The Enemy Of The Middle East

If you and I make sure that we are honest in the small things, then we can be sure that we will be honest in the big things. If people know that they can trust us in small things, they will know that they can trust us in the big things

The U.S. has had Israel by its side now for a long time and their relationship continues nowadays. They support each other, the U.S. having once helped Israel by providing military aid; Israel returned the favour by getting rid of Arab nationalism that was a problem to the U.S. that was unable to solve it. It put down two of its worst enemies, Egypt and Syria that at that time had nationalists as leaders. Israel is said to even have some say on what laws pass in the U.S. by the group they have called the Israel Lobby. Today, Iran is threatening as there are some factors that indicate that it might be in the process of creating nuclear weapons and Israel being its enemy might be in danger. The United States is trying to negotiate this matter with Iran, making sure it understands that it has no right to have nuclear weapons, defending its friend, Israel. Israel is the U.S.’s closest ally and it protects U.S. interest in the Middle East, one less burden for the U.S. U.S. also sells it’s weaponry to Israel to be tested and this way developments can be made to

"Many know the truth but are evil and left to their own devices and deceitfulness, like stray cats purring for free milk; before they scratch your eyes out." ~ Jon Barnes

In An Enemy of the People, Ibsen creates an obvious point that there are issues when it comes to democracy. While Hovstad wants to support Dr. Stockmann, he fears that expressing such a thought, much like those of “freethinkers”, would damage his position within the newspaper company. This shows that Hovstad would ideally choose to go against the government, but he does not want to experience what it would be like to lose subscribers, and potentially, his business. As far as Dr. Stockmann saw the situation, he was alone in his thoughts regarding how to approach a community issue. In the case, the market was widely influenced by the government’s views. If the market went against the government’s ideas, they would risk losing the community’s

“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.” -Daniel Webster

During the seventh century a religion known as Islam arose in the Arabian peninsula. Although at first glimpse it may have seem as non threatening, soon there after, Islam erupted out of Arabia, rapidly taking control of the Middle East. Subsequently both Persia and the Christian Byzantine Empire were completely defeated and absorbed into the Islamic world. Islamic forces urged there followers to ensure that the world was under their political control. If it must be spread by the sword then so be it. Throughout the rest of the seventh century, Arab armies advanced inexorably northwards and westwards. For the next 300 years Christians and Muslims engaged in a protracted struggle. Nonetheless it was not until November of 1095, that Pope

The U.S. also has major concerns for Iran’s nuclear program, sponsorship of terrorism, and human rights record. The U.S. has tried to push the Iranian government to talk with the U.N. to try and dissolve the nuclear program and human rights abuse. The current Iranian government still has not recognized, one of America’s closest ally, Israel’s right to exist, this has hindered the Middle East peace process by arming militants, including Hamas, Hizballah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and continues to play a disruptive role in sustaining violence in the region, particularly in Syria.

Recently, much media attention has been given to the radical terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

The Goodman Theatre’s production of An Enemy of the People was an entertaining adaptation of Ibsen’s controversial play. Dr. Thomas Stockmann thinks he is a hero for discovering bacteria in the community’s baths, but his brother, Mayor Stockmann, sees the situation in a different light. Releasing Dr. Stockmann’s discovery to the public would ruin the community’s main source of revenue, and fixing the infrastructure mistake would cost an immense amount of time and money. The performance follows Dr. Stockmann’s cycle of personal discoveries and outbursts of frustration, while certain members of Stockmann’s community cannot seem to make up their mind on who they support.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has made headlines throughout the globe this past year with their atrocities against religious minorities and determination to create an Islamic caliphate. They have expressed, throughout, that their primary objective is to establish a Salafist government over the Levant region of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, and Southern Turkey(……). The group controls hundreds of square miles, where they disregard all international borders and has a amassed land from Syria’s Mediterranean coast all the way to the south of Baghdad. Their group leader is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who is recognized as caliph and the leader of Muslims everywhere. With their unpredictable authority that has included beheadings, massacres of prisoners, and attempts to exterminate Christian communities have spurred international outrage where Anti-coalition has begun with up to 62 nations joining the fight to stop this terror organization. Canada has joined the coalition, and it should indeed, because ISIS has declared war against Canada, war is the only practical way to stop ISIS from amassing new territories, and ISIS is committing war crimes against innocent civilians.

In the horror novel, Supernatural Horror in Literature, the author, H.P. Lovecraft starts off by stating the following: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” Choosing the topic of ISIS/ISIL, which are the Islamic State of Iraq & Syria / the Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant, was an easy choice because in truth, I know very little about the terrorist groups within these Islamic States. I, along with seventy percent of Americans, fear the rise of the IS and would consider them the number one threat to American interests (Telhami). Through further studying this topic, I have been able to better understand how ISIS/ISIL was created, along with understanding International Law’s ambiguous confrontation of the issue regarding the use of force.

 The world is at war.  You ask with who?  Terrorism, to be more specific though they are called The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).  They have a few other names as well, The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Daesh.  I will choose to call them Daesh in this piece because these terrorists find it insulting.  The reason for this is that Daesh an acronym for ISIS in Arabic.  This acronym though sounds exactly like the Arabic word dais, which means something that crushes or tramples. “In recent months many Arabs and Western leaders, including Secretary of State John Kerry, prefer to call it Daesh, the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. But Islamic State members hate the term because in Arabic, the pronunciation is close to a word that can be variously translated as "to crush" or "bigot who imposes his will on others" (Reid, 2).  Daesh do not want this title and have threatened to cut out the tongues of people who use it.  Daesh are a product of instability in the Syrian and Iraq region plus a Syrian civil war.  Unfortunately, America is greatly at fault for the instability in Iraq and helped fund the Syrian rebels, so you could say the U.S. helped create them.  Daesh’s goal is to start a religious war.  They want the world to fear Islam and want them to hate it.  They showed us exactly what they were capable of in Paris France.  The world needs to realize that this

They have killed 10,000 plus innocent people, But yet president obama has called them a JV squad.

ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is also known as ISIL, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. The Levant refers to a larger region of the Middle East, therefore involving more countries other than Syria. President Obama refers to this malicious, relentless terrorist group as such due to their threat in multiple areas in the Middle East. This truly establishes the multitude of the presence of ISIS in this area. However, ISIS refuses to limit the countries in their path of destruction to simply the Middle East, but has made convincing threats to America, namely the members of our armed forces, (“Beheading Video Sends Brutal Message”) and the American population in general. ISIS pursued their threats to maintain and sustain growth of their caliphate by the killing of two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff. This has certainly caused America to consider the level of seriousness of ISIS and determine the extensiveness of their plans. The United States plays a pivotal role in limiting the power and harm inflicted on its own population, as well as the global population by this terrorist group. An effective course of action must be taken against this group to ensure the safety of our citizens. The United States should primarily seek to utilize their armed forces as opposed to air strikes to successfully eliminate ISIS, and must engage with ISIS in order to ensure its demise for the safety of the global population.

There has almost always been some kind of conflict in the Middle East, from modern conflicts with ISIS, to the long lasting conflicts over Jerusalem with the Palestinians and the Jews. Muslim world has always, in some shape or form, been very complicated. From the Fertile Crescent, to the war on terrorism, they have always played a part in history from good to bad. With only 21% of Muslims being extremist, why are they so powerful and not being over thrown with the majority of Muslims not being extremists? With so many people opposing this you would think that the Muslim governments would try their hardest not to hand there county’s over to the Muslim extremists. Muslim world has a lot of