Jordan Belfort

Think back to the early 1940s, when hundreds of thousands of Jews from Europe sought refuge from a crazed ruler. Knowing the events that occurred, any decent person regardless of their country or religion would have voiced their concern for the Jews to their government, and not rest until action was taken to free the oppressed. People would have welcomed the Jewish refugees to their country with open arms if only they could have foreseen what was to come. In the Middle East there is a rising…

During the time of the British rule a few of the Arabic countries came together and created the Arab League. The Arab League consisted of five countries which included Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq. The League came together to help Palestine gain its territory because they also believed it was unfair to let the Jews have the larger part of the land than the Arabs. This scenario gave birth to Arab Nationalism for the first time…

Arab Spring Arab Spring made trending news due to many protests happening in Syria, Algeria, and Tunisia. It all started with a man who lived in Tunisia named Mohamed Bouazizi according to (Gutierres). Bouazizi was unemployed, the food prices were high, and he was harassed by public officials. When that occurred, he set himself on fire on December, 2010. This got the attention of many people in the Arab World. "The people want to bring down the regime," as stated in the article (Occupy Wall…

According to the UN development programme in 2002, the Middle East have witnessed high level of poverty, inequality, and gender gaps. All these factors have caused the Arab Spring. Although we have heard from the west about success stories of Egypt in terms of economic performance, according to the neo-liberal thinkers. However it has been argued that the rise of economy was due to the revolution. This statement can be questioned, as many left wings will argue that since introducing capitalism…

Have you ever wondered how Palestine became occupied? How people suddenly started calling it Israel? I was shocked to see that because of the occupation in my country, Palestine, my grandparents had to flee the country, and how some people refer to it as Israel instead of the true name Palestine. Yasser Arafat was the founder of the Fatah. He spent most of his lifetime fighting Israel and that is why many Palestinians admire and respect him. Arafat died at the age of 75 from a mysterious blood…

“Apartheid is not Normal” “Normalize This” is a free form, spoken word poem from Remi Kanazi. Kanazi is a Palestinian-American born to Palestinian immigrants. Kanazi’s grandmother was pregnant with his mother when she left Palestine in 1947. Around this time there was a great exodus or “nukba” of indigenous Palestinians, just as the land was being annexed to create the new state of Israel. Kanazi’s father left Haifa after the occupation had already taken place. Born in New York City in 1981,…

which they are described as a people who had been annihilated by the Israelites. The name Canaan is used in the Bible with in Genesis 10 as well as Numbers 34, where the “Land of Canaan’ extends from Lebanon to the “Brook of Egypt” and eastward to the Jordan River Valley. References to Canaan in the Bible are usually referring to a region that had become something else. Canaan and Canaanites are mentioned some 160 times in the Bible, mostly in the Pentateuch or the first five books of the Bible…

Israel belongs to the Jews by religious and documented rights. From 1948 to this day, Jews and Palestinians have been fighting over the land of Israel. Both sides have been claiming that the land is theirs by numerous rights. One of the main reasons that the land should belong to Jews is the Balfour Declaration. Another is that Jewish people have strong religious ties to the land. Also the fact that this land is a safe haven for jews after being discriminated against. The Balfour Declaration…

As most of the world is aware, Syria has been suffering through four and a half years of civil war, during which 250,000 Syrians have been killed, according to Rodgers et al.. There doesn’t seem to be an end in sight, as both sides- the Syrian government and the rebels- refuse to ceasefire or compromise. In addition, ISIS is making the situation worse through their involvement and frequent use of the war for recruitment. Because civilians have been subject to bombing, sieges, and chemical…

In the 1980s, the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) opened its archives pertaining to the 1948 war to the public. This prompted a revision of the origins of the Palestinian refugee crisis, which birthed a new interpretation of the historical events. Two narratives of this history emerged, the new history that is led by Benny Morris and the old history that is advocated by Shabtai Teveth. Morris contends that Israel is more to blame for the refugee crisis because of rumors of a transfer idea for…