causing a conflict or in this case war. Thus, nationalism is one of the important causes of revolutions, borders, and wars even in the world today.
             An important geographical area where the affects and causes of nationalism can be seen with clarity is the Middle East. The history of the Middle East is long and very complex relating back to more than three thousand years. The main conflict in the area today is between Jews and Arabs. This is a long-run conflict that has many problems to overcome. However, to understand these problems, we must first try and understand the history of how the problems came to be.
             The current problems in the Middle East relate back to more than an entire century. In the year 1895, a Jewish captain in the French army named Alfred Dreyfus was tried for spying for the enemy Germans. The French newspapers proclaimed Dreyfus as, "the Jew traitor".
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