1. What is the fundamental difference in political views between the USA and such countries as Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine?
2. What is the aim of the USA’s policy towards the Middle East?
3. What does the Bush administration accuse Islamist fundamentalists and their sponsors of?
4. What do the Arabs, for their part, blame US and Israeli military occupations for?
5. What do US and Israeli military occupations in the Middle East trigger?
6. What link does there exist between military interventions and terrorism?
7. Will it heighten further tensions between East and West if this fundamental conflict of views continues?
8. Why does the continuing hardship of military occupation play into the hands of religious fundamentalists?
9. What is the only means of halting violence and terrorism in the Middle East according to the author of the article? Do you share this point of view?
XI. Turn to current press material
Find an article on the topic “Military Activities, Hostilities Conflicts and Terrorism” in a current Russian or English newspaper and render it using active vocabulary. Prepare questions on the article for discussion.
http://www.mid.ru
http://www.en.rian.ru
http://global.nytimes.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com
http://themoscownews.com
http://www.themoscowtimes.com
http://cnn.com
http://www.independent.co.uk
http://www.thetimes.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk
http://www.aljazeera.com
Приложение
THE ANALYSIS OF A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
