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The most important problem that torments the Middle East is the problem of Palestine that is age old (1). The areas of Palestine formed part of Ottoman Empire. The land of Palestine was inhabited by mostly Palestinian Arabs. In 1850, these consisted of approximately 400,000 Muslims, 75,000 Christians, and 25,000 Jews. For centuries, these groups had lived in harmony: 80 percent Muslim, 15 percent Christian, 5 percent Jewish. The influx of Jews into the areas and colonization by the Jews has resulted in bitterness among Arabs and this continues. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire as a consequence of World War I, these areas came under British control. On Nov 12, 1917, British issued the Balfour Declaration, viewed by Jews and Arabs as promising a “National Home” for the Jews in Palestine. There was great unrest in the land and Arab Revolt was led by Haj Amin Al-Husseini during 1936-1939. Over 5,000 Arabs were killed according to some sources, mostly by British. Several hundred Jews were killed by Arabs. Husseini fled to Iraq and then to Nazi Germany (2). World War II saw large scale migration of Jews in to these areas.

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Iraq has Kurds in three Northern provinces, Sunnis in west and Shiites in south. The Shiite areas control great oil wealth. Kurds also have sufficient oil wealth. Casualties are steadily growing and already the war in Iraq had made serious dent on the strength of republicans in both the houses. Saddam Hussein has been eliminated and Iraq as a power has been cut to size. These two aims have been achieved rather easily. But stability in Iraq is evading and Sunni and Shiites the warring sects are fighting each other. Iraq has become a killing field for suicide bombers.

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The euphoria of inevitable bombing of Iran appears to be reduced or subsided. US was in the advanced stage of planning for intensive bombing of Iran, a process that began in 2006 as per a report. This was revealed by distinguished writer Seymour Hersh writing in New York magazine. As per him, a special planning group was established in the offices of Joint Chiefs of Staff charged with contingency bombing plan for Iran that can be implemented with in 24 hours, once the word ‘Go’ comes from the President.

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There is a great speculation in the world that that USA would soon strike Iran with the aim of destroying its potential to build nuclear weapons and to seek a regime change. It is believed that once invincibility of the Mullahs is blown apart, the regime would collapse like pack of cards where saner and democratic elements would soon emerge on the scene. America on several occasions in the past has made it clear that military option against Iran has not been ruled out. It has also been reported that there is a great American naval build up in the Gulf that is considered as prelude to the inevitable western initial missile strikes for softening against Iran in very near future. Some are of opinion that US troops are already on the soil of Iran while it is also being claimed that US is conducting attacks on Iran through Iraqi ground forces in clandestine manner (1) (2). Thus, many are of the opinion that the war has already started although open hostilities are yet to surface. Middle East is on the brink of war and is the biggest hot bed of confrontation for attaining supremacy in the region.

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The organization Hezbollah is comparatively new on the world scene and is the creation of Iran in Middle East to fight Israel that once occupied large portions of Lebanon territory. Iran has inspired, armed and funded this militant outfit to be a constant source of trouble to Israel. With Egypt, Jordon and Saudi Arabia opting to be out of this Arab and Israeli conflicts and with Iraq under Saddam Hussein having been vanquished, Syria and Lebanon only remained as the States creating trouble to Israel .Palestine conflict however is an alive igniting flame. The leader of Hezbollah, Syed Hassan Nasrallah is being acclaimed by the Muslim fundamentalists and some sympathizing writers as an outstanding leader of great leadership qualities.

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