Case Of Palestine Research Articles

Psychiatry, ethnicity and migration: the case of Palestine, 1920-1948.

The aim of the paper is to explore the development of psychiatry in Palestine from two main perspectives: ethnicity and immigration. In Palestine the subject of immigration and psychiatry were highly complicated and had unique features. Thus, both psychiatrists and patients were immigrants who belonged to the same ethnic group sharing the same ideology and objectives. The examination will uncover the social construction of mental diseases among Jewish immigrants in Palestine - patients and psychiatrists - and elucidate another layer in the development of the Zionist Jewish society in Palestine up to the establishment of the State of Israel.

How sustained conflict makes moral education impossible: some observations from Palestine

This article explores the impact of conflict and war on children's moral education, taking the case of Palestine as an example. It begins by giving a brief background to the emergency situation in Palestine and the impact this has on children. The second section reports research findings about the attitudes of Palestinian teachers, parents and young people towards the effects of the current conflict on children's personal development and towards the possibility of moral education while the conflict continues. The final section discusses the deeper problem of what sort of moral education is appropriate in such a context and examines specific values, such as love, hate, revenge, forgiveness, peace, anger and violence.

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles. Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, by Andrew Cockburn. Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now, George McGovern and William R. Polk. What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat, by Louise Richardson. Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, Al‐Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today, by Marc Lynch. The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967‐1977, by Gershom Gorenberg. Aid, Diplomacy and Facts on the Ground: The Case of Palestine, by Michael Keating, Anne Le More and Robert Lowe. Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad, by Matthew Levitt. Academic Freedom after September 11, edited by Beshara Doumani. Cities of God and Nationalism: Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as Contested World Cities, by Khaldoun Samman. Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World, by Stephen O'Shea.

A Review of: “Aid, Diplomacy, and Facts on the Ground: The Case of PalestineEdited by Michael Keating, Anne Le More, and Robert Lowe”

A Review of: “<i>Aid, Diplomacy, and Facts on the Ground: The Case of Palestine</i>Edited by Michael Keating, Anne Le More, and Robert Lowe”

Impact of Community-Based Rehabilitation Programmes: The Case of Palestine

The aim of this study was to describe and discuss the impact assessment of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programmes, with CBR in Palestine as a case study. Impact was assessed by means of a comprehensive design comprising multiple methods. In this article results are reported from a representative baseline study and a record audit. Considerable progress was recorded in activities of daily living (ADL) measures as well as social measures concerning family life and social participation outside the family. Increased awareness about disability issues and attitude change were also clearly indicated. In conclusion, the CBR programme in Palestine has had a pronounced impact on individuals with disabilities and their families. The programme has also had a positive impact on awareness, attitudes and practice towards individuals with disabilities in their local communities. Assessing the impact of complex community development programmes will always be uncertain as many intervening factors are beyond the control of the assessor. Although good record-keeping, stable and competent staff, in addition to a well-organized programme are pre-requisites both for progress and possibilities for measuring results, there is also a need for improved indicators on the impact of CBR programmes.

The politics of deteriorating health: the case of Palestine.

This article reviews the deteriorating health situation of the Palestinian population during the post-Oslo period of the Palestinian Authority and during the current Intifada. It seeks to record findings obtained through primary participants and documents and from personal observations in the field that situate Palestinian health conditions within their political framework. The ongoing crisis highlights longstanding problems in the Palestinian health infrastructure, which make it more vulnerable to Israeli policies, especially the movement restrictions and closures. Efforts by Palestinian professionals and the international health community to provide health services have been constantly thwarted. The Israeli authorities' disregard for Palestinian health care has escalated since 2000 and is directly responsible for a vast number of Palestinian deaths. Israel's indiscriminate obstructions to the coordinated functioning of a health care system in Palestine increase morbidity, degrade health, promote premature deaths, and damage the medical infrastructure. Moreover, the Israeli actions transgress international law and, ultimately, make peace in the region much less likely. This analysis provides further evidence of the social justice violations and the wide-ranging effects on health experienced daily by the Palestinian people as a direct result of the Israeli military occupation.

Penguasaan dan Pemilikan Tanah yang Diskriminatif: dalam Perspektif Hukum Internasional dan Hukum Nasional

This essay reveals that indigenous people such as Indian people in America^and Aborigine in Australia find it dificult to culturally and socially Integrate with white people who are colonizers. Some cases of state conflict relating to the land dispute have placeda vital role in which neighbors countries are involved in the arms conflict or wars. It is not be cause the absence of the law to handle dispute, rather the political interest of certain country predominate to treat the case unjustly as demonstrated in Palestine case. In relation to the current situation, the Australian and Indonesian government concern very much to improve land reform for the interest of the people by is suing certain laws andregulations. In fact, however, the Australian government currently recognizes the Native Title Act for Aborigine to occupy and own their own land in conjuction with their own beliefs and myths. The positive development takes place in Indonesian, not only, because the presence of the state platform of guideline and the law No 22/1999 concerning the local autonomy, but also due to the people welfare, the government requires to implement thebasic principle of agrarian law. It is in fact, however, uneasy to implement it because the practice ofthe state of local autonomy is challenged by internal problems of professional workers and also in certain territories, such as Yogyakarta, is uneasy to fully adhere the law because of its special treatment.

In-service teacher training programmes: the case of Palestine

This research aims to assess the effectiveness of the in-service teacher training programme in Palestine, based on the opinion of the teacher participants in order to improve future in-service programmes. The Spearman's coefficient of rank correlation p test has been used to examine the stated null hypotheses. It indicates that the participants considered the concept of planning a lesson plan as the most important competency. The research found that there is a positive association among all groups of teachers (except onc group) concerning the importance of the listed objectives of the in-service programme, at a significant level of .05. Finally, the study recommended that in-service teacher programmes should place more emphasis on class applications and teaching techniques using different training programmes.

Change Processes and Strategies at the Local Level

Change Processes and Strategies at the Local Level

Trygve Lie, the Palestine Question, and International Loyalty

The records of the United Nations and the writings and statements of Trygve Lie, first secretary General of the U.N. show that Lie played a major role in the U.N. decision making process, the day the Palestine case was first placed on the agenda of the international body by Britain in 1947 in its capacity as the mandatory power, until he resigned from the U.N. The role he played significantly influenced those member states which on November 29, 1947, in the General Assembly, voted to adopt the partition of Palestine and the internationalization of Jerusalem.This paper tries to determine whether Lie as Secretary General acted within the limits of the powers he possessed either expressly or implicitly under the United Nations charter, and whether his many initiatives in the Palestine Question and the leadership roles he played were in accordance with the concepts of loyalty, integrity, and impartiality expected and required from an international civil servant.

Soviet policy in the Middle East : The case of Palestine during World War II

Yaacov Ro'i, La politique soviétique au Moyen-Orient : le cas de la Palestine pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Entre l'invasion allemande de l'URSS en juin 1941 et la conférence de Yalta en février 1945, le Gouvernement soviétique a totalement modifié sa politique à l'égard de la communauté juive en Palestine. Après avoir adopté une attitude totalement négative au début de la guerre, l'URSS fit savoir, un peu plus de trois ans plus tard, qu'elle approuvait la consolidation d'un foyer national juif en Palestine. Nous nous proposons dans cet essai d'analyser les motifs de cette transformation et d'en décrire les circonstances — en particulier les contacts entretenus entre des fonctionnaires soviétiques et des représentants des Juifs palestiniens et des chefs sionistes.

Some International Constitutional Aspects of the Palestine Case

The early Palestine case in the United Nations demonstrated the inadequacy of the prevailing theory as to how the Organization would deal with disputes and situations as part of its major function of maintaining peace and security. The case practically forced upon world attention the outline of another approach believed to have greater potential for the development of law, and actually more in keeping with the Charter as written, than the predominant theory. Subsequent developments in the U.N. handling of the case did not, however, on the whole, contribute to the development of this theory or, indeed, any consistent theory, but rather contributed to the present state of confusion as to the true nature of the powers of the world Organization in respect to the handling of disputes and situations. The predominant theory of the Charter was sometimes expressed as embodying the combination of power with responsibility for the preservation of peace. It was thought that the desired combination could be achieved by giving permanent seats on the Security Council to the five major wartime allies, and by placing primary responsibility upon that organ for the maintenance of peace and security. The requirement of unanimity among the five, written into the Charter, was a manifestation of the fact, obvious enough in retrospect, that they regarded themselves as continuing to be fully sovereign in the traditional sense, and, consequently, of the essentially political approach, as distinguished from what might be called a legal or constitutional approach, upon which the predominant theory of the Charter was based.

Arab League

The agenda of the Arab League Council meeting in Cairo during the last three weeks of February i960 reportedly centered around consideration of “the whole Palestine case in all its aspects,” comprising such problems as organization of the Palestinian people, formation of a Palestine defense army, use of the waters of the Jordan River for irrigation purposes, representation of the Palestine people by a legitimate body to speak in their name, and proposals for reactivization of the UN Arab-Israeli conciliation commission.’ The agenda also included discussion of the Algerian question, with representatives of the self-proclaimed Algerian provisional government expected to ask the League to support proposals put forward by the recent All African Peoples' Conference in Tunis for the organization of a force of Arab-African volunteers to help the Algerian nationalists. The first debate of the meeting was said to have occurred over the absence of two League members, Iraq and Tunisia, the leaders of which were at odds with President Nasser of the United Arab Republic. Cablegrams stressing the importance of their participation in the Cairo discussions were dispatched to the two countries at the suggestion of the foreign minister of Jordan.