Part A

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=14022
26 Palestinians Kidnapped Across the West Bank
05-03-2008

Summary: On wednesday morning Israeli forces invaded parts of the West Bank and kiddnapped at minimum eight Paleestines. Sources say that Jenin City was inveaded by at least 20 military vehicles and that they searched through civilian gomes in different neighborhoods of the city. Sources also added that the Palestinian resistence clashed with the invaded troops and also said that most of the abducted Palestinians are Hamas related. The arm invaded al-Ymoun town as well as Jenin Cit and kidnapped two people. Military vehicles also invaded the north part of the West Bank and kidnapped four Palestinians. After invading and searching through another area the army kidnapped another Palestinian.

A. I think this article can best relate to the theme "development and interactions of cultures" becasue the Israelis and Palestinians were interacting with one another and fighting.
B. There is a lot of historical background to this article. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on since the late ninteenth century and is a dispute over land in the same area.
C. The writer of this article is a male Muslim and is an outsider.
D. The author of this article is most likely on the Palestinian side because in the article he goes on about everything wrong the Israelis did and says nothing bad about the Palestinians, so we might need to be careful of bias in this article.
E. It would be nice to have input from an Israeli because I would like to hear their side to the story and see if the Palestinians did anything to trigger this invasion.
F. I don't feel that for the Israeli to be kidnapping the Palestinians. I think theat the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on for way to long and somehow needs to be ended.

Christie DiPietrantonio