Monday, July 31, 2006

Photoblog-19





After this much writing about wars , I think looking at a green picture is useful ;)

The War-4

After the end of World War I, Jewish immigration to Palestine started significantly. At this time a political group called Zionism was built which aimed to help all Jews, especially those ones living in Russia and Europe to come back to their home land in 19th century. During this war Turkey was in the side of Germany and when they won the war the Great Britain got the control of the land. When General Allenby entered Jerusalem, he dismounted his horse and was greeted by the leaders of all three religions.
Turkey lost it's control of the Middle East. Britain decided to make two parts in The Land one for Arabs and one for the national people including Jews. Emir Faisal agreed to Jews immigration to Palestine but he asks them to accept The Land as a state of Syria.
Between 1920 and 1945 the Jewish population increased from 1% to almost 31% .In 1936 the British Peel Commission advised to divide the western part of the Palestine between Arabs and Jews. This suggestion end to a war which made 5000 Arabs, 400 Jews and 200 Britain killed.
I think after observing the pertinacity of Arabs and Jews, British decided to Leave The Land immediate after the World War II. They found that none of them is accepting any peaceful contract….

Sunday, July 30, 2006

The War-3

The history of this land is very old. In each certain era two of these three religions were fighting for The Land.
In 539 BCE Cyrus II of Persia let the Jews in which were exiled from The Land by the Babylonians.
In 330 BCE Alexander the Great get the control of the land. After his death in 323 BCE, Jews were divided into two groups; first those one who were in belief of Helen (The Greek Goddess) and those ones who were remained in their past believes. Then the Jewish-Roman Wars started.
Then Christianity was born which was branched from Judaism. In 66 CE the Great Jewish-Roman Revolt was held which resulted in 1300000 Jews death and destruction of their temple in Jerusalem. After it in most of the wars Jews failed, so they migrate to Egypt and some Hellenistic parts of the world.
In 634 CE, Arabs took the control of Palestine. They change everything even the language to their own and then after a while Shia started living there.
Then Christians decided to get their Prophet place of resurrection from Arabs and the Crusades started. They got the land for about 300 years until Saladin won the war and finished this period.
Then the Ottoman Period started from 1516 until 1800 which Turks get the control of the land. During this time Napoleon invade the country but they push him out of the land and their kingdom last till World War I.
The history of this Holy Land is which has resulted in current war is going to be started…

Saturday, July 29, 2006

The War-2

Why The Holy Land is a target of all these conflict during lots of decades? Each religion worships this land for their own reasons.
Jewish: for more than 3000 years this land which is called Israel belonged them as the place of the First and Second Temple. Recently the archeologists have found some symptoms that shown even the kingdom of David and Solomon (they are both mentioned in Quran) has been done there. They Failed in some wars such as Bar Cochba Revolt against Roman Empire and lost the Land.
Christians: It's really a great place for them too. It's the place of birth of Crucifixion and also the place of resurrection of Jesus Christ (He was born in Bethlehem). They call the land as Jerusalem.
Moslems: It's called Holy Valley (Alvadi Almoghadas or AlQhuds) and it's very very important for them. It's in association with Israelis' Prophets (they believe their existence) and it's also the place of Isra and Miraj( the spiritual journey of Prophet Mohammad to and from Jerusalem).
So they all have their own reasons to live there….

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

The War-1

The history begins from very very years ago.
Once upon a time, when the ice age was finished (?) and there were not any dinosaur living in this nice earth, the humans started rounding everywhere and started their civilized livings.
From the first days, distinctively they felt the necessity of religion existence and started worshiping different idols. Then they become more modernized and according to their Holy Books God helped them. The first ancient religious was Zoroastrianism which believed in One God ruling over the world. Then the Abraham era started which is contained of Judaism, Christianity and Islamic religions.
It's very interesting that all these Monotheism religions have started from the Middle East; the territory which is in a great unfair war; the country which is my story object in the coming episodes. I'll talk more.

P.S. In finding the history and special words spells, I've got help from WIKIPEDIA The Free Encyclopedia.