Chapter 5: The First Arab-Israeli War and the 1956 Suez Crisis The war of 1947-49 Following Israel’s declaration of statehood the Arab armies attacked along all the borders of the Jewish state. Egyptian forces attacked from the south; Syria‚ Lebanon and Iraq attacked from the north and north-east. By 28 May 1948‚ the Jordanian Arab Legion had occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. After initial setbacks‚ however‚ the Israelis successful drove the Arab armies out of the north‚ regained
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The breaking news piece of the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 left the world holding their breath. The story broke via BBC Breaking News’ twitter account on the 8th of March 2014. It seemed like a routine flight from Kuala Lumpa‚ Malaysia to Beijing in China. The Boeing 777-200ER was carrying12 crew and 227 passengers‚ 6 of which were Australian. The four news pieces chosen to analyse vary in proximity and format‚ including internet articles from news businesses The Wall Street
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named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Characters: Paternal Family The Obamas are members of the Luo‚ Kenya’s third-largest ethnic group. • Hussein Onyango Obama Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather • Habiba Akumu Obama Barack Obama’s paternal grandmother and the second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama • Barack Hussein Obama Senior He is the father of Barack Obama. Visited his son only for one single time. In his memoir‚ Barack calls him the Old Man. • Kezia • Jane
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On August 19‚ 1953‚ the Iranian military‚ supported by the United States government‚ overthrew Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstated the Shah of Iran‚ marking the first real instance of U.S covert action and regime change. While the CIA has only recently admitted to U.S involvement‚ the motivations for this coup d’état were quite clear. Mosaddeq came to power in 1951 and almost instantly made his nationalist ideologies publicly known by calling for the expropriation of Iran’s oil fields. This
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Egypt: Then and Now The British and French colonization of the Middle East after World War I was definitely not the first time the region had come under foreign occupation. Nonetheless‚ Western imperialist rule over the Arab territories stood to be a significant physical [and mental] presence unfamiliar to the natives. Much different than past empires or dynasties‚ the British and French worked cooperatively‚ under the Sykes-Picot Agreement‚ in a mandate selection process with the posed objective
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the war. So in 2001‚ after the attacks of 9/11 the country had to go to war to defeat the people who had brough great terror to our nation. Saddam Hussein WikiImages / Pixabay ’The War on Terrisom’ began‚ intiallly starting in Iraq (not where Osama Bin Laden lives)‚ this is because the group who was believed to be the terriost was Saddam Hussein‚ the former president of
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The French and the British both formulated their foreign policy in the Middle East to help advance their own interests. Power hungry and desperate for new land‚ British and French governments struggled to shape the Middle East in the ways that would be most helpful to their own interests. The selfish mindsets of these two nations coupled with the lack of Arab nationalism made for an unstable Middle East. People in these Middle Eastern nations were unable to advocate for themselves and were taken
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the War ended in a stalemate because the Iraqi regime that had started the War by invading Kuwait remained in power. Perhaps inevitably then‚ in March 2003 the US and its allies invaded Iraq with the stated aim of overthrowing the regime of Saddam Hussein and destroying that regime’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Some similarities between both Wars are immediately obvious: for example‚ the same country‚ the US‚ led both wars against the same country‚ Iraq. There are‚ however‚ significant differences
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When we hear the word downtown we think about the skyscrapers‚ the economic activies ‚ the big shops‚ in fact we imagine a place full of life.The central business district or ‘’downtown’’ as we call it is the heart of the city and reflect the city’s history. Based on an American model ‚it was reproduced all over the world. In term of beauty we can’t reproach anything to the new DT .Walking in Zeytouna Bay at night watching all the high and beautiful building will give you the impression of being
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The United States has been subjected to terrorism for many years‚ much of it directed toward American targets out of the country. This contains the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut on 1983‚ a detonation that brought down an American airliner over Lockerbie‚ Scotland in 1988‚ the bombing of American embassies in 1998‚ and the attack of U.S. naval vessel Cole in 2000. Terrorist occurrences were rare prior to the September 11th attacks. Radicals west of America performed numerous performances
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