Tag: Israel
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Know Your History: The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part III
PART I: HERE! PART II: HERE! In 1978, Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli President Begin signed the Camp David Accords which brokered an official peace between the two nations. Israel gave back the territory of the Sinai Peninsula it had gained during the 1967 Six Day War and Israel received Egypt’s diplomatic recognition of their right to…
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Know Your History: The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part II
Read Part I: HERE! The tragedy of the Holocaust during WWII provided an ample amount of sympathy toward the Jewish race, and with the establishment of the newly formed United Nations, the world body (minus some key states) looked to solve the dilemma in Palestine once Britain signified that it no longer wanted anything to do…
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Know Your History: The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part I
With all the chaos happening between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, I thought I would take a few blog posts to break apart what is going on in short and hopefully digestible snippets which will help us all understand the roots of this conflict. Before I get into the first section, let’s just clarify…
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Know Your History: The Colonial Make-up of the Middle East
With the tragic events taking place in Iraq, and the term Levant becoming once again a house-hold name, I thought I would go back in time a little bit and outline how the region was influenced by the colonial powers. Levant is a French word which was used to describe the regions of modern day…
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What is History? An Essay
Every once in a while I like to post a “proper” essay with citations and everything. This one tries to answer the question, “What is History?” There is no simple answer to this question as you will see. History is an educated guess on a wing and a prayer. Mere shadows of the past come…
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Know Your History: Munich Massacre 1972
In what has become one of the greatest tragedies in Olympic history, eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team where killed in a terrorist attack by Palestinian extremists. This event, naturally, overshadowed the games as a whole. Israel retaliated with an assassination policy, targeting those it deemed responsible for the murders. This tragic event happened…
Author Mark W Sasse 