Among the dozens of sovereign nations in the Middle East, one has to look far and wide to find a country that is friendly to the United States. Actually, the animosity toward America actually began over seventy years ago. Carved up by the League of Nations from the remains of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the nations of the Middle East were roughly based on the boundaries of Arab sheikdoms. One by one, each of the newly created “mandate” countries were left on their own to …

She is a blogger who lives in the UK, but whose heart exposes us to issues of Genocide, AIDS and Human Rights in countries which include Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur/Sudan, Cambodia and Zimbabwe. Emm writes, “In this blog I’ll update about the various conflicts in the world but I’ll also post snippets from the news that I find interesting or disturbing. It is called “A Passion to Understand”