The Annapolis Summit

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This year a summit is occurring in Annapolis, Maryland. This summit, aptly named the Annapolis Summit consists of the current Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert and the President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas and Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of the United States to act as mediator between the two other parties. Analysts say this meeting between the two opposing parties could lead to great progress in stabilizing one of the catalysts of violence and instability in the Middle East today. The article relates to several themes discussed in History 20: the Israel-Palestinian conflict, which was a direct result of the Second World War; after Israel was founded it was an area where proxy wars were fought between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war; the plentiful amount of oil in the Middle East and subsequent oil wars, and the use of guerilla and counter-insurgency tactics. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Israel became the epicenter of conflict today and the basis for current foreign policies of many nations, especially Western nations such as the United States.

As a result of losing the First World War and under extreme duress from the Treaty of Versailles, Germany became National Socialist under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. Hitler used Jews as the scapegoat for which Germany blamed for all its economic problems. This had to do with relative new field then of eugenics and anti-miscegenation laws erected in many countries at the time. Thus, during WWII Nazi Germany systematically sent Jews from Germany and many other countries Axis occupied or Axis-Allied to concentration camps to work in hard labor or many times straight to their deaths in gas chambers (Simmons, 10/24/07). After Hitl...

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...he world and because of the location of massive oil reserves coupled with the United States running out of domestic oil fields has led to this paradox of importing oil from countries (Simmons, 11/21/07) who detest the United States because of its support for Israel. The Annapolis Summit is hopefully the beginning of a series of constructive talks between Israel and its Palestinian counterpart to develop some sort of plan for peace in the future for the purposes of lessening the United State’s dependency on foreign oil, creating peace in a volatile region of the world, and saving President Bush’s currently flawed legacy.

Works Cited

Simmons, Dana. History 20 Lecture Notes. Riverside, October - November 2007.

The Economist. The Middle East Summit | Mr. Palestine. 22 November 2007. 27 November 2007 .

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