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    focus on and learn more about. That topic was the Arab Israeli conflict. This topic was only briefly discussed as a class when we watched a video on how the conflict is today. With having such little information on why the conflict was happening or how it all came to be I set out in search of answers asking myself what is the Arab-Israeli conflict? and how does the religious views of the Muslim Arabs and the Jewish Israelis effect the Arab-Israeli conflict? Starting out in this project I had no idea

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    Today, as in most of human history, the world is always in war, extinct wars like World War II, apparently succeeding wars like Iraq and the United States and more hard as the war of Israel and Palestine. The last war mentioned, the Arab-Israeli conflict, has attracted the attention of the world for various issues such as the failed attempt at peace, or the history of both nations, but what is striking is the daily life of both sides, more specific daily terror of the Palestine for suicide bombings

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    The lust for territory seems to be the real source of conflict, and until one group is satisfied, the appearance of religious conflict will exist in the Middle East. It seems as if the real truth needs to be portrayed to the rest of the world about the true reason for the Arab-Israeli conflict, which is geography and ultimately water. The lack of water stems from the Great Syrian Rift Zone, and causes damage to Israeli land which ultimately decreases the amount of water that flows into the Red Sea

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    The Arab Israeli conflict was a state of political tension and military disputes between the Arab countries and Israel. Though there are many factors contributing to the conflict such as Arab and Jewish nationalism and religion, Britain played an essential role in the conflict. Through Britain double dealing during the First World War and its misguided strategies and conflicting promises to Arab and Jewish ignited the conflict between Arab and Jews in the Middle East. Britain’s involvement started

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    Introduction The Arab-Israeli conflicts in the Middle East have been an on-going issue since the establishment of Israel in 1948. The primary cause of the fighting between Arab-Israeli is the rejection of Israel exists in the Middle East. The first known outburst of Arab-Israeli conflict occurred in 1948. The United Nations stepped in to ensure peace in the Middle East, but that peace ended in 1967 when Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian President, instigated another war, with the intent to annihilate

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    The Arab-Israeli Conflict and Outside Influence on It The history of the Arab-Israeli conflict has always been an international one. It has never been simply a local problem. Foreign powers have been involved since 1914, and, since 1973, the whole world has been affected by the rise in oil prices, which are a consequence of the Yom Kippur War. The first sign of trouble between the two religious groups came just after the First World War when tension between the two

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    The Arab- Israeli Conflict was and still is a big issue. Many people have been involved in this conflict in the past. When BIll Clinton was president he had a semi big role in the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Bill Clinton is from Arkansas, when he was a young mad he met John F. Kennedy and that was when he knew he was going into politics. Clinton was a Democrat nomination, he won the election, and was then 42nd president of the United States, from the years 1993-2001. During his first term as president

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    John Kerry is the US Secretary of State under President Barack Obama. He has made many contributions to the conflict in the middle east known as the Arab-Israeli conflict. John Kerry supports the Palestinian side of the conflict, but also supports a two-state resolution that would allow both groups to control pieces of land that they can each call official countries for their ethnic groups. In July of 2014, Kerry released a draft of a cease fire that heavily favored Hamas. The ceasefire did not call

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    plans, take for instance the Anglo-American Report or the Morrison- Grady plan, but they were unable to form an ambiguous policy due to their domestic issues. The Arabs and the Zionists tried to influence the Great Powers’ decision making process from the peripheries in which the Zionists lobby seemed to be more successful. The will of the Arabs played an unimportant role. It has to be said that the impact of the Holocaust and the European refugee problem made the Zionists win in the long run. From 1947

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    The Arab-Israeli conflict resulted not from a century long feud between Islam and Judaism, but from “claims to the same territory by competing nationalist movements.” These two movements, Zionism and Arab Nationalism, showcase the emerging question of identity during the 19th and 20th centuries. The Arab states, long ruled by Western colonial powers, emerged from the Mandate system weak and powerless. Why British troops did not leave Palestine until May 1st, 1948. Prior to this, the British proclaimed

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