Yasser Arafat

settlements (Lesch, 2008). Obviously this made the Palestinians extremely upset to the point of extremist violence, “Palestinian Islamist groups reacted by carrying out more attacks, with the Israelis not only responding in force but also pressuring Arafat to do more to police his own in order to prevent such attacks” (Lesch…

The Salt March was a form of protest led by Gandhi against the British government in India after World War I around the year 1930. This protest focused on resisting the British tax on salt production. Gandhi marched 24 days to India’s west coast and taking salt from this area. This action was considered illegal because India was currently under British control. The Salt March left a message for India’s economic standing that they [India] should declare independence from Britain. 2. The…

All anyone needs to know about the Middle East conflict, is that the Jews want peace, and the Arabs don't. Here you will understand why Israel belongs to the Jews, and why they have the right to believe that they deserve Israel. Jews went through forced migration during World War II, where nearly 6 million Jews were slaughtered in Europe. These people have a right to their homeland and this is why. To begin, Jews have biblical justification to own Israel all together. This can be seen when…

being a citizen, of course), Barak was obligated (but willing obligated) to side with Israel. Barak is pro-peace, as shown by the Camp David Summit in 2000, where he met with United States President Bill Clinton and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to discuss and hopefully end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The agreement being discussed was either all or nothing, leading it to end up without an agreement, leaving the conflict to continue through the nations. The evidence shown by…

There has been a centuries old conflict between the Muslim Arabs and the Israeli Jews over the rights of ownership to the holy land. Arabs and Jews began to express nationalism for their religious beliefs which was part of the reason for the conflict between the two sides. Because of this the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensified in the 1940s and has expanded with much violence on both sides in the 2000s. On May 14, 1948 the British withdrew from Palestine and the Jewish National Council…

History of Israel Palestine Relationship and Negotiations: A full timeline of Israel 's key events is contained in Appendix A. The country of Israel was established in 1947 when the UN voted to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, wish Jerusalem and Bethlehem to be controlled by the UN. In the following years, around 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from Israel, and up to a million Jewish refugees from Arab countries and 250,000 holocaust survivors settle in…

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 hoped would help resolve a conflict that had been in existence since 1948. President Bush, in his opening remarks, stated the “objective must be…

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict of 1947 is an on-going conflict between the two middle-eastern countries of Israel and Palestine. After the end of World War II, the Jewish people were displaced as were the Palestinians, but before World War II the Ottoman Empire devoured most of the land-now known as the Middle-East this land had been divided among the Islamic people who already inhabited the lands. The Jewish people had no place to go, having been dehumanized for centuries within Europe and…

The organization of Maoz-Israel cited in 2002 that: "There are currently about 30 terrorist attacks per day in this tiny country of 5.2 million Jews. What if there were 30 terrorist attacks per day in Chicago or Los Angeles or Paris or London?" (“War” n. pag.). The Camp David Accords since the 1978 signing did not help in the Middle East, as stated in a study of Israeli terrorist attacks in 2002. U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, wished to help with Middle Eastern peace but everything he tried did…

5.7 Foreign Policy under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon (SBY) was the sixth president of Indonesia after Megawati Sukarnoputri. SBY was the Indonesia military office, political and government official who was the first popularly elected president of Indonesia since 2004 till 2014. After Indonesia strengthen domestic politics and reaffirmed its role in international affairs in 2004, “Indonesia managed to hold direct presidential elections and general elections in 2004, created…