1001 Inventions - Discover The Muslim Heritage In Our World. Two Muslim brothers, one all-American success story. U.S. Policy in the Middle East: Analyzing Political Cartoons. Mailing List * Required Fields Teaching with the News Objectives In this lesson, students will: Explore current issues in the Middle East and their relation to U.S. policyInterpret political cartoons on Middle East politicsIdentify the techniques used by cartoonists to express political opinion Resources Handout: Political Cartoons PowerPoint of political cartoons and map of the Middle East and North Africa In the Classroom Introduction Begin class with a brief discussion on current events in the Middle East.
Getting Started Divide the class into groups of three or four each. Assign the remaining cartoons to students, two cartoons per group. Drawing Connections Have each group present on their political cartoons. As a class, discuss how cartoonists provide perspective on political issues. Extra Challenge Have students consider some alternate titles and/or captions for the political cartoons on the handout. Additional Resources from the Choices Program.
THE MAPS TELL THE TRUE STORY. The truth is that far from being the poor victim it likes to portray itself as, Israel is in fact the most aggressive and belligerent nation in the region, having invaded pretty much everyone it shares a border with.
The following maps show just who is wiping who off of the map! Stop buying into what Sharon claims Israel "has to do" and look at what Israel has actually done. The maps tell the story of a nation eager to conquer lands which do not belong to it. Israel has invaded virtually every nation it shares borders with, including Syria and Lebanon, and as the map above shows has almost conquered Palestine and is ready to "ethnically cleanse" the region. Far from being the poor victimized society desperately defending itself Israel likes to pretend it is in order to wrest more money from Americans, Israel is in fact the most militarily aggressive nation in the region.
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . Oh? The following is by Nima Shirazi. The Mideast : A Century of Conflict. The Middle East conflict—a brief background. 1800s to World War II Towards the end of the 1800s questions arose as to how the Jewish people could overcome increasing persecution and anti-Semitism in Europe.
The biblical Promised Land led to a political movement, Zionism, to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine, in the Middle East. From 1920 to 1947, the British Empire had a mandate over Palestine. At that time, Palestine included all of Israel and today’s Occupied Territories, of Gaza, West Bank, etc. The increasing number of Jewish people immigrating to the “Holy Land” increased tensions in the region. European geopolitics in the earlier half of the 20th century in the wider Middle East region contributed to a lot of instability overall. During World War I, in 1916, it convinced Arab leaders to revolt against the Ottoman Empire (which was allied with Germany). As a further complication, there was a deal between Imperial Britain and France to carve up the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire and divide control of the region. .
The Middle East and the West, A Troubled History.