Thoughts and Reflections on: Maps in the Middle East

Ben Howson
World History 2 per.2
Thoughts and Reflections
05/06/15

Continuation of The Israeli - Arab Conflict
This video starts off with the defeat of the Arabs in 1948, and then goes on to talk about Nasa gaining arms from the Soviet Union, and how he became the new power in Egypt, and all the conflict that it created with other countries, such as the Israel, France, and Great Britain. It then moves on to the the wars that this created, and how it was all ended with the USSR, USA, and UN getting envolved. Israel and Egypt had a peace agreement in 1978. It then gets back to the wars between the Israelis and Arabs, and how they had lots of wars due to the disagreements between the two, but came to a time of no war between the two, while discussing things, but in 2000 Israel disengaged.

Continuation of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict
This conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians was due something that had happened during the conflict of Israelis and Arabs. 1987 was the beginning of the Intifada, which lead to the negotiations and Oslo Acause between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, which lead to the peace process. It then talks about how every thing was going well, because they hadn't covered any of the sensitive topics, which they eventually got to, and that caused the second outbreak to happen, which gave the Israeli army an excuse for a violent recuperation of the Palestinian towns. This forced the USA, and other big powers to intervine, which ended out straitening up both the Israelis and Palestinians.      

From watching the videos on the different maps in the Middle East, I have noticed a trend. Basically, there is a country that has conflict with another, they try to work it out multiple times, but they all end up in war. Then while they are solving their problems, and have done so, another country decides to pick a fight with one of them, and then like before, they try to work it out, but it just ends up with both of them going to war. Then later they finally solve their problems with another. This same trend continues on, and on, their is basically never a time, when one country isn't fighting with one other country or multiple. They go to war, or fight a couple of times, but then finally find a thing in which they could agree upon. All of these fights are always on the same topics, and a lot of the time, fights between the same countries, fighting for the same thing that they were last time. But for something to finally stop, other countries in the world, like the USA, would become involved and force the two to come to an agreement, in which both would be able to work with.