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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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 ...