21. THE TROUBLED 21st CENTURY
MEANWHILE THE WORLD HAS ITS OWN ISSUES
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continuesto boil
Once again, India and Pakistan find
themselves in conflict
China is ready to play the role of major
world power
Though down, Russia is by no means
out
Ukraine's problems resulting from a
Russian-Ukrainian ethnic division
Islamic fundamentalism sees itself at
war with Western civilization
Iran has ambitions to rise to the status
of an Islamic nuclear power
The textual material on page below is drawn directly from my work
A Moral History of Western Society © 2024, Volume Two, pages 377-386.
THE
ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT CONTINUES TO BOIL |
December 2, 2001 - Israeli
Prime Minister visits Bush at the White House
March 29, 2002 - Israelis shell Yassir Arafat's compound
March 29 - UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East
April 12 - Another suicide bombing - Jerusalem Market
Yassir Arafat working despite
Israeli attempt to destroy his headquarters
Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu
- trying to out-radical Sharon
Arafat gives the victory
sign on leaving the Ramallah Compound after weeks of seige by Israel
June 10, 2002 - Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon and President Bush at the White House
June 29, 2002 - Israeli jets and bulldozers destroy Palestinian police station - Hebron
July 31 - Hamas bomb blast
at the dining hall of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 7 killed / hundreds
injured
Israeli tanks knocking down
Palestinian houses in retribution for Palestinian attacks on Israel
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
ONCE AGAIN, INDIA AND PAKISTAN FIND THEMSELVES IN CONFLICT |
May 15 2002, - Indians protesting
in New Delhi a jihadist raid in Kashmir which killed 34 people
The Economist, May
18th-24th, 2002, p. 39.
May 17 - Indian troops guarding the border near Jammu
CHINA
IS READY TO PLAY THE ROLE OF MAJOR WORLD POWER |
China commands a huge, highly disciplined work force
THE
SOVIET EMPIRE IS NO MORE; THOUGH DOWN, RUSSIA IS BY NO MEANS OUT |
Vladimir Putin - Russian President (then Prime Minister, then back to being President again)
UKRAINE
HAS ITS OWN PROBLEMS RESULTING FROM A RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN ETHNIC DIVISION |
The hotly disputed Ukrainian Presidential elections of December 2004
eventually becoming Ukrainian President - 2005-2010
AFP/AP
Viktor Yanukovich - the Russian-language candidate supported by Moscow ... accused of organizing massive voter fraud in the 2004 elections
Protesters on the first day
of the Orange Revolution, 22 November 2004 - Kiev, Ukraine
Coalition partner of Yuschenko and Ukrainian Prime Minister (2007-2010)
ISLAMIC
FUNDAMENTALISM CONTINUES TO SEE ITSELF AS DEFINITELY AT WAR WITH WESTERN
CIVILIZATION |
Bali nightclub bombed by
Muslim militants - October 12, 2002
The 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people
Rescue workers evacuating the bodies of victims of a terrorist train bombing near Atocha Station, Madrid
Suspects in the 2004 Madrid train bombings awaited their verdicts on the outskirts of Madrid. The group responsible was made up of Moroccan Islamists with connections to various petty criminals. They had no known formal ties to al-Qaida, though certainly they were inspired by that organization.
February 2006 - Muslim protest in London led by Jihadist Anjem Choudary
First responders transport
a U.S. soldier who was wounded in the Fort Hood shooting
Anwar al-Awlaki, Hasan's
former imam, with whom Hasan communicated
in the months prior to the
shootings
Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki
(American-born
Omar Shafik Hammami)
member of Somalia's al-Shabaab
IRAN
HAS AMBITIONS TO RISE TO THE STATUS OF ISLAMIC NUCLEAR POWER |
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