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    The Impact of Global Economic Crisis in the Middle East Impact of Global Economic Crisis in Middle East Page 1 Table of Contents Glossary ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 4 Background .............................................................

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    Most Arab people are connected by their culture‚ but all Islam’s are not Muslim. The language is a way of distinguishing the characteristics of Arab people. There is a host of ways of trying to figure out where an Arab is from.” Levantine dialect (Jordan‚ Syria‚ Palestine‚ Lebanon)‚ Modern Standard Arabic is a pan-Arabic language used in newspapers books and letters‚ Egyptian and North African Dialect‚ and Khalijji‚ or Gulf Dialect”(5). If you understand the countries‚ you might be able to figure

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    Europe at this time‚ the greatest pressure is still being felt in the Middle East and North Africa‚ as it has for each of the last five years‚”"(Angelina Jolie: ‘The world has failed Syria’s refugees’). Angelina Jolie visited a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan‚ Za’atri‚ which was meant to house 2‚000 refugees‚ but instead houses more than 120‚000‚ ("Angelina Jolie Turns Spotlight on Syria CNN"). Many‚ if not most of these refugees‚ fled with nothing but the clothes on their backs. During a UN meeting‚ Jolie

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    to seize territory. Israel claimed a large majority of the state‚ while Arab forces captured‚ most notably‚ the Gaza strip‚ now held by Egypt through the Sinai Peninsula. The central hills of Palestine were annexed by Jordan and labelled the West Bank‚ lying between Israel and Jordan that is to the east. Finally the Golan Heights‚ to the north‚ were captured by Syria. They had been hustling for control of the area for a long time‚ and finally they had seized it. Israel would later seize control of

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    The Sykes–Picot Agreement of 1916 was a secret agreement between the governments of the UK and France‚ with the assent of Imperial Russia‚ defining their respective spheres of influence and control in Western Asia after the expected downfall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. On the night of April 9‚ 1948‚ the Irgun Zvei Leumi surrounded the village of Deir Yasin‚ located on the outskirts of Jerusalem. After giving the sleeping residents a 15 minute warning to evacuated‚ Menachem Begin’s

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    To help convince and trick the Turks into believing their slide of hade they would also create a demonstration in the Jordan Valley to help influence the Turks to concentrate their efforts in the Jordan Valley not in the olive groves where they actually are. Allenby would also place dummy camps‚ dummy horses‚ and dummy troops to help through off the Turks of the upcoming attack. To ensure the concealment of

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    PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS‚ COMMUNICATIONS‚ AND LAW Geostrategic of Syria during the conflicts Final Term Exam Paper Anggun Desimalinda 016 2012 00057 International Relations Defense Class 2 2012 Strategic Environment Yugolastarob Khomeini July 15th 2014 Table of Contents Table of Contents……………….......………………………………………………………..1 Background of Study .......................................................................................................

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    The Realities of the Syrian Refugee Crisis “We want to live‚ love and build a just and peaceful society. We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors‚ near and far‚ day in and day out‚ to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.”‚ said Betty Williams‚ in her 1977 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Her quote‚ along with our God-given common sense‚ should guide America’s government officials in how to best handle the Syrian

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    in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people‚ and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object” (Hurewitz‚ 1979‚ p. 101 – 106). The Arabs were originally given 80 percent of the British Mandate‚ now known as Jordan. During World War II‚ Britain refused to allow European Jews‚ who were attempting to escape the Nazis‚ entry into the British Mandate. Instead‚ they were either sent to the African nation of Mauritius or sent to detention camps (Lenk‚ 1991‚ p. 92)

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    measured as an international plot. The PLO was trying to create a government for moved Palestinians‚ because the PLO’s were moved about in parts controlled in Israel and other countries including a good number in Jordan. Yasser Arafat assembled groups of displeased Palestinians in Jordan developing the PLO’s. In 1959‚ Yasser created Fatah which is a guerrilla organization which would wage a campaign against the Israelis. To the Israelis Fatah’s attacks were an aggravation and did not pose a serious

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