What international current events can I write a research paper on, and take a side about?

Hi Kristin, here try this. I wrote this up to show alot of facts, it's condensed version. This conflict is easier to understand when there is historical perspective behind it. Good luck.

The modern world has had problems with Communism, Nazism, and now Islamofascism. One cannot make peace with a hostile regime to Western values, but defend against those values we reject, and sometimes go to war over it if the other party becomes hegemonious. The German civilians were not immune to allied bombs when we targeted Hitler's troops, and neither are the Palestinians. Civilians that supported the Hitler regime casualties were in the MILLIONS. Societies are responsible for the monsters they create, and they suffer the consequences of their own actions, or inaction. We went to war with Nazi Germany and defeated them, Reagan stood up to the Russian Communists did a Cold War stand off and finally decided to disarm, and now the decision is being made what to do with the Islamofascists.

WW2 Casualties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualti...

Modern countries evolve, that is what happens in a modern world, people go thru growing pains, countries do it and worlds do it and it is a normal event of the human condition and Russia wasn't immune to it, Germans weren't immune to it, and neither are the Arabs.

It seems we have alot of little Chamberlains about, that previously thought appeasing Hitler with a land for peace deal would work, but it didn't and they soon discovered Churchill, who nobody listened to at first, was right. Here we go again with people trying to appease a hostile regime, and thinking a land for peace deal will work, which it won't as land isn't the goal that the regime is after. And it seems we have some apppeasors about, who think Reagan was wrong in standing up against Communist Russia and thought that abandoning the civilians enslaved behind the Iron Curtain was the morally right thing to do. I say, defending freedom is the right thing to do and it always has been.

Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing, 1964

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pbp0hur9RU

Ronald Reagan, Speak Softly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efUB72yYxME

Reagan Library, Speeches

http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/speeches/speec...

The statehood on all the countries (ones that waged war) is as follows: Jordan 25 May 1946, Israel 14, May 1948, Syria 17 April 1946, Lebanon 22 November 1943, Egypt 18 February 1922, Iraq 3 October 1932, North Yemen 1918, South Yemen 1968

They each got the capitals and their main cities to their corresponding countries. Nobody was going to be left out except Israel and that's what the Arabs wanted and some still try to do today (Iran, Syria.). If it were up to me I wouldn't give the Palestinians squat they are hostile Syrians just like they were bred to be hostile for 60 years these people have been hostile and made hostile babies breastfed with hatred.

Syrian Actress Amal 'Arafa: Hatred of Israel Is in Our Genes and Blood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Os4pdjtZ0

They should all go back to Syria. But you know what, Israel isn't that cold as they are Syrian orphans that think there really is such thing as a Palestinian people. Israel offered them Gaza and tried to make a go of it and still tries while all they do is make thousands of underground tunnels and never make their skyscraper on beach front property and Meshal and Assad are sitting pretty in Damascus chatting with Achmedinijad about how they're going to rule the world.

Study Islamofascism. The society that breeds Islamofascists is not immune. America and allied forces defeated and "checkmated" Hitler, while the Arabs that allied with Hitler weren't even "checked." Now they are being checked, and America and the West isn't waiting so long to respond. We learned our lessons from WW2. Hopefully they will learn this lesson too and not make us "checkmate" them.

Arabs already admitted what they were doing and most gave up the cause. Syria and Iran and the ones that support them are the last of the die hards:

You Arabs admitted that the [Palestinian] cause began after 1967.

Qaddafi to Arab Summit 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP2ePHOLSqo

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan." -- PLO Executive Committee member Zuhayr Muhsin, March 31, 1977, interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw."

"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it."-- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 -- "There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not."-- Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946 --"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria."- Representative of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956 --Concerning the Holy Land, the chairman of the Syrian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in February 1919 stated:"The only Arab domination since the Conquest in the year 635 hardly lasted, as such, 22 years."

This poll is interesting...According to the poll, of 1,270 Palestinians in face-to-face interviews, 84 percent supported the March 6 attack on the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, one of Israel’s most prominent centers of religious Zionism and ideological wellspring of the settler movement in the West Bank. Mr. Shikaki said that result was the single highest support for an act of violence in his 15 years of polling here. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. -- Khalil Shikaki, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/world/middleeast...

2007 statistics show 52.2 percent of Palestinian population are children age 18 and under and 93 percent have experienced domestic violence (Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics and the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO))

And then voting statistics that the Palestinians overwhelmingly supported and voted in Hamas which specifically has an "annihilate the Jew" doctrine. Both men and women voted. 77.69% turned out to vote overall in the Palestinian territories. One Gaza precinct (Rafah) had the highest turnout 89% while the lowest was the Jerusalem precinct 47.5%. http://www.elections.ps/template.aspx?id=288

Gaza Conflict 2007 Hamas and Fatah (.pdf)

http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/Reports/English/pdf_...

There has been some articles on the BBC website about how even liberal Israelis supported the bombings in Gaza. Not just the right wingers.

Many Israelis doesn't seem to understand how life is in Gaza or the Westbank.

The same goes for many palestinians, they don't understand how it is to live in Israel.

Ironically, a majority of both Palestinians and Israelis wants peace. But their lack of understanding for the others hardships, fears, hopes etc. is the biggest hurdle to the peace. They only see the extremist side of each other, not the moderates.

Israel's genocide of Palestinians is ana immediate urgent and worthwhile topic.