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The citizens of America need to stand up for the voiceless and have compassion on the world’s refugees because people are being forced to live in unhuman conditions, and America has the resources to help while offering a safe place to live. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) website, there are 21.3 million refugees in the world as of 2016 (Figures at a Glance). This rapid increase of refugees started growing in 2013 and has grown every year since. This is due…

The tension between the Islamic world and Western civilization was not a spontaneous incident. Rather, it would be a series of developments spanning the length of nearly an entire millennia which would eventually form today’s crisis between the Western world and the Middle East. In this presentation, I will share the key developments over history in this ongoing crisis crisis. The concept of wars fought over differences in religion, or holy wars, is not a particularly new idea. Since the dawn…

Meeting with Fahad Allnagrani was a great experience. I learned information about Saudi Arabia that I was totally unaware of. Suadi Arabians all have pretty large families, Allnagrani had a family of 13 all in one household. He was the youngest so he had a pretty easy life growing up, especially with the awesome relationship he held with his mother. I also learned that Suadi Arabia has the largest Mosque, and people from all over the world comes to pray there often. Allnagrani’s religion was…

Nationalism in Iraq Iraq was established on October 1,1919. In World War I the British occupied a lot of Mesopotamia and were given a demand over the area in 1920. The British renamed the area Iraq and defined it as a kingdom in 1922. In 1932 the monarchy gained full independence. The Iraqi population includes Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen, Chaldeans, Assyrians, and Armenians. The religions are varied and consists of Shi'a and Sunni Muslims, Christians, Kurdish Yazidis, and a little number of Jews…

In the article "British journalist, now ISIS hostage, sends message from terror group", Atika Shubert and Catherine E. Shoichet from CNN inform people about the detrimental situation that is occurring in Syria. In July of 2012 a British Journalist named John Cantlie was abducted by the terrorist group ISIS. Fortunately he was saved by the Free Syrian Army rebels; unfortunately he was captured yet another time in November of 2012. Currently Cantlie is being forced to convey a message from the…

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in the early 1900’s. When Jews that faced persecution due to the Holocaust began to return home. However, when they got home they encountered 1.2 million Palestinians who were now calling the same land home. In 1948 the United Nations and the United stated supported the Israelis in establishing the state of Israel. Many Palestinians were forced out of their homes by Israeli military force however; some were able to say in Israel. Both groups have fought and…

The act of survival acknowledges that the ability to withstand and overcome the many problems that come your way, but suddenly conflict found its way into the world you onced lived in, and starts to tear apart everything you know and love. If you remain here you will die, but if you take action and leave you will suffer. These are the choices the people in Syria had to face. In the same manner, Syrian refugees are forced out of their homes to avoid the threat of chemical attacks authorized by…

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is between two nations who claim the same land. The conflict began when Palestine became the land where Jews wanted to construct a sovereign Jew state. Before Jews began migrating to this land it was a multicultural land with a population of approximately "86 percent Muslim, 10 percent Christian and 4 percent Jewish-living in peace"(If America knew). As Jews continued to arrive the indigenous population which was Arabs became alarmed that their land was being…

It is no surprise that the US has chosen to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The diplomatic Israel-US relationship over the past century has consisted of emphatic one-sided US support towards Israel. The US has and continues to provide Israel with military and financial support, sympathy, and defense in the United Nations (Walt & Mersheimer 39). Why the US continues to unconditionally provide Israel with such support is blurred among varying constructed rationales. The most…

Lebanon’s first war happened in 1982. This war started on June 6 of 1982 and ended in June 1985. It all started when the Israel Defense Forces invaded the south of Lebanon after countless attacks were happening between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel Defense Forces (IDF). When Abu Nibal’s Organization attempted to assassinate Shlomo Argov the Prime Minister of Israel decided to blame Abu Nibal and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The Prime Minister launched…