Surname 1 Student Name Professor Name Course Name Date Question 1. To begin with, President Truman’s first way of life is the will of the majority also referred to as democracy. Democracy is distinguished/characterized by aspects such as freedom of speech and religion, free elections, free institutions, freedom from political oppression, representative government, and also the guarantee of individual liberty (Cribb, 208). It is based on the will of the majority. The second way of life as addressed by President Truman is based upon the will of a minority taking over the will of the majority (Cribb, 208). This is termed as communism. Communism relies on aspects such as controlled press and radio, fixed elections, terror and oppression, and suppression of personal freedom. President Truman believed that it was the mandate of the United States to assist free people who were resisting the attempted control by the armed minorities. He believed assisting the free people would allow them to work out their own destinies based on their desires. Question 2 To begin with, the British mandate on Palestine promoted the change of boundaries. After world war one, the British mandate encouraged more Jews to move into Palestine. The international support for Jews acquiring more Palestinian land grew and therefore, after world war two, the United Nations divided Palestine into two parts thereby one becoming Israel (Cribb 275). However, the Arabs refused to recognize Israel as part of Palestine. Therefore, in 1948, Arab attacked Israel so as to reclaim their land. However, Israel overcame the Arab armies and conquered much of the land the Arabs had been allocated by the United Nations (Cribb 276). Lastly, the six-day war of 1967 that was a fight for the control of water, tripled Israel boundaries since the Arabs fled from their land due to the war. In the future, there may be conflicts since the Israeli government controls both the water and a huge percentage of the land deemed as Palestinian land. Besides, due to the proximity of
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