What caused the decline in the Arab countrys?
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They had nothing to decline FROM.  Oil helped them economically, but not much, because the Saudi Princes and such get most of the money.\n\nThe Arab world blew it when it failed to embrace the printing press.  Musilms didn't like the idea of printing, they thought that all written material should be hand copied, because that was more Allah-like.  True they did have extensive learning in the sciences and such, but Europe overtook the Arab world when it was able to disseminate information and knowledge at lightning speed after the printing press was introduced there.  \n\nBOO HOO FOR THE ARABS... not\n\nLove jack
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After the breakup of the Ottoman empire the Brittish split the countries up. There were hundreds of thousands of jews in israel so they also got a small slice. Israel was desolate until the israelis built it up. The arabs who are allowed to live and vote in Israel never accepted the fact that nonmuslims would live in their area and attacked immediately. Thay were defeated and were defeated numerous times after that. Remember In Israel all religions thrive in Arab countries a jew wouldn't stand a chance of surviving the night.
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That's a bit of a loaded question, because it depends on how you consider the British role in the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.  Prior to that war, the Ottoman Empire had evolved over several hundred years, at times encompassing most of southeastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, the states formerly composing Yugoslavia), modern Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, all of the Arabian Peninsula, Eqypt, and much of northern Africa.   at the end of the World War I, the Empire was broken up, and most of the administration and nation-building in the area was performed by the British.   While Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan were created based on regional figures of authority (the Shah, the Saudi royal family, and the Hussein royal family (no relation to Saddam)) the other nations had borders drawn largely for convenience.  Some good books are the subject are linked below.
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Arab nations care little about the welfare of palestinians.  Their purpose is to keep the Palestinians in a refugee status so they can hold them up to the world as victims of Israeli aggression,  and thereby justify their bloodlust against the Jewish people.
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Tribalism is the root of Africa's problems.  Similar to Hitler's genocide, but no one cares.  Africa offers some natural resources.\n\nMuslim extremists are now expanding in Africa.  Sudan is a prime example.  The Arab Sudanese government is trying to destroy the native African Sudanese.\n\nEven when the West help them, there is corruption.  They will take the donated grains and sell it to the poor.  Somalia is basically a country run by gangs with big guns.  Warlords rules Somalia.  Each having its own rules and killing whomever they want.\n\nWith such instability and corrupted government, insurgencies start.  This combination will limit investments from companies and make the situation worse.  No food, no economy, but a lot of guns.  Millions are dying and their own people/government do not care.
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Because of Palestine...  Israel has taken the land from the Palestinians.
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Many reasons, including corruption, business policies, foreign investment restrictions, Muslim insurgencies and more.
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When the Arab world is devoid of guys like Osama.
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because if isreal joined the attack on iraq most arab states would have sided with iraq and also denied the allies any help. it was down to religion
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Mostly because of taxation. Because they have different values and mentality in these countries but it can also be affected by availability of oil in the area.
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This object is not the cause - it's merely an attempt at justification.\nDifferent foreign wars have different real causes, but economics is usually present.  These days it's the over-powerful lobbies of Israel, the CIA and the US Military.
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If you're referring to President Bush, there are a number of reasons that his numbers have fallen so low lately.\n\nThe number one reason is that he got the United States into a war that isn't ours to fight. Instead of fighting terrorism, we decided to fight a dictator in a completely different country than the one which harbored terrorists. Instead of fighting terrorism or terrorists, now we're fighting soldiers on two different sides of a civil war.\n\nInstead of helping the Iraqis get back on their feet, we aggravated the situation so much, that now the entire country has dissolved into  a civil war. Instead of instilling a new, independent government, we've put into power pawns of the US government. Instead of working for the good of mankind, where help is needed AND desired (like Darfur), we're stuck in an incredibly sticky situation in the Middle East.\n\nIn a nutshell? Because so far this "peacemaker" hasn't made any peace.
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It's bizarre since all arabs have the same language, culture and history.\n\nIt is also odd since Israel is smaller than the size of New Jersey and the arab states are huge.\n\nAdding to the confusion is that every arab country is totalitarian, and we really don't need more of those in this world (i.e. yet another place where women are subjugated, people's rights are trampled, etc).\n\nPresumably the madness will end when the USA is no longer dependent upon arab oil.  The likelihood is that no one will care and the arabs will all kill each other (as they did in centuries past).  In the meantime, the USA is somewhat dependent upon the Israelis not rocking the boat too much, and the Israelis do their best to comply with American directives.
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there are alot of countries responsible for what has happened in the middle east. Every western nation has had a hand in dividing up the middle east for either religion or oil. Isreal is only the most recent example. If we gave every country in the middle east the support we give Isreal, that would be a very different region today. \n\nThe cultural divide is the only thing I see that has stopped us. For instance, after 9/11 many groups were advocating that we lock up all muslims in the US in concentration camps because they are muslim. The people of the middle east's reaction to this attitude is what is causing the problems. They hate the way we think of them. \n\nWill there be another attack? probably. Will we hear about it? I hope not, but some politician will probably want to reap the political rewards of making us afraid despite what it would do to this country. Thousands of people die in the US every day. Terrorism is the least likely cause, and our government should recognize that.
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China, Australia and India. Due to cheap labour and Australia's abundance of natural resources.
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Some people did ask why. One of the responses was that the Middle East was tired of all the damage being done to it and all the interference by the U.S. government not to mention all the deaths caused by U.S. behind the scenes.
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because he belongs to the Arab race and speaks Arabic\nalthough many live in countries  other than  Arabia\nthe Arabic culture has spread across north Africa ,and at one time included countries in southern Europe,like Portugal and Spain,all of the countries in the middle east are Arab countries(apart from many people in Israel)\n\nyou are right that was very difficult