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TURKEY’S SYRIAN POLICIES

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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifYpp4GJk2LuMS_irkrnZ01yuiVaL-vgs-MDJ1VrhQ7P0HcCFtd2qR7KbaP9ydcygj2QOIrZNuuIQmVem1_On06u400uFTMZpKzvSqi5VgTgEC7f_hivfKFahzXVOt7aslGPVWluaowmHz/s1600/alevi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifYpp4GJk2LuMS_irkrnZ01yuiVaL-vgs-MDJ1VrhQ7P0HcCFtd2qR7KbaP9ydcygj2QOIrZNuuIQmVem1_On06u400uFTMZpKzvSqi5VgTgEC7f_hivfKFahzXVOt7aslGPVWluaowmHz/s320/alevi.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY WOULD MAKE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE RESOLUTION OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS IF IT COULD BRING ITSELF TO RISE ABOVE THE SECTARIAN CONSIDERATIONS THAT HAVE DICTATED ITS REGIME CHANGE POLICY IN SYRIA.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By Halil M. Karaveli, via </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So far, however, TURKEY’S intervention in the SYRIAN civil war has demonstrated how TURKEY’S lack of “democratic depth” disables a constructive foreign policy in the service of stability and democratic reform in a region that was supposed to be TURKEY’S “strategic depth”.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On August 11, U.S. Secretary of State <b>Hillary Rodham Clinton</b>, on visit in Istanbul, and her TURKISH colleague <b>Ahmet Davutoğlu</b> stated that the two countries are intensifying their cooperation in handling the crisis in SYRIA. The UNITED STATES and TURKEY are to set up a working group tasked with responding to the crisis, notably preparing for a worst-case scenario, the <b>use of chemical weapons</b> by the SYRIAN regime. <b>Clinton</b> and <b>Davutoğlu </b>also stressed the importance of preparing for a political transition in which vital state institutions in SYRIA are not compromised (which was the case in IRAQ after the fall of <b>Saddam Hussein</b>).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">US ENVISIONS: NEW SYRIAN GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF ALL SYRIANS, REGARDLESS OF GENDER, RELIGION OR ETHNICITY. NOBEL WISH BUT UNREALISTIC </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But although the U.S. and TURKEY both want to remove President <b>Bashar al-Assad</b> from power, there are nonetheless differences between the AMERICAN and TURKISH approaches. A new SYRIA, said <b>Clinton</b>, will need to protect the rights of all SYRIANS regardless of religion, gender or ethnicity. The TURKISH government is yet to issue a similar statement.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY SIDES EXCLUSIVELY WITH SUNNI REBELS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While there is growing concern in Washington that <b>Islamists</b> are gaining influence among the <b>Sunni rebels</b>in SYRIA – and increasingly also over the fact that ethnic and sectarian divisions are being exacerbated as the civil war grinds on – Ankara has so far desisted from speaking up in defense of ethnic and sectarian pluralism in SYRIA; <b>siding exclusively with the Sunni rebels</b>to whom it lends crucial support, political, logistical and military, TURKEY has positioned itself not only against the <b>Baath </b>regime, but also against the <b>Alawites</b>, from which the SYRIAN state elite is mostly drawn, and against the KURDS. Representatives of TURKEY’S ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) routinely denounce the SYRIAN regime as the “<b>Alawite minority regime</b>”, while the aspirations of the KURDS, who are manifesting a determination to take charge of their own destiny in northeastern SYRIA – in the region that borders TURKEY and the KURDISH-governed NORTHERN IRAQ – is condemned in the strongest terms by Ankara.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKISH POLICIES REGARDING SYRIA COULD BACKFIRE </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Seeking to bring about regime change in Damascus, Ankara has unleashed forces that it is having increasing difficulty coping with; in fact, the implosion of SYRIA puts TURKEY at an impasse: if nothing is done to prevent ethnic and sectarian divisions in SYRIA from getting further out of hand, these threaten to engulf neighboring countries, including TURKEY. Yet the remedy – a democratic SYRIA, where <b>Sunnis, Alawites, Christians, Druze; Arabs</b>and KURDS, are all equally accommodated – would also be a challenge to TURKEY, as it would encourage its own ethnic and religious minorities in their quest for constitutional reform and equality.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deniz Baykal</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, the former leader of the main opposition party, the <b>Republican People’s Party </b>(CHP), and a member of parliament, recently called for a constitutional overhaul in order to prevent a SYRIAN contamination in TURKEY. <b>Baykal </b>argued that the <b>Alevis</b>, the country’s heterodox Muslim minority – <b>who are estimated to make up a fifth of the population</b> – must be constitutionally recognized and treated with due respect by the state. The former CHP leader pointed out that the <b>State Directorate of Religious Affairs</b>, which tends solely to the needs of the <b>Sunni</b> majority, needs to be reorganized in order to accommodate the <b>Alevis</b>. However, the ruling AKP remains unresponsive to the <b>Alevis’ </b>requests, notably rejecting their demand that their temples (“cem houses”) are recognized officially (<b>Alevis</b>don’t pray in mosques). Prime Minister <b>Recep Tayyip Erdoğan</b> recently remarked that “if we are Muslims, our temple ought to be one and the same”, and the speaker of parliament turned down the request of an <b>Alevi </b>member of parliament that a prayer room for <b>Alevis</b> be provided in parliament as a sign of official recognition.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 31.5pt 7.5pt 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 31.5pt 7.5pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Information: </span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY'S GAMBLE ON KURDISTAN OIL</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/turkeys-erratic-foreign-policies-all.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/turkeys-erratic-foreign-policies-all.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEYS SECTARIAN PREJUDICE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMMTLRNQWZiLubqp48zmW3mKAI2hPPWVzXPvWhDa_klSPDlQnnwyJEgzaSv4QhqV3T0w11HMIDkSdTUpfixuQJFu7e5LhxwueOx_dgYUnoOD3j161ChtGfllE5kFGtxkT9ZwJc1o5CHZC/s1600/142998355.jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMMTLRNQWZiLubqp48zmW3mKAI2hPPWVzXPvWhDa_klSPDlQnnwyJEgzaSv4QhqV3T0w11HMIDkSdTUpfixuQJFu7e5LhxwueOx_dgYUnoOD3j161ChtGfllE5kFGtxkT9ZwJc1o5CHZC/s320/142998355.jpeg.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While the ruling <b>Sunni </b>conservatives of TURKEY reject the demands of the <b>Alevis</b>, ostensibly on the grounds that there are no differences between <b>Sunnis</b> and <b>Alevis,</b> they nonetheless do not refrain from singling them out as “the other”, even as non-Muslims, playing on the prejudices of the <b>Sunni </b>majority; that the <b>Alevis</b> are not really Muslims was indeed the implication of <b>Erdoğan’s</b>not so innocent remark that the mosque is the only temple for true Muslims. In the same interview, <b>Erdoğan</b> also referred to an Alevi temple that he had had bulldozed during his tenure as mayor of Istanbul in the 1990s as a “monstrosity”.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As evidenced by the fact that representatives of the TURKISH government and the AKP routinely refer to the enemy in SYRIA as “<b>Alawite</b> minority regime”, there is a clear tendency to frame TURKEY’S intervention in SYRIA in sectarian terms; conjuring the image of a battle for the emancipation of the faithful Muslims from the oppression of the heretics cannot but fan sectarian prejudice and even hatred against those that are portrayed as related heretics. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hüseyin Çelik</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, a deputy chairman of the AKP, suggested that the critical stance taken by <b>Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu</b>, the leader of the CHP, had to do with his <b>Alevi</b> creed: “Why are you defending the <b>Baath </b>regime? Is it perhaps because of sectarian solidarity that Mr. <b>Kılıçdaroğlu</b> is endorsing the SYRIAN regime?” inquired the deputy chairman of the AKP.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In fact, the TURKISH and KURDISH <b>Alevis (Kılıçdaroğlu</b> is an <b>Alevi Kurd</b>) should not be confused with the <b>Arab Alawites</b>, or the <b>Nusayris </b>as they are also known; the latter are estimated to make up a third of the population in TURKEY’S Hatay province that borders SYRIA and around fifteen percent of the populations in the neighboring provinces Adana and Mersin. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 31.5pt 7.5pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Information: Alevis</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> from TURKEY are commonly confused with <b>Alewites</b>from SYRIA and vice versa. For more background information regarding above mentioned subject see: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 31.5pt 7.5pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ALAWITES IN SYRIA AND ALEVIS IN TURKEY: CRUCIAL DIFFERENCES</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3284/alawites-syria-alevis-turkey">http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3284/alawites-syria-alevis-turkey</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It is among those, Arab <b>Alawite </b>populations that the TURKISH intervention is SYRIA is provoking anger. The much more numerous TURKISH and KURDISH <b>Alevis </b>meanwhile, are not so much in solidarity with the Arab <b>Alawites</b> in SYRIA as they are vulnerable to the foment of <b>Sunni</b> resentment against presumed heretics. <b>It is above all in that sense that TURKEY’S entanglement in SYRIA, on the side of Sunnis, courts danger at the home-front; as Sunni conservatism is kindled in order to buttress the legitimacy of the TURKISH policy, tension is produced along the Sunni-Alevi fault line.</b> On July 29, the house of an <b>Alevi</b> family in the eastern province of Malatya was attacked by a <b>Sunni</b> mob, a reminder that sectarian tensions simmer dangerously.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THREE STATE DISINTEGRATION OF SYRIA – SUNNI, ALAWITE-CHRISTIAN AND KURDS </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpIVzmnlaa_m2oSccTZ8J3TaqrMNXmbbxCUTp7XmSHfuVXwRhG7-oNR-vjdPLPZ9cJet6JhVikTT33Bit6X9Dh2v-QASThZl6kqAQFZQN1UqclUrrJnLc7M6cSlLBRMaDhnfkbWwAmaAXG/s1600/new-syria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpIVzmnlaa_m2oSccTZ8J3TaqrMNXmbbxCUTp7XmSHfuVXwRhG7-oNR-vjdPLPZ9cJet6JhVikTT33Bit6X9Dh2v-QASThZl6kqAQFZQN1UqclUrrJnLc7M6cSlLBRMaDhnfkbWwAmaAXG/s320/new-syria.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The not so improbable disintegration of SYRIA – possibly into three states, <b>Sunni, Alawite-Christian and Kurdish</b> – would conceivably present TURKEY with a new challenge in the future, if alienated Arab <b>Alawites </b>in Hatay were to be inspired by the emergence of an adjacent <b>Alawite </b>state. However, much more portentous for Ankara is the emergence of a <b>self governing KURDISH region in northeastern SYRIA. </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ASSAD HAS PLAYED THE KURDISH CARD AGAINST A TURKEY THAT IS TRYING TO BRING HIM DOWN.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Since mid-July, SYRIAN government forces have vacated the KURDISH-populated districts in the northeastern part of the country, effectively abandoning control to a coalition of KURDISH parties, among which the KURDISH nationalist <b>Democratic Union Party (PYD)</b> is the best organized. According to some accounts, a quite agreement had been reached between the al-<b>Assad</b> regime and the PYD. In any case, the SYRIAN regime and the KURDS are effectively allies, as the <b>Sunni</b>rebels are opposed to the KURDISH demands for equality; and by letting the KURDS set up a self governing region <b>al-Assad</b>has played the KURDISH card against a TURKEY that is trying to bring him down.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ankara has reacted sharply to the developments among the SYRIAN KURDS. <b>Erdoğan</b>warned that TURKEY would intervene were the KURDS to make any attempt to create an autonomous region; the TURKISH military would in that case cross the border and establish a buffer zone, <b>Erdoğan</b>vowed. TURKEY regards the PYD as the SYRIAN arm of KURDISTAN Workers’ Party (PKK), and fears that the area will become a safe haven for militants staging attacks in TURKEY. The leader of the PYD, <b>Salih Muhammed Müslim</b>, denies that the party has any organizational ties to the PKK, or that TURKEY is its enemy, and assures that no attacks will be staged across the TURKISH border. The SYRIAN KURDISH leader invites TURKEY to get over its “<b>KURDISH PHOBIA</b>” and institute a close relationship with the KURDS in SYRIA.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">KURDISH MARCH TOWARD AUTONOMY GAINS MOMENTUM</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDO8eNrXWuf1M1daMLBspztTsM0o-lS7TrMpRp9OyoBUa0R8yaiMf-qlgE2XBAY9cmfscofe7GK74DFUh-CkH727xANQgzRu9oDQfKid5GXWm4okfAdbB08H2vZgj9c651s39sKu33q9tj/s1600/dist-kurdish.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDO8eNrXWuf1M1daMLBspztTsM0o-lS7TrMpRp9OyoBUa0R8yaiMf-qlgE2XBAY9cmfscofe7GK74DFUh-CkH727xANQgzRu9oDQfKid5GXWm4okfAdbB08H2vZgj9c651s39sKu33q9tj/s320/dist-kurdish.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The relationship that TURKEY has come to enjoy with the KURDISH regional government in NORTHERN IRAQ – an entity that was long viewed by Ankara as a threat to its vital security interests – could indeed serve as an example to emulate, but such an evolution of the relations with the SYRIAN KURDS is less likely as the KURDISH march toward autonomy gains momentum. That is bound to have significant cross-border repercussions in TURKEY, boosting the morale of the TURKISH KURDS and further raising their expectations; indeed, the emergence of a KURDISH region in SYRIA could prove to be an even more important game-changer than the establishment of KURDISH autonomy in northern IRAQ has been, since the ties of kinship and family are stronger between the KURDS of SYRIA and TURKEY.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY WOULD MAKE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE RESOLUTION OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS IF IT COULD BRING ITSELF TO RISE ABOVE THE SECTARIAN CONSIDERATIONS THAT HAVE DICTATED ITS REGIME CHANGE POLICY IN SYRIA.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The establishment of a <b>Sunni</b> conservative, <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> regime in Damascus – which can be expected to be opposed to the KURDS’ demands for equality, as that is the position of the <b>Sunni Arab</b>rebels – may be an exciting prospect for TURKEY’S ruling Sunni conservatives. But Ankara’s calculus could nonetheless change with the growing realization that <b>al-Assad’s</b> fall may not be as imminent as has been assumed, and that TURKEY stands to suffer from the ever more destructive effects of a prolonged civil war that ultimately brings about the disintegration of SYRIA.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">To play a constructive role in SYRIA, TURKEY needs to transcend sectarian and ethnic divides, reaching out to the <b>Alawites</b>and to the KURDS, endorsing a pluralistic post-<b>Assad</b> nation. So far, however, TURKEY’S intervention in the SYRIAN civil war has demonstrated how TURKEY’S lack of “democratic depth” disables a constructive foreign policy in the service of stability and democratic reform in a region that was supposed to be TURKEY’S “strategic depth”.</span></span></div>

TURKEY’S SYRIAN POLICIES

TURKEY WOULD MAKE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE RESOLUTION OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS IF IT COULD BRING ITSELF TO RISE ABOVE THE SECTARIAN CON...

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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/wp/">A Weekly Dose of Architecture</a> Updates:</span><br /><br />This week's dose features <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/20/porsche-pavilion/">Porsche Pavilion</a> in Wolfsburg, Germany by HENN Architekten:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/20/porsche-pavilion/"><img alt="this       week's  dose" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Aug12-20.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title="This week's dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The featured past dose is the <a href="http://www.archidose.org/Sep06/25/dose.html">BMW Plant Leipzig</a> in Leipzig, Germany by Zaha Hadid Architects:<br /><a href="http://www.archidose.org/Sep06/25/dose.html"><img alt="this       week's  dose" src="http://www.archidose.org/Sep06/25/image01.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title="featured past dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />This week's book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/20/architecture-on-display-and-four-conversations/"><i>Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale of Architecture</i></a> and <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/20/architecture-on-display-and-four-conversations/"><i>Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse</i></a>, both by Aaron Levy and William Menking:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/20/architecture-on-display-and-four-conversations/"><img alt="this week's book review" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/levy-menking.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title="This week's book review" width="510" /></a><br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><b>**NOTE: The next weekly dose will be 2012.09.10. Daily doses will still be happening in the interim.**</b><br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">World-Architects.com U.S. <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/projects/reviews/41">Building of the Week</a>:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/37729_lakewood_garden_mausoleum">Lakewood Garden Mausoleum</a> in Minneapolis, Minnesota by HGA Architects and Engineers:<br /><a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/37729_lakewood_garden_mausoleum"><img alt="this week's Building of the Week" src="http://www.world-architects.com/files/projects/37729/images/Lakewood01.jpg" title="Current Building of the Week on american-architects.com" width="640" /></a>

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A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates: This week's dose features Porsche Pavilion in Wolfsburg, Germany by HENN Architekten: The featu...

54 Teaching and Lesson Plan Ideas for History Teachers #sschat

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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99175982@N00/6362481725" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="World War I Medallion" border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted" height="208" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6116/6362481725_702772e515_m.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 240px;">World War I Medallion (Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99175982@N00/6362481725" target="_blank">elycefeliz</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table>Since I've recently given a set of my curated plans for math teachers, English teachers and general common core standards (see end of this post), I thought I'd share some lessons for history teachers. If you're a history teacher and not following #sschat on Twitter, you should.<br /><br /><ul class="diigo-linkroll"><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/History-What-was-it-like-for-children-to-live-in-the-Second-World-War-3009087/">History What was it like for children to live in the Second World War - Resources - Share My Lesson</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This is a set of 12 lessons about what it was like for children to live in the second world war. I love this set of lessons because it builds empathy and helps teach the story of world war 2 from a child's perspective.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ww2">ww2</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/Writing-Film-Review-World-Trade-Centre-6031566/">Writing Film Review - World Trade Centre - Resources - Share My Lesson</a></div><div class="diigo-description">September 11 is coming up. While it is still very hard for many of us to even talk about this day, we have a whole 11+ years of our students who have no memory of this event. As teachers, we must get ourselves together to discuss and teach this event. As I've been reviewing the content on the share my lesson website, I've found a piece that I may consider in my own classroom, the world trade center film review piece. It has several films including "Saving Private Ryan" but also the film "World Trade Center" which would make for a good piece to use in the classroom.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sept11">sept11</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/resourcedetail.aspx?storycode=6080276">9/11 Handouts - Resources - Share My Lesson</a></div><div class="diigo-description">The first handout on this page is a good overview of the timeline of 9/11.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sept11">sept11</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/resourcecalendar.aspx?nbday=0&nbmth=6&nbyr=2012&evcode=2901">World War 1 Lesson plans</a></div><div class="diigo-description">June 28 is the anniversary of the outbreak of World War 1. As you discuss this topic, here are some activitiesa and lessons to help you. There are some "causes" activities to introduce World War 1 that may interest some social studies teachers.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/92906299.html">“If I Were President…” CR Middleschoolers Headed to Regional Speech Contest | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Local News</a></div><div class="diigo-description">The woodmen of the world had a "if I were president" competition sometime back, but I think since this is an election year, it is time to bring back some sort of competition like this to our students. You can see the recording of this student's speech on this news media page.This might be a great activity for the fall or even as a summer assignment to begin researching and writing speeches.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/taxonomySearchResults.aspx?keywords=olympics">Search for olympics teaching resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">If you want to teach about the Olympics, the TES forum out of the UK is where the great content is being uploaded daily. There are two activities of note, one is Olympic Games: Now and then and another is about Greek Ideas and what has been passed down. Many interesting lessons by grade level.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/olympics">olympics</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplans">lessonplans</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storyCode=6211708">In the news this week - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Topical studies are great. The London Marathon just happened and  marathons are increasing in popularity here in the United states. Here is a video about the marathon, but also lesson plans about the Battle of Marathon, information on training to improve fitness and just what it takes physically to train for a marathon. Health and history lessons here.<br /><br /></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/pe_teacher">pe_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/health_teacher">health_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/health">health</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.steampunkemporium.com/steam.php?__utma=1.1127246098.1334865184.1334865184.1334865184.1&__utmb=1.11.10.1334865184&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1334865184.1.1.utmgclid=CNyIlqfYwa8CFQW0nQodzi2KaQ|utmccn=(not%20set)|utmcmd=(not%20set)|utmctr=steampunk%20costume&__utmv=-&__utmk=123485963">Steampunk Emporium -- Steampunk Clothing from Gentleman's Emporium</a></div><div class="diigo-description">I have to bookmark this site just for me. This Steampunk emporium has such great period clothing (had to buy some for a project for my child) that I just had to bookmark and share it. It took a good 30 minutes of searching before I found it. Great costumes and cool things to use if you're talking pioneer or early 1900's.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/costumes">costumes</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/steampunk">steampunk</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/drama">drama</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/History-WWII-Plans-3008041">History WWII Plans - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This is a lesson plan for younger students (grades 1-4) for discussing World War 2. There are lesson plans here. One is "how has life in britain changed since 1948" which could be used for any age in the US because often our documents focus on a US centric view. The other is "what was it like for children in world War 2" which is a fascinating way to approach this with any children. </div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplan">lessonplan</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elemchat">elemchat</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/History-Skills-Bias-with-the-Simpsons-6192481">History Skills (Bias) with the Simpsons - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Using the Simpson's teach about bias and history in this middle school activity that includes interactive whiteboard resources, movies, and a handout.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplan">lessonplan</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.dipity.com/">Dipity - Find, Create, and Embed Interactive Timelines</a></div><div class="diigo-description">A website that lets you find and create timelines. Powerful tool for history teachers.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://animoto.com/play/dbG5XpDJn10OmZXikyqLjw">Animoto - Flat Classroom Project: Perspective Detectives</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This pitch for the project Perspective Detectives by Cynthia Sandler, one of our current class of Flat Classroom certified teachers completely left me awe struck and excited. Wow! What do you think? What a history project!</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclassroom">flatclassroom</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/globaled">globaled</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xxh-sS8Qoco">100 Years in 10 Minutes (1911 - 2011 in 10 Minutes) - YouTube</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Dare we do such a thing? 100 years in 10 minutes. Yes. It is on YouTube. This video is going viral. If you had to compile your last 20 years in 2 minutes or your 80 year life span in 8 - what would make it? This is one to watch and share. It is a bit upsetting as you see the war and devastation but I have to wonder if those are the things we remember.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/mypublicprofile.aspx?uc=1457079&page=1&SFBC_FilterOption=8">Holocaust Resources</a></div><div class="diigo-description">In the UK, Holocaust Memorial Day is the 27th of January. This is something that we should all discuss and cover in an age appropriate way. Actually, I have permission and show Hotel Rwanda to my class. I want the students to understand and know what happens in the world and that all it takes for bad things to happen is for good people to do nothing.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/holocaust">holocaust</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialstudies">socialstudies</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Holocaust-worksheets-6036661">Holocaust worksheets - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Dyslexic friendly resources for teaching about the Holocaust.Notes and handouts.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/KS3-History-McCarthy-Trials-6047895">KS3 History - McCarthy Trials - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Talk about the McCarthy trials using archived film from the 1950's. </div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Series-of-3-lessons-on-Vietnam-War-6088861">Series of 3 lessons on Vietnam War - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Lesson plans about the vietnam war. This is a UK document and may give you different perspectives in your studies. Worksheets, powerpoints, and documents to use with this 3 lesson. It includes a lesson on military tactics.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplans">lessonplans</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Ending-Slavery-An-Unfinished-Business-6117426">Ending Slavery: An Unfinished Business</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This is a lesson plan that you can use as a starting point if you choose to involve your classrooms in the movement to end slavery in the world.  Could you imagine if we could leave a legacy of this one thing. Our job is to speak for the helpless and to encourage empathy and understanding for others in this generation of children. It isn't all about what you can get, but about what you can give.  This booklet is out of the UK. "The antislavery movement was the first major campaign in Britain to involve ordinary citizens across all classes (as well as the slaves themselves) in the struggle to end the practice. As such it is a good example of how change can come about when people work together for a just cause. This booklet More…intends inspire and equip young people to take a stand against the continuation of slavery and injustice in the world today."</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/abolition">abolition</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplans">lessonplans</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Titanic-Timeline-6037947">Titanic Timeline</a></div><div class="diigo-description">As you think about next year, it is great to plan deep projects with historical meaning. As I was looking up things that happened 100 years a go in 1912, one jumped out at me. The Titanic Sunk on April 11, 1912. There are a ton of resources already available on this topic but it would make for an interesting project of some sort as the fascination with the event doesn't seem to have waned much.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/titanic">titanic</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storyCode=6071622">TES collection World War II - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This is an excellent set of world war 2 resources from the UK including videos and lesson plans.  For elementary school.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialstudies">socialstudies</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGSf_xjFX0o&feature=related">Professor Boyer and class request Skype chat with Aung San Suu Kyi - YouTube</a></div><div class="diigo-description">I have a blog post about this going up on Sunday, but this Virginia Tech professor, John Boyer, used a youtube video to request a skype meeting with Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and on Monday they will be skyping at 7pm EAstern. Wow.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/social">social</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/media">media</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_news">edu_news</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=909">Tradigital History: Bringing the Past Alive | K12 Online Conference</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Dr. James  Beeghley (Jim as most of us know him) has a presentation on Wednesday at K12 online about how history and social studies should be taught using technology. He talks about early photography and a lot of other very cool thoughts that will certainly challenge the thinking and teaching of history teachers.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialstudies">socialstudies</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/freeresources">freeresources</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/researcher_thoughtleader">researcher_thoughtleader</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/War-pictures-powerpoint-6026060">War pictures powerpoint - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Discussions of propaganda are great ones to have. Here you can see quite an assortment of World War 2 propaganda. Right now in the UK they are observing remembrance day so a lot of resources are being shared that we can use on this topic. It would be interesting to have students look for modern day propaganda? How about looking at US elections - do we have propaganda there? Just discussing that topic would be interesting.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/fl-broward-school-supplies-20111028,0,3147055.story">Teacher Christina Lambard learned a lesson of her own this week when she tried to give her eighth graders a first-hand experience in "taxation without representation." - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Taxation without representation lesson from history teacher Christina Lambard had parents calling the school to complain. A letter was sent home that said kids would be charged 25 cents a page and if unpaid they would get a zero. Usually the kids figure out the note is false. This year parents started calling the school before talking to the teacher. This lesson has been taught before without the hubbub . I think a bigger point here is that parents should learn to call the teacher first.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Education">Education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.trailmeme.com/trails/The_Story_of_the_Battle_of_Gettysburg">The Story of the Battle of Gettysburg on Trailmeme</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Trailmeme has a tool to let you "walk" through resources that have to do with a particular event in history. I haven't learned how this works yet, but thought you history teachers might take a look at it.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.gapminder.org/">Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org</a></div><div class="diigo-description">A student on netgened shared this with me based upon his topic "visual data analysis."  This is an amazing repository of statistics shown in very cool ways. Great for social sciences.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialstudies">socialstudies</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/learning">learning</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/visualdatanalysis">visualdatanalysis</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://theweekinrap.com/">The Week in Rap</a></div><div class="diigo-description">EAch week the news of the week is posted in rap style format in a classroom-friendly format to this website.  For government or current events - maybe this will help.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/currentevents">currentevents</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/technology">technology</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/vets">Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Veterans History Project Home page -- GREAT PROJECT!!!!</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-annotations"><li>        <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner"><img alt="Veterans History Project" src="http://www.loc.gov/vets/images/vets-title.gif" title="" /></div></div></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.histografica.com/">HistoGrafica - Picture the Past</a></div><div class="diigo-description">For history teachers and others - a new online history museum for those who love history and want to share it.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://whscffshowcase.wikispaces.com/Social+Studies">WHS CFF Showcase » Social Studies</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Fascinating link for social studies and some samples.  I LOVE how some web pages were inserted using bitty browser. What a cool tool.  This site also features several dipity timelines.  This is a GREAT site for history teachers to see.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/techintegrator">techintegrator</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/web2">web2</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/web2.0">web2.0</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators">Smithsonian Education - Educators</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Government organizations like the smithsonian are reaching out to educators and others with an online presence.  This cool site has lesson plans and lots of great information for arts, science and technology, history and culture, and language arts.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/art_teacher">art_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum">curriculum</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum_director">curriculum_director</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/government">government</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/government_teacher">government_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplans">lessonplans</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature_teacher">literature_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/professional_development">professional_development</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science">science</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wowoftheweek">wowoftheweek</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/govt_business">govt_business</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/web2.0">web2.0</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/www_world">www_world</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ssch">ssch</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>An incredible resource from the Smithsonian for educators<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://gctgone.googlepages.com/home22">gctgone - A Place in Time</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Learn how to use Google maps and research to explore any point in history.  This is a great lesson for history teachers from Cheryl Davis.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Google">Google</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://culture.gov.au/">Australia's Culture Portal</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Australia's culture portal with tons of information about the culture of australia.  Great for those living in Australia or studying about Australia.  From Jo McLeay</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_newapp">edu_newapp</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-09-15T151705Z_01_N15182298_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SCIENCE-WRITING-DC.XML">Carved block may carry oldest New World writing | Tech&Sci | Science | Reuters.co.uk</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Oldest new world writing may have been discovered in Mexico.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome">Curriki - WebHome</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/collaboration">collaboration</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/composition_teacher">composition_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum">curriculum</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum_director">curriculum_director</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature_teacher">literature_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math_teacher">math_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/web2.0">web2.0</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wiki">wiki</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Website mentioned in time magazine article that comes out this week.   Wiki based curriculum - first listed in November, but many people are talking about this.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.brainpop.com/">BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum">curriculum</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eelementary_teacher">eelementary_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature_teacher">literature_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math_teacher">math_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>animated site for teachers.  It is subscription but is a really fascinating way to augment what is going on in many traditional subjects with exciting web-based tools.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.eduref.org/">The Educator's Reference Desk: Resource Guides</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum">curriculum</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum_director">curriculum_director</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature_teacher">literature_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math_teacher">math_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Thousands of lesson plans -- great place to share and look at information -- share this with all of your teachers!<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/">A History Teacher: Dan McDowell</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/classroom">classroom</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/for:edtechtalk">for:edtechtalk</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wiki">wiki</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Great lesson plans and webquests recommended by Bernie Dodge.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://umsimulations.wikispaces.com/">UMsimulations » home</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/creativity">creativity</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/for:edtechtalk">for:edtechtalk</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/globalcollaboration">globalcollaboration</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/hz08">hz08</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/innovation">innovation</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/learning">learning</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature_teacher">literature_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/poetry">poetry</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/simulations">simulations</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/virtualworlds">virtualworlds</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>These are incredible simulations at the University of michigan where students are paired with K-12 students depending on the project and use creativity and writing to teach everything from history to the Arab Israeli conflict.  Wow!  Anyone can join.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://sitemaker.umich.edu/adamh/place_out_of_time">Adam Hellebuyck's Electronic Portfolio: Place Out of Time</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/online">online</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Place out of time simulation -- Arab Israeli conflict simulation.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://ppsblogs.net/brianmckee/2008/01/16/is-there-a-colonial-fair-fan-out-there-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-168">» Can Technology be Integrated with a Colonial Fair? Brian’s TRT Blog</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Brian wants ideas -- share. I posted on Classroom 2.0 recently asking for others to share ideas, and apparently not many have tried Colonial Fairs, or don’t associate them with technology. Has anybody done one with great technology ideas?<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.hippocampus.org/">HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum">curriculum</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elearning">elearning</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/for:wow2.0">for:wow2.0</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/free">free</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/government">government</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/government_teacher">government_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/homework">homework</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math">math</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math_teacher">math_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/resources">resources</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science">science</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Free help for all kinds of subjects.  This is cool, I'm going to pass it along to my students.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://stopgenocide.wikispaces.com/">Many Voices For Darfur » home</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/composition_teacher">composition_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/darfur">darfur</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/darfurposts">darfurposts</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/projects">projects</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialnetworking">socialnetworking</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>The projects that students are doing to add their voice to the outrage about what is happening in Darfur is amazing!  Voicethreads, youtube videos, toondoos, zohonotebooks, blog posts... it is all here -- join in.  Speak out!<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://ed.voicethread.com/">VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, docs and videos</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/darfur">darfur</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/darfurposts">darfurposts</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/for:wow2.0">for:wow2.0</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/pbl">pbl</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/projects">projects</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/voicethread">voicethread</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Voicethread about the genocide in darfur and adding voices to it.  This is a fascinating method used by this teacher who had students analyze political cartoons and why they agreed or disagreed.  Great project.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm">Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/art_teacher">art_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elementary_teacher">elementary_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>This is an amazing resource for art teachers from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wow!<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html">World History : HyperHistory</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/reference">reference</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>This is an important tool for history teachers to use.  It timelines people, events, activities, and gives context for the things happening in the world -- a great place to discuss history.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.mapsofwar.com/index.html">Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/maps">maps</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/reference">reference</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>A website that takes maps and uses them to teach all kinds of amazing history.  These maps are excellent for demonstrating events that unfolded and trends and will allow for great conversation.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/index.html">The Library of Congress</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elementary_teacher">elementary_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/government_teacher">government_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/librarian">librarian</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/libraries">libraries</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/library">library</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>The library of congress online.  There are presentations, readings, and a wide range of information for teachers, assistive technology (audio tools).  This is something all teachers should familiarize themselves with.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a><br /></span></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/">EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>First person accounts of almost any event in history.  Empathy and teaching people how to see through the eyes of another is an important "sense of the conceptual age" (Pink) -- this gives you an empathetic view for history teachers.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a><br /></span></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.archive.org/web/web.php">Internet Archive: Wayback Machine</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/computerscience_teacher">computerscience_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/reference">reference</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>This is an archive that allows you to go "wayback" on almost any website -- this is great for discussing events of the last 12 years or so as well as the Internet in general and evolution of the Internet<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a><br /></span></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm">USA Geography - Map Game - Geography Online Games</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/educational_games">educational_games</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elementary_teacher">elementary_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/geography">geography</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/geography_teacher">geography_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Cool website that tests on states, capitals, and geography.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_SocialStudies">iKnowthat.com - Online Multimedia Educational Social Studies (Geography and History) Games for Kids in Preschool, Kindergarten, and Elementary Grades</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum_director">curriculum_director</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/educational_games">educational_games</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/geography_teacher">geography_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/librarian">librarian</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/maps">maps</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Geography, History, and Social Studies page at I Know that -- a lot of map activities and other fun things along with a teacher's guide.  Wow!<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a><br /></span></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://mnemograph.com/app/viewer.php?uid=wright_brothers">Mnemograph :: remember, plan, learn</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tools">tools</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>A time line planner tool in beta test -- this is a really cool applicatin for history teachers.  Fascinatinting.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a><br /></span></li></ul></li><li>    <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://oceanofk.org/">Welcome to Ocean of Know</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags:                        <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/computerscience_teacher">computerscience_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum_director">curriculum_director</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elementary_teacher">elementary_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/for:wow2.0">for:wow2.0</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplans">lessonplans</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math_teacher">math_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>             <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Amazing project that has all types of materials in all subjects -- there are simply some amazing things to be found here!  Math, interactive simulations for science and more!<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li></ul></li></ul><div class="diigo-ps"><br /></div><div class="zemanta-related" style="margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><h4 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles</h4><ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/08/89-lesson-plans-and-ideas-for-teaching.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/107143931_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/08/89-lesson-plans-and-ideas-for-teaching.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">89 lesson plans and ideas for teaching math - #mathchat</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/08/50-teaching-and-lesson-plans-that-rock.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/105130251_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/08/50-teaching-and-lesson-plans-that-rock.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">50 Teaching and Lesson Plans that Rock 8/7/2012</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/07/common-core-standards-lessons-ideas-and.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/101135254_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/07/common-core-standards-lessons-ideas-and.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Common Core Standards: Lessons, Ideas, and Discussions #ccchat</a></li></ul></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_c.png?x-id=99a9c10f-381e-4434-8f14-a3600ceb0591" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwZFqgrq7CVYuav0ntVBpmHS33XtMySdYGsMC5eHRSw5eeKqId-TEykFCiLNlDY04mW6js2USVil0gLw2pD9YdaeYPE1vf6NuefdNrQNCwI6LLRhSBFLhTS15lz1CQvPwdG_xLCCkSAa_e/s1600/Israel-Iran_0013_thumb1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwZFqgrq7CVYuav0ntVBpmHS33XtMySdYGsMC5eHRSw5eeKqId-TEykFCiLNlDY04mW6js2USVil0gLw2pD9YdaeYPE1vf6NuefdNrQNCwI6LLRhSBFLhTS15lz1CQvPwdG_xLCCkSAa_e/s400/Israel-Iran_0013_thumb1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WHY PROSPECTS OF AN ISRAEL IRAN CONFLICT REMAIN LOW</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By Gregory R. Copley </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Global security concerns continued to be geared around the possibility of armed conflict between IRAN and ISRAEL, an issue hedged by a range of other conflicts and issues. The actual prospect of such a conflict, however, remained extremely low, for a variety of reasons, despite the near hysteria of media, and even poorly-reasoned reporting from “professional” intelligence agencies.<br /><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Information</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">AIRSTRIKE UNLIKELY (posted 4 June 2012)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/israel-iran-syria.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/israel-iran-syria.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">IRAN ALREADY ACQUIRED AT LEAST TWO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FROM FOREIGN SUPPLIERS </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The ostensible cause of the potential conflict remained the nominal determination of key WESTERN states to ensure that Iran did not acquire the capacity to build nuclear weapons, although even ISRAELI Prime Minister <b>Binyamin Netanyahu</b> has reportedly acknowledged that ISRAEL understood that IRAN had at least two nuclear weapons already deployed on medium-range ballistic missiles. These were weapons, how-ever, acquired from foreign suppliers, not from domestic sources.<br /><br />In reality, the issue is far more complex, and is particularly compounded by:<br /><br /><b style="color: red;">THE FACT THAT THE UNITED STATES IS IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR</b><span style="color: red;">, </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">which traditionally inhibits and distorts Administration decision making, and yet allows for opposition candidates to exercise strenuous — and often ill-informed and inflammatory — rhetorical positions;<br /><br /><b style="color: red;">THE FACT THAT THE IRANIAN DOMESTIC POLITICAL SITUATION IS CLOUDED</b><span style="color: red;">, </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">as a result of the Majlis elections which have already severely crimped the influence of incumbent Pres. <b>Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad</b>, who may soon be eclipsed from power with the end of his term. However, even the present “Supreme Leader”, “Ayatollah” <b>Ali Khamene’i</b>, did not gain as much ground in domestic politics as he would have wished vis-à-vis <b>Ahmadi-Nejad</b>. This leaves power — insofar as it is concentrated at all — largely in the hands of the leader of the <b>Quds Force</b> of the IRANIAN Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC: Pásdárán), Brig. <b>Qassem Suleimani</b>. In any event, all talk of “reformists” in the IRANIAN clerical scene has evaporated. <br /><br /><b style="color: red;">THE REALITY THAT IRAN’S STRATEGIC REACH TO DOMINATE THE PERSIAN GULF AND THE NORTHERN TIER HAS BEEN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL</b><span style="color: red;">,</span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and this is compounded by the US/Coalition withdrawal from IRAQ, and the de facto strategic withdrawal (certainly du jure in a political sense) from AFGHANISTAN. IRAN has successfully used its influence over Shi’a populations — often regionally in a minority — to effectively control situations. The use by the IRANIAN clerics of the “anti-ISRAEL” jihadist rhetoric to win support from the vast Arab and Muslim populations has, however, failed: the Sunni populations, while buying the anti-ISRAEL line, have not coalesced in support for IRANIAN leadership. And the Sunni leaderships of Sunni-dominated Muslim states have reacted sharply to IRAN’S rhetoric as much as to IRAN’S real strategic grasp on, for example, IRAQ and SYRIA. As a result, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE REAL PRESSURE FOR ACTION AGAINST IRAN — TO CUR-TAIL IRAN’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND TO OVERTHROW IRAN’S ‘ALAWITE ALLY IN SYRIA, THE BASHAR AL-ASSAD GOVERNMENT — COMES FROM THOSE WHO MOST FEAR TEHRAN: SAUDI ARABIA, TURKEY, AND QATAR</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. <b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>Significantly, this is not working, except at a public relations level</b>. In SYRIA, despite pressures from the Sunni-dominated <b>Arab League</b> (which excludes non-Arab IRAN), Pres. Assad seems set to continue to dominate the Islamist-led Sunni uprising.<br /><br /><b style="color: red;">THE FACT THAT TURKEY IS NOW FLAILING IN ITS ATTEMPTS TO CURTAIL THE GROWTH OF IRANIAN STRATEGIC REACH</b><span style="color: red;">. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY is also now itself becoming isolated at a time when its leader — and the real architect of TURKISH strategic “revival” — Prime Minister <b>Reçep Tayyip Erdogan</b>, is in rapidly-failing health. He is likely to be replaced either by Pres. <b>Abdullah Gül</b> or by Foreign Minister </span><span class="st"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ahmet Davutoğlu</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, both of whom are radical, but neither of whom has domestic political strength of <b>Erdogan</b>. Meanwhile, the ruling Islamists still have not mended their fences with the TURKISH Armed Forces, and TURKEY continues to suffer from an inability to address domestic KURDISH insurgency. If TURKEY alienates IRAN, then IRAN has made it clear that it has the capacity to stimulate activity in TURKEY by that country’s very large (20-million) Shi’a population, as well as stepping aside while KURDS gain more support from abroad. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background information</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: See <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/turkeys-erratic-foreign-policies-all.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/turkeys-erratic-foreign-policies-all.html</a>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Turkey">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Turkey</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3284/alawites-syria-alevis-turkey">http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3284/alawites-syria-alevis-turkey</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /><b style="color: red;">THE FACT THAT THE CORE OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE (IDF) AND THE ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ARE TOTALLY OPPOSED TO A MILITARY STRIKE AGAINST IRAN’S “NUCLEAR FACILITIES”</b> because they recognize that: <br /><br />(a)They cannot identify or reach all of IRAN’S nuclear facilities; <br /><br />(b)IRAN already has deployed nuclear weapons [probably more than the two known to be deployed on al-Shahab IRBMs] which may have a chance of surviving ISRAEL’S extensive anti-ballistic missile (ABM) network; <br /><br />(c)There are few real options to follow-up an air/missile strike against IRANIAN targets;<br /><br />(d)An ISRAELI first-strike against IRAN would actually coalesce IRANIAN sentiment around the ruling clerics and against ISRAEL; and <br /><br />(e)The UNITED STATES Government would unreservedly oppose an ISRAELI strike. <br /><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE PROBABILITY OF A UNILATERAL ISRAELI STRIKE WOULD ONLY OCCUR IF AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT ACTUALLY PRESENTED ITSELF TO ISRAEL</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What is also not understood by most commentators and foreign governments is the reality that Prime Minister <b>Netanyahu</b> and Defense Minister <b>Ehud Barak</b> have been attempting to persuade the <b>Obama </b>Administration in the US of the desirability of decisive military action against IRAN. This has not been a campaign to tell the US that ISRAEL would act unilaterally against IRAN. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So what has not been seen is actual evidence of the probability of a unilateral ISRAELI stance, which would only occur if an existential threat actually presented itself to ISRAEL. At present, this is not perceived to be the case, even though Mr. <b>Netanyahu</b> portrays the IRANIAN nuclear weapons situation has being ultimately an existential threat. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The IDF, the ISRAELI Intelligence Community, the ISRAELI opposition parties, and so on, all categorically reject the idea of an ISRAELI first strike at IRANIAN targets, despite acknowledging that elected leaders (<b>Netanyahu, Barak</b>) might try to insist on such an action. But, absent tacit or express US approval for such an action (which even <b>Netanyahu</b>and <b>Barak </b>acknowledge requiring), such an attack would not occur. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A UNILATERAL ISRAEL AIR STRIKE WOULD BE VIEWED GLOBALLY AS HAVING US SUPPORT </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Moreover, the US Government is aware that any action by ISRAEL — even if it was opposed by the US — would be seen globally as having US support; thus the US is committed to ensuring it does not happen. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The US <b>Obama</b> Administration has intentionally continued to leak reporting which would hamper such a step by ISRAEL, even “disclosing” that ISRAEL had arranged for the use of bases in AZERBAIJAN to stage air attacks into or exiting IRAN. That was a canard: the use of AZERBAIJANI facilities and air space was considered some years ago when ISRAEL had access to TURKISH air space, which would be essential to allowing access into and from AZERBAIJAN. That is no longer feasible. <b>However, US reports that ISRAEL lacked the reach or technical capability to undertake a first strike against IRAN are incorrect. ISRAEL has this capacity</b>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE PERSIAN-ISRAELI LINK HAS BEEN MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL FOR TWO-AND-A-HALF MILLENNIA</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /><br />The reality that the PERSIAN-ISRAELI link has been mutually beneficial for two-and-a-half millennia, and the recent IRANIAN clerical rhetoric against ISRAEL was for tactical purposes, although, in fact, reflecting the radical interpretation of Shi’ism and Islam by the clerics. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ISRAEL has what IRAN/PERSIA has always valued: access to the Mediterranean</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. This is why IRAN courts or attempts to control SYRIA and LEBANON, but ISRAEL is what cements, or could cement, IRANIAN reach into the Mediterranean, and such a relationship also gives ISRAEL the ability to outmaneuver the Sunni populations which constrain it. Tehran escalated the anti-ISRAEL posture to maneuver against the US during the US-led war on IRAQ; now it must find a way to back down from this position (and likewise ISRAEL must find a way to retract from its reactive anti-IRANIAN stance) so that a rapprochement can be re-developed. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SAUDI ARABIA — ENGAGE IN COVERT “INFORMATION SHARING” WITH ISRAEL, IN ORDER TO BOOST ISRAEL’S HOSTILITY TOWARDS IRAN </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg889xpeJSbeJjRt4yC9UkpvatWWsK_pYdK1TGYlSc-izcCSEW9xC2TjPr3TsqBuLxiHTFksWHxExK5sPKOCIq0vXcvRri5kongb92i3HD-ZqFLEU5P9MO0CBgJQEcPm_vy7sUDaZjiLOKT/s1600/280px-OsirakLocation.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg889xpeJSbeJjRt4yC9UkpvatWWsK_pYdK1TGYlSc-izcCSEW9xC2TjPr3TsqBuLxiHTFksWHxExK5sPKOCIq0vXcvRri5kongb92i3HD-ZqFLEU5P9MO0CBgJQEcPm_vy7sUDaZjiLOKT/s1600/280px-OsirakLocation.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Israel used Saudi airspace to strike IRAQI nuclear reactor in 1981</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This was less important to ISRAEL when it had a strong relationship with TURKEY, but that cannot be assumed to be salvageable until the last of the present leadership team departs office in TURKEY. Meanwhile, the Sunni states — and particularly SAUDI ARABIA — engage in covert “information sharing” with ISRAEL to boost ISRAEL’S hostility toward IRAN, and this has been particularly effective with Prime Minister <b>Netanyahu</b>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Information</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: See </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">IRAN AT THE DOORSTEPS OF ISRAEL</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria-israel-iran-and-usa.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria-israel-iran-and-usa.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />The prospect exists that the RUSSIAN Federation, already concerned over its inability to control two states in which it invested so heavily (IRAN and TURKEY), may well sponsor a revived diplomatic approach to ISRAEL and encourage an ISRAEL-IRAN rapprochement. It is worth noting that ISRAEL has been quiet on the subject of promoting the end to the <b>Bashar al-Assad</b>Government in SYRIA, knowing that it is a close ally of Tehran. <br /><br /><b style="color: red;">IRAN ALREADY HAS DEPLOYED NUCLEAR WEAPONS, A FACT KNOWN BY THE USA AND ISRAEL SINCE 1991</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Western commentators and politicians have locked themselves into an unsustainable position: attempting to deny IRAN access to nuclear weapons. The reality, as US and ISRAELI officials have now acknowledged, is that IRAN already has deployed nuclear weapons, albeit not domestically-made ones. This has been known, but not discussed, since 1991.<br />US and Western officials missed the opportunity, with the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), begun under US Pres. <b>Ronald Reagan</b>, to develop a system which would have effectively negated the efficacy of missile-based nuclear weapons. As a result, nuclear weapons proliferation is likely to continue, not just with IRAN, but potentially with TURKEY, which has been developing the capabilities to achieve nuclear weapons production capacity. <br /><br />As a result of this, and the reality that the size, geography, and capabilities of IRAN — including its alliance structure with NORTH KOREA (DPRK), and now the People’s Republic of CHINA (PRC) — preclude armed invasion (a la IRAQ, a much, much easier target), opponents of IRAN have limited options. One is to seek to create a viable relationship with IRAN so as to preclude the prospect of IRANIAN use (or threats of use) of nuclear weapons. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ISOLATING IRAN THROUGH SANCTIONS AND HOSTILITY HAS ENABLED THE CLERICS TO BUILD A SOCIETY WHICH THEY CAN DOMINATE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This, obviously, from a Western or ISRAELI standpoint would be better facilitated if IRAN was governed by a non-clerical administration. The question, then, would be how such an outcome could be achieved. Significantly, isolating IRAN through sanctions and hostility has enabled the clerics to build a society which they can dominate. Isolation works both ways; in this case, it has strengthened clerical control of the IRANIAN population. Attempts to sow secessionist discord among IRANIAN constituent populations have thus far failed, although the most significant attempts — to create secessionism in Baluchistan — have actually fueled secessionist momentum in PAKISTANI BALUCHISTAN and, to a degree, AFGHAN BALUCHISTAN.<br /><br />Indeed, all realities may change if secessionist movements take root in AFGHANISTAN and PAKISTAN as the present AFGHANISTAN war winds down and the US and Coalition forces depart the area. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">LOSS OF US INFLUENCE IN THE PERSIAN GULF, THE NORTHERN TIER AND CENTRAL ASIA FORCES ISRAEL TO ADAPT NEW GEOPOLITICAL STRATEGIES</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: red;">  </span><br /><br />As things stand at present, IRAN stands to gain — whether under a clerical government or not — and the US has lost (and continues to lose) influence in the PERSIAN GULF, the NORTHERN TIER, (<a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/northern-tier-pennsylvania">http://www.answers.com/topic/northern-tier-pennsylvania</a>) and CENTRAL ASIA. ISRAELI leaders must take account of this obvious reality, and plan for a new strategic framework, one which includes a new energy relationship with the EUROPEAN UNION, a new relationship with RUSSIA, and a new relationship with IRAN (which can also be facilitated by the PRC). <br /><br /><b style="color: red;">IF THE SUNNI STATES — AND PARTICULARLY SAUDI ARABIA, QATAR, AND TURKEY — SUCCEED IN OVERTHROWING THE IRANIAN-SUPPORTED ‘ALAWITE LEADERSHIP IN SYRIA, THEN ISRAEL WILL FACE A REINVIGORATED “ARAB” THREAT</b><span style="color: red;">. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Israel is already conscious of the fact that SAUDI ARABIA and QATAR have almost succeeded in replacing an anti-SAUDI leadership in Libya (<b>Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi</b>) with a pro-SAUDI/salafist-jihadist leadership in Tripoli. Significantly, the non-salafist LIBYAN province of <b>Cyrenaica</b>has resisted this, and has called — as it did when it started the anti-<b>Qadhafi</b> revolt in February 2011 — <b>for the restitution of the 1951 Libyan Constitution</b>, <b>which allows for a federal structure</b>. This would wrest control of the oil from radical Tripolitania and the salafist interim President of LIBYA, and return it to <b>Cyrenaica</b>, under the moderate and pro-Western Senussi sect. <br /><br />These are all inter-related aspects of the current framework which is only superficially addressed in the “<b>international debate</b>” as to whether ISRAEL would or should strike at IRANIAN nuclear facilities. The real issue includes the broader conflict for dominance between Shi’ism and Sunnism, and nationally between TURKISH and IRANIAN competition for historical reach.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Information: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/sunni-versus-shia-middle-easts-new.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/sunni-versus-shia-middle-easts-new.html</a>and</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/turkey-and-central-asia.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/turkey-and-central-asia.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/turkey-shiite-persians-versus-wahhabi.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/turkey-shiite-persians-versus-wahhabi.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/how-iran-nuclear-standoff-looks-from.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/how-iran-nuclear-standoff-looks-from.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Furthermore, on a simpler perspective on should bear in mind that as long as ISRAEL keeps “publicly promoting” an attack on IRAN, the chances of it taking place are minimal for the much needed “surprise effect” has been lost. The minute ISRAEL refrains from its rhetoric’s and the current geostrategic and geopolitical situation persist; the chances of ISRAEL striking IRAN could be more imminent. Nevertheless in most likelihood all the sabre rattling by ISRAEL are pure political tactics. </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div>

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