Difficulties In The Middle East

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Difficulties in the Middle East can be dated back to the Old Testament and Abraham and Sarai’s and their lack of faith to give them a child. The first conflicts between European’s and the Middle East first started with the Crusades trying to overthrow the Middle East between 1095 and 1250. At the end of World War II and the world found out about the Holocaust, gave a new argument for the Jews to have their own land.

“The origins of the problems can be found in imperialism, poverty, government corruption, political repression, and religious fanaticism.” Many Arab countries in the Middle East see Israel as outsiders, in 1968 a bomb in a Jerusalem market killing 14, 1969 a bomb at Hebrew University injuring 28, in 1970 a Swissair plane blown

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