The first articles "waking from its sleep", "the world of Arabs", and "which way they go" all focus are the Arab nations. "Waking from its sleep" first focuses primarily on the invasion into Arab countries by the United States, and how this affected each Arab country. Its also looks at how George Bush reacted to Sept. 11Th and why he decided to invade as retaliation. Through the second article "the world of Arabs" we learn how different the Arab nations really are from each other. They compare the Arabs to the Europeans in many different ways such as racial, religion, and ethics. Finally through the last article "which way will they go", the roles of the non-Arab countries are discussed and how they played a major part in Arab society. Also much is focused on the different way or reactions toward this world conflict from George Bush, George W Bush, and Barrack Obama.
The Wikipedia articles all dealt with the conflicts going on in our present day all over the middle east and Arab nations. I went on a similar route when trying to find an article dealing with this same dilemma and Karl Marx. I went onto Google and found a really good article called "Stories of Dogs" by Nathan Weinstock. This artilce primarly deals with the Israeli-Arab conflicts going on now and describes how Marx would have viewed it. The main part of this article is mostly Marx's observations and actual writings from him back in his day. Also the article points out how it is believed that Marx himself started the anti-Jewish uprising on the Holy-Land and made people into what they are today. It all starts out during the Marx's period and varies every 10-20 years going from the Zionist immigrants to the Israeli-Palestine conflict and then to the present day one going on. Weinstock says that Marx started this movement towards an anti-Jewish nation and believes that the key to this conflict is simply a resolution of attitudes on each side.
After reading several of these articles along with the one I chose, I found it very interesting in regards to the entire Arab conflict going on today. First from the three articles we were assigned to read, I thought it was quite interesting how the Arab nations were compared to Europeans and how much different they really are. Also it is neat to see how each American president was compared to one another and how each took a different approach to the conflicts over in the Middle East.
As for my reading that I chose dealing with Marx and the Arab conflict, I found that to be a little more interesting. Primarily because it was interesting to see how Marx viewed the Jews and how if you think about it did start the whole uprising of the anti-Jew reduric. Also to read and see how it seems Israeli's have been in conflict for a century is unbelievable too. It brings it all full circle though when it is happening now in our present day and especially on the Holy-Land that so many view sacred. It makes you think what will happen in the future and how will this all turn out. Because all of these conflicts happening now in the middle east is gradually affected the entire world and soon will become a major war. When all of this is said and done though my question is what will America do when the time comes. Will they help? Also what is next for the other countries that are close to conflict, including Iran and their unstable leadership. I feel overall though, there will be something big that will happen over there and it will not only affect the Arab people but the entire world as well, and this won't happen in the distant future but instead sometime near.
I think that America has tried to help with the wars in the Arab countries. So much time is focused on the war, but not as much as the good that the troops are doing over there.
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