A majority of the forty-odd Israeli settlements surrounding Bethlehem is built on land confiscated from Christian, not Muslim, Palestinians.

Although Nasser and his Arab allies had been defeated, Arafat and Fatah could claim a victory, in that the majority of Palestinians, who had up to that time tended to align and sympathize with individual Arab governments, now began to agree that a ' Palestinian ' solution to their dilemma was indispensable.

In 2007 a majority of both Israelis and Palestinians, according to a number of polls, preferred the two-state solution over any other solution as a means of resolving the conflict.

Moreover, a considerable majority of the Jewish public sees the Palestinians ' demand for an independent state as just, and thinks Israel can agree to the establishment of such a state.

The IDF killed many Palestinians at the beginning of the Intifida, the majority killed during demonstrations and riots.

It believes the vast majority of Israelis and Palestinians long for an enduring peace and that security for Israel can only be achieved through the establishment of an economically and politically viable Palestinian state, necessitating an end to Israel's occupation of land acquired during the 1967 war and an end to Palestinian terrorism.

That is what the majority of the Palestinians want.

By June 1993, a Jewish majority was established in East Jerusalem: 155, 000 Jews were officially registered residents, as compared to 150, 000 Palestinians.

Seeing as it concerned the transfer of Palestinians to this hypothetical designated state without their consent, and that Jordan was far from enthusiastic to allocate its own territory for the sake of a Palestinian state ( having reneged on its claim to the West Bank and taken away citizenship of the Palestinians living there in 1988 ), this idea came to be seen as irrelevant by the majority of Israelis and Palestinians.

Support among Palestinians for a one-state solution is increasing, especially because the population growth rate of Palestinians would leave Palestinians as a majority in a single state.

Two Palestinians were killed, and about 20 people, the majority of them Arabs, were wounded.

Ackerman posits that the response of pro-Israel media critics was excessive as " no one alleged any deliberate falsification " by AP adding that " the vast majority of injuries in Jerusalem the day the Grossman photograph was taken were sustained by Palestinians "

During the armed conflict, thousands of people were killed, the vast majority of whom were Palestinians.

The majority of Arabs in the Jerusalem District are Palestinians, eligible for citizenship under Israeli law, but non-citizens by collective choice.

The majority of the Palestinians viewed him as a martyr who died resisting the Israeli occupation or at least sympathized with his cause,

And like the majority of Palestinians who became exiles in Lebanon after 1948, they were never able to obtain Lebanese identity cards .”

An opinion poll suggested that a majority of Palestinians supported the change, while Hamas called it illegal.

It is precisely for such reason that such a scenario is regarded by the majority of Israelis and Palestinians as unthinkable.

Despite their diaspora-style support of the Palestinian cause, a large majority of Israeli Arabs fiercely oppose any political solution which would reduce their status as purely Israeli citizens, including any one-state solution which would effectively merge them with the West Bank Palestinians from which they have developed separately-culturally, linguistically, economically and politically-for over 60 years.

The probability that Palestinians would constitute an electoral majority in a bi-national state is seen by many Israeli Jews as a threat to the very premise of Israel, which is imagined as a state for the Jews.

A majority of Israelis were opposed to Barak's position on every issue discussed at Camp David except for security.

The Delaware Valley is home to extensive populations of African Americans ( over 40 % of Philadelphia's residents are black ), Europeans ( the majority of residents are white European of German, Irish, Italian and Polish descent ), Asians such as Chinese, Indian, Korean and Vietnamese, Arabs and Turks, Indians and Pakistanis, Israelis ( while American Jews form a significant ethno-religious community ), Hispanics.

As a peace activist, I'm going to show the Israelis that the vast majority of Iranians do not identify with Ahmadinejad's rhetoric, despite what it looks like from the outside.

Israel will never become such a country because, fortunately, the vast majority of Israelis reject the extremist views of Melanie Phillips.

The majority of fans of Bnei Sakhnin are Arab Israelis.

Hafez founded the fedayeen who launched raids across Israel's southern border, that between 1951 and 1956, killed many Israelis, the majority civilians.

Today, the majority of the community lives in the Gush Dan area in the center of Israel but also a few dozen Vietnamese-Israelis or Israelis of Vietnamese origin live in Haifa, Jerusalem and Ofakim.

However, the vast majority of Israelis, left and right, including political parties supporting the Judea and Samaria settlement movement, feared that such a solution would significantly dilute Israel's Jewish majority.

The majority of Israelis do not cross the security barrier into Palestinian-populated areas, and know little or nothing of these developments on the ground which could have a fateful influence on the future of Israel.

By 1986 about 156, 700 Israelis lived and worked on 448 moshavim ; the great majority of these are divided among eight federations.

In modern Hebrew, the term Judaization is used to describe the cultural life of baalei teshuvah, or ' returnees ', and refers to ' a process through which secular, non-observant, young ( and not so young ) Israelis who have grown up in Israel within the majority culture, have become practicing Orthodox Jews and have joined the minority subculture of Orthodoxy '..

In spite of Barak's concessions to the Palestinians, the majority of Israelis did not support him as seen in Ariel Sharon's rejection of Arafat's position vindicated with his election as prime minister on February 6, 2001.

According to The Nation, + 972, an independent blog-based web magazine written by a mainly Israel based team of Israelis, binational American-Israelis and Canadian-Israelis, together with two Palestinians, received grants amounting to $ 70, 000 from " the Social Justice Fund at the New Israel Fund ", representing the vast majority of their funding.

In September 2011, the contents of a United States diplomatic telegram were revealed via Wikileaks, stating that Hedva Radovanitz, then Assistant Director of NIF Israel, said " she believed that in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic.

By the time the 1999 election rolled around, a majority of Israelis now supported unilateral withdrawal from the Security Zone.

Ethnicity of the residents includes a majority of native-born Jewish Israelis.

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.

Binoculars, for instance, although generally of lower power than the majority of telescopes, also tend to provide a wider field of view, which is preferable for looking at some objects in the night sky.

The majority Arminian view accepts classical theism – the belief that God's power, knowledge, and presence have no external limitations, that is, outside of His divine nature.

The majority Arminian view is that election is individual and based on God's foreknowledge of faith, but a second perspective deserves mention.

Athanasius ' return was welcomed by the majority of the people of Egypt who had come to view him as a national hero.

The majority view appears to be that people such as King Hroðgar and the Scyldings in Beowulf are based on real historical people from 6th-century Scandinavia.

The classic view of water in cells is that about 5 % of this water is strongly bound in by solutes or macromolecules as water of solvation, while the majority has the same structure as pure water.

* The state of the dead: The majority of standard scholarly Jewish and Christian sources today describe the state of the dead in terms identical or very close to the Christadelphian view.

However, the majority of modern scholars view them as Jewish Christians, who taught that in order for pagans to belong to the people of God, they must be subject to some or all of the Jewish Law, ( i. e. Judaizers ).

Despite the majority opinion that Luke was a gentile writing to other gentiles, a few authors have challenged this view.

According to the majority view, the evidence against Luke's being the author is strong enough that the author is unknown.

Those who consider performance as an integral part of faith such as, consider anyone who does a grave sin to be out of faith, while the majority of Sunnis who view works as merely the perfecting the faith, hold that a believing sinner will be punished with a temporary stay in hell.

Koester articulates a majority view among scholars that Justin considered the " memoirs of the apostles " to be accurate historical records but not inspired writings, whereas scholar Charles E. Hill, though acknowledging the position of mainstream scholarship, contends that Justin regarded the fulfillment quotations of the gospels to be equal in authority.

The view that public education contributes to rising literacy levels is shared by the majority of historians.

997 ), first wife of Duke Mihály of Gran ( Esztergom ) and then wife of her brother-in-law Géza, Grand Prince of the Magyars, was Mieszko's daughter ( born from a chronological point of view from one of the pagan wives ) and not his sister as is given in the majority of web sources.

The majority view is that all of the books that would eventually form the New Testament were written in Koine Greek.

Heathens believe in multiple polytheistic deities, all adopted from historical Germanic mythologies ; the majority of Heathens are " polytheistic realists ", believing that the deities are real entities, whilst others view them as Jungian archetypes.

Still, partial preterism is not the majority view among American denominations founded after the 16th century and meets with significant vocal opposition, especially by those denominations which espouse Dispensationalism.

Instead, the prime minister is appointed by the president, who in his / her view is likely to command the confidence of the majority of the parliament.

Edwards ( 2000 ) contradicts the conventional view that in the wake of the Scopes trial a humiliated fundamentalism retreated into the political and cultural background, a viewpoint evidenced in the movie Inherit the Wind and the majority of contemporary historical accounts.

Tertullian seems to suggest that the majority of believers at that time favoured the Sabellian view of the oneness of God.

The notion of a static unchanging Form and its identity with Substance represents the metaphysical view that has come to be held as an assumption by the vast majority of the Western philosophical tradition since Plato and Aristotle, as it was something they agreed on.

According to this view, taxation in modern nation-states benefit the majority of the population and social development.