... any connection between the land and the Jewish people. (Tessler, 12) The Jews never forgot their homeland, and prayed three times a day to return to Israel and to the holy city of Jerusalem. In the 7th century, a new religion, Islam, arose in the Middle East. The Muslim Arabs conquered Palestine from the Byzantines and began to settle the land. They built the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aksa ... , Arab nationalism was growing. Palestine's Arabs rejected the Balfour Declaration, even though they themselves had little interest in a state of their own at the time. Before long, the Arabs opp...

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... captured Jerusalem after a short battle and slaughtered the Muslim inhabitants. One leader wrote to the pope that his horse's legs had been bloodstained to the knees from riding among the bodies of the dead Muslims. In the Middle East the crusaders set up four small states: the County of Edessa, the Principality of Antioch, the County of Tripole, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem. They introduced European feudalism and subdivided the land into fiefs controlled by vassals and lords. For ... almost a century, the Europeans occupied these lands. Brisk European trade, with goods carried mostly i...

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For more than a decade a massive conflict has been taking place in the Middle East between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Hundreds of innocent civilians are now dead and many more injured because of this never-ending battle of sides, both standing strong to their grounds, both waging war. Their unrelenting attacks against the opposition may cause this struggle to continue for decades to come, and allow for another war ... are only causing more fear in the minds of Palestinians. This fear is that of a different nature, not of death but of hardship. The Palestinians are terrified that the l...

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... . And some that give a strong feeling of disgust. Many of the actions that provoked those strong feelings derive from a simple desire that may have been denied from that person. For instance not long ago, a girl was kidnapped in the town of Lancaster. She was then raped, and left for dead. The person who committed this horrible crime was probably denied the experience of love, and sexual pleasure at one ... to evil. And because this person had a weak mind it led the person believe that what he had done wasn't wrong, and that it was the only way he could achieve what he wanted. Another ex...

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