Middle East (idea)

The Middle East is a region of the world which has been a flashpoint for conflict throughout the 20th century. Oil, light sweet crude (specifically), religion, despots, Cold War intrigues and the Suez Canal have caused people to bleed and die in the sands for a long long time. But the Middle East is also the cradle of civilization. Technically, the Middle East is in Asia, mostly.

Obviously, /msgs of omissions and corrections are great!

Nations/autonomous regions:

• Lebanon
• Syria
• Israel
• Palestine
• Jordan
• Tunisia
• Cyprus
• Turkey
• Iraq
• Kurdish enclave
• Iran
• Saudi Arabia
• Qatar
• Oman
• Kuwait
• Yemen
• Algeria
• Bahrain
• United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)!
• Egypt
• Ethiopia (sorta)
• United Arab Republic (defunct)
• The Ottoman Empire (defunct)
• The Byzantine Empire (defunct)

Israel, Palestine and their conflicts:

• Cities, territories and places:
  • Greater Israel / Eretz Israel
  • Jerusalem / East Jerusalem
  • West Bank / Judea / Samaria / Yesha
    • Ramallah
    • Hebron
    • Bethlehem
      • Try finding a stable in Bethlehem now
    • Jenin
    • Nablus
    • Jericho
    • Qalqilya
    • Tulkarem
  • Gaza Strip / Gaza
  • Golan Heights
    • The shouting hill
  • Green Line
  • Tel-Aviv/Tel Aviv
  • Sinai Peninsula (the only bit of Egypt in Asia!)
• Arab-Israeli wars:
  • History of Israel
  • Israel's war of independence
  • The Six Day War
    • USS Liberty
  • The war of attrition (1950s)
  • Yom Kippur War / The October War
  • 1982 Lebanon Invasion
    • Phalangist
    • UNIFIL
    • U.N. Security Council Resolution 425 / U.N. Security Council Resolution 426
  • Intifada (Intifada I)
  • Al-Aqsa Intifada
  • Sharon versus Arafat
  • HOWTO: Build a lasting peace in the Middle East
• Ethnic groups
  • Ashkenazi Jews
  • Sephardi Jews
  • Haredi Ultra-orthodox Jews
  • Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews)
  • Druze
  • Bedouin
  • Arab
• Oslo peace process:
  • Oslo
  • Criminals of Oslo to justice!
• Palestinians/Palestinian political organizations:
  • Nakba
  • Palestinian flag
  • Ikhwan-al-Muslimin / Muslim Brotherhood
  • Palestinian Liberation Organization / P.L.O.
  • Palestinian National Authority / PNA
  • Palestinian Islamic Jihad
  • Hamas
  • Al Fatah
  • Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
  • Hizbullah / Hizbullah Official Manifesto
  • Islam rejects violence as a method to gain Power
• Leaders & well-known people:
  Jews and Israelis:
  Political leaders: (Prime Ministers of Israel)
  • David Ben-Gurion (PM)
  • Ariel Sharon (PM)
  • Itzhak Rabin (PM)
  • Ehud Barak (PM)
  • Benjamin Netanyahu (PM)
  • Shimon Peres (PM)
  • Golda Meir (PM)
  • Ehud Banai (PM)
  • Moshe Dayan (DM)
  • Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (Shas)/ The Rabbi has spoken!
  Politicians:
  • Amram Mitzna (Labor)
  • Avraham Burg (Labor)
  Profs / Intellectuals:
  • Daniel Pipes
  • Israel Shahak
  • Ami Ayalon
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Moshe Sharett
  Artists / poets:
  • Yehuda Amichai
  • Ehud Banai
  Militants:
  • Meir Kahane
  • Baruch Goldstein
  Spiritual leaders:
  • Baba Sali
  Arabs:
  State/Authority leaders: (see below for more Arab nodes)
  • Yasser Arafat
  • Anwar Sadat
  • Hosni Mubarak
  • Hafez al Assad
• Knesset / Where did we build the K'nesset? A weeny bit of Jewish Humor
• Political parties of Israel:
  • Likud
  • Labor Party
  • Shas
  • Meretz
  • Molodet
  • National Union / Yisrael Beitenu
  • National Religious Party
  • Shinui
  • Kach / Kahane Chai (banned for racism)
• Israeli Defense Forces / IDF:
  • Profile of 21
  • jobnick
• Zionist / Zionism / Zionist organizations:
  • right of return
  • Theodor Herzl
  • Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
  • The Zionist Congress
  • Haganah
  • Irgun
  • Hashomer Hatzair
  • Hatikva
  • AIPAC
    • John McCain's Speech to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee
  • Anti-Defamation League / ADL
  • Jewish Defense League
  • Gush Emunim
  • Gush Shalom
  • Kach / Kahane Chai
• Events, violent and otherwise:
  • Sabra and Shatila massacre
  • Israel starts prisoner releases (When was this??)
  • Balfour Declaration
  • Tel-Aviv Suicide Bombing, 06/01/2001
  • Jerusalem Suidice Bombing, 08/09/2001
  • Walking proudly in the streets that are your own
  • Where were you when Rabin was shot?
  • Israel Supreme Court bans interrogation abuse of Palestinians
  • Anti-Netanyahu Demonstration, 09 September 2002, Montreal
• Legal documents:
  • Proclamation of Independence
  • Israel's Declaration of Independence
  • British Mandate in Palestine (Mandatory Palestine)
  • U.N. Security Council Resolution 242
  • U.N. Security Council Resolution 476
  • Israel and the security council
  • UN resolutions relating to Israel vetoed by the US
• "Ha ha," says the Israeli voter to the American voter, "don't talk to me about the lesser of two evils."
• The Difference between Resistance and Terrorism
• kibbutz / kibbutzim / Volunteering on a Kibbutz
• right of return
• Why the US is not a good mediator for Israel vs Palestine
• Israel as a determined nation
• Ahh, to be young and in the Middle East in the summer!
• Guidelines for identifying suicide bombers
• I hate Israel / I love Israel
• Israel is a terrorist state
• A small note regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• What good are my words now or ever?
• The cost of Israel to US taxpayers
• The real problem of Israel
• Israeli slang
• Silicon Wadi
• Hope Flowers School

The Persian Gulf War

• Desert Storm
• Saddam Hussein (Saddam)
• ASCII Art: Saddam Hussein
• CNN Town Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State
• The Siege of Iraq
• Norman Schwartzkopf
• George Bush - Quotes
• How the United States helped Saddam Hussein
• Saddam's Gift to America
• Baghdad
• Gulf War Song
• The Gulf War II betting pool
• Three Kings (movie about the war) / What is the problem with Michael Jackson?
• Pete Townshend was right about Saddam Hussein

The Persian Gulf War II

See also War on Iraq 2003, War on Iraq 2002.

• ATTACK SYRIA!

Arabs, culture, and stories:

See also Middle Eastern poetry.

• All Muslims are Arabs
• Chronology of the Arab Conquest
• The Rise of Islam
  Artists / poets:
  • Umm Kulthum
• OPEC
• OPEC: a brief history
  Syria:
  • similarities between Al Gore and Bashar al-Assad
  • The last storyteller in Damascus
  • The UN dances and the Dervishes whirl
  • Umayyad Mosque
  • The Umayyad Caliphs
  Iran:
  • Islamic Republic News Agency
• Why you are unlikely to meet a Shia Muslim named Omar
• An Arab Love-Song
• Organization of the Islamic Conference
• Arab League
• Al-Jazeera
• Never be rude to an Arab
• Killing an Arab
• Mecca
• Medina
• Muezzin
• Dome of the Rock

Middle Eastern religion:

• Lots of people like to refer to the Bible, Talmud, Torah and Koran/Qu'ran now and then. All of these holy books were put together mostly in the Middle East.
  Under construction

Jerusalem:

Key holy sites of the three major monotheistic religions lie within a very small area of a Middle East City known as Old Jerusalem. The Second Coming Of Christ, the The Ascent of Mohammed to Heaven, The Western Wall, it's all going on right here. All kinds of stuff debatably happened here back in the day, depending on who you ask. A question for another node.

• Also known as: Yeru'Shalayim, City of Peace, Al-Quds ash-sharif (The holy and noble city)
  Stuff to see:
  • Wailing Wall / Western Wall
  • Dome of the Rock
  • Temple Mount / Al-Aqsa Mosque
  • The Second Temple
  • Via Dolorosa
  • Stations of the Cross
  • Ammunition Hill
  Stuff which may have/will happen/ed here:
  • The Crucifixion of Christ
  • The Second Coming
  • The Ascent of Mohammed into Heaven
• Jerusalem of Gold (song)
• Is Jerusalem really sacred to Islam?

Bodies of water:

Water is a hidden crucial factor in middle eastern politics (Suez?). There are only a few water sources but a lot of people. Thus, conflict. Most of these are nodeshells. Noders?

• Sea of Galilee
• Arabian Sea
• Persian Gulf
• Arabian Gulf
• Red Sea
  • Gulf of Aqaba
  • The Red Sea and Time Fable
  • The Red Sea Fable
• Gulf of Suez
• Suez Canal
  • Failure of the Gallipoli Campaign
• Gulf of Oman
• Gulf of Aden
• Dead Sea
• Lake Kinneret
• Euphrates River
• Tigris River
• Jordan River
• Oasis

Stuff from Antiquity:

See also the Dictionary of Biblical people and the fertile crescent nodes, very good both.
Ancient Palestine:

• Judah During the Exilic Period

Assyria:

• Nineveh
• Sennacherib
• The Destruction of Sennacherib

Mesopotamia:

• Akkadian
• Uruk
• Laws from Mesopotamia
  • Code of Hammurabi
  • The Code of Hammurabi: Paragraphs 100-150

Babylon:

• Babylonian
• Babylonian captivity
• Nebuchadnezzar
• ziggurat
• Ziggurat of Ur
• Ur
• the epic of Gilgamesh
• Babylonian Omens

Languages:

• Aramaic / Aram (In the castle of Ahhhhhhh!)
• Akkadian (parent Babylonian and Assyrian)
• Semitic
• Syriac
• Hebrew, of course!
• Eblaite
• Ugaritic

Ethnic groups and places:

• Pharisee
• Philistine
• Phoenician
• Canaan / Canaanite / Been to Canaan
• Moabite
• Habeshat
• Ugarit

Persia (Iran):

• Zoroaster
• Persepolis
• Zoroastrianism
• Alexandria
• Library of Alexandria

Abyssinia:

• Menelik
• Queen of Sheba
• Rasselas
• Zimb
• Aksum
• Addis Ababa

Antiquated Miscellany:

• Temple Prostitutes

Modern Miscellany:

• Tips for driving in the Middle East

Mega Thanx0r to akf2000, DejaMorgana, dg, Footprints, lemur, toalight and anyone else w good bits.

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Of course, any devoted Risk player knows that the Middle East is the trickiest region to hold on to, because without it you can't get the Asia bonus, but it's surrounded by the enemy's other continents!
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