Balfour Declaration of 1917

The term “Melting Pot” describes a model of ethnic relations in which a nation-state's constituent ethnic groups engage in a process of reciprocal fusion. The phrase entered popular parlance with such élan that its origins still remain unknown and obscure to most people. Although one might safely attribute the wide-spread dissemination of the idea to Israel Zangwill, the Anglo-Jewish Zionist-turned-assimilationist, similar references had already been made by writers like J. Hector St. John de…

The political conflicts that shaped World War 1 and 2. Then just political conflicts of the 20th century. A few are the Crusades, French Revolution, and the Mexican-American War. There are way more I will talk about in this paper. The Crusades had people, or volunteers from pedestrians and military troops or bodies of every European nations. During some time armies of 1095-1291 troops of crusader armies attacked SouthEast Asia Minor and The Levant and they fought the Islamic forces and failed…

Ruling from the Middle East, all the way to South Asia, changes were fueling in by the British. In Palestine, the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and the British Mandate of 1920, had raised the tension between Arabs and Jews. One of the most significant changes was the establishment of the Jewish State of Israel. “On 29 November 1947, thousands of people jumped out of their beds and rushed out onto the streets when the reports were broadcasted on the radio.” It was the day the UN proposed the…

The Arab countries were distracted due to their continuious efforts to abolish the Ottoman Empire. In 1917 a major milestone for zionism was declared known as the Baflour declaration, ‘His Majestys Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people’. The prodominant cause of this declaration was Britian attempting to gain allies for the war against Germany (Avineri, “The Roots of Zionism”, 46-61). This was a significant…

Palestinian feminism is a global movement through which Palestinian women oppose patriarchal values and the violence of the Israeli occupation, and fight for human rights and equal treatment for all Arabs regardless of gender or sexuality. Palestinian feminism’s story is largely unknown. From the birth of powerful women’s organizations to viral Internet campaigns by young progressive activists during the Arab Spring, the motives and successes of Palestinian and Arab feminists rarely make…

Western Powers have been known to exert their authority amongst each continent of the world. The Middle East is not exempt from such, and has a history involving America, Britain, France and Russia. In order to assess the influence of these powers, the following essay will analyse how they shaped Middle Eastern politics from the eventful years of 1914 until 1990. This will be done by looking at the continuities and the discontinuities in Western policies towards the Middle East, starting from…

THE U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR I On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson tended to Congress, requesting a revelation of war against Germany. A little more than two months prior, on January 31, the German government had reported its resumption of "unhindered submarine fighting." With the declaration, German U-pontoons would without cautioning endeavor to sink all boats going to or from British or French ports. Under the new procedure, U-vessels had sunk three American trader ships with a…

Stalin to Fascism Review Sheet Vocabulary: Amritsar Massacre an incident in 1919 in which British troops fired on an unarmed crowd of Indians performing acts of civil disobedience Balfour Declaration statement issued by the British government in 1917 supporting the establishment of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine civil disobedience illegal nonviolent refusal to obey unjust laws collective large farm owned and operated by peasants as a large group command economy economic system in…

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the effects of the British and French colonial policies on the state formation at the Middle East after the World War One. The review of the process of creation of the mandate system and its consequences to the state formation in the area will be given at the beginning of the essay. Afterwards, the policies of both states will be analysed on two case studies of British mandate in Iraq and French mandate in Syria, including the…

Parallel to those of the Iranian revolution, this group of people was driven by political concerns of the society and eventually turned their political problems to religion. This movement was initiated by Hassan al-Banna, an ordinary religious scholar whose foundation of political activism was rooted in Islamic values. It was also Egyptian youths, who continued to take a critical role in the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt through the 1970s. When President Sadat was becoming a target of…