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Essay Instructions: The paper must discuss the concept and implications of terrorism. The particular tenets of Hezbollah must be addressed, discussing their perceived grievances, ideologies, and goals.

Essay Instructions: This paper should be an assessment of the factors that are conducive to the formation and continued operation of one terrorist group. It can be any one group from the following list: Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Abu Sayyaf, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Lashkar e Taiba).

Please note: conducive factors does not include obstacles that the group has faced, nor counter-terrorism programs by the US or other governnents.

Footnotes should be at bottom of the page when cited.

Please keep quotations to a minimum.

Thank you.

Essay Instructions: Please create the chapter outline as follows - it will also help with the focus immensely and save you a lot of time:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Arming of Hezbollah by Syria and Iran
Chapter 3: Lebanon War 2006
Chapter 4: Israel's response with the building of the Iron Dome
Chapter 5: Conclusion

Bullet points about the content of chapters 2-4:

Chapter 2 is basically about the WHY and HOW Hezbollah came into existence.
Syria and Iran and their distinct connection to Hezbollah.
How Hezbollah has grown into an armed force.

Chapter 3 must include material on the (main) type of missiles being launched by Hezbollah in the Lebanon War 2006 - these were mainly Katyusha missiles.
Description of the missiles necessary.
Again, links to Iran.
Please bring also in a comparison to North Korea.
Researching online on the newspaper page of 'Ha'aretz' (for example) might give additional information on the Lebanon War 2006.

Chapter 4 is about Israel's building of the so called 'Iron Dome'.
There are various sources online available about the Iron Dome.
The idea behind it.
How the Iron Dome works.
Specifics.


- Direct quotations from the published or unpublished work of others must always be clearly identified as such by being placed inside quotation marks, and a full reference to their source must be provided in proper form.

- Please avoid series of short quotations from several different sources because if not clearly identified as such, it is just as much considered to be 'cheating' than using a single unacknowledged long quotation from a single source.

- FOOTNOTES should be placed either at the bottom of the relevant page OR at the end of the dissertation.

- The BIBLIOGRAPHY must list all works used in the preparation of the dissertation, including all those noted in the references.

- For obvious reasons it would be good to use at least around 40 source materials. However, the quality of the paper counts, and if that means that the writer will only use 30+ I shall be happy with it, too.

- Be specific and don't write in any extreme 'polemical' way. This is a RESEARCH paper and not an essay.

- While doing your research keep in mind that Hezbollah is spelled in several ways: Hezbollah, Hizbollah, Hizbullah, Hizballah - and these words with a ' in between (e.g. Hizbu'llah or Hizb'allah).

- It is fine to online sources such as notable newspapers, magazines and papers but please let the majority of your source materials be books.

- I am ordering a 33-page dissertation because it says that it should result in approximately 9900 words. If that information helps you in any way - I don't care about the number of pages, it's the number of the words that is relevant to me (close to 10.000) and not the exact number of pages.



Another great help will be this list of relevant books on this topic:


- 'Hizbu'llah - Politics and Religion' by Amal SAAD-GHORAYEB
- 'Hezbollah' - A short history' by Augustus Richard NORTON
- 'Unholy War - Terror in the name of Islam' by John L. ESPOSITO
- 'A Month of Terror - A month of war between the Israelis and the Hezbollah' by Frank SENAUTH
- '34 Days - Israel, Hezbollah, and the Lebanon' by Amos HAREL and Avi ISSACHAROFF
- 'Militant Islamic Movements in Lebanon: Origins, Social Basis and Ideology' by Marius DEEB
- 'Hizb'allah in Lebanon - The politics of the Western Hostage Crisis' by Magnus RANSTORP
- 'Israel and Hizbollah - An assymetric conflict in historical and comparative perspective' ed. by Clive JONES and Serigio CATIGNANI
- 'Hezbollah - Born with a vengeance' by Hala JABER
- 'In the Path of Hizbullah' by Ahmad Nizar HAMZEH
- 'Summer Rain' by Annette LEVY-WILLARD
- 'A History of Modern Israel' by Colin SHINDLER
- 'Hezbollah Military Activities' ed. by Frederic P. MILLER ('High Quality Content by Wikipedia articles')
- 'Hezbollah Rocket Force' ed. by Lambert M. SURHONE ('High Quality Content by Wikipedia articles')
- 'Syria and Iran - Diplomatic alliance and power politics in the Middle East' by Jubin M. GOODARZI
- 'Syria and Iran - Rivalry and cooperation' by Hussein J. AGHA and Ahmad S. KHALIDI
- 'Inventing the Axis of Evil - The truth about North Korea, Iran, and Syria' by Bruce CUMINGS, Ervand ABRAHAMIAN, Moshe MA'OZ
- 'Korea - The East Asian pivot' - ed. by Jonathan D. POLLACK

Essay Instructions: Task: I would like you to answer these questions with 50 words each and I want Tomar to complete this order

1. Has Australia acted in its national interest in dealing with East Timor over oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea?


2. Is it fair that the Kyoto Protocol does not include developing countries in its first stage of cutting greenhouse gas emissions? Why (not)?


3. Give a personal witness account of Australia’s environment (air, land, sea, or climate) – what has changed? For better or worse? I'd like to hear your story.



4. Is human security a goal behind Australia’s decision to go to war in Iraq? To what extent has Australia and the Coalition of the Willing achieved that goal?


5 . Did the Howard government (1996-2007) get it right on Australia’s policy on refugees and asylum seekers?

6 . Recently, there has been an increase in the arrival of boat people in Australian waters. Is the Rudd government’s policy change on refugees (from the Howard era) responsible for the increase?


7. 'Do we give too much attention and resources to terrorism threats when other areas pose a greater threat to our society (such as some diseases) but we do not appropriate as many resources to them?'

8. The definition of a terrorist is contentious. Not only Israel, but America consider Hezbollah as a terrorist organization (I think Britain and Australia only consider the armed wing of Hezbollah as terrorists as opposed to its political wing). Hezbollah would argue that they legitimately fight against Israel's aggression in southern Lebanon. I don't want to justify either side, but does Hezbollah have a point? Are they simply fighting Israeli aggression defending southern Lebanon, and so not terrorists?

9. Do you think that a more concentrated effort on the perceived root causes of terrorism, such as poverty, financial support for groups, etc, would be more effective than either the direct or hearts and minds approaches?

10. I am just wondering how many people think that the 'war on terror' and other anti-terrorist activities actually encourages a greater threat by deepening anti-US/Western sentiment?

What sort of impact do you think it will have in the long run?



11. There seems to be an awful lot of talk about "hate" being the fundamental driving force behind today's level of insurgencies and terrorism. Hate for another culture, politics, religion or imposed ideology or as Bush banged on and on about, hate of western systems/values/freedoms.

Do you think that this simple (sometimes arrogant) analysis really is at the heart and the motivational force behind terrorism? And, if so, does it not make the process of negotiation all the more vital to weaken their resolve?

I’m thinking about how long it took the British Government and IRA to come to the negotiating table or the international community to bring Israel and Palestine into a peace process. Why did it take so long and so much terror and destruction before committing to a process of negotiations? Would the global community ever consider negotiating with al-Qaeda?