Historical Context

Will Lavallee

Our project is is kaleidoscope, showing her overall experience in Israel. She went to Israel for one year to work in the Gulf War. She had and up and down experience. At one point she would be calm and relaxed and in the next moment she would hear sirens screeching throughout cities. She would also have to wear gas masks because of the air quality. Families would send there cat outside, and if the cat lived than it was okay for them to go out, but if it died then they would not go out.

 in 1990 he Gulf War was started when Saddam Hussein, and his Iranian's invaded Kuwait. Iraq wanted Israels large oil reserves, in attempt to pay back Kuwait for there debt. Although on August 3rd the UN Security Council made Iraq withdraw from the war, and three days later the council called off all trade between the countries. Following the breakup of Kuwait and Iraq, Iraq had potential threats of invading Saudi Arabia for its oil.