This report discusses U.S. relations with Israel and recent developments. Israeli-Palestinian issues and conflict are a major focus of the report.

This dissertation conceptualizes a Palestinian archipelago based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the chronotope, and uses the archipelago model to illustrate the situation and development of Palestinian consciousness in diaspora. To gain insight into the personal lives of Palestinians in diaspora, This project highlights several islands of Palestinian identities as represented in the novels: Dancing Arabs, A Compass for the Sunflower, and The Inheritance. The identities of the characters in these works are organized according to the archipelago model, which illustrates how the characters rediscover, repress, or change their identities in order to accommodate life in diaspora. Analysis reveals that a major goal of Palestinian existence in diaspora is the maintenance of an authentic Palestinian identity. Therefore, my description of the characters’ identities and locations in the archipelago model are informed by various scholars and theories of nationalism. Moreover, this dissertation illustrates how different Palestinian identities coalesce into a single national consciousness that has been created and sustained by a collective experience of suffering and thirst for sense of belonging and community among Palestinians. Foremost in the memories of all Palestinians is the memory of the land of Palestine and the dream of national restoration; these are the main uniting …

The Middle East conflicts between Palestine and Israel are long-term, ongoing and wide-ranging. Kicking All Odds is an observational documentary that explores women football players from Palestine – both Christian and Muslim girls – who play together and forge a team despite all the hardships they face.

This study politicizes the mixed relationship in Israeli-Palestinian literature. I examine Arab-Jewish and interethnic Jewish intimacy in works by Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish, canonical Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua, select anthologized Anglophone and translated Palestinian and Israeli poetry, and Israeli feminist writer Orly Castel-Bloom. I also examine the material cultural discourses issuing from Israel’s textile industry, in which Arabs and Jews interact. Drawing from the methodology of twentieth-century Brazilian miscegenation theorist Gilberto Freyre, I argue that mixed intimacies in the Israeli-Palestinian imaginary represent a desire to restructure a hegemonic public sphere in the same way Freyre’s Brazilian mestizo was meant to rhetorically undermine what he deemed a Western cult of uniformity. This project constitutes a threefold contribution. I offer one of the few postcolonial perspectives on Israeli literature, as it remains underrepresented in the field in comparison to its Palestinian counterparts. I also present the first sustained critique of the hetero relationship and the figure of the hybrid in Israeli-Palestinian literature, especially as I focus on its representation for political options rather than its aesthetic intrigue. Finally, I reexamine and apply Gilberto Freyre in a way that excavates him from critical interment and advocates for his global relevance.

Israel has been dependent on energy imports since it became a nation in 1948, but the recent offshore natural gas discoveries could change that and possibly make Israel an exporter of natural gas. Development of the recently discovered natural gas fields-Tamar, Dalit, and Leviathan- likely will decrease Israel's needs for imported natural gas, imported coal, and possibly imported oil. A switch to natural gas would most likely affect electric generation, but could also improve Israel's trade balance and lessen carbon dioxide emissions.

On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel declared its independence and was immediately engaged in a war with all of its neighbors. Armed conflict has marked every decade of Israel’s existence. Despite its unstable regional environment, Israel has developed a vibrant parliamentary democracy, albeit with relatively fragile governments.

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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about three Israeli soldiers who reported wounded in the last barrage of gunfire on the Golan heights.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Israel and Syria which have signed their historic troop pullback agreement in Geneva after Ironing out a last minute snag.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Syrian command who ordered its guns silenced along the 40 mile Golan front.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about 81 days of bitter fighting between Israel and Syrian troops along the Golan heights which came to a close.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a senior U. S official who says that Syria and Israel who will exchange wounded prisoners of war within 24 hours after signing their troop disengagement pact.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about secretary of state Henry Kissinger who is returning home after engineering an accord between Israel and Syria which will be signed at Geneva.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about president Nixon who has announced that Israel and Syria have reached agreement on disengagement of their forces.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Israel and Syria which are reported to have wrapped up a separation of forces agreement.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about after a month of shuttling back and forth between middle East capitols Henry Kissinger has scored the diplomatic victory he sought accord between Israel and Syria over troop withdrawals in the Golan heights.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Israeli cabinet who concluded a meeting and promised an announcement in the day on whether it has agreed to a disengagement pact with Syria.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about secretary of state Kissinger who has postponed return to Washington again to make another trip to Damascus.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about secretary of state Henry Kissinger who has again left Syria in his last ditch effort to win agreement for Syrian Israeli disengagement.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about president Nixon who holds a meeting with his cabinet and vice president Ford.