After reading your essays this past week I am proud of the work you all are doing. Your comments have been good also, especially considering that the subject matter has not been controversial (which would be easier to generate differing opinions about the issues). So, keep up the good work!
This week's assignment will focus on Egypt and the Middle East in the modern era. Here are a list of significant events, people, and issues from the last 100 years. Choose ONE to research and report for your essay. Remember that your essay need only be 200 words (no less), and your responses must total at least 150 words.
Six-Day War
Intifada
First Gulf War
Anwar El Sadat
Yitzhak Rabin
Yasser Arafat
Golda Meir
Camp David Accords
Oslo Accords
Research your topic and then report your findings. Answer the question "Why is this person/event/issue significant to world history?" Remember to cite your sources (you may use the web sites we've explored in previous assignments or search for information elsewhere, but be careful about websites you visit! I look forward to reading your work!
Anwar al-Sadat (sometimes refered as "el-Sadat") was born in 1918 to a family of 13. At the time of Anwar's birth, Egypt was a British colony. While growing up, young Anwar had four figures that greatly affected his life: a man named Zahran, whose courage as he went to the gallows impressed Anwar; Kemel Ataturk, who created the modern state of Turkey when he overthrew colonialism; Mohandas Gandhi, who preached about nonviolence in combating injustice; and finally, Adolf Hitler, who young Anwar saw as a potential rival to British control.
ReplyDeleteAnwar attened a military school in Egypt and was one of the first students at the new school. Other then the common stuff like math and science, Anwar learned to analyze battles. After school, Anwar was posted to a distant outpost where he met Gamal Abdel Nasser, which began a long political assoiciant for Anwar. At the outpost, Anwar,Nasser, and other young officers formed a revolutionary group who wanted to overthrow the British rule. Anwar wound up in jail twice while serving with this revelution, and while in jail he taught himself French and English. However, after being in jail twice, Anwar returned to civilian life. He became a business man and met his wife, Jihan. Eventually, the revelution Anwar had been involved in overthrew the British monarchy and Anwar became Nasser's pulic relations minister and trusted lieutenant.
When Nasser, who had become Egypt's president, died, Anwar followed after him
and became president himself. Over 11 years, he prooved that he was good at being a leader.
He went through the Six Days War and even openly offered the Israelis, who no one in Egypt really liked, a peace treaty in exchange for the return of the Siani lands that Israel had taken in the attack. When the Israelis refused, on October 6, 1973, Anwar sent the Egyption army across the Suez to and began to drive the Isreali army into the desert. Though the attack didn't really do anything, it did lead to eventual peace between Egypt and Israel, sorta.
Anwar won the Nobel Prize for Peace because he tried so hard for peace between his country and their enemy, Isreal. Not everybody liked Anwar, however. On October 6,1981, Anwar al-Sadat was assassinated by funamentalists during a military review that was celebrating the 1973 Suez crossing.
Works cited: http://www.ibiblio.org/sullivan/bios/Sadat-bio.html
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It would be difficult today to be uninformed of the circumstances of Israel and its relationship with the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The relationship of these nations is always on the news. I was not aware that the current situation was determined by the Oslo agreements of the 1990s.
ReplyDeleteThe first agreement, signed in Washington D.C., came from negotiations made in Oslo, Norway, between Israel and Palestine. The Palestinians are a sub-group of the Arab nation. The second agreement, Oslo II, strengthened the first pact. These agreements set the stage for the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Furthermore, it resulted in the withdrawal of the Israeli from the West Bank town of Hebron. In addition, the pact set a timetable for elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council and detailed the powers of that body.
The Oslo peace process continued into the early 2000's. But in the end, the two parties could not agree on the most important issue, which was a final peace settlement. This caused continued violence, which has been unresolved until today. The Oslo peace process was never successful and in 2002, Israel once again reoccupied most West Bank cities. The ownership of this land has been in doubt for the last decade.
Article:
URL: http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar748787&st=oslo+accords
Name: "Oslo accords"
Date: 09/14/10
oslo accords
ReplyDeletethe oslo accords began in 1993. it was a peace agreement between israel and the palestine liberation organization or the (PLO) this oslo peace proccess led to many agreements. the first agreement, sometimes called Oslo I, was signed in washington dc on Sept. 13, 1993. This agreement followed several months of secret negotiations between representatives of Israel and the PLO. The negotiations took place mostly in or near Oslo, Norway. the second agreement usually referred to as oslo 2 was signed in washington dc on sept 28, 1995. Oslo I is officially known as the Declaration of Principles (DOP). The pact established a framework and timetable for the Middle East peace process. It provided for an interim Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip and the town of Jericho in the West Bank.Oslo II, formally called the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, expanded on Oslo I. Its terms included provisions for the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from 6 Israeli-occupied West Bank cities and about 450 towns. As a result of the Oslo accords, the Israelis withdrew from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank by 1996. In January 1996, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank elected a legislature and a president to make laws and administer these areas.
the way that this has effected today is... it gave that country more government that helps america in quite a few ways. if the palestinians have order and control in there government then that helps for there not to be so much maham between the countries. which allows peace to continue :)
To cite this article:
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The Six Day War or the June War, was fought between June 5 - to June 10, 1967, by Israel against the neighboring states which included Egypt, Jordan and Syria. From beginning to end the war lasted 132 hours and 30 minutes, less than six days. Although for 2 of the 3 Arab fronts it didn't last 6 days: the Egyptian side only lasted 4 days, the Jordanian side only lasted 3 days, and the Syrian side was the only side that lasted the whole 6 days. The war could have lasted longer and could have been les humiliating for the Arabs, the power of their armies was far from depleted. The 2 main reasons why the Arab nations gave in was: the territory they lost held few inhabitants, or was occupied; they capitals of the lost territories were threatened by how close the Israeli army was to them. This was the most dramatic of all the wars fought between Israel and the Arab nations. Resulting in a depression in the Arab nations lasting many years, changing mentalities and political orientations among the people. While the actual material and human loses were dramatic enough, Arab weakness in this war compared to Israeli efficiency will probably not be forgotten for still many decades to come. The war left Israel with the largest territorial gains from any of the wars the country had been involved in: Sinai and Gaza strip were captured from Egypt, East Jerusalem and West Bank from Jordan and Golan Heights from Syria. It is significant to world history because it created tensions between the Arab countries and the Western world.
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Yasir Arafrat was born on August 24, 1929 in Cairo, Egypt. I feel kind of bad for the guy because his full name was Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. What were his parents thinking? As a teenager, he adopted the name Yasir which means “easygoing.”
ReplyDeleteAs he grows older, we start to notice that he has a bit of leadership skills. In the 1950s, Yasir formed of group of people that opposed Israeli control in Palestine. In the year of 1969 he was elected as chairman of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) Executive Committee. The PLO and Israel repeatedly attacked and raided each other’s bases.
Yasir Arafrat became the first person to address the United Nations as somebody other than a UN member. In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and the PLO had to move their base to Tunisia. We continue to see Yasir being a leader, for after many years of violence among the Israelites and the PLO he still became president of the Presidential Authority in 1996. Things seemed to calm down between the two rivals until 2000 when communication failed and violence broke out again. Yasir was starting to lose his power and in 2003 he gave a prime minister some of his PA duties. He became very sick and died in 2004.
All of this happened not too long ago. It was only six years ago that Yasir died. I was alive when he became president of the PA. This information can be relative to our life today. The tension between the PLO and Israel could still be stirring.
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ReplyDeleteYasir Arafrat was born on August 24, 1929 in Cairo, Egypt. I feel kind of bad for the guy because his full name was Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. What were his parents thinking? As a teenager, he adopted the name Yasir which means “easygoing.”
ReplyDeleteAs he grows older, we start to notice that he has a bit of leadership skills. In the 1950s, Yasir formed of group of people that opposed Israeli control in Palestine. In the year of 1969 he was elected as chairman of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) Executive Committee. The PLO and Israel repeatedly attacked and raided each other’s bases.
Yasir Arafrat became the first person to address the United Nations as somebody other than a UN member. In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and the PLO had to move their base to Tunisia. We continue to see Yasir being a leader, for after many years of violence among the Israelites and the PLO he still became president of the Presidential Authority in 1996. Things seemed to calm down between the two rivals until 2000 when communication failed and violence broke out again. Yasir was starting to lose his power and in 2003 he gave a prime minister some of his PA duties. He became very sick and died in 2004.
All of this happened not too long ago. It was only six years ago that Yasir died. I was alive when he became president of the PA. This information can be relative to our life today. The tension between the PLO and Israel could still be stirring.
Nassar, Jamal R. "Arafat, Yasir." World Book Student. World Book, 2010. Web. 16 Sept. 2010
http://worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar027625&st=yasser+arafat
Stella,
ReplyDeleteI found your report very interesting. Although I love history, I have never really gotten into Western history. I had never even heard of the Olso Records before!! I find it interesting how an agreement between two countries on the other side of the world was signed in Washington D.C. Must have been for safety of the signers or something. Good essay!! :)
C*S...3,
Good essay!! The Six Day War sounds really interesting. Just the name is interesting. And for little ol' Isreal to win against all those other countries!!! God is obvoisly still with His chosen people!! Good essay!! :)
After World War I the principle Allied and associated powers established a mandate that formalized British rule in the Southern part of Ottoman Syria from 1923-1948. With the League of Nations consent the U.K. divided the Mandate territory into two administrative areas. Palestine under direct British rule, and Transjordan under the rule of the Hashemite family from Hijaz, Saudi Arabia.
ReplyDeleteDuring the termination of the British rule the Jewish and Arab communities"went to town", fighting which escalated into an outright war between the new State of Israel and its Arab neighbors.
In 1949 they all came into a set of agreements. These lines held until the 1967 Six Day War. On November 1966 Syria signed an agreement with Egypt to come to each others aid if in trouble. Through a series of attacks on Israel as well as Egyptian President Nasser receiving false reports from the Soviet Union of Israeli mass troupe build up on the Syrian border. Nassen kicked out the United Nations Emergency Force and began massing troops along the Israel border. Israel launched Operation Force and set up a large scale air strike.
World History has never been the same since. Israel captured the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank including East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golden Heights from Syria. They did this in only six days! Credibility of Israel's defense in the Middle East became established.
I chose to write on the Six Day War, because out of all the things on the list to write on this one just popped out at me. The Six Day War ( the June War,) was fought June 5 - to June 10, 1967, by Israel against surrounding states: Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The entirety of the war lasted 132 hours and 30 minutes (less than six days.) For two of the three Arabian fronts it didn't really last six days, for the Egyptians it only lasted four days, for the Jordanians only lasted three days, and the Syrians was the only side of the war that lasted the whole six days. The main reasons why the Arabian nations gave in was: the territory they lost held few inhabitants or was already occupied and that the capitals of their lost territories were threatened by how close the Israeli army was to them. All of this had a result of the Depression in the Arabian nations (which ended up last for many years.) The materials and loses were bad enough, but unfortunately the weakness shown in
ReplyDeletethe war will probably never be forgotten for many years to come. Maybe that still effects them today. I’d personally like to know if those six short, but yet very destructive (destructive to their economy and the shame they must feel) days. And after the war was over Israel ended up with the
largest territory.... I guess a lot can happen in just six days..
-Emily;
Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922. His father, who had been an immigrant from the U.S to Israel, served as a volunteer in the Jewish Legion during World War 1. His mother was one of the first members of the mainstream Jewish defense organization. Once he had completed his schooling with success, he soon volunteered for the commando unit of the Jewish community (Palmach). For 27 years he served in the Israeli army (I.D.F.) and the Palmach. He ended as the I.D.F Chief of Staff. On January 1st 1968 he was appointed Israeli Ambassador to the United States. After returning to Jerusalem in 1973 he became active in the Israel Labor Party. In 1973 he was elected to the Knesset and the later on to Minister of Labor. This government resigned shortly afterwards. On June 2, 1974, the Knesset voted a new government headed by Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin as Prime Minister, placed a special emphasis on improving the economy, solving social problems, and strengthening the I.D.F. in June 1976, the Rabin government ordered the Entebbe Operation. The Entebbe operation came about when four terrorists forced an Air France Airbus to land in Uganda. Following this he had many more accomplishments such as he won the Nobel Peace Prize, signed the Declaration of Principles in Washington, D.C, served as Minister of Defense, and more. On Nov. 4, 1995, Yigal Amir, a 25-year-old Israeli resident, assassinated Rabin. Yigal shot Rabin as he was entering his car. Rabin was laid to rest in Jerusalem on Mount Herzl.
ReplyDeleteThe “Six Day War” or the 1967 war, and was fought June fifth through tenth. The war between Israel and the United Arab Republic was started over the Israeli coming back and taking the Palestinian land, and the Suez Crisis. In May of 1967, Nasser received reports from the Soviet Union that Israel was gathering near the Syrian border. And of course Nasser began getting his own troops together around the Straits of Tiran. But there was an agreement between the two countries, that any closure of the area would be considered an act of war, and that’s just what happened. The Operation Focus was an air attack that started the war. The Israeli’s air attack was unstoppable; it destroyed all of the other air forces. And this only led to complete domination and the capturing of the west bank, Gaza strip, and the Sinai Peninsula. And Egypt was ready to sign a cease fire on June ninth. Some say the war recognized Israel the leading military power in the region. I believe this event was significant to world history because it established Israel as the leading nation just as God wanted. The Israelis are Gods chosen people, and they continue to “rise to the occasion” every time because the hand of God is right there behind them.
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http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/
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ReplyDeleteThis week I choose Yitzhak Rabin, he was an Israeli politician and general from 1974 to 1977 and from 1992 until his death. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, and was one of the most important decision makers of Israel. In 1994, Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafa. In 1948, he was deputy commander of the Pal mach during the first Arab-Israeli war. Rabin headed Israel's defense forces from 1964 to 1967
Jitzchak Rabin was born 1. March 1922 in Jerusalem and died 4. November 1995 in Tel Aviv. Jitzchaks father, Nehemia Rabin (originally Rubitzow), born in 1886 in the Ukraine, emigrated in 1905 in the USA.
Some Honors from Jitzchak Rabin
1993 Honorary Doctorate from the Bar-Ilan-University
1993: Félix-Houphouët-Boigny-Peace Prize from the UNESCO with Schimon Peres and Jassir Arafat
1994: Nobel Peace Prize
1994: Honorary Doctorate from Ben-Gurion- University from Negev in Beerscheba
1995: German Media Prize in Baden-Baden (Posthum)
1995: In New York City renamed the second part of Avenue in Rabin Way
His death was a very tragic case, because Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister of Israel was on a large peace rally in the square in Tel Aviv of the Kings, where a Israeli extremist ,Yigal Amir, shot and killed him.
I think he was significant for the world, because he did lots of the peace
To cite this article, World Book recommends t significant to worldhe following format: Reich, Bernard. "Rabin, Yitzhak." World Book Student. World Book, 2010. Web. 17 Sept. 2010. The author:
Crispin Hawes is an analyst specializing in Middle East affairs.
Also I used Wikipedia.org: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitzchak_Rabin
If I have to choose from all of these ,I’m going to choose Yasser Arafat because I known him by the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and I want to know more details about him because I think It’s interesed. Yasser Arafa was a Palestinian leader and a Laureate of the Nobel Prize. And he has many workmanships such as , Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and leader of the Fatah political party, 1959. Arafat spent much of his life fighting against Israel in the name of Palestinian . He modified his position in 1988 when he accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242. In early 1970s, Fatah faced off with Jordan in a brief civil war. Arafat and Fatah were major targets of Israel's 1978 and 1982 invasions of that country. He was "revered by many Arabs," and the majority of the Palestinian people, regardless of political ideology or faction, viewed him as a freedom fighter who symbolized their national aspirations. However, he was "reviled by many Israelis”
ReplyDeleteLater in his career, Arafat engaged in a series of negotiations with the government of Israel to end the decades-long conflict between it and the PLO.Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, for the negotiations at Oslo. During this time, Arafat had established in the Palestinian territories.
The reason that I though that he is a interested , encouraged and the most important thing he has a leadership for the Palestinian .
I used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization
I also used this one http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/arafat-bio.html
ReplyDeleteI'm doing my report on the six day war, which was fought between June fifth through June tenth 1967. The war was between Israel, Jordan, and Syria. At the end of the six day war Israel had seized the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the west bank and east Jerusalem form Jordan. So they did really well in the war because they had a lot of weapons given to them form the United States and Great Brittan. After the 1956 Suez Crisis, Egypt agreed to the stationary of United Nations Emergency Force in Sinai to ensure that all parties would comply with the 1949 Armistice Agreement. In the years to come there were some border clashes, which is expected in my opinion. In early November, 1966, Syria signed a mutual defense agreement with Egypt. After several attacks on Israel that killed and injured many, reportedly by the Palestinian fedayeen group Fatah, three Israeli paratroops were killed when they ran over a mile to tell of the attack on the city. In response Israel attacked the city of as Samu, in the Jordanian occupied west bank. Jordanian units sent engage were quickly beatin back. At the beginning of the sixth day Israel launched Operation Focus, are large scale surprise air -strike. Later that day Israel won the war from there weakened enemies.
ReplyDeleteFor my essay I will be reporting on the First Gulf War. One of the reasons that I am writing on this is because my uncle was an Air Force navigator during this war. Another common name for this war is Operation Desert Storm.
ReplyDeleteThe war was started on August 2, 1990 when Iraq invaded the small but oil rich county of Kuwait, which lies to the southeast of Iraq. The rest of the world did not view this well so the United Nations or UN and the United States of America led The combined forces of 34 or 39 countries. (The number changes based on what web site you look at.) Iraq quickly took the small country and then placed troops on the border that it shares with Saudi Arabia. In February of 1991 the forces of the UN and the US began a ground assault into Kuwait and then into Iraq.
Now onto the question. Why is this event important. This war is important because it set the president for how the industrialized nations of the world will react when their oil supply is threatened. The main reason that the UN and its members got involved was because the oil that they depended on was being threatened. One thing that these larger countries did not take into account was how the people of Kuwait and Iraq would be affected. After this statement it may seem a little odd that I think that the UN did the right thing in the situating but I do. You can not let the rest of the world suffer because one country want more land in the area that they are located. This is why the war was important to world history.
Yitzhak Rabin was born on March 1, 1922. Rabin was an Israeli politician, general, and was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel. He served two terms until his assassination in 1995. He served in the Palmach and the Israeli army for 27 years; in which he became Chief of Staff.
ReplyDeleteBecoming Major-General at the age of 32, Rabin established the IDF training doctrine and the leadership style which became known by the command "follow me." In 1962 he was selected Chief of the General Staff and advanced to the rank of Lieutenant General. He developed the I.D.F. fighting doctrine, which was engaged during the 1967 Six-Day War. Yitzhak retired from the I.D.F. in 1968. From this, he was appointed Israeli Ambassador to the United States, where he united the two states. While being the first native-born Prime Minister, Rabin had to solve social problems, improve the country's economy, and also rebuild public confidence in the military. Rabin was selected Chairman of the Labor Party in 1992; he began his second tenure as Prime Minister and Minister of Defense. The Oslo Agreements with the Palestinians and the Treaty of Peace with Jordan were the two highlights of his second term.
On November 4, 1995, he was leaving a mass rally for peace with the slogan "Yes to Peace, No to Violence," and was assassinated. Although, Rabin's death left the nation of Israel grieving, his leadership left a lot of peace and safety.
I skipped over a lot, but was in a hurry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzak_Rabin
My essay is about the Persian Gulf War of 1991. I've chosen this war because its less than 20 years ago. So it's not so long away.
ReplyDeleteIt was fought in early 1991 between Iraq and a coalition of 39 countries organized mainly by the United States and the United Nations (UN). The coalition had formed after Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990. At 2:00 a.m. hundreds of tanks and other Iraqi forces swept across the border into Kuwait. Within 24 hours, Iraq had complete control of Kuwait. Thousands of Iraqi troops then moved to Kuwait's border with Saudi Arabia. To some, this movement signaled that Iraq might invade Saudi Arabia. After quickly gaining control of Kuwait, Iraq moved large numbers of troops to Kuwait's border with Saudi Arabia, triggering fears that Iraq would invade Saudi Arabia next.
The war resulted in immense human suffering in the Middle East and enormous material damage in Iraq and Kuwait. The war also caused severe environmental pollution in the region, as the Iraqis set hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells on fire and dumped huge amounts of Kuwaiti oil into the Persian Gulf. Hears yous see that the Middle East is a dangerous and a very conflict region.
The war ended at April 6, 1991. Thats nearly one year of war. I think its not such a long time but one years too much.
http://worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar424190&st=first%20gulf%20war
ReplyDeleteYasir Arafat was a very crucial part of the Middle Eastern politics. He was the leader of PLO (Palestinian liberation organization) from1969 to 2004. He was also the president of Palestinian authority. The goal of the Palestinian liberation organization is to establish a free state of Palestine. This man was a very educated and successful politician. He was born in Cairo, Egypt but declared that he was born in Jerusalem. He was probably born on August 24, 1929. His real name is not Yasir, which means easygoing, but his name is Mohammed Abdel-Raouf. He acquired the nickname yasir as a teen-ager. In 1974 was the first man to turn to the United Nations (UN) as the leader of the PLO. Palestinian guerillas took over the PLO and the PLO and Israeli fought each other, until the year of 1982, when Israel raided Lebanon the city where PLO was based at. Not only was Arafat the president of the PLO, but when the Israeli forces started to withdraw from Lebanon he was elected president of PA. As you can tell Yasir Arafat was a well rounded individual and had many talents and used them to the best of his abilities, and was rewarded by all his accomplishments.
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ReplyDeleteI’m going to write my essay on the six days war in the Middle East, was fought between June 5 and June 10, 1967. Israel and Egypt were the main fighters with Jordan and Syria. Many of the attitudes and forces that led to the Six-Day War were the same as those that had fueled conflict in the region since even before Israel’s independence in 1948, and are the same as those that still stoke tensions there today. The major factor for the six day war and other wars, is because the Arab leadership's rejection of the legitimate right of Jews to reconstitute their national home in the Middle East, and Israel's attempt to cope with the security challenges caused by this rejectionism. Again in 1967, in the run up to the Six-Day War, Israel’s existence seemed to hang in the balance. As the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan openly prepared for battle against Israel, and Arab leaders and the Arab "street" called for its destruction, Israel faced frightful choices. “We had already started thinking in terms of annihilation, both national and personal,” explained Lt. Yossi Peled, a Holocaust survivor who was at the time a lieutenant in the Israel army. Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, realizing the immense military challenge that would be caused by an Arab attack, told his cabinet: “God help us through if they hit us first.” Chief of Staff Yitzkhak Rabin had a nervous breakdown, which for a short time kept him from his duties.
ReplyDeleteIsrael’s hospitals prepared for mass casualties, not only from the advanced conventional weapons supplied by the Soviets to Egypt and Syria and by the West to Jordan, but also from chemical weapons, which Egypt was known to have used during its war in Yemen.
The tensions continued to mount while Israel’s Prime Minister Levy Eshkol insisted, even as more and more Arab troops massed on the borders, that diplomatic attempts to resolve the crisis be exhausted before Israel would consider military action.
This was the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict before the Six-Day War, or in other words, before Israel ever occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War
the olso peace process began in 1993 and produced a number of agreements between israel and the palestine liberation organization [plo].the first agreement,often called oslo 1,was signed on sept.13,19993 in washongton d.c.this agreement allowed several months of scret negatiations between israel and the plo.olso,norway is where they held these meetings.olso 1 is offically known as the declaration of principle [dop].this pact established a frame work and timetable for middle east peace.according to olso 1,administration of the gaza strip andthe west bank would pass from the israeli military to a civilian palestinian administration.the second oslo was signed in the same place as olso 1.the second olso was singedon sept.28,1995.olso 2 called te israeli-palestinian interm agreement on the west bank and the gaza strip expanded on olso 1.its terms included provisions for the complete withdrawl of israeli troops from 6 israeli occupied west bank cities and about 450 towns.as a result of the olso accords,the israelis withdrew from the gaza strip and part of the west bank by 1996.in january 1996 palestinians-controlled areas elected a legislate and president to make laws and administrate these areas.
ReplyDelete"olso accords"World Book Student.World Book,2010,Web.18sept.2010
Oslo Accords
ReplyDeleteOslo Accords are two Middle East agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The process began in 1993 and really produced a number of agreements. The first, which is called Oslo 1, was signed in Washington,D.C., on September 13,1993.
It followed several monthes of secret neotialions between representatives of Israel and the PLO.
It took place mostly in or near Oslo, which is in Norway.The second accord (Oslo 2) was also signed in Washington, D.C., on September 28,1995. Oslo is the officially Declaration of Principles (DOP). It exist a framework and also a timetable for the Middle East peace process. It provided for the Palestinian government in the gaza Strip and the town of Jericho in the West Bank.
Palestinians make up the vast population in the Gaza Strip and also in the West Wank, but both areas had been occupied by Isreal since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
Oslo 2, The Israeli-palestinian Agreement of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, expanded on Oslo 2.
It included provisions for the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from about 6 Israeli-occupied West Bank cities and about 450 towns. On outline the partial Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank town of Hebron.
As a result of these accords, the Israelis withdew from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank by 1996.In January 1996, the Gaza Strip and areas of the West Bank elected a legislature and a president to make laws and administer these areas.These peace process contunied into ealry 2000's. But Israeli and Palestinan leaders were not able to resolve issues and agree on a final peace settlement.
In September 2000, Palestinians began demontrations against Israeli security forces.
Many people saw that as a sign that the process of Oslo has collapsed.In 2002, Israel reocuupied most West Bank cities.
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"Oslo accords." World Book Student. World Book, 2010. Web. 17 Sept. 2010.
Camden,
ReplyDeleteI really think that this theme, was even more for you than just your homework essay. Someone from your familie was An Air Force navigator. So I can imagine that it is very important and interessting for you to know more about it.
I really get lots of information from your essay and I enjoyed reading it!
keep up your good work.
Jess_megs15
ReplyDeleteI think that your essay is really interessting, by the way I chose the same theme. I don't know, but those accords fascinate me.
It is something were you can find a lot of information about and I also think it is good when you know about the Oslo accords.
I did not know, that Oslo is the officially Declaration of Principles (DOP). And when I searched about these accords a found a lot about it, what I didn't know before.
So after writing and reading about it I really know a lot more.
And you are right, without so many conflicts between those countiries, the peace would be a step closer.
Keep up your good work!
For this weeks report I chose the First Gulf War, sometimes referred to as the Persian Gulf War. It was fought between Iraq and a coalition of 39 countries. This war did not last too long. In fact, it was less than a year, from August 2, 1990 to February 28, 1991. Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein called this war The mother of all battles.
ReplyDeleteIt all began when Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait. During this time the United States President was George H. W. Bush. He deployed American forces to Saudi Arabia. Many nations joined in on the Gulf War. The major military was from the United States but many others helped out too. Such as, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, and Egypt.
Initially, the conflict began with a bombardment on January 16, 1991. Following this bombardment was a ground assault on February 23. As a result of this war, many humans in the Middle East suffered and great damage was done. Hundreds of thousands of people were either killed or wounded, some even became refugees.
The main disputes between Iraq and Kuwait began after the Iraq-Iran War. Hussein disagreed with Kuwait’s leaders over matters of debt cancellation and other aid Kuwait should have provided for Iraq. In return Hussain accused Kuwait of taking Iraqi oil from the Rumaila oil field. Arguments continued between Kuwait and Iraq over the location of their common border.
The war ended when Iraq accepted the terms of a formal cease-fire agreement on April 6. Then the UN Security Council officially declared the war had ended on April 11. This war brought many consequences. Many, many Iraqi troops died, thousands of civilians in Iraq and Kuwait were killed, Iraq’s transportation system was damaged, wiped out Iraq’s electric power and clean water causing many people to die from diseases or a lack of food and medicine.
This particular event is rather significant in world history for a number of reasons. We can look back to this first Gulf War and see all of the great weapons that were used. Weapons we usually associate with movies. Even just a few years ago in 2003 U.S. troops captured Hussein. Proving that conflict from the War in 1990-1991 still continued in 2003.
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar424190&st=first+gulf+war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
For this weeks report I chose the First Guld War, sometimes referred to as the Persian Gulf War. It was fought between Iraq and a coalition of 39 countries. This war did not last too long. In fact, it was less than a year, from August 2, 1990 to February 28, 1991. Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein called this war The mother of all battles.
ReplyDeleteIt all began when Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait. During this time the United States President was George H. W. Bush. He deployed American forces to Saudi Arabia. Many nations joined in on the Gulf War. The major military was from the United States but many others helped out too. Such as, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, and Egypt.
Initially, the conflict began with a bombardment on January 16, 1991. Following this bombardment was a ground assault on February 23. As a result of this war, many humans in the Middle East suffered and great damage was done. Hundreds of thousands of people were either killed or wounded, some even became refugees.
The main disputes between Iraq and Kuwait began after the Iraq-Iran War. Hussein disagreed with Kuwait’s leaders over matters of debt cancellation and other aid Kuwait should have provided for Iraq. In return Hussain accused Kuwait of taking Iraqi oil from the Rumaila oil field. Arguments continued between Kuwait and Iraq over the location of their common border.
The war ended when Iraq accepted the terms of a formal cease-fire agreement on April 6. Then the UN Security Council officially declared the war had ended on April 11. This war brought many consequences. Many, many Iraqi troops died, thousands of civilians in Iraq and Kuwait were killed, Iraq’s transportation system was damaged, wiped out Iraq’s electric power and clean water causing many people to die from diseases or a lack of food and medicine.
This particular event is rather significant in world history for a number of reasons. We can look back to this first Gulf War and see all of the great weapons that were used. Weapons we usually associate with movies. Even just a few years ago in 2003 U.S. troops captured Hussein. Proving that conflict from the War in 1990-1991 still continued in 2003.
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar424190&st=first+gulf+war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
Sadat el Anwar was important to this world because of the many things he did for Egypt and so on. He tried to end the long standing conflict between Egypt and Israel. He had very good peacemaking skills. He was assassinated in October of 1981 by his own people. He broke Egypt’s ties the Soviet Union and tried to make them stronger with the U.S. He wanted the Sinai Peninsula back but Israel wouldn’t give it so he started a war with them. The Arabs joined in with Egypt to. Sadat has shared a noble peace prize with somebody else because of what he did with the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Sadat and the prime minister came to America to discuss agreements with president jimmy carter. This agreement ended with Camp David Accords. Israel now had to fully be removed from the Sinai Peninsula. All of the inhabitants were out by 1982. His treaty with Egypt was very unpopular with his own people. It didn’t end the problem at hand which was Palestine’s struggle with Israel. Right before he was assassinated he had about 1600 people arrested when he cracked down on his political opposition. Sadat graduated from Egypt’s military academy so that somewhat accounts for his strict way of the things he does.
ReplyDeleteFor this weeks report I chose the First Guld War, sometimes referred to as the Persian Gulf War. It was fought between Iraq and a coalition of 39 countries. This war did not last too long. In fact, it was less than a year, from August 2, 1990 to February 28, 1991. Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein called this war The mother of all battles.
ReplyDeleteIt all began when Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait. During this time the United States President was George H. W. Bush. He deployed American forces to Saudi Arabia. Many nations joined in on the Gulf War. The major military was from the United States but many others helped out too. Such as, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, and Egypt.
Initially, the conflict began with a bombardment on January 16, 1991. Following this bombardment was a ground assault on February 23. As a result of this war, many humans in the Middle East suffered and great damage was done. Hundreds of thousands of people were either killed or wounded, some even became refugees.
The main disputes between Iraq and Kuwait began after the Iraq-Iran War. Hussein disagreed with Kuwait’s leaders over matters of debt cancellation and other aid Kuwait should have provided for Iraq. In return Hussain accused Kuwait of taking Iraqi oil from the Rumaila oil field. Arguments continued between Kuwait and Iraq over the location of their common border.
The war ended when Iraq accepted the terms of a formal cease-fire agreement on April 6. Then the UN Security Council officially declared the war had ended on April 11. This war brought many consequences. Many, many Iraqi troops died, thousands of civilians in Iraq and Kuwait were killed, Iraq’s transportation system was damaged, wiped out Iraq’s electric power and clean water causing many people to die from diseases or a lack of food and medicine.
This particular event is rather significant in world history for a number of reasons. We can look back to this first Gulf War and see all of the great weapons that were used. Weapons we usually associate with movies. Even just a few years ago in 2003 U.S. troops captured Hussein. Proving that conflict from the War in 1990-1991 still continued in 2003.
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar424190&st=first+gulf+war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
Dear Willi ,
ReplyDeleteYou chose a very cool tropic. I really enjoyed reading your essay about the Persian Gulf War. I never heard before from this war, which makes it more exciting to read. I did not at all that so many countries were involved in the war, especial United States and the United Nations. You described it very good.
Dear Lauren33 ,
I love that really what you said about the Yitzhak Rabin. I had some theme and you wrote almost the same and that great. You did a great job. But I think you forgot to write, “Why is this person significant to world history?”
Dear Emily Lynn,
I found your report very interesting about the Six Day War, because that is current in our lessons and that was in our test. With your article I have learned much more about the topic. This is so incredible that we know the exact time of the war( The entirety of the war lasted 132 hours and 30 minutes).
to emma.delaine
ReplyDeletegood job on your essay, I really enjoyed it, and learned a whole lot from it too. I didn't know a lot of those thing about Yitzhak Rabin before I had read it. It sounds like Yitzhak Rabin was really a great and important person to his people. He played a very significant role in the country and didn't just do one thing for the country but he did several things for Jerusalem that helped the, improve greatly. I really liked your essay, great job!
to Alexandria Grace
ReplyDeleteGreat job on your essay Alex. I really enjoyed reading it, and learned a whole about the First Gulf War from it too. I didn't know the First Gulf War or Persian Gulf War only lasted less than a year. I agree with you as to why the First Gulf War is still significant to history, because was just recently still affecting us. but great job on your essay!!
emily,
ReplyDeleteafter reading you essay it shocked me because i realized i had read over a whole history essay without getting bored and let me tell you that is a big accomplishment for me. i like the way you broke everything down and went into great detail without over doing it. and your little side comment at the bottom cracked me up when you were like "i guess a lot can happen in 6 days". but anyways great job :)
willi,
ReplyDeletei really enjoyed reading your essay. i'm not a big history buff but i was really interested in what you had to say about this particular war. i loved the way you threw your personal opinion in a random times and it just kept my attention. i also noticed there were a lot of things i didn't know about this war like how it only took 24 hours for them to gain control i mean that blows my mind because you and i know they had to have been moving really quick to get so much accomplished in such a short period of time. well willi i said all of that just to mainly say you did a really good job :)
Camden:Thanks for your article on the First Gulf War. Iraq taking over another Muslim country's land
ReplyDeletedoesn't make sense. Daring Saudi Arabia to make a move by placing troops on the border of Iraq and Saudi Arabia is crazy. The more we got involved with Iraq the more we realized Saddam Hussein was a crazy leader. The value that is in the oil wells makes for interesting speculations as to what will happen in the future. By the way, I hope Kuwait appreciates and remembers what we did for them.
Annam: Thanks for your topic on Sadat el Anw
ar.
The way he led Egypt and tried to end the long standing conflict between Egypt and Israel. I think many times we think people are to handle situations in policies like we do in America. As
Americans we feel that people should take responsibility for their actions. In the Middle East they don't want to "loose face" or loose honor. They also understand harsh handling of a situation more than Americans.
I forgot to cit. my source: wikipedia.com (Sorry)
Eileen,
ReplyDeleteVery good job. Your report was very informative and must I say interesting. I learned a lot about the Olso Accords and enjoyed reading it. I think its cool how Oslo 1 and Oslo 2 were both signed in Washington D.C. I also think its pretty cool to read this and then realize that all this was going on just a few years ago. Great Job!!!
Private Elijah,
ReplyDeleteYour report was also very informative and well written. To me, the most interesting part of your report was reading of How he learned French and English while Anwar al-Sadat was in jail. Then again, what else would there be to do in jail. Like you said, it sounded like Anwar really tried hard to have peace between his country and Israel obviously because he won the prize for peace. Its a shame he was assassinated.
Your reports are always extremely good and I always enjoy reading and learning from your reports. Keep up the good work!!
Dear C*S…3,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading about the six day war and learned so much more about it that I did not already know. I think it is very interesting how even though the Israeli people were against all those others people surrounding them that they could still come out with a victory of their Middle Eastern enemies. It shows how God really does not ever change and that even to this day that He is still watching over His chosen people, even though the U.S did help to. I also thought it was cool how they have the record down to the minute of how long the war was fought. I think that the Israeli army really showed their neighbors that they were not a little weak nation but a nation to be feared and left alone, which we all know never has and never will happen. I really enjoyed reading your essay and cannot wait until next week.
Gagalicious.
Nathaniel,
ReplyDeleteYour essay was interesting and I learned a lot about Yasir Arafat. He seems like a very influential and important person to the Middle Eastern politics. Before reading your essay I really had no clue who Yasir Arafat was but now I know quite a bit about him. He sounds like a good leader and just a good person. Nice job on your essay, very well written and informative.
Camden,
I actually really enjoyed your report on the First Gulf War. I love that you made it personal by telling us about your uncle. Very cool. Also, I like what you said about the importance of the First gulf war (or Operation Desert Storm). A lot of times we just state the facts rather than the importance of the subject. So over all, very good job on your essay.
Eileen,
ReplyDeleteGood Job for your Essay!! It' s very sad that Israel and Palestine can' t find some thing to do about those lands. The strange thing is why did the Accords were sign in Washington D.C. And not in Israel are an other country more involved with this trouble. I hope it won' t be long for them to find a good arrangement that could please most of the people, but certainly some people will still be mad. I think you for this essay. It help me understanding better what is hapenning in those countries.
Willi,
ReplyDeleteYour essay is very good!! All those wars in the Middle East are very sad. You are right, the Middle East is very dangerous and a very conflict region. The things that are hapenning there are not good for the countries that are involved, the people are suffering, the material needs to be rebuilt, and the environment. All those countries need help from someone but some of them don' t want too.
Camden, I found it interesting that your uncle has actually been involved in the conflict. I think it was a good idea to write about this subject because you may know more about it since it was your uncle. So it is something that has affected you personally. But I don’t agree with you that the United States did the right thing in that situation. I think on the one hand they were being selfish because the USA have much more oil than most other countries in this world. On the other hand it is important for a country to defend its possessions.
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ReplyDeleteI liked your essay. Yasser Arafat was a great leader for the Palestinian people and his compassion for them is commendable. His efforts to advance progress in their difficult circumstances have been respected by the world. However, many felt that he should have been more vocal about the terrorist acts carried out by the Palestinians. Maybe terrorism would not be so common today if he had spoken out against it more powerfully.
alexandria grace
ReplyDeletei wonder why he called it the mother of all battles. i liked how george h. w. bush sent troops over but what i dont understand is why america has to help out all these other countries but usually none ever help us. i mean were in a recession right now because we owe so much in debt but if we can help other countries why cant they help us. our kids are gonna be suffering from the damage that "the now" generation have caused.
Lauren33
i think it is pretty cool how rabin was a major-gerneral at age 32. that has to be hard because all your time and effort have to be put into that one thing for so long. i would get bored with that and be done with it in like 2 years. i also think its cool to be the first native-born prime minister. i mean he untited two states so if he has that type of leadership ability why wouldnt he. i think it would be pretty hard to get the public to have confidence back into the military when they had it and lost it. that has to be some type of special work there.
citing my source....i forgot.
i got it off worldbook on friday
C*S...3, your essay was really good. The Six-Day War has always been an interesting subject. It’s hard for me to comprehend a war lasting only six days. It’s cool to see God’s power through all of that. Only He could have ended the war so quickly. God doesn’t like it when people try to pick a fight with the Israelites, does he??
ReplyDeleteCamden, good job on your essay! Your uncle was an Air Force navigator? That’s pretty cool. When I first started reading your essay, I expected the war to take place years and years ago. Your essay kind of made me realize that important events can be considered history even if they took place after we came up with electricity and such. Well done :)
C*S...3 your essay was very interesting.i really enjoyed reading it.i never really knew much about the 6 day war till i read your essay.it just blows my mind how a war that lasts 132 hours and 30 minutes,less than 6 days,can create a depession that lasts many years.it also surprised me that only 1 out of 3 fronts lasted the entire 6 days.i had no idea that this war that lasted 6 days caused problems between the arabs and the western world.
ReplyDeleteAlexandria Grace,you really did a good job on your essay about the first gulf war.it looks like iraq did a good job making the un,united nations,mad.its very surprising how a war between one nation against thirty nine can last almost a year.
Dear Eileen,
ReplyDeleteI liked to read your essay because I didn't know anything about the Oslo Accords before. I just knowed, Oslo is a city in Norway. So I wouldn't know that the Oslo Accords are about the Middle East.
Now I know much more about it. But I don't get, why was the Oslo 1 in Washington and not for example in Jerusalem and why is it called Oslo 1 and not Washington 1.
I very liked that you wrote about what happened after the two processes.
But I think you did it very well.
Dear Elena,
your essay about the Six Day War is very good. I didn't know so much about it, for example I just thought it was a war between Israel and Egypt. I like it because you showed us what people said about the war.
I think every body should be happy that the war was only 6 days and not as the most a year or longer.
So good Job Elena!
I chose to write about the Six-Day War.
ReplyDeleteThe Six-Day War took place between June 5th and 10th in 1967. The war was between Israel, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. Israel figured that those 3 states would soon make a huge attack on Israel. The leader of Egypt, Gamel Nasser, ordered Egyptian forces to go to the sensitive part of the Suez Zone. This was Egypts way of provoking Israel. And it worked. Israel thought of it as Egypt preparing to attack. Egypt made a naval blockade that closed off the Gulf of Aqaba for Israeli shipping.
After the Suez Crisis in 1956 the Untied nation established an occupancy in the Middle East. It was only in the places that agreed to be a host to it. But by May 1967, Egypt didn't want the United Nations in the Suez region.
Rather than waiting to be attacked, Israel launched a huge attack on their enemies. They basically destoryed all the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq on June 5th. By June 7th, several of Egypt's tanks were destroyed. Israel had also reach the Suez Canal by that day. Also on that day, Jordanian forces were cleared from the Jordan River. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria and moved their forces 30 miles into Syria.
This war had temporarily weakened the Egyptian leader, Gamal Abdul Nasser and was a disaster to the Arab world and it's military. It was a big surprise for Isarel and the Arab nations. There were the four geratest Arab nations, and they were just defeated. Although Israel was successful, this war gave them a major problem for there government which would last for decades. By caputring the Golan Heights, Sinai, and the West Bank of the Jordan River. By capturing these places, Israel had captured areas of great value. but, the West Bank was made up of over 600,000 Arabs who then came under Israel's ruling. This led to many Arabs joining the PLO, Palestinian Liberation Organization. This group was seen as a terrorist organization by the Israeli's. Although Israel won this war, things became quite a bit more complicated for the Israeli's.
Oh and here's the site i used.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/six_day_war_1967.htm
works cited
ReplyDeletehttp://wikipedia.com
Nathaniel.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your essay. You did a great job. It was very interesting and I learned alot more about Yasir Arafat/Mohammed Abdel-Raouf. He sounds like he was a pretty cool guy. And I completely agree with what you said in the last bit of your essay, "...Yasir Arafat was a well rounded individual and had many talents and used them to the best of his abilities..." Good job Nathaniel!
Emma, I really liked your essay. It was very informative about Yitzhak Rabin, which I guess is the whole point of us writing essays. But anyways, I learned a lot about Yitzhak Rabin and his many accomplishments during his life. Good job Emma!
Camden,
You wrote a good essay. I found it to be pretty cool that you said your uncle was an Air Force navigator during the First Gulf War. Although Mr. Akers probably talked about it in class, I forget things very easily so I didn't really know much about this war before reading your essay. Good job Camden!
Private Elijah,
ReplyDeleteI really like your essay, and I learned a lot from it. I did not know that Egypt was a British colony. I learned a lot just in the first paragraph you wrote. I think that's it amazing how while in jail he actually taught himself French and English and then became a business man. That's amazing how he became president for eleven years, and won the Nobel peace prize for trying so hard to get peace prize, and then his army assassinated him. Great essay!
Camden,
ReplyDeleteYour essay was really good and that's really cool your uncle was in that war, Operation Desert Storm. I learned a lot of interesting points in your essay, it was really informative, and it actually sounded like you knew what you were talking about. Great job!
Emily,
ReplyDeleteI did a very great essay , Emily I like that you talked about the Six Day War .It’s interested I think we knew something about that , but I’ll be good if we know more details so your essay gave me many things that I wanted to know like When It happened or How its happens ,also the reason why they stopped and about Jordan and Syria. ;D
Emma.Delaine ,
I really wanted to say that if somebody talk about Yitzhak Rabin I’ll totally have on idea about it so your essay gave me a good details about him .I think was one of the workman and he always do something to many people had a better lives .I also think he was a good guy =)
C*S…3,
ReplyDeleteGood job on your essay it was very informative! It’s funny that three Arab countries working together could only last six days against Israel, who was fighting alone! It is also amazing to think how only six days of war could result in a depression for many years in the losing countries. Again great job on your essay!
Camden
I liked your essay. I have heard and studied a little on Operation Desert Storm but I did not realize that First Gulf War was another name for it. I believe that you were right that the UN did the right thing in this situation. If the UN did not step in in this situation the entire world would suffer because the oil would have been threatened. Since they did move in and liberated Kuwait the world can have their oil.
I choose to write my essay about Anwar El Sadat. He was born in December in 1918 in Egypt to a poor family. He had thirteen brothers and sisters. His dad was an Egyptain and his mom was a Sundanese. Although he spent the first part of his childhood being taken care of by his grandmother. Sadat grew up admiring and being greatly influenced by four different people. His first childhood hero was a man names Zahran, the alleged hero of Denshway, who resisted the british occupation in a farmer protest. According to the story, a British soldier is killed. Zahran was the first Egyptain to be hung in retribution for the soldier's death. Stories like the Ballad of Zahran introduced Sadat to Egyptain nationalism, a value he held throughout his life.He graduated from the Royal Military Academy in Cairo in 1938 and was appointed in the Signal Corps. He then entered the army and was posted in Sudan.There, he met Gamal Abdel Nasser and along with several other junior officers they formed the secret Free Offivers Government committed to freeing Egypt from British domination and royal corruption.
ReplyDeleteAshley Glass i really really like your essay it has alot of detail and talked like you knew alot about it. You also kept me very interested in your essay. I really like the way you worded it to. After reading your essay the Six-Day War would definatly be my second choice. Good job Ashley Glass!
ReplyDeleteEmily Lynn i also love how you did your essay on the Six-Day War. I like how you wrote the essay as if u knew the reader of it your whole life. I also like how you included great detail like the fact that the war lasted onehundred-thirty-two hours and thirty minuts and the fact that it was less than six days hense the title the Six-Day War. I also like how u stated that for the Egyptains it only lasted four days and the Jordanians only three and the Syrians was in fact the only ones thats lasted six days. All in all your essay was great!
ReplyDeleteYasir Arafrat was born on August 24, 1929 in Cairo, Egypt. I feel kind of bad for the guy because his full name was Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. What were his parents thinking? As a teenager, he adopted the name Yasir which means “easygoing.”
ReplyDeleteAs he grows older, we start to notice that he has a bit of leadership skills. In the 1950s, Yasir formed of group of people that opposed Israeli control in Palestine. In the year of 1969 he was elected as chairman of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) Executive Committee. The PLO and Israel repeatedly attacked and raided each other’s bases.
Yasir Arafrat became the first person to address the United Nations as somebody other than a UN member. In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and the PLO had to move their base to Tunisia. We continue to see Yasir being a leader, for after many years of violence among the Israelites and the PLO he still became president of the Presidential Authority in 1996. Things seemed to calm down between the two rivals until 2000 when communication failed and violence broke out again. Yasir was starting to lose his power and in 2003 he gave a prime minister some of his PA duties. He became very sick and died in 2004.
All of this happened not too long ago. It was only six years ago that Yasir died. I was alive when he became president of the PA. This information can be relative to our life today. The tension between the PLO and Israel could still be stirring.
I am doing my essay on the Six Day War. ought between June 5 and June 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt [known then as the United Arab Republic, Jordan, and Syria. At the war's end, Israel had seized the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. After the 1956 Suez Crisis, Egypt agreed to the stationing of a United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) in the Sinai to ensure all parties would comply with the 1949 Armistice Agreements. In the following years there were numerous minor border clashes between Israel and its Arab neighbors, particularly Syria. In early November, 1966, Syria signed a mutual defense agreement with Egypt. After several attacks on Egypt by Fatah, that left dozens killed or injured.Israel attacked the city of as-Samu in the Jordanian-occupied West Bank. Jordanian units sent to engage the Israelis were quickly beaten back. King Hussein of Jordan criticized Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for failing to come to Jordan's aid.he Six-Day War has been characterized as a preemptive war, an (inadvertent war), and an action designed to preserve the credibility of Israel's deterrence strategy, among other things. Israel and Egypt have both been described as either the victim or the aggressor. The war established Israel as the premier military power in the region. This war is significant because it showed Israel's military power and the power of there allies.
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ReplyDeleteI really liked your essay on Anwar El Sadat. Your essay was very descriptive. I learned some about Anwar El Sadat that I didn't know before like he was born in December in 1918 in Egypt to a poor family. He had thirteen brothers and sisters. His dad was an Egyptian and his mom was a Sundanees. Your essay was short and descriptive and just got straight to the point. I really enjoyed your essay. Great work!