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klweber2

Israel cartoon highlights troubled ties with US - 0 views

bigstory.ap.org/...on-highlights-troubled-ties-us

israel cartoon

shared by klweber2 on 10 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • sraeli political cartoon
  • troubled relationship between Israel and the United States.
  • against its message of a crisis in bilateral relations
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • tense dynamic with Netanyahu,
  • Obama administration
  • defending Israel's interests.
  • ecturing tone toward the U.S. president.
  • klweber2 on 10 Nov 14
     
    This is an article about an Israeli political cartoon that depicts an Israeli plane flying towards a US tower. The article discusses how this is very thoughtless on the Israeli side and does't understand the magnitude of 9/11. 
Briana S

British Muslims face worst job discrimination of any minority group, according to research - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...ny-minority-group-9893211.html

Great Britain job discrimination Muslim Europe

shared by Briana S on 01 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Briana S on 01 Dec 14
     
    Muslim men were up to 76 per cent less likely to have a job of any kind compared to white, male British Christians of the same age and with the same qualifications. And Muslim women were up to 65 per cent less likely to be employed than white Christian counterparts. These statistics are alarming and very high when it comes to being a Muslim citizen in Great Britain. However these ideas are understandable (or at least not unsuspected) when it comes to the relationships people in Europe vs. Muslims have.
cbrock5654

Timeline: PKK Conflict with Turkey - 1 views

www.aljazeera.com/...2013320652845642.html

Abdullah Ocalan Kurds PKK Turkey

shared by cbrock5654 on 20 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • cbrock5654 on 20 Oct 14
     
    This timeline by Al Jazeera details the history of conflict between the PKK and Turkey from 1920 to 2013. I chose this article because I still felt I could use some more background information about Turkey and the PKK's relationship, as it has had a great impact on Turkey's participation in the coalition against ISIS. While I knew about the conflict up until the Gulf War, I did not know that it was still active and ongoing in 2013.
alarsso

Understanding Syria: From Pre-Civil War to Post-Assad - The Atlantic - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...281989

syria understanding history causes war revolution transition

shared by alarsso on 08 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • xtreme temperatures
  • drought from 2006 to 2011
  • 2001 to 2010, Syria had 60 “significant” dust storms.
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  • lessening of rainfall
  • as of the last year before the civil war, only about 13,500 square kilometers could be irrigated
  • agriculture
  • 20 percent of national income
  • employed about 17 percent
  • Syria’s oil is of poor quality, sour, and expensive to refine
  • densely populated
  • less than 0.25 hectares (just over a third of an acre) of agricultural land per person
  • population/resource ratio is out of balance.
  • So it is important to understand how their “social contract”—their view of their relationship with one another and with the government—evolved and then shattered.
  • threw the country into the arms of
  • Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • or three and a half years
  • part of the United Arab Republic
  • A fundamental problem they faced was what it meant to be a Syrian.
  • 1961 Syrians were thrown back on their own resources
  • The majority of those who became Syrians were Arabic-speaking Sunni Muslims
  • seven and eight in 10 Syrians saw themselves as Muslim Arab
  • being a Muslim Arab as the very definition of Syrian identity.
  • Nationalists took this diversity as a primary cause of weakness and adopted as their primary task integrating the population into a single political and social structure.
  • Israel
  • Looming over Syrian politics and heightening the tensions
  • A ceasefire, negotiated in 1974, has held, but today the two states are still legally at war.
  • or Hafez al-Assad, the secular, nationalist Baath Party was a natural choice: it offered, or seemed to offer, the means to overcome his origins in a minority community and to point toward a solution to the disunity of Syrian politics
  • bridge the gaps between rich and poor
  • socialism
  • Muslims and minorities
  • Islam
  • society
  • hould be modern
  • secular
  • defined by a culture of “Arabism”
  • the very antithesis of
  • Muslim Brotherhood
  • military, which seemed
  • o embody the nation.
  • help the Syrian people to live better provided only that they not challenge his rule
  • his stern and often-brutal monopoly of power
  • foreign troublemakers
  • Hafez al-Assad sided with Iran in the Iran-Iraq war
  • During the rule of the two Assads, Syria made considerable progress.
  • locked into the cities and towns
  • they f
  • had to compete
  • Palestinians
  • Iraqis
  • Syria was already a refuge
  • March 15, 2011
  • small group gathered in the southwestern town of Daraa to protest against government failure to help them
  • government saw them as subversives.
  • He ordered a crackdown
  • And the army,
  • responded violently.
  • Riots broke out
  • attempted to quell them with military
  • what had begun as a food and water issue gradually turned into a political and religious cause.
  • interpretation of Islam
  • the Syrian government is charged with using illegal chemical weapons
  • All observers agree that the foreign-controlled and foreign-constituted insurgent groups are the most coherent, organized, and effective
  • astonishing as they share no common language and come from a wide variety of cultures
  • slam has at least so far failed to provide an effective unifying force
  • all the rebels regard the conflict in Syria as fundamentally a religious issue
  • pwards of $150 billion
  • a whole generation of Syrians have been subjected to either or both the loss of their homes and their trust in fellow human beings.
  • How the victims and the perpetrators can be returned to a “normal life”
  • First, the war might continue.
  • Second, if the Syrian government continues or even prevails, there is no assurance that,
  • t will be able to suppress the insurgency.
  • Third,
  • Syria will remain effectively “balkanized”
  • alarsso on 08 Feb 15
     
    This article captures Syria's geography, history, and all events leading up to the state Syria is in today.
sgriffi2

Egyptian Center for Women - 0 views

This is a very interesting source that I found when I was going through the resources on the class blog. It also has the original version of the document in Arabic on the website. It details the re...

#women #feminism #womensrights #family

started by sgriffi2 on 19 Feb 15 no follow-up yet
jshnide

Palestinian split: Views from Hamas and Fatah, six years on - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-middle-east-22902880

israel gaza hamas fatah relationship palestine

shared by jshnide on 13 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • jshnide on 13 Apr 15
     
    Six years after the civil war between Fatah and Hamas, neither political party is seen in good favor by neighboring countries. Whether the mistrust sprouted from a coup or a terrorist organization, problems circle the parties.
jordanbrown16

Iran president views nuclear deal as start of new relationship with world - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...-nuclear-idUSKBN0MQ0HH20150403

Israel Iran politics nuclear deal

shared by jordanbrown16 on 19 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • jordanbrown16 on 19 Apr 15
     
    With a new agreement between the United States and Iran being formulated, Israel is angered and believe Iran's number one reason for it's nuclear program is to destroy Israel.
malshamm

Kuwait joins Gulf allies in banning travel to Lebanon - 1 views

www.aljazeera.com/...l-lebanon-160224161730185.html

shared by malshamm on 24 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • malshamm on 24 Feb 16
     
    Kuwait and Qatar joining GCC to cut relationship with Lebanon and Prevented their people from traveling there. all is that happened when the GCC felt that HUZBALLAH militia taking the country's control.
csherro2

Algerian Specificities: Algeria's Place in the 2011 Arab Revolutions - 0 views

muftah.org/ab-revolutions-by-martin-evans

war politics revolution algeria

shared by csherro2 on 11 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • csherro2 on 11 Apr 16
     
    In the Arab World, 2011 is developing into the year of revolution. Following the dramatic events in Tunisia and Egypt, a chain reaction has exposed the region's autocratic regimes to popular pressure like never before. Whatever the outcome of these events, the relationship between the rulers and the ruled in the Arab World has forever ...
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