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 the FSM U. N. deputy ambassador, Micronesia has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.

According to Giovanni Michieli, the Venetian ambassador, Philip may have planned to marry Elizabeth in the event of Mary's death in childbirth, but in a letter to his brother-in-law, Maximilian of Austria, Philip expressed uncertainty as to whether his wife was pregnant.

According to the Mitrokhin Archives, the Italian Communist Party lodged several complaints with the Soviet ambassador in Rome regarding Czechoslovak support of the Red Brigades, but the Soviets were either unwilling or unable to stop the StB.

According to information seen on a viewscreen in a late episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, Jonathan Archer later became the Federation ambassador to Andoria, a Federation Councillor, and President of the United Federation of Planets from 2184 to 2192.

According to a letter sent by Gelli to César de la Vega, a P2 member and Argentine ambassador to the UNESCO, Gelli commissioned P2 member Federico Carlos Barttfeld to be transferred from the consulate of Hamburg to the Argentine embassy in Rome.

According to the French ambassador, the marriage " was celebrated with a magnificence that it would be hard to surpass, by the side of which even the brilliant festivities that have preceded it are not to be mentioned.

According to Micronesia's U. N. deputy ambassador, the country has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.

According to legend, Astraea will one day come back to Earth, bringing with her the return of the utopian Golden Age of which she was the ambassador.

According to various accounts-including the US ambassador to the UN-the Taliban used women and children from their own population as human shields against coalition forces in 2006, and 2007, and when the British attacked during August 2008.

According to the paper, after seven months Karzai and Zalmay Khalilzad, then the U. S. ambassador to Afghanistan, were ready to get rid of the company.

According to the memo, the offer was turned down by an " amazed and smiling " Russian ambassador who said Russia did not have any need for this.

According to Charles Duelfer, after the bombing the Iraqi ambassador to the UN told him, " If we had known that was all you would do, we would have ended the inspections long ago.

According to America's last ambassador to Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Government were ready to accept the VOPP, but unfortunately the Clinton Administration delayed in its support, thus missing a chance to get it launched.

According to a 1659 letter to Thomas Greaves from Edward Pococke ( who, on his book-hunting travels for archbishop William Laud, had met Lucaris ) many of the choicest manuscripts from Lucaris ' library were saved by the Dutch ambassador who sent them by ship to Holland.

According to De Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, he was Hell's ambassador to France.

According to Veloso, the Soviet ambassador once asked the President for an audience to convey the USSR's concern about Mozambique's apparent " sliding away " towards the West, to which Machel supposedly replied " Vai à merda!

According to the ambassador Moties at the end of The Mote in God's Eye, " Watchmakers given time to adapt can destroy any ship.

According to the Habsburg ambassador, his public image was extremely poor.

According to a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable in which the U. S. ambassador there described Afewerki as " unhinged ," " cruel and defiant ," Aferwerki announced in May 2008 that elections would be postponed for " three or four decades " or longer because they " polarize society.

According to the Wu ambassador Xue Xu, who visited Shu in 261 at the order of Sun Xiu, the status that Shu was in at this point was:

According to the FBI, Cali is the official Gambino " ambassador to the Sicilian Mafia " and a rising star in the crime family.

According to the English ambassador Sir Dudley Carleton the version of events as he presented it, also caused much anger at the VOC in Dutch government circles.

According to Bahru Zewde, Lorenzo came into conflict with the powerful Tsehafi Taezaz (" Minister of the Pen ") Wolde Giyorgis Wolde Yohannes, who had him appointed to the ceremonial President of the Chamber of Deputies ( 1943 – 1944 ), then ambassador to the Soviet Union ( November 1944 ) -- effectively exiled from the center of power, then a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference ( May 1946 ); after being in Sweden for only a month, he died in a hospital in Stockholm.

According to a subpoena, Miller met with an unnamed government official, later revealed to be I. Lewis " Scooter " Libby, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, on July 8, 2003, two days after former ambassador Joseph Wilson ( the husband of Plame ) published an Op-Ed in the Times criticizing the Bush administration for " twisting " intelligence to justify war in Iraq.