There are people of all different races and cultures living in every area of the world. ... Times became hard and the people were forced to move to the coast along the Red Sea. Here they lived off the harvest of the sea. 80,000 years ago the ice caps dried the land and the Red Sea got saltier and fish were harder to catch. ... It took thousands of years for the original people from Africa to populate the world. ... It took thousands of years for the one tribe in Africa to move around the world and slowly populate each region. ...

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict is a conflict between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East over the land of Palestine. This conflict has led to many wars, beginning in 1948, between Arab nations, Palestinian refugees, and the state of Israel. Since 1979 many peace efforts have been proposed trying to resolve...

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But on the other side of the world, in a little place called Israel, people get up and don"t know what to expect. ... After World War II, a tired Britain referred the Palestine-Israel problem to the United Nations. ... While the Arab forces were going to block the Gulf of Aqaba, Israel's way to the red sea, the Israelis attacked airfields in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria. ... With all this terrorism going on, no wonder people on the Israel side of the world don"t know what they ar...

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All the world of north-western Europe, which is now Great Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, and Norway and Sweden, was in the ninth century an arena of bitter conflict between the old faith and the new. ... As the Christian propaganda of Charlemagne swept towards the shores of the north and Baltic Seas, the pagans were driven to sea. ... The world trade centre was a Muslim Radical group who had taken over Afghanistan took the rights of women away and was a dictatorship attacking a free country because they rule differently, because criminals are treated fairly, justice gets served but not to ...

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Forming part of the Great Rift Valley of Africa, it rises just over the Lebanese border and continues the entire length of Jordan form the Syrian border in the north, past the salty depression of the Dead Sea, and south down to Aqaba and the Red Sea. ... The government was aggravated for a solution so they suspend negotiations and forced a stop payment on their national debts to the world. ... It also relies very heavily on foreign aid, and has on of the highest foreign debts per capita in the world about 100% of the gross domestic product (GDP). ... Phosphate mining, carried out from vast res...

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There would be a consistent war between Muslim and Christian fleets at sea, which left the Jewish merchants at a neutral status. As a result, Jewish merchants who were kidnapped at sea by pirates had a better chance of getting their ransom paid by their co-religionists . ... The Jewish World in the Middle Ages. ...

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If Israel was to give into to the demands of the Arab world, there would be no Israel on the map of the world. ... Syria gains control of the Golan Heights it controls the Sea Galilee and can fire mortar shells on to Jewish villages at the bottom of the Golan Heights. ... The Arab world also wants the right of return of Palestinian refuges. ... The land for peace is an illusion the world hopes can work out. ... If the world expects Israel to give up land that is rightfully hers. ...

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Despite this fierce independent posture, Israel has long realized that it was a small state surrounded by numerous Arab countries, and therefore, the help of extra regional powers has been sought to offset asymmetries in resources with the Arab world. ... Many members of HaShomer joined the Jewish Legion, which fought with the British against imperial Germany during World War I. ... With the outbreak of World War II, Irgun leaders settled on a policy of cooperation with the British in the war effort; but a hard core within the organization opposed the policy and accordingly split off from th...

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Before this happened, there was no sin in the world. ... Once again, the world was filled with people. ... God gives Abraham the promise of being a blessing to the world. ... Moses parted the Red Sea with God's help and the Israelites were able to pass free and clear. The pursuing Egyptians all drowned in the Red Sea. ...

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Geography Palestine is an area in the eastern Mediterranean region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea in Asia. ... This region has a strategic location between Jordan in the east, Lebanon and part of modern Israel to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, and Negev and Gulf of Aqaba to the South. ... In 1516, The Ottoman Empire defeated the Mamluk armies and they controlled the area until their defeat in World War I. ...

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While Judaism is certainly different from Christianity in today's world, Basser does a commendable job explaining how they are not polar opposites because one (Christianity) is merely a branch from the tree (Judaism). ... In addition, Basser's primary sources include the Mishnah, the Babylonian Talmud, sections of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as many others that as a critical reviewer I should have read, but as a twenty-one year old college student with a moderate interest in Jewish and/or Christian historical texts, I have never even heard of, let alone read. ...

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The claim is to the land which lies between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. ... Then in 638 AD, the Arab Muslims conquered the area, ending Roman rule, and Omar, second caliph of Islam built a mosque at the site of what is now the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the 8th century.(4) "The land became known to the Islamic world as it's Arabic name Filastin. ... "(5) In 1897 the first Zionist Congress was held in Switzerland, which issued the Basle Programme on the colonization of Palestine and the establishment of the World Zionist Organization (WZO). (...

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"Nisa" by Marjorie Shostak, describes the life a !kung woman, a life span of nearly 50 years. The book was written during the 1970's, while Shostak was interviewing !Kung women for her research. Nisa was just one of those women, but her story captivated Shostak, making her wrtie the book. Mostly tol...

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It was founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.3 Due to its international character and the powers vested in the United Nations Charter, it can take action on a wide range of issues,4 and provide a forum for the Member States to express their views, through the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and other bodies and committees.5 The Member States of the United Nation...

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