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Jun 27 |
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What do I need to know about Syria's history to understand the 2011-2012 uprising? Wow. Great answer. I felt rather bad about neglecting to mention how oppressive Syria's current Regime has been. Its a supremely important factor. But as I metioned elsewhere my answer was already way long. I will note that everything in here, at least up until the speculation paragraph, jibes with what I've heard from my English-speaking Arab twitter sources. If anything, the treatment of suspected protest sympathisers and their families is even worse. |
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Jun 27 |
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Jun 27 |
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Why are the signatures on the United States Declaration of Independence structured as they are? Actually, not a bad question at all. If you've ever seen an office birthday card, the signatures aren't nearly this organized. |
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Jun 26 |
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What was wrong with Hitler's left hand? @StevenDrennon - Meta discussion at meta.history.stackexchange.com/questions/256/closing-answers . |
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Jun 26 |
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Is there any history of a government/ruling party refusing to accept a Supreme Court order? I believe our lower Federal District courts serve that purpose. If the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) takes up an issue, it is the whole court, and their rulings are essentially final. |
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Jun 26 |
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Is there any history of a government/ruling party refusing to accept a Supreme Court order? @Anixx - I said "most famous" becuse this is the precident that is always cited when the issue comes up. The SCOTUS can strike down laws all it wants, but it has no real way (other than persuasion) to force the rest of the other branches of the government to actively do anything they don't want to do. (iow: pass new laws for the Legislative branch or enforce existing ones for the Executive branch). |
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Jun 25 |
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What do I need to know about Syria's history to understand the 2011-2012 uprising? @Lohoris - That could be. I was relying on my memory there, which isn't generally the best of policies for me. |
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Jun 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Where and how did the concept of “incorporation” originate? |
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Jun 25 |
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What do I need to know about Syria's history to understand the 2011-2012 uprising? That's about half right. Israel holds it because they don't know what country to give it back to. They aren't willing to just pull out and let it become a lawless no-man's land on their border. |
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Jun 25 |
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What do I need to know about Syria's history to understand the 2011-2012 uprising? Check out my first comment on my own answer. That particular source is a Palestinan living in Qatar (no friend of the USA), but with contacts in the Arab Spring movements all over the region. The picture he's been painting of the USA involvement is that it hasn't been really. |
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Jun 25 |
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What do I need to know about Syria's history to understand the 2011-2012 uprising? One additional point about the Golan heights (I didn't get into this myself because my answer was already way long). Not only does Syria have a territorial dispute with Israel over this territory, but also they have a dispute with Lebanon over this same land. The whole Arab-Isreali thing has been papering over this disupute for decades, but it is lurking making any resoultion of the area's situation almost impossible. |
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Jun 25 |
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What do I need to know about Syria's history to understand the 2011-2012 uprising? A lot of good points. I will venture that you would benefit quite a bit from acquiring news sources outside your home country though. |
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Jun 25 |
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What was the first supranational organization? It does in fact mean that (which is why the word is still in the creeds we recite at my protestant church). However, the "Catholic" church never did have any authority in Christian areas outside of the boundries of the original Roman Empire during the Roman Empire (eg: Armenia and Ethiopia). |
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Jun 25 |
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Why didn't Moldova unite with Romania? "one of the wealthiest countries of the Warsaw Pact" isn't really saying a whole lot. |
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Jun 25 |
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What was the first supranational organization? The Catholic Church (although in many ways not qualifying for this question) is an interesting case. It didn't set out to become trans-national. It intially just mirrored the organization of the Roman Empire. It accidentally became trans-national when the empire collapsed out from under it. |
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Jun 25 |
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Jun 25 |
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What do I need to know about Syria's history to understand the 2011-2012 uprising? I'd like to give credit here to Iyad El-Baghdadi. The analysis in mine, but most of the facts written above I was initially made aware of thanks to him. If you are interested in following Arab Spring events, he's the guy to follow on twitter @iyad_elbaghdadi . Sadly his non-Arab Spring tweets I generally have to ignore. He's a bit obsesive, but that's part of what makes is AS stuff so valuable. |
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Jun 25 |
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