There have been conflicts in the Middle East since the beginning of human civilization in that region. However, conflicts appear to be especially common since the end of the First World War, when the Ottoman Empire collapsed. Was the Middle East involved in WW2? Yes, the Middle East and Nor...
. The labelling of the enemy as “Nazis” (Segal2023) dehumanises the enemy as being an evil enemy that exists outside humanity and reaffirms the same processes of racialisation that Hamas used in targeting innocent Jewish people in the October 7thattacks and that the Nazis used during WW2...
I come from a ‘Military Family’ with a Great Grandfather who fought in the Zulu War of 1879, a Grandfather that saw active service with the Fleet Air Arm in WW2 and a Father in the RAF. I was first introduced to the Battlefield in 1984 on an Operational Tour to the Falkland ...
Nationalism Arrives in the Middle East For two thousand years, the Middle East had been ruled by empires: the Roman, the Byzantine, and the successive Islamic empires, all culminating in 400 years of Ottoman rule. A multitude of cultures lived side by side, while people and ideas traveled fr...
ww2dbaseDuring the Anglo-Iraqi War, London was alarmed by the intelligence indicating Vichy High Commissioner in Syria, Admiral Henri Dentz, had allowed German aircraft to refuel in his territory. Some evidence also pointed to Dentz supplying Iraqi nationalists with weapons. Believing that Vichy Fran...
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (WNW 210 10.02.15) The Middle East is spiraling into chaos and war at an alarming rate. It went from a war of words between President Obama and President Putin at the UN on Monday to the Russians bombing targets in Syria
Gun laws have been in place since the beginning of the country and yet, with the exception of some ethnic minorities such as blacks during slavery and the Jim Crow era and the Japanese during WW2, no sane law-abiding U.S. citizen has ever had the government take away their guns.” 4...
east by echelon troops trying to get out before they were put ‘into the bag’. General Cunningham himself barely escaped with his plane taking off after a visit to 30 Corps HQ while being shelled by German tanks approaching the landing strip where he boarded it. During the flight to ...
Middle East or Jerusalem 4 Late Middle Ages 不知道嗎? 本學習集中的詞語(30) When did the middle ages start? 476 ad When did the Middle Ages end 1400 ce Why did the collapse of the Roman Empire lead to the Middle Ages Lack of centralized govt What event led to the end of the Middle...
A book about a country or culture you have never visited: The Map of Salt and Stars (Middle East/North Africa) A book that won an award: Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Pulitzer Prize winner, but my least favorite book of the summer) ...