... ended, yet the British government claimed that any the lands were rough and excluded Palestine from being given back to the Arabs. By the end of the war, nonetheless, the League of Nations gave Palestine to the British to control. This obviously left the Arabs feeling that they had been betrayed by the British government. Officially known as the 1916 Asia ... domestic legitimacy, lose British support, and fall victim in July 1920 to French imperialist claims on his territory during from the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1915 Under the guise of a League of Nations' mandate, the French establi...

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... Day War was a combination of domestic and external factors on both Israeli and Arab sides including: pre-war provocations and Palestinian guerrilla attacks, divisions within the Israeli government, the Arab League and the "water wars "; with Syria being the primarily belligerent actor against Israel. The origins of the Six Day War can be traced back to when the Zionist ideology started ... units from crossing the border into Israel', which consequently led Israel to believe that Egypt and Jordan's anti-guerrilla stance was a mere subterfuge. This belief had emerged when the Arab League ...

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... part of the Ottoman Empire and used the Ottoman flag. The British took Jerusalem in December 1916. The Allied Supreme Council created a British mandate on 25 April 1920 and the League of Nations approved it 24 July 1922. The Balfour Declaration of 1917, providing for a Jewish national home, applied to Palestine, but not Transjordan. Transjordan was separated from Palestine as an ... ...

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... Abd al-Nasser in 1964. Arafat's Rise: Arafat was born in Jerusalem in 1929 and brought up in Gaza. He studied civil engineering at Cairo University, where he headed the League of Palestine Students (1952-1956), and fought in the Suez war of 1956. In the late 1950's he lived in Kuwait and helped to establish Fatah, which began terrorist operations ... ...

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... similarity, the Ottoman rule of the region ended in World War 1 at which time the two countries came under the rule of the same French governance as stipulated in the League of Nations mandate. It is important to understand that although Syria was founded as a kingdom and Lebanon more of a political refuge, these two countries share similar histories in the Arab ... ...

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... to send in weapons inspectors and this was only a way of being passive and not being pro-active. History should have taught us that we cannot sit around (like the League of Nations did before WWII) and let another dictator like Hitler take the world for ransom. America has had a way to deal with Iraq and that is to contain the ... ...

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