the popular products and recommend a particular NoSQL solution on the above mentioned factors. 1. Introduction Until recently, Relational database systems have been on the forefront of data storage and management operations. The advent of mobile applications that requires real time analysis like GPS based services, banking and social media has led to huge unstructured data being produced every second. Traditional RDBMS systems have found it difficult to cater to these huge chunks of unstructured...
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...Lemon Tree by Eran Riklis 1. Give a few geographical facts about the country in which the film was made. (Location, population, ethnicities, religion, other significant facts) 2. Give a brief history of the country. 3. Give a short summary of what the film was about. (NOT a review!) 4. What was the most interesting thing you learned through this film? Lemon Tree is a film set on the border between Palestine and Israel near the West Bank. The State of Israel is a parliamentary democracy with a modern economy. Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and East Jerusalem as a result of the 1967 War. In accordance with negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in 1994. Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007 and exercises control there. The division of responsibilities and jurisdiction in the West Bank between Israel and the PA is complex and subject to change. PA security forces are responsible for keeping order in certain areas, and the PA exercises a range of civil functions in those areas of the West Bank. Official guidance on entry, customs requirements, arrests, and other matters in the West Bank and Gaza is subject to change without prior notice or may not be available. (http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1064.html) The total area of the State of Israel is 8,630 sq. miles, of which 8,367 sq. miles...
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...The Suez Crisis During the 1950’s, Britain’s rule over Egypt led them to gain joint control over the Suez Canal with the French. However, many Egyptians were tired of Britain’s presence because they felt as if they were second class citizens in their own country. This led to Egypt’s military beginning to pressure Britain’s armies, located in the Canal Zone, so they would leave. Not only were attacks made on the British, but also on Israeli troops along the border between the two countries. Years later, this long and negative history between the nations would eventually lead to the joint decision for Israel, Britain, and France to attack Egypt when Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal in July 1956. As a result, the Suez Crisis ensued. During the course of this paper, I will argue that the Suez Crisis had a greater impact on Britain and Frances’ power as colonizing countries as it exposed significant military weaknesses. I will first discuss in further detail what the Suez Crisis was. Then I will explain the different measures that were taken to maintain peace amongst the nations involved. Lastly, I will discuss the different outcomes Egypt, Britain, France, and Israel faced. When Colonel Nasser replaced General Neguib in 1954 he had three main goals for Egypt. These included: making Egypt independent by ending British occupation, building up the Egyptian forces for an effective attack on Israel, and building the economy by constructing a dam at...
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...Geography Israel, slightly larger than Massachusetts, lies at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Egypt on the west, Syria and Jordan on the east, and Lebanon on the north. Its maritime plain is extremely fertile. The southern Negev region, which comprises almost half the total area, is largely a desert. The Jordan, the only important river, flows from the north through Lake Hule (Waters of Merom) and Lake Kinneret (also called Sea of Galilee or Sea of Tiberias), finally entering the Dead Sea 1,349 ft (411 m) below sea level—the world's lowest land elevation. Government Parliamentary democracy. History Palestine, considered a holy land by Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and homeland of the modern state of Israel, was known as Canaan to the ancient Hebrews. Palestine's name derives from the Philistines, a people who occupied the southern coastal part of the country in the 12th century B.C. A Hebrew kingdom established in 1000 B.C. was later split into the kingdoms of Judah and Israel; they were subsequently invaded by Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, Romans, and Alexander the Great of Macedonia. By A.D. 135, few Jews were left in Palestine; most lived in the scattered and tenacious communities of the Diaspora, communities formed outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile. Palestine became a center of Christian pilgrimage after the emperor Constantine converted to that faith. The Arabs took Palestine from the Byzantine empire in 634–640...
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...What are the modern origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? During World War I, Britain made three different promises regarding historic Palestine. Arab leaders were assured that the land would become independent; in the Balfour declaration, Britain indicated its support for a Jewish national home in Palestine; and secretly Britain arranged with its allies to divide up Ottoman territory, with Palestine becoming part of the British empire. Historians have engaged in detailed exegesis of the relevant texts and maps, but the fundamental point is that Britain had no moral right to assign Palestine to anyone. By right Palestine belonged to its inhabitants. In the late l9th century, anti-Semitism became especially virulent in Russia and re-emerged in France. Some Jews concluded that Jews would only be safe in a Jewish state and thus founded Zionism. Most Jews at the time rejected Zionism, preferring instead to address the problem of anti-Semitism through revolutionary or reformist politics or assimilation. For many orthodox Jews, especially the small Jewish community in Palestine, a Jewish state could only be established by God, not by humans. At first Zionists were willing to consider other sites for their Jewish state, but they eventually focused on Palestine for its biblical connections. The problem, however, was that although a Zionist slogan called Palestine "a land without people for a people without land," the land was not empty. Following World War I, Britain arranged...
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...The conflict between Israel and Palestine has an important significance because it's not only a territorial dispute, but also a cultural and religious one. The issue of recognition of the State of Palestine it's a problem hard to analyse considering the history of the belligerents and their argument about being hegemonic. The conflict emerged in 1917 when the Balfour Declaration gave Israelis permission to establish in Palestine and was soon followed by a Palestinian manifesto in 1933, but the dispute became military in 1948 when the civil war turned in the First Arab-Israeli War won by the Zionists with the help of the West. This followed the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel by David Ben-Gurion, the executive head of the World Zionist Organization. The armistice in 1949 led to a disjointed Palestine, with an Arab population of which half was made up of refugees. For twenty years, since the proclamation of the State of Israel and until the Six-Day War, Palestinians were reduced to silence under the occupation of Nasser's Egypt. As for the few who chose not to live under the occupation of Zionists, they were considered a mass of refugees under the protection of UN and UNRWA. In 1950, UNRWA was taking care of 957.000 Palestinians. On the other hand, Israel's population nearly doubled. This state of coercion, fear and insecurity led to the birth of The Palestine Liberation Organization by the Arab League in Cairo (1964) which brings into the open...
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...The 20th Century Genius Award Hum/102 October 19, 2011 The 20th Century Genius Award The nominated figure that stands out in my mind as a genius of Western culture would be Albert Einstein. His work and cultural contributions can be classified in both the Age of Modernism and the Age of Pluralism for the 20th Century Genius Award. The following examples will include a synopsis of the life and times of Albert Einstein, A survey of the ideas and works recognizing the reflections of his genius, and an appraisal of his impact on the arts and culture. Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 to Hermann and Pauline Einstein a scientifically minded family, who were non-practicing Jews in Ulm, Wurttemberg Germany. As a child, he was very curious, and lively. Albert attended a Catholic elementary school, and his mother insisted for him to take violin lessons. Although he detested the lessons, and later on decide not to continue with them, he would later on find an appreciation and great comfort in Mozart’s violin sonatas. At the early age of five, Albert was fascinated by complex scientific and mathematical concepts at a very early age. Hermann Einstein shows his son a pocket compass, and Einstein with his sense of wonder, and curiosity realizes that something in “empty” space controlled the needle; he later on describes the experience as a revelation of his life. Albert Einsteins hobbies was to build models and mechanical devices for his amusement although he showed...
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...INTRODUCCIÓN El conflicto israel -palestino es uno de los más complejos del escenario internacional y la principal clave de la inestabilidad en Oriente Medio. El territorio conocido como Palestina es motivo de una disputa desde hace casi un siglo, y especialmente a raíz de la creación del Estado de Israel en 1948 y el abortado nacimiento del Estado árabe palestino. En este conflicto se conjugan elementos diversos. Nació como la disputa por un territorio entre dos movimientos nacionales con diferentes proyectos nacionales; provocó la intromisión de las potencias durante la Guerra Fría; con el tiempo implicó a otros actores regionales, ocasionando conflictos bélicos, y se complicó aún más las ideologías, religión y control de los recursos naturales… ANTECEDENTES A fines del siglo XIX, en un contexto en el que interviene el desarrollo del nacionalismo y las persecuciones que sufre la población judía en la Europa del Este, nace el movimiento sionista. Su fundador Theodor Herzl defiendo el reagrupamiento de la población hebrea de la "diáspora" en Palestina. Este territorio, cuna original del pueblo de Israel, estaba poblado mayoritariamente por árabes palestinas había sido parte del Imperio Turco desde el siglo XVI. Desde 1882 se establecen las primeras aldeas de pioneros y ...
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