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1. The Crusades: Both Failures And Successes
In the 600's, the Arabs, who were mostly Muslims, conquered Palestine. Palestine was the holy city of Christians and though they were allowed to live there and practice their religion openly, many wanted to control the city again. For about 400 years, everything continued peacefully. Then, in the 1000's, the Seljuk Turks took Palestine. These peopl
2. Israeli Arab Conflict
The Israelis and Arabs have been fighting over the Holy Land, Palestine for many years. They both have different reasons for wanting Palestine and there have been many conflicts and wars between the two groups. The Arabs have had the area of Palestine for about two thousand years. After World War One the League of Nations said that the Jews should
3. Origins Of Distrust Between Th
The Arab world has been one of the most confusing areas known to the western world. Because of this confusion, the people of the Middle East have been made to suffer, not only at the hands of the west, but also by their own. Even though Arab and western world relations have been stabalizing, they are still long way off from achieving a lasting peac
4. The PLO
Functioning as a Palestinian government, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was founded in 1964 as a political body representing the Palestinians in their efforts to reclaim their country from the Israelis. Originally an umbrella organization of refugee and military groups, it was ultimately joined by professional, labour and student assoc
5. Yasir Arafat
was born in 1929. He became chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969. The PLO is a confederation of Palestine Arab groups that work to establish an Arab state in what was once Palestine. Most of the area that formed Palestine is now part of Israel. Arafat claims he was both in Jerusalem in what was then the British mandate of