Essays, Notes, School Work

1. Quotes of the people are one of the factual evidence presented. Like these quotes, “We refuse to participate in air force attacks on civilian populations.”

“We refuse to continue harming innocent civilians.”

“We will continue to hunt terrorist . . . We have no intention of harming civilians.” Proper nouns are also factual. Examples: Dan Halutz, West Bank, Gaza, Hamas, Palestine, Israel, Ariel Sharon, Yiftach Spector, and numerous others.

2. The basic idea of what they are talking about. The writer of this article assumes everyone knows that there is a conflict with Israel and Palestine. Maybe he is assuming this because this conflict has occurred for many years.

3. This article favors Israel because of the most dominant topic presented. The petition explains to the general the refusal of participating in air strikes on Palestine lands infested by innocent civilians. The Israeli reserve pilots are the ones that presented the petition, so this side of the conflict is favored, I think.

4. The final statement describes a deadly incident. Israeli forces enter the Boureij refugee camp in Gaza and exchange fire with others. Two killed from the camp and 6 Israeli soldiers wounded.

5. There was an opinion I think presented by the author of the article.:

“The region has been relatively quiet for the past two weeks, but daily violence persists.”

Because there is no factual evidence shown in that sentence, I think the author put his opinion there based on ideas or background information he/she had.