Middle Eastern States

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict's origins can date back to World War 1. As the end of World War 1 approached, the League of Nations made an agreement with Arab states and the Ottoman Empire. This was called the Sykes-Picots agreement. This agreement, however, was broken within the next year. On November 2nd 1917, the Balfour Declaration was signed, giving Jewish support for their own land, and that land was Palestine. Zionist movements soon occurred, bringing Jews to their holy land in Jerusalem. Later, the League of Nations mandated Palestine, establishing Palestine as a Jewish homeland. Riots began from the Palestinians and battles began. Through terrorism and death, the land is still being fought over today.
To solve this conflict, the Palestinian/Israeli state needs to be split in half, the border running through Jerusalem. This would give each of the sides their holy land to worship. Also, each side will have an equal amount of water ways to work with. If this sets even more problems, the United Nations should ask each unbiased country (ie. not U.S or not any Arab state) what should be done in order to stop these states from fighting.

Intellectuals in Czarist Russia

During the late 1800's a small class of highly educated thinkers and students, called intellectuals, populated in Russia. These intellectuals would talk about ways to modernize Russia through making new ideas and sharing their meaning of Russia. At first intellectuals were made up of nobility who played an active part in government, but later intellectual groups were revolutionaries who were political activists. Intellectuals worked to change Russian society by brainstorming a new democracy and pushing industrialization. Because not all intellectuals agreed on a set way to change Russia, two groups were made: the Westerners who wanted to westernize and the slavophiles who focused on Russia's past. Then, another two groups of intellectuals formed through middle class people because czarist nobility abused their power. These groups were called the populists and marxists. Populists thought czars and nobility have exploited the peasants while marxist believed that lower class would overthrow the upper class. It was not very easy to being about the changes intellectuals wanted. Factos such as government policies, Siberia exilations, and campaigns of terror held everybody back.

Revolution or Not?

The idea of revolution would probably be supported by intellectuals because they wanted a change in Russia, and revolution would bring that. Also, most intellectuals thought that Russian czars abused their power so overthrowing them would be a good idea.