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    Debt In The Middle East

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    “ To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East it takes guts, not guns”- Queen Rania of Jordan. It takes a whole nation, together to keep the Middle East under control. The United States involvement in the Middle East conflict has caused problems than can be solved. The United State involvement started with the resources that the Middle East offers. For example, oil is the main reason why America is committed to the Middle East. “ Without oil, the United States Forces would be crippled and probably

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    The war in the Middle East is an Arab-Israeli conflict with a lot of external parties with their own interests involved. The seed for the war was sown by the British Empire in charge of Palestine in the early twentieth century, when it promised an independent Arab state that included Palestine to the Arabs (Shah). In contradiction the British Foreign Minister also promised the same land to the Israelis through the ‘Balfour Declaration’ and aid for the establishment of ‘a Jewish national home’ in

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    Middle East Women

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    Jay Sammelmann Dr. Holzhauer UI350-01 4/24/13 Women of the Middle East The women of the Middle East are very interesting to look in to. They are not just another person or treated by the same standards like they are treated here in the United States. There is a lot of controversy and fighting for women’s rights throughout the Middle East. They have an extreme lack of power there and they are fighting to change that. It is not right that women are such inferior people over there because they

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    Water in the Middle East

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    The edition of the U.S. Defense Department “Lebanon : a review of the country” ( 1989 ) also states that “ in the late 1970’s - early 1980’s Lebanese reported a plea of derivation of water from the small tributaries of the Hasbani to Israel” (Middle East International, № 458, 10 September 1993). Western and Arab media published an information that the scale of water derivation to Israel were much more, only from the Litani – up to 55 % of the annual discharge . Among all the details in particular

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    Power In The Middle East

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    The region that the Western World views as the Middle East is laden with complexities. In the region there is a long history of what is currently understood as modernization. To parallel that, connected to the Middle East is also a history of being understood as “backward” or “behind” in comparison to the West. It seems as if no matter what the empires (now nation-states), and the people, of the Middle East do they are constantly going to be relinquished to the “other.” Global capitalism made its

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    It is noted that every Middle Eastern Country are publicly fascinated of the Dabke dance. Each of the Middle Eastern nation claims they are the best at dancing Dabke. They also claim to have to have invented the dance (Hussein, 2016). However, there is the truth and reality behind the dance. Dabke is also referred to as Dabka or even Dabkeh. It is those names that the Middle Eastern people refer to the actual dance that is normally used by different dialect. The dance is universal irrespective of

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    Justice In The Middle East

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    headlines featured in popular news sites like The Economist, the Middle East seems to be an even more chaotic region of the world. Understandably, when one thinks about the Middle East, one cannot help but imagine the constant chaos and political strife led by corrupt officials and leaders against democracy. This short-sighted and heavily biased perspective of the Middle East may not be entirely incorrect, however it neither does the Middle East justice. The general people do not fully realize the rich

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    topic always covered: issues in the Middle East. This region has an ancient and fascinating history that dates back to archaic times. It has generally been considered a major centre of international trade and cultural development. However in recent times this region has been home to different conflicts that have divided the world to the point that Western countries are now weary and extremely cautious when engaging with this area. Nevertheless when the Middle East is analasyed in order to explain the

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    Many of the problems in the Middle East today are a direct result of actions undertaken in the region 's colonial past. I will argue that both imperialist ineptitude, deliberate meddling and outright deceit by colonial powers have sown seeds of distrust that linger in the Middle East today towards the West. I will claim that artificial boundaries, government structures and societal schisms created in colonial times have entrenched animosities and created internal structural instabilities in the area

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    Middle East Failure

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    Middle East; The Home of the Most Successful Failures The Middle East is infamous for its brutal religion-based society, and it has held this reputation for well over the past thousand years. Due to its close proximity to the Middle East, Europe has developed a tendency to attempt to control and force the Middle East into a mold that they considered civilized and ideal. Although a modern war such as the Soviet War in Afghanistan, at first glance, seems to have very little in common with the First

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