According to Michel Samaha, Lebanon ’ s minister of information, Hezbollah is seen as a legitimate resistance organization that has defended its land against an Israeli occupying force and has consistently stood up to the Israeli army.

According to Avi Shlaim, this condemnation of the use of violence is one of the key features of ' the conventional Zionist account or old history ' whose ' popular-heroic-moralistic version ' is ' taught in Israeli schools and used extensively in the quest for legitimacy abroad '.

According to Israeli journalists Shlomo Nakdimon and Shaul Mayzlish, Dutch Jew Jacob Israël de Haan was assassinated by Avraham Tehomi on the orders of Haganah leader Yitzhak Ben-Zvi for his anti-Zionist political activities and contacts with Arab leaders.

According to some sources, the Reform movement has maintained that a Jew who has converted to another religion is no longer a Jew, and the Israeli Government has also taken that stance after Supreme Court cases and statutes.

According to Israeli law, if a Prime Minister is temporarily incapacitated rather than dies ( as was the case following Ariel Sharon's stroke in early 2006 ), power is transferred to the Acting Prime Minister, until the prime minister recovers ( Ehud Olmert took over from Sharon ), for up to 100 days.

According to their tally, there were 751 Samaritans as of January 1, 2012, living exclusively in two localities, one in Kiryat Luza on Mount Gerizim near the city of Nablus in the West Bank, and the other in the Israeli city of Holon.

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

According to Abu Iyad, two attempts were made on Arafat's life by the Israeli Mosaad and the Military Directorate in 1970.

According to Palestinian and Israeli sources he was a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

According to Israeli currency regulations at the time, it was illegal for citizens to maintain foreign bank accounts without prior authorisation.

According to the Israeli Human Rights activists, Jewish settlements in the Ramallah area, such as Beit El and Psagot, prevented the expansion of the city and cut it off from the surrounding villages.

According to Sani Meo, the publisher of This Week in Palestine, " Capital or no capital, Ramallah has done well and Palestine is proud of its achievements .” Some Palestinians allege that Ramallah's prosperity is part of an Israeli " conspiracy " to make Ramallah the capital of a Palestinian state, instead of Jerusalem.

According to Israel, about 9, 000 attacks were launched from 1949 to 1956, resulting in hundreds of Israeli civilian casualties.

According to historian Shabtai Teveth, who wrote one of the more detailed accounts, the assignment was " To undermine Western confidence in the existing regime by generating public insecurity and actions to bring about arrests, demonstrations, and acts of revenge, while totally concealing the Israeli factor.

According to former Education Minister Limor Livnat, about 1, 400 Israeli public schools require pupils to wear uniforms.

According to Donald Neff, " The immediate cause " of the First Intifada came on 8 December 1987, " when an Israeli army tank transporter ran into a group of Palestinians from Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza Strip, killing four and injuring seven.

... According to Freedom House's annual survey of political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World 2001 – 2002, the chaotic nature of the Intifada along with strong Israeli reprisals has resulted in a deterioration of living conditions for Palestinians in Israeli-administered areas.

According to the Israeli government, the Israeli's trust in the accords was undermined by the fact that after the signing, the attacks against Israel intensified, which some explained as an attempt by certain Palestinian organizations to thwart the peace process.

According to an international opinion survey conducted in 2009 on behalf of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, India is the most pro-Israel country in the world.

According to the Mixed Armistice Commission report, approved on the afternoon immediately following the operation, and delivered by Major General Vagn Bennike to the UN Security Council, the raid at Qibya took place on the evening of October 14, 1953 at around 9. 30 pm, and was taken by roughly half a battalion strength of soldiers from the Israeli regular army.

According to an Israeli government website:

According to Footnotes in Gaza, a comic book by Joe Sacco, The Israeli Army rounded up residents of the town and the neighbouring refugee camp and shot them on the streets and in their homes.

According to Israeli historian Tom Segev, Maariv asked for the opinion of the minister of religious affairs, Dr. Zerah Warhaftig, who did not refute the rabbinical ruling, but quoted from traditional Jewish sources according to which Jewish doctors had saved the lives of non-Jews on the Sabbath, although they were not required to do so.

According to its website " The mission of Givat Haviva today is to cope with the major issues that are on the agenda of Israeli society, and to foster educational initiatives, research and community work in the fields of peace, democracy, coexistence, tolerance and social solidarity.

According to Arab tradition, the ensuing war pushed Ghana over the edge, ending the kingdom's position as a commercial and military power by 1100, as it collapsed into tribal groups and chieftaincies, some of which later assimilated into the Almoravids while others founded the Mali Empire.

According to Gildas, Ambrosius organised the survivors into an armed force and achieved the first military victory over the Saxon invaders.

According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.

According to the Tarnovo Constitution, all men between 21 and 40 years of age were eligible for military service.

According to the treaty, the country had no right to organize a conscription-based military.

According to the document the military of the Republic of Bulgaria should include two mechanized brigades, four regiments ( Logistics, Artillery, Engineering, SpecOps ), four battalions ( Reconnaissance, Mechanized, NBC, PsyOps ) in the Land Forces ; Fighter base, helicopter base, SAM air defense brigade and Air force training base in the Air Force ; and two naval bases in the Navy.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

According to Sun Yat-sen's plans, the Kuomintang ( KMT ) was to rebuild China in three steps: military rule, political tutelage, and constitutional rule.

According to party rules, the Central Committee was to convene at least twice a year to discuss political matters ( but not matters relating to military policy ).

According to the National Security Archive, Oliver North had been in contact with Manuel Noriega, the military leader of Panama later convicted on drug charges, whom he personally met.

According to Jordania, this trance-inducing ability of dance comes from human evolutionary past and includes as well a phenomenon of military drill which is also based on shared rhythmic and monotonous group activity.

According to old German literature, dragoons were invented by Count Ernst von Mansfeld, one of the greatest German military commanders, in the early 1620s.

According to journalist Joshua Hammer, " as much as 40 % of the Egyptian economy " is controlled by the Egyptian military.

* Category 1: Military firearms ; According to French law, a military firearm is a weapon which has a gauge used by the army since 1880.

* Category 4: Civil firearms ; According to French law, a civil firearm is a semi automatic long gun with more of 2 rounds in magazine which don't use a military gauge, or a handgun ( pistol or revolver, including all magazine capacities ) which doesn't have a gauge used by the army.

According to Strabo their territory was divided in accordance with custom, each tribe was further divided into cantons, each governed by a military aristocratic ruler whose title chief of the tribe gave him the powers of a King-Priest (' tetrarch ').

According to a statement in July 2009 by a legal counsel of the Honduras military, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, the Honduran military was opposed to President Manuel Zelaya, whom the military had removed from Honduras a few days earlier, because of his left-wing politics.

According to Human Rights Watch, numerous Iranian agents were assisting the Shia Hezb-i Wahdat forces of Abdul Ali Mazari, as Iran was attempting to maximize Wahdat's military power and influence.

According to Human Rights Watch, numerous Iranian agents were assisting Hezb-i Wahdat, as " Iran was attempting to maximize Wahdat's military power and influence in the new government ".

According to Frémont they were carrying Mexican military dispatches.

According to the 10th century Gulating Law, a ship with 13 rowing benches is the smallest ship suitable for military use.

According to the Law on Stationing Troops in the Macau Special Administrative Region ( or Macau Garrison Law, passed by the NPC Standing Committee on June 28, 1999 ), the mission of the PLA in Macau is to defend the special administrative region by " preventing and resisting aggression ; safe-guarding the security of Macau ; undertaking defence services ; managing military facilities ; and handling related foreign military affairs.