Social Stratification & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

In some ways, one could trace the development of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict back to Biblical times, when the wandering Hebrew tribes fought their way into a place in what was then called Canaan. It was at that point that those tribes chose to make a covenant with their new God who was different from the Canaanite God, El. Not only were they of a different ethnicity than the original settlers of that valley, they chose to separate themselves from the religion and traditional practices of that people (Armstrong, 1993). Since that point, there has been increasing distinction between the two Semitic peoples who are now called Arabs and Jews, represented by the two distinct religions of Islam and Judaism. The intention in this paper is to explore the meaning of social stratification in this longterm conflict.

This really is a story with its roots in the fardistant past. According to Kunstel and Albright (1990), archaeology indicated that the Canaanites, descendants of many of the Palestinians, arrived in the Sorek Valley before 3300 B.C.E. There were villages and temples in the region long before the building of Egypt's great pyramids. The Canaanites had been established in the valley for centuries before the other nomadic people arrived in that region. The Hebrew people did not arrive until approximately 2000 B.C.E., along with other unsettled tribes. According to the Hebrew Bib

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Jordan River. Current Situation The 1990s has not seen an end to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs. There have been peace efforts, including the current one, but there has also been the intifada, the intrusive rightwing Israeli settlers, and numerous Palestinian terrorist incursions. The intifada was essentially a civil uprising, with children matched against soldiers with sophisticated weaponry. Those children waved the banner that Emir Feisal devised in his 1920s revolt against the occupation of the British and the French. The symbol remained and became the official flag of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the symbol of Palestinian desires to be free of all types of foreign domination (Glass, 1990). Social Stratification One of the interesting aspects of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict is the frequent lack of support for the Palestinians from other Arabs and their leaders. From the beginning, there has been this division, although sporadically there has been a unified front. As noted earlier, when the Balfour Declaration was first published, Arab leaders had been consulted and they did not protest, nor indicate any problem with the decision (Fromkin, 1989). One reason for this is that despi
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