Current Affairs Hours after the Israeli government was handed the road map, tanks were moving into Gaza. ... Meanwhile three million Palestinians remained imprisoned behind cement walls and roadblocks.Finally, as was almost inevitable, a handful of Palestinians willing to blow themselves up provided Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with the excuse he needed to reject the "road map to peace," a plan proposed by the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union that calls for Palestinians and Israelis to take simultaneous steps leading toward a Pales...

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Israel became a nation about 1300 B.C., two thousand years before the rise of Islam. The people of modern day Israel share the same language and culture shaped by the Jewish heritage and religion passed through generations starting with the founding father Abraham. Since the Jewish conque...

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Abraham is claimed as the founder of the Kaaba, Islam's most sacred shrine- The Jewish emphasis on learning helped to spread knowledge and science in Europe and their "research and zeal contributed largely to the great voyages of discovery . most of the early nautical instruments, as well as the maps, came from Spanish Jews the Jacob's staff' (from a 14th century rabbi) became an indispensable instrument for the navigator and remained in use for more than four hundred years- - "Jews were prominent among the builders of the British Empire, giving her soldiers, lawma...

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Imagine living in a nation were the government wasn't on your side. Everything that the government did was in there best interest without any consideration of the people. Imagine that your government was in a conflict with another government and this government had the power to say if you were getting food eat and water to drink. Imagine that in this so called nation the kids instead or going to school would rather throw rocks at members of the other nation instead of going to school. Imagine that one day that that kid that was throwing rocks might one day strap a bomb to himself and g...

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