Middle Eastern States

The Balfour Declaration helped establish the Jewish state of Israel in Palestine. The Declaration was to promise to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Middle Eastern States do not like Israel. They do not like it because they do not like the United States and Israel does. During wars with the Middle Eastern States the United States gives Israel weapons to use and they start wars with other Middle Eastern States. These are all traced back to World War I because the United States were part of the winning side. Israel trades with the United States and the other countries don't like it because they all get started in a war/battle due to Israel and the US. A non-violent solution to the problem would be that the US trades with all the Middle Eastern States or doesn't trade with any of them. This way they wont have to battle and if they do they all will have the same weapons or the weapons of their choice. Another positive affect to this is that the other Middle Eastern States would no get mad at Israel because they would have no trading with them and it wouldn't give Israel a thought of attacking the other Middle Eastern States. They should pass a declaration declaring one of the solutions for the better of the Middle East States. It would also help for future existing wars/battles/fights with the Middle East States or other countries. 

A Day in the Life of Tsarist Russia- Peasants

About 90 percent of Russians in the late 1800s were peasant farmers whose difficult way of life had remained largely unchanged for centuries. The living conditions for peasants' are very harsh. A typical peasant home consists of a crowded one-room hut, called an izba. They were small huts with wooden walls and roofs of straw and maure. In the hut was a family with grandparents, uncles, aunts, parents, and children. The soil was poor, hard, and often swampy which made faming difficult for peasants. The tools for farming were passed from hundreds of years. Peasants had to pay taxes at national, county, township, and village levels based on how much land they farmed and the size of their family. Peasant's land was taxed about 6 times as much as that of wealthy landowners. The burden was mostly because of taxes and they improved little over the centuries as well. peasant's religion usually was Russian Orthodox Christianity. The religion helped give them hope. Peasant's also had time for recreational games as well. Such as ball games and tag. Many peasants smoked tobacco, and almost everyone drank vodka. I think the Czarist Russia would support the idea of a Revolution because the life for the peasants is unfair and hard.