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A Comparison of Terrorism in 1975 with Terrorism Today Terrorism has been a major contributor to the way that society is currently set up in the twenty-first century. The public response to the presence of terrorists is often the exact kind of reaction that these operations are aiming for. When George W. Bush claimed that the terrorists hated America because of its freedom (which is obviously a gross oversimplification of the motivations behind terrorist attacks) he was ironically signing…

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…

Sowing Crisis explains how the Cold war and policies taken by the U.S. have spilled over into today and how it has affected modern U.S. relations with the Middle East. Rashid Khalidi feels that wartime and postwar moves in North Africa and Iran, as well as U.S. air bases in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Morocco, and Turkey, marked the beginning of “an American role as the major Middle Eastern Power, a reality that was masked for a time by the power and proximity to the region of the USSR (Page 9).”…

Judaism is a religion that have been around for centuries. Many people practice this religion there are many different forms of this religion which includes Orthodox, Ultra Orthodox, Hasidic, Conservative, and Reconstructionist. Each group practice the religion a little differently than the other one. Orthodox Jews and Conservative Jews believe in most of the same ideas and is debated that they are the same. One person that classify as Jewish is Adam Sandler. Sandler was born into a Jewish…

Great Satan vs Axis of Evil: the Iranian perspective The aim of this work is to address Crocker's article The Strategic Dilemma of a World Adrift, in which he describes the present-day geopolitical situation: policymakers struggle to create sound strategies in an increasingly complex world (7). I am going to deal with a particular point of his argumentation: In the course of the article he compares the current period with the fifteen years (1991-2005) after the end of the Cold War, describing…

Background to the Palestinian Nationalism Introduction One very widely recognized conflict of our time is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This bloody struggle has endured for over a century and involves a complex web of players, alliances, and grudges that have brought about the death of many and disrupted the lives of countless others. According to one source, at least 1,104 Israelis and 6,836 Palestinians have been killed since 2000 alone, and many more have been injured. The same source…

will never forget Saturday October 7th. I will never forget what they did to my people.” I asked him if he thinks Israel and Palestine can ever achieve peace. He told me, “I believe that Israel will never be on friendly terms with Palestine[e]. Since Hamas now controls Palestine, Israel will never be on good terms with terrorists. For me personally, the Palestinians will be the worst people until my last days.” At only 14 years old and through broken English, Boris Fridman’s words, full of…

Iran has been using its wealth to support terroristic organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas. According to Matthew Levitt, Hezbollah receives 100 million dollars each year from Iran. However, western diplomats and analysts in Lebanon believe the percentage to be much higher than that, even double! That is 200 million dollars going into the…

Breaking News: San Bernardino mass shooting: 14 people dead, 21 wounded (Desocio); US trade deficit rises in February to 6-month high (Press); As US economics change, the term “middle class” fades away (Gedeon). Some say that these headlines are not important enough for the U.S to be focusing on them. For example, in a Gallup poll, people were asked, what is the most important problem facing the United States today? When it came to non-economic problems, terrorism only received 4% of the vote…

The Political Cyber Warfare: Stuxnet It is no exaggeration to say that the development of the Internet leads the world in the twenty-first century. The Internet globalizes the world quickly by forming a network among countries. However, the advancement of cyberspace makes international information flow abnormally fast. As a result, governments cannot monitor and control what information is exchanged in their countries. The aspect of the difficulty regulating the network generates cyber-crimes…