... industrial nations will be jeopardized (Chai). However, America's commitment to the protection of Israel, was the result of this policy, because of the "strategic service that Israel performs . . .acting as a barrier to Soviet penetration of the Middle East. As a result of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, when the United States initiated it's relief aid program for Israel, "oil producing states boldly ... in the effort to make secure forever the future of the newest member in this family of nations -(Shipler 32). However, politically, and geographically Israel played a much bigger rol...

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... , 1990). As the Israelis--who after 18 months had detained more than 20,000 people--detained members of the leadership their places were taken by others. The uprising shattered the barrier of fear of the occupier, strengthened the sense of self-reliance, and in general empowered a population that had been systematically deprived of control over its destiny during two decades of ... ...

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... who claimed to be the Mahdi. They usually appeared as reformers antagonistic to established authority. The differences in the view of the Mahdi between the different sects are the central barrier between a united Shiite division of Islam versus the scattered sects, two of which are the Druze and the Ismailis. The Druze religious community of followers is located in Syria, Lebanon ... ...

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