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It began on September 11, 2001, just before 9:00 am, The skies were clear, blue and the temperature was around a perfect 80 degrees. Five hijackers boarded American Airlines Flight 11 heading for Los Angeles, Ca. They crashed Flight 11 into the north side of World Trade Center Tower 1. A few minutes later from the same airport, Logan International airport, five hijackers boarded United Airlines Flight 175 heading toward Los Angeles, Ca also. The hijackers crashed Flight 175 into World Trade Center

The Holocaust in Relation to The State of Israel The State of Israel and the Holocaust are two events that turned the tide from Anti-Semitism to most of the world tolerating and accepting Jews. The Holocaust had created waves of horror that emanated out from Europe and echoed throughout the world about human suffering and mistreatment. The reaction to the Holocaust resulted in the founding of Israel. To understand the Holocaust, one must first understand Israel and its founding because Israel

SGT Knop, Adam ALC Class 17-002 23 Jan 2017 Israel maintains the longest current military occupation of a sovereign territory. In 1948 Britain withdrew its mandate from Palestine causing the United Nations to split the area into two separate states, creating Israel and Palestine. Being the only Jewish state in a region of Muslim controlled governments, this was the cause for decades of conflict between Israel and various Muslim states. The outcome of these conflicts was Israel occupying East Jerusalem

On September 11, 2001, the United States witnessed one of the most traumatic terrorist attacks, causing more than 3,000 civilian fatalities across the country. Ever since then, the United States’ government has made it a priority to prevent the reoccurrence of such a tragedy on American soil, taking extensive measures to do so. Consequently, President George W. Bush initiated the President Surveillance Program through which he granted the National Security Agency (NSA) legal access to monitor potential

On Nov. 14, 1979, President Carter declared an emergency freezing Iranian Assets in response the hostage crises Over 30 years in latter part of September 2013, for the first time in 30 years, the president of the United States spoke with the president of Iran An agreement with Iran over its nuclear program was achieved in late November 2013 In the past, the international community has chosen to deal with the Iranian situation by an ever-tightening series of sanctions/actions: for the US it was the

attack each other. In fact, ISIS sells oil from the oil fields they have seized in Syria and sells it back to the Assad regime. The Syrian government has also enjoyed the support from other Shia militia groups, most popularly Lebanon 's Shia Islamist Hezbollah party, who has been quintessential on the battlefield against Sunni rebels (Gilsinan). This proxy war has large world powers aiding in both the government, and the rebel’s favor. Iran and Russia have continued to prop up the Alawite-led government

In the mid-twentieth century, an Arab nationalist fervor overtook Syria, leading to a series of coups which would eventually install the ostensibly socialist Ba’ath party at the head of state -- a rule that lasts tenuously to the present day. In the chaos of the aftermath of European occupation the seeds were sown for the conflict that rends Syria today as a nation struggles to define itself outside of the context of both factionalist terrorism and the autocratic al-Assad regime which has reigned

Role of Christian Faith in Ancient and Contemporary Turkey Turkey?s population is nearly 99% Muslim, and even though Christianity is a clear minority (1), Turkey has played a major role in the history of the Christian faith.? Turkey is second in the number of Christian biblical sites, Israel being the first, so Turkey contains a wealth of Christian history (2).? Ancient Biblical Heritage: Antioch: Christianity began in 50 AD with Saint Paul, born Saul of Tarsus, located the

How Has the Iranian Hostage Crisis Affected the United States? For most Americans, the story begins in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis, when a group of revolutionary university students took over the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and held 52 American diplomats, intelligence officers and Marines hostage for 444 days. But for most Iranians, and to fully understand the repercussions of this aforementioned event, the story begins almost three decades prior, in 1953. This was the year that

A large part of the literature review thus concentrated on the definition and characteristics of modern terrorism. However, since terrorist group’s present singularity and uniqueness in their characteristics, is it even possible to reach consensus on the definition and the meaning of the word? Globalization has affected the interpretation of the word terrorism by changing the face of these organizations. Quantitatively and qualitatively, changes occurred in terrorist organizations over the last decades