what are the middle eastern people fighting about?
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Some are fighting about issues related to the Palestinians.  Some are fighting about issues of government representation and repression.  Some are fighting about ethnicity.  Some are fighting about interpretations of the Koran.  Some are fighting about borders and sovereignty.  Some are fighting about invasion by external forces.  Some are fighting about secularism versus religiosity.\n\nDoes this help?
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Which country? Which fight?\n\nPeace.
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Its not oxymoronic, its hyppocritical and ironic. I think it would be fair to say that the religion that has started the magority of the fights over religion is the Christians.  For example they marched thousands of miles to the "holy land" and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Muslums and burned infants on crosses and then claimed Jerusalem as their own private property. Take a look at all of the fighting in the Middle East between the Palistinians and the Israelies and tell me how you think that all started. IT WAS THE CHRISTIANS!
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Well the guys with the weapons are the muslims and the evangelical christians. The buddhists and the taoists have definitely got the moves for hand-to-hand combat. The jews aren't hard but they've got some big mates, so you can't really f*ck with them either. Sikhs are allowed to carry a ceremonial sword. And the atheists are the only ones with  the laws of physics on their side. So they're all pretty hard really, if you're going to fight i'd fight the agnostics, the bunch of poofs.
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Hello..an inexhaustible topic about Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. It's happening because Israeli people occupated Palestinian territory,believing that the there is their roots as a nation.That happened in the 1944-1945 years.Now the two sides cannot come to terms with the "separating" the territorial pretences,and one of the major problematic areas is called Gaza..To stop the fighting were done multiple negotiations with the help of International organization,USA,the Arabic Legue..The end of the conflict cannot be predicted..The Israeli against Palestinians..
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Because the idea that they attack us from the "hatred of freedom" is silly.\n\nAt the core, the current troubles in the mid-east are an internal muslim civil war. These countries are caught between their own culture, which has a rich history, and modernizing, which comes with the risk of "westernization." (Until the seventeenth century the Islamic kingdoms were more advanced than their European counterparts.)\n\nThe attacks against the west are, in general, attacks against the source of modernization in the mid-east, and against the US in particular, the source of money for various authoritarian governments.\n\nThat does not mean we shouldn't fight terrorists and protect ourselves. Of course we should. But to understand this "war" we need to deal with the root causes - and those are all in the mid-east.\n\n("War" in quotes, because, as horrific as acts of terror have been, the current situation is nothing compared to WWI or WWII, or to the possibility of species extinction that came with the Cold War.)\n\nAdded:\nAlthough this is a minority opinion, I think the ultimate source of Arab anger against Israel is part of the internal muslim civil war. Of course the Arabs have grievances (as do the Israelis), but external Arab governments have done nothing but enflame the situation for 50 years. There are many cases of tragic explusions of peoples (Greeks from Western Turkey after WWI, the India-Pakistan split, Germans from Prussia and Poland after WWII), but in these cases other countries have attempted to settle the newcomers and establish new communities. This, tragically, has never happened for the Palestianians.\n\nIn my opinion, the Palestians have been cruely used by external Arab governments as a way to distract their own people from internal problems due to corruption and poor government.
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This is not a good question. I would say define the fight that you see in the Muslim World, and I'll be able to tell you why you have the fight. \nIf Iraq is what you have on your mind, then Iraq has a large segment of Shia Muslims that were oppressed over the course of Sadam Hussein (who happened to be a Sunni, and who oppressed Sunnis as well) rule, and now the US enabled the Shia to claim power in Iraq. With that said now you have 3 reasons for fighting in Iraq:\n1- Getting the invaders (the US from the prospect of some Iraqis) out. \n2- Those who want to keep the old statuesque (mainly sunnis)\n3- Reprisal killings conducted by Death Squads (some infiltrating the current Interior Ministry) and those have been links to Shia factions taking out mostly Sunnis.\nHope that gives you a little bit of detail on the Iraqi situation.\n\nOne more element you need to take into account,  if I come out say "Christians in America are fighting each other, see what the Christian Eric Rudolph did to the abortion clinic run by fellow Christians, or see what the FBI Christian agents did to the Christians in Branch Davidian", I would not call these comments fair nor responsible. Muslims around the World who worship the one Creator of the Heavens and the Earth ought to get the same  fair and responsible treatment from the Christians in the West.
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nothing its war for two main persons BUSH  for controling the oil in this area\nisrael for destroying any new power appear in the area
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I think the general public of Iraq want this fighting to end more than we do!  Just remember that people are people, just with cultural differences.  If all people treated each other with respect the communication would flow freely and maybe we could learn to understand each other.
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Just take a general look at the middle East and Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan in particular. What have they contributed to the benefit of the world & civilisation?\n\nWhere are there Engineers, poets, doctors, scientists, explorors, men of vision and wisdom, others of renown? Where are they?\nFor the most part they are ruled by despotic family run businness's aided and abbetted by relious nutter extremists without any accountability whatsover!\n\nWhat education? There isn't any! Its indoctrination from the cradle to the grave. Watch Friday prayers all over the arab world & see what happens! The Mullah's rant and rave preaching their sermons of hate and the doggy faithful run out and cause / proboke havoc the world over. Extremist factions always to the for. The doggy faithful uneducated , cannot think for themselves, not allowed to question, analyse, discuss merits, weigh the pro's and cons. Led like simple minded sheep / indoctrinated by evil, senile, old, perverted twisted men who will stop at nothing to prevent freedom and democracy being estblished in their lands. For once it's established and the benefits accrued to the poeple - the despots and nutters will be turned out\n!.\nAnd they talk of their history and culture. What history and culture? 24 hour news media covereage news depicting nothing but aggression, conflict, riots, rape, pillage, sacking and burning.\nWatch them. Scruffy, uneducated, waving guns, yelling abuse, etc, etc. What has the Arab World given us? Terrorism, hate, disruption, death, grief, loss, you name it - they perpetrate it.\n\nPeace, civilization, education, the right of freedom of speech, democracy / debate, the rule of law, adherence.,  will never materilze in the Middle East. It's about time the Allies pulled out of the Middle East and stood back and let the despotic families and extremist religous nutters fight it out. To quote the words of Winston Spencer Churchill - "let dog eat dog" Then the Middle East & the world will be a far, far safer place.
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The middle east is mostly arid. The other three have widely contrasting terrains.
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actually it's israel and arabs\n\nin fact it's like the story of indian americans (palestinians) and the cowboys(israelees)\nthe guys with more guns always win
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The conflict is over an area called the Gaza Strip. The United Nations gave the palestinians this strip of land as a part of a treaty which made the isrealies mad because this land had belonged to them. There is lots of information on it on the internet and you can probably pull up the UN Resolution from their website that shows the trade of land. Its simply a fight over land. The palestinians hate the isrealies because they want to become a country but isreal does everything in their power to stop this from happening.
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They wouldn't engage in a fist fight.  But, if I was forced to choose, I would say it would be a draw.\n\nBoth were hard working and well exersized desert-dwelling people.  Neither would have a clear advantage.
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The problem with the Middle Eastern conflict is that it is not a single force the American military is fighting: It is a culture, a religion. Though many people, have many opnions on the matter, here is mine. \nThis administration does believe that victory is possible, where it is completly improbable. The major factor in this, is the divisions of the area, between country, clan, and religion (Clan, as in sect of religion, family lineage, etc.), in which shows no mercy for those whom  attempt to change their traditions. The current Administration is pushing democracy upon a culture that has rejected such for over two millenia... No matter the strategy, withdrawal is the only option to cease bloodshed, yet keep a strong home defense incase of a counter-incursion.\n\nEdit: Correction, it is not the only option. As Celtic Rebel said, equip our troops bloody properly, and perhaps we can tough it out, and settle the more... radical of the lot in the sandpit over there.
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Pretty much the entire middle east ... but for them hating is a finely practiced art.
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Not all of them are fighting.\nI'm shia and I have lots of sunni friends.