When we look at the Arab-Israeli conflict, we have to distinguish between two levels: the interstate conflict between Israel and the Arab states and the intra-communal conflict meaning the conflict between the two peoples. The Oslo process brought the conflict to the intra-communal level of the 19...

After World War II, the British withdrew from Palestine leaving the United Nations to separate the area into Jewish and Arab states. The Arabs furiously rejected this plan. For years to come, violence would prevail over this cherished territory. The violence that has taken place over the years has h...

Israel is entering a new era in its relationship with its Middle Eastern neighbors and the international community. The forces shaping these new relationships are far more significant then the often-overstated ideological differences between the two major political blocs in Israeli politics: the c...

The situation in the Middle East represents one of the most important international conflicts since the end of the Second World War. The ongoing disputes related to the existence of a Jewish state at the expense of the Palestinian people has drawn the attention of the international community which h...

A number of elements of God can be seen in the three battles mentioned. Most evident is the fact that, as the Israelites are fighting a Holy War, God is the most important part of each battle. God is also shown by the selected passages as both omnipotent and all-powerful, as the giver an...

Should the United States maintain aid to Israel or should they eliminate the aid? That's something you should think about! The military aid protects America and Israel's mutual interests of peace and democracy in the oil-rich Middle East, where hostile nations are strengthening their ar...

Only multilateralism can ensure peace and security Global problems such as terrorism can only be resolved through international cooperation based on multilateralism. As the experience of Israel has shown, the willingness to use disproportionate military strength against a weak, powerless people d...

In Alan DershowitzÕs novel Chutzpah, he devotes an entire section to the issue of, and his personal feelings about James Pollard. He begins this section with a description of the way in which this man was caught selling classified governm...

In Alan Dershowitz's novel Chutzpah, he devotes an entire section to the issue of, and his personal feelings about James Pollard. He begins this section with a description of the way in which this man was caught selling classified governme...

Israel P.L.O. Peace Treaty The Middle East has always been known as the Holy Land, the land of the Bible. For centuries, prophets have walked there, nations have collided and conquerors have come and gone. While Jews claim a three thousand-year-old attachment to this ancient land, Arabs also sta...

An ancient Roman expression states, "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum"; "Therefore whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war". Throughout much of the twentieth century, nations have attempted to resolve conflicts and ensure peace. The most preeminent conflicts...

The negotiations at the Wye River Conference Center brought about an interim agreement that built upon prior agreements, set up mechanisms to help facilitate further peace, and put in place a time line as well as the procedures to finalize an agreement to bring complete peace to this region. The W...

The negotiations at the Wye River Conference Center brought about an interim agreement that built upon prior agreements, set up mechanisms to help facilitate further peace, and put in place a time line as well as the procedures to finalize an agreement to bring complete peace to this region. The W...

IRAQ VS. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: HOW MUCH LONGER WILL INNOCENT PEOPLE CONTINUE TO DIE UNTIL SANCTIONS ARE LIFTED? In the year 1990 the Middle East was in a tense position after the attack of Kuwait by its Iraq neighbours and its' President Sadaam Hussein. This was only to beginning of w...

Israel's Economy 1.) I believe any country should be able to qualify for admission to the World Trade Organization regardless of its human rights policies. Israel has many main human rights. The Government usually respects the human rights of its citizens. Some of Israeli human righ...

"The gravest danger facing America and the World today is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons." This line from Presidents Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address underlines what is in store for our nation. The risk to our country is increasing more and mor...

The ten-week-old conflict, which has caused as many as 300 deaths mostly by Israeli troops doesn't seem to end even after both the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak issued public statements calling for the end of violence in the Holy Land. On November 2, 2000, on...

Jimmy Carter: A Vision for Peace James Earl Carter, the thirty-ninth elected President of the United States of America, will go down in history as the first, and possibly only, Western leader who brokered a peace deal between an Arab country and the Jewish State of Israel, to the satisfactio...

Before 9/11 we were living a carefree lifestyle. We traveled to and from without worrying about terrorist hitting us. We did all the things that we liked to do without thinking that one day we too could be like Israel or one of those other countries that get terrorist acts all the time. We were at ...

It is no big secret that Israelis and Palestinians have not gotten along in the past couple of thousand years. Reports of violence and devastation come out of Israel almost every day. But what many people fail to recognize is that this seemingly regional dispute has slowly evolved into an urgent glo...

Article of the day Title of the article: Israel votes to refund settlers Summary of article/situation: This article can be summarized in three main points. (a) Ariel Sharon wants to remove 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and four of 120 in the West Bank by compensating the Israeli set...

"Violent clashes of political and religious ideologies are a disturbing reality of our world." So states Joe Garner in his book We Interrupt This Broadcast. However, there is an island of peace amidst this ocean of political and religious conflict every four years. This island, the summer ...

The Arab-Israeli conflict is a struggle between the Jewish state of Israel and the Arabs of the Middle East concerning the area known as Palestine. The term "Palestine" has been associated variously and sometimes controversially with this small region. Both the geographic area designated by and th...

THE AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU CONCENTRATION CAMP IN WORLD WAR II "In the event of war, the result will not be the bolshevisation of the earth, and thus the victory for Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe." –Adolf Hitler "We shall never be rough and hea...

Terrorism in the Webster's New American Dictionary is defined as "the systematic use of intense fear as a means of coercion." In this day and age, the term terrorism is more than just the use of intense fear as a means of coercion but includes the use of terrorism as a means of r...