ARTICLE CRITIQUE

Article Critique

Article Critique

Introduction

The Middle East is facing the crisis and what is happening in Middle East will undoubtedly affect the every life. As the major crisis in the middle East is of crude oil, that is the standard currency of the world, irrespective to dollars or yen. The effect would be from the grocery store to the dollar prices. This agenda the Middle East is facing due to crude oil crisis. On the other hand, Yemenis put their lives on the line for dignity, freedom and justice, and could be reconfigured into violent factions, leading to a new phase of hostility against the United States and its Saudi allies.

Middle East Crisis

Contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations are distributed so grotesquely unevenly that they provide plenty of hints at future trends. These relations vary wildly with the setting, numerical strength of each group, and context. Let us take examples, moving from one extreme to the other.

Context 1:

When prominent American Muslims appear on English-language TV to discuss issues like the Ground Zero Mosque, they love to play the Jewish card. They equate contemporary American society's treatment of the Muslims with what the American Jews experienced back in the '20s and '30s, hoping that this comparison will gain them more sympathy. Generally, when they face a largely skeptical Western audience, they project an enlightened and friendly attitude toward their Jewish brothers.Context 2:

This attitude changes drastically on American college campuses, where the Muslim groups feel emboldened by the left-wing professors and students. They still have nothing against the Jewish people per se. They just demonize the Jewish state, which they call "criticism."

Context 3:

The distinction between the Jews and Israel completely disappears when the Muslims become a sizable minority. For example, this is the case in Malmo, Sweden's third-largest city, where the Muslims make up 25% of the total population. Jew-hatred in Malmo has reached a point that even the BBC abandoned its usual political correctness and devoted one of its reports in December of 2010, specifically to the verbal and physical harassment of Malmo's tiny Jewish community by Muslim immigrants.Context 4:

If you think that the situation cannot get any uglier, you are mistaken. Let us go to a place where the Muslims are a majority. The assault of liberal journalist Lara Logan in Egypt, and it was not an ordinary assault carried out in a secluded location. It took place in crowded Tahrir Square, and it went on for 25 minutes. She is not a Jew, but the mere labeling her as such was reason enough for the viciousness unleashed on her.

This criticism can be seen in a number of recent editorials, such as those published in The Times, the Financial Times and the Guardian. Each editorial takes a strongly condemnatory line towards the actions of the Syrian state security forces, with The Times' 'Pariah State' claiming that Syria's brutality deserves to be treated with more than contempt. It continues:

Syria's regime is showing itself every bit as despotic, cruel and mendacious as the dictatorships of Saddam Hussein or Colonel ...