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 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 Dan Sutter of the University of Oklahoma, a systematic liberal bias in the U. S. media could depend on the fact that owners and / or journalists typically lean to the left.

According to Finnish historians and political journalists, there were at least three reasons that Kekkonen clung on to the Presidency.

According to its homepage, " Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.

According to Egyptian journalists Hani Shukrallah and Hosny Guindy, because of the campaign, until modern times, " Half the country ... is at war with Abdel-Nasser, half with Anwar El-Sadat.

According to Reid, McEwen was aware that McMahon was habitually breaching Cabinet confidentiality and regularly leaking information to favoured journalists and lobbyists, including Maxwell Newton, who had been hired as a " consultant " by Japanese trade interests.

According to the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists, journalists should " make certain that headlines, news teases and promotional material, photos, video, audio, graphics, sound bites and quotations do not misrepresent.

" According to Reporters Sans Frontières, the DPS has records on journalists who follow the Front National's activities and, on several occasions, was responsible for the beating up of reporters.

According to The Guardian newspaper, former Fairfax chief executive Fred Hilmer wrote in his memoirs that " he struggled to cope with a left-leaning editorial culture at papers such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and was surprised that journalists saw themselves as advocates rather than simply reporters.

According to proponents of the Osborne Effect, Adam Osborne damaged his company's current sales when he began showing the Osborne Executive to journalists in early 1983.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 25 journalists have been kidnapped by armed groups in Iraq since April 2004, when insurgents began targeting foreigners for abduction.

According to the journalists José Pinto de Sá and Nélson Saúte in the Portuguese daily Público, Joana Simeão, the Reverend Uria Simango, Lázaro Nkavandame, Raul Casal Ribeiro, Arcanjo Kambeu, Júlio Nihia, Paulo Gumane and Father Mateus Gwengere were interned in the campo de reeducação ( re-education camp ) of M ’ telela, in the Northeastern province of Niassa, when, on 25 June 1977 ( the second anniversary of Mozambique's independence ), they were told that they would be taken to the capital, Maputo, where President Machel himself would discuss their liberation.

According to The Guardian, he was last seen alive by reliable witnesses in 1992, and by journalists in 1996.

According to the SOM Institute at the University of Gothenburg, a disproportionate number of journalists support the socialist parties as opposed to the conservative, liberal or centrist ones compared to the Swedish public.

According to MEMRI, its translations and reports are distributed to " congresspersons, congressional staff, policy makers, journalists, academics, and interested parties.

According to journalists Marites Vitug and Glenda Gloria, authors of the book Under the Crescent Moon, agents hit Murad with a chair and club of wood when he did not talk.

According to Baher Asmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights, " ll three plaintiffs that are journalists with Democracy Now reached a final settlement with the city of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the United States Secret Service, that will resolve the claims that they had against them from unlawful and quite violent arrests.

According to Boston Globe writer Jan Freeman, from 1975 to 1980, journalists used the nor ’ easter spelling only once in five mentions of such storms ; in the past year ( 2003 ), more than 80 percent of northeasters were spelled nor ' easter.

According to Sonora Jha of Seattle University, journalists are using the Web to conduct their research, getting information regarding interviewing sources and press releases, updating news online, and thus it shows the gradual shifts in attitudes because of the rapid increase in use of the Internet.

According to Jay Rosen, citizen journalists are " the people formerly known as the audience ," who " were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened in isolation from one another — and who today are not in a situation like that at all.

According to Mark Glaser, during 9 / 11 many eyewitness accounts of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center came from citizen journalists.

According to Medios para la Paz, a group founded by Colombian journalists, Colombian guerrilla groups kidnapped a total of 1, 000 people, ( 300 a year, 25 a month ) in the Cesar Department, between 2000 and 2003.

According to Middle East Quarterly's website, " policy-makers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists " consult MEQ " for in-depth analysis of the rapidly-changing landscape of the world's most volatile region.

According to the Guardian, she had asked Hollande " to move out of the house " and pursue his new love interest " which has been detailed in books and newspapers " – a reference to a much-discussed chapter by journalists explaining how Hollande was having a long-term affair with a journalist.

According to Nina Burleigh ( A Very Private Woman ), these journalists sometimes wrote articles that were commissioned by Frank Wisner.