Review at least the following PowerPoint slides of Blog 1: Slides 2, 4-5, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20 and 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 73, 74. Write a 300-400-word blog in which you explain concisely (1) why and how strange bedfellows such as the "Christian Zionists" in the United States, the "Jewish Movement" in the Soviet Union, and the "Muslim Mujahideen" in Afghanistan in the 1980s were all BROUGHT together and laser-focused on ONE common goal: to defeat the Soviet Union, which at the time bans the emigration of separatist Soviet Jews to Palestine because US-backed Israel had defeated the TWO main Arab Soviet allies (Egypt and Syria) in 1967, and (2) you draw a clear comparison between the main actors, motives, means, and goals of the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the war in Syria since 2011. To submit blogs in this course, you click on the link to the blog as it appears under Blogs, you create a blog entry, you type your blog entry and you post it. Do not submit blogs as attachments or as email messages because they will not be accepted. Blog 1 is worth 5 points (5 percent of your final grade). Blog 1 is due by 9/7/17 at 10 pm

Review at least the following PowerPoint slides of Blog 1: Slides 2, 4-5, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20 and 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 73, 74. Write a 300-400-word blog in which you explain concisely (1) why and how strange bedfellows such as the "Christian Zionists" in the United States, the "Jewish Movement" in the Soviet Union, and the "Muslim Mujahideen" in Afghanistan in the 1980s were all BROUGHT together and laser-focused on ONE common goal: to defeat the Soviet Union, which at the time bans the emigration of separatist Soviet Jews to Palestine because US-backed Israel had defeated the TWO main Arab Soviet allies (Egypt and Syria) in 1967, and (2) you draw a clear comparison between the main actors, motives, means, and goals of the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the war in Syria since 2011. To submit blogs in this course, you click on the link to the blog as it appears under Blogs, you create a blog entry, you type your blog entry and you post it. Do not submit blogs as attachments or as email messages because they will not be accepted. Blog 1 is worth 5 points (5 percent of your final grade). Blog 1 is due by 9/7/17 at 10 pm