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Post by Orange Team Admin on Jan 31, 2014 17:41:13 GMT
What are the political, economical, social and technological consequences of the conflict?
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Post by mrhistory on Feb 1, 2014 17:23:15 GMT
I may talk about the economical consequences. There is a huge loss during these years between the Middle East Conflict.
A report by Strategic Foresight Group has estimated the opportunity cost of conflict for the Middle East from 1991–2010 at $12 trillion.
The GDP of the citizens is far low than the peace GDP which the report estimates and calculates.
Indeed,had there been peace and cooperation between Israel and Arab League nations since 1991, the average Israeli citizen would be earning over $44,000 instead of $23,000 in 2010.
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Post by rutianrutian on Feb 27, 2014 15:56:05 GMT
What are the political, economical, social and technological consequences of the conflict? IMO, the number of casualties ensuing from the violence is definitely the most disturbing aspect of the conflict (p.s. pretty sure the devastating statistics can be found easily online!). Playing out in the day-to-day life of average Palestinians and Israelis alike, armed conflicts pose as a direct and very real threat to the safety and psychological well-being of innocent civilians. Well.. more so for the Palestinians actually since Israel's military might has tipped the power balance in their favour. While we're at it, I think we should also concern ourselves with the ethical fallouts from the increasingly pervasive use of drone technologies (synonymous with continual surveillance and intermittent death raining down from the sky) in the Middle East conflict. Despite allowing Israeli/American forces to execute strikes with reduced risks of collateral damage and military injuries, civilian casualties have unfortunately become part of the tragic equation.. However, since all lives are equally valuable, it strikes me as appalling for a nation to pursue security using means that inevitably jeopardize the safety of another country's population and cause them to live in a state of constant fear. Instead of conveniently dismissing the relevant ethical issues, attempts ought to be made to reconcile the moral qualms surrounding the usage of drones. |
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Post by Foopee on Mar 10, 2014 17:26:31 GMT
With regards to economic aid.
Since the end of WWII till date America has provided Israel with US$118 billion in aid.
With regards to technological consequences, we see that weapons co-developed such as the SMAW or Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon is actively used by the IDF and US Military.
Not only that, we also see that Israel has many American military hardware in use such as the F-15,F-16 and AH-64 Apache are being used.
Not only that, we see that Israeli weapon innovations such as the corner shot is being actively used by America and even world wide. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CornerShot)
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Post by Zitong on Mar 15, 2014 16:04:58 GMT
Although Israel has received a great deal of aid from the United States, it should be noted that the Palestinians have also received substantial aid from the world community, including the United States. In fact, the Palestinians are among the highest global recipients of aid, but the way in which it has been used is difficult to discern due to the unpredictable political situation in Palestine and its underdeveloped state.
With respect to social and economic issues, these ought to be differentiated from the politics of the conflict, because a significant number of Palestinians actually work in Israel despite the political animosity that exists between both sides. In fact, much of Israel has literally been built by Palestinians who work there as construction labourers. Many economic sectors, such as agriculture, run in large part through Palestinian labour, while Palestinians perform many everyday jobs in which few Israelis work - similar to how many Malaysians traditionally work in Singapore despite the two countries' political rivalry. For their part, the Israelis give the Palestinians significant amounts of aid money, which ensures that many basic services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip can continue to function. As such, the nature of the political relationship between both sides can be, and often has been, very different from social and economic ties between ordinary Israelis and Palestinians.
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Post by zstar92 on Mar 17, 2014 9:22:18 GMT
I agree with all the posters above. I would also like to elaborate about the micro consequences that are the result of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict e.g. The lack of basic rights to food, life, property, safety, and freedom. I believe that Israeli daily life would be far less impacted by this conflict than that of Palestinians. This is because of the basic power dynamic is responsible for the vastly different experiences of these two populations. Israel, with the fourth strongest military in the world, and empowered by US support, has occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip (or ‘Palestinian Territories’) since 1967. The Palestinians have no military, few weapons, and no powerful allies. Israel’s occupation controls almost all aspects of Palestinian life. Children have difficult getting to school, parents to work, the sick and injured to hospitals, because Israel has erected hundreds of checkpoints and roadblocks obstructing Palestinian movement around their own country. In addition to the daily difficulty posed by roadblocks, Israel has the ability – which it uses with disturbing frequency – to completely shut down parts or all of the West Bank and Gaza. Sometimes Israel imposes, by force of arms, a ‘curfew’ for an entire city or village. Heavily-armed Israeli troops enter civilian cities in tanks and armored vehicles, to prevent all inhabitants from leaving their houses for weeks or months at a time (only broken up by occasional hour-long respites, to allow residents to obtain food). In 2002, Israel began constructing a barrier through the Palestinian West Bank, confiscating huge tracts of land, demolishing many homes and crops, cutting off many Palestinians from their means of survival, and making travel even more difficult for the entire population. Every so often Israel ‘re-invades’, a section of the West Bank or Gaza strip, wreaking havoc above and beyond the ‘normal’ obstructions to movement described above. In the course of these invasions, much of the infrastructure for a future Palestinian state has been destroyed, many people have been killed, and much personal property – cars, homes, etc. – has been stolen or obliterated. All of these policies are the result of the underlying ideology of Israel: Zionism. Palestinians, whether citizens of Israel or subjects of the occupation, face policies of discrimination at every level of Israeli bureaucracy. Source: www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/daily_life.html |
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Post by wenqing on Mar 31, 2014 8:06:50 GMT
Yes zstar92! I think that the micro consequences are often overlooked. One social consequence that I can think of is how civilian safety and psychological wellbeing is compromised by acts of terrorism. These acts of terrorism include suicide bombings which is often carried out in crowded public areas for maximum effect.
In Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, suicide bombings have generally been perpetrated by Islamist and occasionally by secular Palestinian groups including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (A Palestinian revolutionary leftist organisation founded in 1967) In 1993, Hamas (A Palestinian Islamic organisation) carried out the first suicide attack. Between October 2000 and October 2006, there were 167 clearly identified suicide bomber attacks, with 51 other types of suicide attack. These suicide attacks undoubtedly led to countless deaths and casualties.
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