... sodden. Dew to the poor living conditions Influenza reached to an epidemic proportions killing the young and the old. This led the people with no more will to live so this is why there are extremists blowing themselves up. There ...

... as they feared they might try taking over the rest of Israel, as they are not happy with a smaller state. One problem was some extremists were still part of the PLO and wanted the whole of Israel back for ...

... the British having shares in the Suez Canal so did the French. They also felt it had importance with trade as they had been trading with the Middle East for many years. In 1900 countries began to realise that the ...

... wandering Jew suggesting the magazine believes that what goes around comes around and its time for the Arabs to be persecuted for a change? Or the magazine may be supporting the Arabs as they lost and the British should be ...

... in the canal because they were so interested in the use of it. The reason why the canal was of such great importance to the British was because journeys to the east would be a lot faster and safer than ...

... wishes of the UN but to the obvious dismay of the Palestinians. The first of several wars within the Middle East took place in the first established year of the Jewish State, the UN set up a truce between the ...

... Hopes were high that a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis was in sight. But today, eight years later, it has still not been achieved. Progress has been slow and there are continuing outbreaks of violence and bloodshed. ...

... a refugee problem because the Palestine's feared the fighting and left. They were driven out by Jewish forces and scattered into neighbouring Arab States as refugees. The increase in Jews from mainly America also helped to force the Palestinians out. ...

... the "Ethnic Bomb", and the United Nations' sanction on Iraqi people for more than a decade. The beginning of the current conflict can be traced back to when the partitioning process took place. According to CIA data: "After World ...

... the cross in France. Urban wanted the crusading army to be mostly made up of knights and other military personnel. Since the news of his speech at Clermont spread through the west, people from all social classes and occupations joined ...

... merchants, simply because they were Jewish. Although France was the first country to receive a constitution and the declaration of man, this guaranteed the Jews "their equality before the law, granted by statute, has become practically a dead letter. They ...

... Statistics Iran: Population (1998) : 61,531,000 Government Type : Islamic republic Ethnic Groups : Persian (51%), Azerbaijani (24%), Gilaki/Mazandarani (8%), Kurd (7%), other (10%) Major Religions : Shi'i Muslim (93%), Sunni Muslim (6%), Other (1%) Major Languages : Farsi, Azerbaijani, Kurdish Casualties : N/A Turkey: Population (1998) : 64,567,000 Government ...

... Jerusalem is the capital and the center of the Jewish people's national and spiritual life. The first Jewish city in modern times, Tel Aviv, is the center of the country's industrial, commercial, financial and cultural life. Haifa and Be'er Sheva ...

... ago, equally for the neighboring Arabic countries as well as for the rest of the world. Beirut was attractive as the place where in the first place, have passed by the thousand and hundred tones of various sorts of goods. ...

... whom or what was is to blame for the increasing Palestinian refugee problem. These sources vary in a number of ways such as the format that they come in as some are written sources where as others are pictures or ...

... the state of the refugee camps as a good propaganda weapon. However, as years past by, the number of people in refugee camps also increased as more children were given birth to. Some Palestinians became annoyed and began to form ...

... PLO, the 'umbrella' for the organisation of the main guerrilla movements. This further made his motives look like they were in the interests of terror. The two lost wars had been set-backs for Arafat but he kept up the threat by ...

... the UN General Assembly and the establishment of the UN "Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People" by the Assembly in 19753 are clear proof of the general recognition of this right in regard to ...

... network built after 1993 on confiscated Palestinian land isolates Palestinian towns and villages from one another and from Jerusalem, forcing many Palestinians to go through Israeli checkpoints just to get to the next town... "According to President Clinton and most of ...

... the other side will be offended. Events since 1948 Since 1948, the state of Israel has been involved in many wars. There have been five wars in the last 50 years. In each case, the Israelis have won the war, and with ...

... Suez Crisis will be successfully evaluated. The predominantly Anglo-French Suez Canal was seized on July 26, 1956 by Egyptian president Nasser. The Suez Canal was first built by the French and then acquired by the British, and finally taken ...

... weapons as the Israelis had destroyed them. A hundred and seventy Israelis were killed in comparison with a thousand Egyptians massacred. Egypt was destined to lose the war. After the 1956 war, Arab nationalism increased and so did the demand ...

... as an outsider response this shows that even though the Jew are meant to be the chosen people and live in the promised land, God does not protect them from their invaders therefore it can truly be said that Israel ...

... such as, 'cold blood', which makes the reader of the source feel sympathetic towards the Arabs. It also says, 'murdered 154 men women and children' this again adds to the depth and emotiveness of the source. From this evidence we ...

... Arabs fled from Palestine in 1948. Because the Jews were the reason for the Palestinians leaving, this source is likely to favour the Palestinians. The source tells us that because of the Palestinian 'Law of Return', it was illegal for ...