The problems in the Middle East continue.

As the Middle East is riddled with problems we often see sad stories that come out of the Middle East, this is one of those stories. On November 29 where a woman in Riyadh

was stopped and arrested for driving thought the capital. While her and her friend were driving through the capital doing some groceries and getting gas someone called the police, and they stopped them. After they forced the girls to sign a contract that they will not drive again. At the police station the police asked her to call her male guardian and she told them that she was her own guardian, but he was called against her will. The woman's name is Aziza al Yousef

 and he is a woman's rights activist in Saudi Arabia and had just a week before spoken with the prince about the rights of women in the country, had then had her rights completely disregarded. What i have to think about this whole scenario is that people are terrible people sometimes. Most country's that have strict laws for the woman often focus heavily on old traditions and beliefs. What i have to think is that is that people need change, stagnation is not good in any situation. people need change or evolution. Those are my thoughts on this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25159880

Stories out of the middle east

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So being that the Middle East is in a chaotic situation constantly their are always stories coming out of the Middle East. We have such a story out of the Middle East where a rebel faction has publicly beheaded a person that they had believed was meant for death.

What they later realized was that this man they they had said was "meant for death" was actually a powerful member of the same faction who had been missing, presumed captured by an opposing faction. They later publicly "apologized" for making the mistake because at the time they decided that that man needed to die. The way this makes me feel is twofold, part one i feel sorry that anyone has to die, on top of that it was such an embarrassment for everyone involved. However in the bible Jesus says "those who live by the sword die by the sword",

which perfectly sums up this situation. We cant forget that he is and was a terrorist in the view of the people in power and had probably taken his fair share of lives. So what i have to say is that maybe this isn't an all bad thing or rather maybe they're is a silver lining behind this situation that will help people in the future and that is that this militant faction may in the future be deterred from hastily beheading or any form of murder in the future. However in the case of people fighting out of passion they rarely make reliable decisions and they're action aren't changed that easily. This is just another story in the many that comes out of the Middle East based on one of the many problems corrupting the Middle East. Another favourite problem is money, and some are better than others but by far the worst story of money out of the Middle East is Greece who is having some troubles. To give a brief history of they're problem Greece relied almost solely upon borrowed money and with borrowed money they're is interest. But as the global economy crashed the investors required more interest to be safe and so threw Greece into a scramble for money and they needed to increase taxes for everything in they're country and as such they're economy crashed.

Now this brings me to something i often think about and that is what drives the world, and what i can see from people in general but even more so in the middle east is that people are driven by few things. Passion, money and power.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/06/greek-debt-crisis-economy

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21589893-hard-winter-lies-ahead-greek-government-little-respite

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/middle_east/

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/formerlyfundie/terrorists-apologize/

What is happening in the middle east

Now that we have travelled the wonderful history of the conflict in the middle east, lets establish what is happening today over there. There is always story's coming out of the middle east but lets talk about the one that really shook up the states. Today we are going talk about the conflict in Syria, and man was that rough. So to begin with Syria has been in the red for a while because there is three powers fighting for the power of Syria and all at the same time. So the presidency of Syria is something handed down hereditary so the same family has been ruling since 1974, and the people didn't hate it but aren't exactly happy. For the purpose of explaining we will call them party one.

Then we have the rebels, the citizens who don't agree with the current government and they are very radical rebels, well call them party two.

 Finally we have the alquada that is supposed to be residing in Syria well call them party three.

 So party two was quiet up until 2011, when the first party imprisoned and tortured 12 schoolkids for putting anti government graffiti of the wall, and party two rebelled they protested calmly first with little things but when the first party didn't do anything they became much more violent with city bombings and strikes on important officials.

That is where the third party comes in because they gave them assistance. This whole situation continued till party one, on august 2013 they launched a chemical attack on the public where they thought that the rebels were situated. In this chemical attack they killed approximately 1200 people, thankfully the way the chemical weapon works there was none injured and the area is not permanently contaminated.

When this happened the world was outraged, the United States who had openly said that they would take action now had two choices, to let it go and look weak to the world or to take action and look like bullies to the world. The way that they managed to get into this position was because Obama declared publicly without speaking to congress first.

So when he then decided to attack Syria he put it to a vote knowing that being the head of state he could do it if he wanted to. The vote was a heavy no but they did it anyway they threatened Syria telling them to give up they're chemical weapons or they were going to get hit hard, and they did just that. However the turmoil continued in the states for quiet some time, as the congress was mad at Obama for doing what he wanted to and that is supposed to be the or one of the reasons for the government shut-down. What I think that is wrong with this whole thing is that people need to mind there own business, especially on the grand scale. If people could solve there own problems and not worry about solving everyone else things would be better.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/middle_east_crisis/

http://www.globalissues.org/article/119/the-middle-east-conflict-a-brief-background

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/103/middle-east

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Middle_East

The 21st century

When we hit the year 2000 the situation really heats up, and for good reason. With the coronation of the new Israeli prime minister who was previously a military general named  Hammas who was known for his ruthless acts against the Palestinian people.

To which the Palestinians did not agree, and attempted to revolt. However as the new prime minister of Israel had no reservations about mass murder and killing civilians. Needles to say it did not end well, for anyone. The Israeli police force which gave limited rights to anyone who isn't Jewish and decided to occupy much more than what they were supposed to and that is when the Palestinians really lost it. When Israel had a firm grip on the entire of Palestine they decided to build a giant wall on the entire south side of Israel called the "Apartheid Wall".

The wall was build for anti-terrorist defence and it was governed very harshly, anyone within kilometres of the wall or the construction site during the building of the wall was shot with extreme prejudice. However the necessity of a wall was apparent because of the turmoil in the country. The Arab people were constantly attempting to assassinate the prime minister of Israel and killing Israeli police. When the prime minister dies in 2005 the Arabs were pleased and the Israeli were not, they mourned for weeks and eventually elected Mahmoud Abbas as the new prime minister. Abbas did not want to continue the killing and requested a ceasefire, but the Arab prime minister Hammas refused a ceasefire. Until today the presidents have changed and the people have changed yet policies have changed very little since then and the country of Palestine is still in trouble. What I have to think after all this is that people really need to let things go, if people could just let things go and forget then a lot of problems could be averted and should be averted.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/middle_east_crisis/

http://www.globalissues.org/article/119/the-middle-east-conflict-a-brief-background

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/103/middle-east

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Middle_East

Post world war 2 - year 2000

So together we have gone over the problems since the 1800's but it gets a lot more violent and a lot more problematic after the second World war. The division of land that was not worked out by the people but instead dictated by the UN and heavily by the president of the United States Harry Trumann.

They decided that the Jews would get 57% of the land in Palestine and the Arabs 43%, to which many people disagreed.

They decided this despite the fact that the population of the Arab people vastly out ways the population of the Jewish people, and it created anti-Americanism in the Arab population. With this decision the Arab populous complained that the united States was pro-Zionist which was a religion attempting to be founded by the Jewish population, and they quickly decided to change there opinions to not sound racist. From then the American government backed the formation of Israel. The Arab population did not accept or recognize Israel as a country and because of that the surrounding country's attacked, to no success, the Israeli army combined with assistance from the Americans and the British defeated the attackers. When they won they forced out all non Jews, meaning that over 750, 000 refugees were kicked out and had to find other places to live in Lebanon or Egypt. As the refugees were forced to leave the Israelis also took their property, money and for many their lives.

Israel didn't stop there though they continued to push and attacked other surrounding country's to take more land and important resources. To which many country's rebelled and attacked Israel but failed, so to end the fighting Israel gave small portions of land back to their owners to keep peace. However Lebanon decided to attack Israel and when they lost, Israel decided to take control of most of Lebanon and it was a long fought war, a 22 year long massacre between the two country's. Throughout their 22 years there were many political problems and assassinations and massacres, it was nothing short of a bloodbath. That puts us in the year 2000.

What I have to ask after all that is that violence cant be solved by more violence, if Israel had decided to deal with this issue politically instead of with war then many wouldn't have died or lost their possessions and homes. War just creates more war if people could just discus their decisions instead of having a metaphorical pissing contest then many lives would be saved and the world would be a better place.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/middle_east_crisis/

http://www.globalissues.org/article/119/the-middle-east-conflict-a-brief-background

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/103/middle-east

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Middle_East

The crisis in the middle east

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So unless you have been living under a rock then you must have heard about the crisis in the middle east. What you may not know is that it began 200 years ago. It began in the 1800's when the Jewish people wanted to establish a holy land in the Palestine, which is in the North-East of Asia

and since then the middle east has been in turmoil. However the common problem is that people just want to have control and not let anyone else have it. When the Jewish people wanted to establish a holy land in Palestine, the Europeans didn't think that that was right and instead of letting people do what they wanted they made a huge deal out of it and started a 200 year long battle for control. When the Jewish people did reach Palestine and escaped the clutches of the Europeans, the British who then occupied Palestine wanted to again control the Jewish people and made it again difficult. The situation remained vastly unchanged until the first world war when the Arab people wanted a land in Palestine and the decision of the big countrys at the time was to carve up the territory occupied by the Jewish and the Arab and to mix it up and try to make everyone happy. However they're benevolence or fake benevolence was met with harsh and severe protest that has continued till today. The UN

decided to group the Jewish people and the Arab into separate parts however the Jewish people got a bigger slice of the pie and the Arab people did not like it or agree. What I have to ask after all this is it right for large and powerful country's to control the little guys, and in my opinion no I heartily say no. When larger superpowers step in they rarely solve the dispute without a large amount of violence or with a happy outcome for all. However they do solve them quickly and it tends to be decently equal whereas when people solve they're own problems one side tends to get the better end of the stick. The question I have to ask is does might make right or should we leave the decision to the little guys. In my opinion no might dosent make right, just because you can decide for everyone cause they are afraid to oppose you dosent mean that it should happen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/middle_east_crisis/

http://www.globalissues.org/article/119/the-middle-east-conflict-a-brief-background

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/103/middle-east

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Middle_East