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Oil In The Middle East
Two thirds of the worlds known oil reserves are located in the Middle East. These vast oil reserves are located in the middle East. These vast oil reserves have been a great source f wealth for Saudi Arabian, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and other countries, oil wealth has also caused internal clashes within countries and societies. -
War in 1967 and 1973
In 1967 Egypt demanded that the UN remove its troops from Gaza and the Sinai peninsula Egyptian troops then moved into the Sinai and Egypt began to close off the gulf of aqaba Israels route to the red sea -
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Growth of islamism
Another regional issue that has led to conflict is the growth of Islamism or Islamic fundamentalism a movement to reorder government and society according to Islamic laws Islamist believe that Muslim countries have strayed from the path of true Islam following western models of political and economic development -
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A Peace Agreement
1947, Egyptian president anwar sadat made a momentous delcration Egypt wanted peace with Israel. to help facilitate this histornic peace U.S. president jimmy carter invited sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem begin to camp david the presidential retreat in Maryland there in 1978 sadat and being reached an agreement known as the camp david accords. -
Revolution in iran
the 1970s Iran had changed from a traditional rural society to a more industrialized and urban one many Iranians felt threatened by this rapid change while others felt betrayed by a government they viewed as corrupt -
Palestinian unrest
under the un partition plan of 1947 there were supposed to be two states in Palestine a jewish state and an arab state,After the arab-israeli war of 1948 however,the land set aside for the arab state was occupied by Israel,egypt,and Jordan. Palestinian nationalism was strong and in 1964 the Palestine liberation organization formed with a pledge to destroy Israel and replace it with a Palestinian state -
the iran-iraq war
in 1980 iraq attacked irans new government called for revolution among iras shiite populationthe war was long and costly with as many as 5000,000 dead on both sides -
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The Persian Gulf War
Iraq already had the largest army in the Arab world. In 1990 Iraq accused neighboring Kuwait of drilling into an Iraqi oil field and stealing oil Hussein used this excuse to invade Kuwait. -
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Conflict In iraq
irans new government was dealing with the hostage crisis it soon found itself at war with its neighbor Iraq later Iraq fought two wars against U.S. led colaitions before the government of saddam Hussein was overthrown -
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The Iraq War
September 11, 2001 Some U.S. leaders believed that saddam Hussein posed a greater threat to the united states than before. They worried that huseein might have deadly weaponsthat he could give to terrorists. Iraq did not fully cooperate with the inspections . Some U.S. officials were convinced that Huessein was hiding weapons. As a result in 2003 another U.S. led coalition invaded Iraq, quickly forcing huseein out of power
