Golan Heights

The center of the world with its essential oil production, controversial religious conflicts, and elaborate history, the Middle East is the often overlooked heart of world affairs. The ongoing disputes in Southwest Asia are a result of a combination of misinformation, indifference, and contrasts. Both Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews believe they have a claim to the holy land of Palestine. Partitioning after WWI leaves the land divided into political states containing opposing beliefs,…

approximately 1,500 in reserve, reduced from 55,000 personnel during conscription. Slovenian soldiers are a part of international forces serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chad, Lebanon. They have also served in Cyprus and the Golan Heights as a part of UNFICYP and UNDOF…

This announcement has its groundwork centred on the truth that the one foremost exchange the Six Day conflict made on the vicinity was once in reshaping of middle East politics via the acquisition of the Sinai Peninsula, the West bank, and the Golan Heights via the Israelis. The founding of the Zionist state of Israel in lands considered with the aid of Muslims, Christians, and Israelis alike as holy land, created tremendous anxiety in the area. The Six Day conflict escalated this conflict and…

middle of a war, known as the Six Day War. The Six Day war is where Israel took over land from several countries which made a big impact in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel gained places such as East Jerusalem, all of West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and Sinai. The borders put in place after the Six Day War, are known as the Green Line Border. Between the 1970’s-1980’s the P.L.O. began to initiate bombings on planes, which led to Israel attacking them out of fear for their safety. The…

John Forbes Kerry impacts the peace process in the Arab-Israeli conflict through putting forth actions to get both sides closer to peace. His main goals are to target and eliminate fighting extremist or intensely opinionated groups. By removing the violence between the Palestinians, the Arab side, and the Israelis, each side can communicate on peace terms. Kerry has made valiant attempts at ending fighting through recognizing the Palestinian demand for a country of their own, ceasefires, and…

Worse yet needing to save face with its allies and downplay the damages its people knew about, Jordan and Syria were mislead and faced a similar attack. With the only air power in the war Israel was able quickly carve out sections of the Sinai, Golan Heights, and West bank. The wars results were so fast and awesome many Israelis saw it as divine intervention, and not matter the case Israel was the unchallenged top military power in the area. Furthermore the weakness of Egypt and its allies lead…

“Apartheid is not Normal” “Normalize This” is a free form, spoken word poem from Remi Kanazi. Kanazi is a Palestinian-American born to Palestinian immigrants. Kanazi’s grandmother was pregnant with his mother when she left Palestine in 1947. Around this time there was a great exodus or “nukba” of indigenous Palestinians, just as the land was being annexed to create the new state of Israel. Kanazi’s father left Haifa after the occupation had already taken place. Born in New York City in 1981,…

the Arab Muslims with a force much smaller but smarter than the Byzantines. Define the Subject The “Battle of Yarmouk” was a battle fought in Syria, in 636 AD, along the Yarmouk River in the Yarmouk valley, about 40 miles southeast of the Golan Heights. The Byzantines and the Arabs fought in this battle. The Byzantines Roman Emperor was Heraclius, who is reported as getting to old to command the battle himself sent Vahan the Armenian to be the overall field commander. Vahan had his own…

On October 30, 1991, in the Salon de las Columas at the Royal Palace in the Spanish capital, the Madrid Peace Conference was held. Hosted by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, attendees included Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad, King Hussein of Jordan, and the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat. Bush stood before the delegates of the Middle East, in an unprecedented meeting that many…

Tom Standage is a notable British Journalist, author and economist who wrote the book A History of the World in Six Glasses, in which he described the historical significance, environmental importance, ecological foundation of water being the main source of life. Along with these factors, he further explained the commercialization and industrialization of water over the last few decades. In the article, “Epilogue: Back to the Source”, Standage specifically focuses on the water being the source…