Israel-Palestine Conflict on BBC News and how it relates to "A Bottle in the Gaza Sea"

This article on the Israel-Palestine Conflict targets teachers and interested students but can expand towards targeting other adults. The purpose of this article is to inform its readers about the conflict in Israel and Palestine, to a certain stance of knowledge that does not fully extend its boundaries. This article claims that the only Jewish-majority state in the world is at war with its Palestinian and Arab neighbours over Jerusalem, the holy land for three major religions: Jewdism, Muslim, and Christinanity. Evidence of this claim is clearly stated in the first two sentences of the article: "A densely-populated country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, Israel is the only majority-Jewish state in the world. It has been locked in conflict with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbours over ownership of land considered holy by Jews, Christians and Muslims since its creation in 1948.

In the book, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, the two lands, Israel and Palestine, are at war with one another and it caused many problems on both sides. Both sides suffer a major loss of citizens, like when there were bombings and people killing leaders of the peace process. In the battle of 1948, Israel lost one percent of its population, while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14628835

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea and the 8 Stages of Genocide

In A Bottle in the Gaza Sea,  stages of Genocide are represented. In the book, groups of Palestinians are separated by the land of Israel, this would represent Polarization, which is when people are separated from each other and from the rest of society, this can also be seen as Preparation for when the bomb the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, or kill their residency. Another stage of Genocide is Classification and Symbolization, meaning that they are classified and forced to do other things. In the book, they are classified as Terrorists because their government is Hamas, whom are classified as terrorists in the U.S. They, the Palestinians, are forced to drive cars with Palestinian license plates and to cross check points the have to have the right paper work and be searched.

A Letter to Naim Al-Farjouk

Dear Mr. Naïm Al-Farjouk,

Hello, sir. My name is Katelyn Moe and I am a 10^th grader attending the Dayton Regional STEM School and have read the book, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea. Your character, Gazaman, or yourself, is a very interesting character to me. I would like to discuss your character with you. Gazaman’s attitude and personality intrigued me and caused me to wish to learn more about him. Knowing who he is, his age, and his life is not what I wish to learn more about, though. I am wishing to learn more about his personal life, his true personality, and how he feels about the person he begins to write to.

Gazaman, or yourself, found an Israeli wine bottle in the sand on the beach in the Gaza Strip, a part of land owned by the Palestinians. He opens it and reads the letter it holds. The letter is from an Israeli girl, a high school graduate, named Tal Levine, she left an e-mail address as she wished and hoped for a reply. Eventually, she receives an e-mail reply from you, Gazaman. She asks you several questions and you evade answering them until the end when you tell her that you are going off to college and will not be speaking to her for three years.

In the book, during one of your narration sections, you mention something about feeling like you are falling in love with her, as you did with a different Tal. Did you really feel this way about her? Do you believe in a thing such as love? Did you think that you should have told her? Do you wish you could turn back the clock so you can tell her? Did you ever think of the possibility that she could have had the same feelings for you, even though she had a boyfriend? I do look forward to your response and learning more of your character.

Sincerely,

Katelyn M. Moe

DRSS Student

Aid Red Cross

Red Cross provides many services such as; shelters, medications, blood/plasma donations, stations in areas of wars, blood/plasma to hospitals, and aids both sides of a battle. Red Cross needs the money to help the world.

Aid Child Soldiers International!

Child Soldiers International goes forth to stop the use of child soldiers across the world.

Who to blame for the Rwanda Genocide?

I believe that everyone should be blamed for the Rwanda Genocide. Why everyone? Because those who knew that the genocide was about to or was occurring could have done something to stop it. But everyone decided to ignore it. When people did speak up, their speakings were taken lightly and never heard of again. In the beginning, I originally blamed the German, because they favorited a specific party and gave them major benefits that the other parties needed. After the power shifted, the favorited party did not like how things were, they wanted power and a lot of it. They started killing off Rwandans, who they viewed as inferior and pathetic. No one stopped them, so they kept killing and gaining the land from those that they killed. Therefore, because of the lack of attention and interference with the genocide, I blame every nation.

11/22/2011 FIRST Trip to the US Airforce Mueseum

At the museum, we were told to examine and to focous on the Holocaust. After a short presentation from a Holocaust survivor, Felix Weil, we walked around the the Holocaust exhibit. I was amazed at the rare items they had, actual uniforms, bages, documents, and replicas of the actual walls and the entry gates. There was a replica of the train cars that were 40(passengers)-8(horses/donkeys) but was used to holed from 80-90 Jewish passengers, the main victims of the Holocaust and main target of Adolf Hitlers hate and attacks. My favorite part of the Holocaust museum, however, are the blankets that were made by young childern.
After we veiwed the Holocaust exhibit, we did a scavenger hunt around the meuseum that was mostly focused on planes. As we walked around, I would be the last one. I was engrossed in the wonders and amazement of the planes that surrounded me. We had to stop before we got to see all the planes though. I hope we soon return, it was a fun and great experience for us all.
**I WILL POST PICTURES ONCE I RECIEVE THEM**