Churches back together as one. It took about a year to gather Crusaders. The first Crusade lasted two years and achieved its objectives in the Holy Land. The Crusaders slaughtered the Turks and halted their expansion. Then they marched into Palestine and captured Jerusalem and massacred the city. The Crusaders had allied themselves with many unstable forces in the region. And when they assisted a Muslim ruler in attacking Damascus‚ there payback was that ruler launching a jihad against
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During the time when the New Testament literature was composed‚ the Jews‚ the writers of the New Testament‚ were living for many years under the political oppression of foreign rulers. The area of Palestine‚ the home of the Jews‚ was ruled by different empires over time including the Assyrians‚ Babylonians‚ Persians‚ Egyptians‚ Syrians‚ and Romans. During the time of the Babylonian rule‚ notable suffering occurred when the Babylonians destroyed the
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terrorist attacks were not Muslim. Guerrilla Fighters from Mao Zedong to Ho Chi Menh and Fidel Castro killed civilians during their revolutionary campaigns. They too were called terrorists until they triumphed. Nothing Muslim about them. In Palestine‚ after world war second II‚ Jewish groups (The Haganah‚ Irgun‚ and
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“Outcome of the U.S. drone strikes in fighting terrorism: comparing deterrence and backlash theory” Fourteen years after the 9/11 attacks‚ the U.S. is still at war with the new terrorism. The use of technology is the significant feature of this war‚ and drones are one of the most developed tools of warfare. The drone strikes began one year after the 9/11 attacks in 2002. United States has increased its reliance on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)‚ more commonly known as drones‚ to target overseas terrorists
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People have been fighting for what they believe is right for centuries. This is exactly what Raoul Wallenberg did in his lifetime. He showed moral courage and fought for what he believed was right. To understand this one must first understand what moral courage means. The word moral means “concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character.” The word courage means “the ability to do something that frightens one or strength in the face of pain
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The League of Arab States (Arabic: جامعة الدول العربية Jāmiʻat ad-Duwal al-ʻArabiyya)‚ commonly called the Arab League (Arabic: الجامعة العربية al-Jāmiʻa al-ʻArabiyya)‚ is a regional organization of Arab countries in and around North Africa‚ the Horn of Africa‚ and Southwest Asia. It was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945 with six members: Egypt‚ Iraq‚ Transjordan (renamed Jordan in 1949)‚ Lebanon‚ Saudi Arabia and Syria. Yemen joined as a member on 5 May 1945. Currently‚ the League has 22 members
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Bayezid I- (r.1389-1402) Ottoman ruler who started to besiege Constantinople in 1395. The Europeans saw him as a new threat to Christendom‚ and Hungary’s king led English‚ French‚ German‚ and Balkan knights in a crusade against the Turks. He defeated them at Nicopolis‚ and moved their capital from Bursa to France. If Bayezid had not defeated the Christians‚ the Ottoman Empire might not have taken Constantinople. The armies of Timur defeated him near Ankara in 1402 where he was taken prisoner and
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Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Tensions have their origin in the large disparity in consumption between the two communities that share the same sources of water. Water is a crucial dimension in the conflict between Israel and Palestine. In this region the semi desert climate‚ where rainfall is absent from April to September with temperatures during the period between 30°C and 50°C. The issue of water is a critical dimension in the peace process. The water control is what makes
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The Second Temple is of great significance because it defined and shaped the culture and religion of the Jewish people. The Jewish people have a long history that dates back the 6th century BCE to the period of the revolt involving the Bar Kokhba around 115-117 CE. It is broad and contains a rich history of the Jewish people including their exile to other nations. The history of the Jewish people has its roots from the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians in 568 BCE. The Jewish culture
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Church Councils. This is a name for a special meeting of the bishops and Pope where important happenings in the world are discussed and it is decided how God is calling the Catholic Church to teach about these events. (A Jewish woman who lived in Palestine two thousand years ago.) Who Was Mary? The World Two Thousand Years Ago Approximately 180 million people were living on earth at the time that Mary lived. At this time‚ human beings had lived on earth for around 4 million years. People had
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