This is a 3-page cliffs-notes style reading, illustrated with visuals and emboldened key vocabulary terms, about the modern day Middle Eastern conflicts in Israel, Iran, Afghanistan and IraqIt is meant as both a handout, take-home or in class reading assignment to be given to all students, as well as a teacher aid in terms of planning classroom activities, discussion, lectures, decisions about primary/secondary sources that students examine, etc.. It is meant to be used in more than one way.It i