Gentlemen, our panel of experts will be answers questions from me. If youre watching live, they can also answer questions from you as well. Theyll be taking questions from our audience. You can tweet questions to us www1cc or message us on our face boork page at world war i spelled out. World war i centennial commission. Before we hear from our panel, we would like to take you to gaza and to al jazeera correspondent john henry who has been watching the crisis unfold for the past few weeks. He filed this report for us last week before the most recent round of cease fires. Somehow i ended up at the wrong war, on sunday morning i had a ticket to iraq and by monday evening, i was on my way to gaza. Since i have been here, i have seen a failed cease fire, i have seen an escalation, i have seen hamas, the, that pretty much runs gaza accused of targeting civilians with these multiple rocket attacks out of gaza. They have eventually as of today killed one person. I have seen israel say they we
Are still being fought for today. Just to sum it up, one of the points that dr. Thompson made about the end of the war, the armies were more interested in demobilization, getting people home, and that was reporting about whats going on in the middle east, but it really wasnt much of a concern in this country, but as time went on, after the war, were celebrating, were moving on from the war, it wasnt possible in the middle east, and things were exacerbating and of course getting worse, and now were concerned and its the top news story thats going on. Russia and ukraine, seems to be spinning out of control. Also with these groups during world war i, how did this all start . Trouble between the ukraine and the great russians, the moscowvites start back in the middle ages, but with world war i, in 1918, the germans had conquered a good part of the eastern part of europe and the russians had dropped out of the war with the revolution in 1917. The ukrainians declared themselves a separate re
Science professor arthur vanden houten and Flagler College history Professor John young taught a class on the the rwandan genocide and the response by the u. S. And the United Nations. The professors placed particular emphasis on the slow reaction to the crisis from the International Community and how that then shaped 21st century Foreign Policy for many countries. This is about two hours. So, i mean as a kind of overview just to refresh everyones memory here, we started with an overview of the history of it. Rwanda. Talked about how the genocide was an outgrowth of 19th and 20th century rwandan history. There were tensions between ious as his cities ethnicities, various groups. This was exacerbated by colonialism the germans and the , belgians defining people by ethnicity. And this tension was precipitated by the withdrawal of the colonial powers in the 1950s and 1960s, such that there was tension for the next 20 and 30 years erupting into violence. Becoming pretty severe starting in
Turbulence and bloodshed. It became a separate nation after they withdrew from palestine in 1948. It was immediately attacked by its neighboring arab states, who resented the new nation and considered its creation to be illegal. Israel successfully beat off the attacks, and a series of honest disagreements worked out by the United Nations brought an end to organized warfare in 1949. Since then, israel has worked at fever pitch and with a tough and Pioneering Spirit to make a selfsufficient nation within its borders. Even industry, despite limitation in raw materials, has grown rapidly. At variance with this picture are the camps outside israels borders, where more than one million arab refugees maintain a miserable existence and demand the right to return to the homes in palestine from which they say they were dispossessed during the war. Israel says it would be impossible to readmit them. It has offered to discuss compensation. But the arab states, supporting the refugees demands, ref
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