However, a better estimate, based on State Department and Israeli sources put the figure at about 500, 000.

However, Chad has not recognised the State of Israel since former Chadian President François ( Ngarta ) Tombalbaye broke off relations in September 1972 as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians, and other Arabs under Israeli occupation.

However, Eritrea condemned Israeli military action during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict.

However conflict with the Arab states and the Palestinians, much of whose territory was occupied by Israel during the 1967 war, continues to play a major role in Israeli ( and international ) political, social and economic life.

However, Israel has settled hundreds of thousands of its citizens in various Israeli controlled settlements in the West Bank.

However, Israeli President Moshe Katsav supported and praised him for bridging the gap between the two states.

However, Syrian opposition blocked implementation of the 17 May 1983 Lebanese-Israeli accord on the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon.

However, Lebanese resistance groups such as Hezbollah use it to justify attacks against Israeli forces in that region, creating a potentially dangerous flashpoint along the Lebanon-Israeli border.

However, the parties were unable to come to an agreement due to President Bill Clinton's failure to consult with the Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad during the negotiating process, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's backtracking on the issue of the northeastern shore of Lake Tiberias and Syria's nonnegotiable demand that Israel withdraw to the positions it held on 4 June 1967.

However, his allies – as well as Israeli intelligence – confirm that he urged his men throughout the battle to hold their ground and continue fighting.

However, Peres supported Ariel Sharon's military policy of operating the Israeli Defence Forces to thwart suicide bombings.

However, according to Armenian news agencies, the statement released by the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles did not include any mention that Peres hadn't said that the events were not genocide.

However, the Israeli government subsequently left the Islamic waqf in control of the site.

However, in 2000, he denounced Hezbollah's " terrorist attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilian populations ", a position markedly more pro-Israel than that of president Chirac.

However, the impact on the services sector, including the important Israeli tourist industry, was notably negative.

However, Israel was unwilling to concede to that demand and despite initial reports that he indeed was to be released in the October 11th deal between Israel and Hamas, it was soon denied by Israeli sources.

However, he continued to stress that he supported armed resistance to the Israeli occupation, but condemned attacks on civilians inside Israel.

However, children are used as messengers and couriers, and in some cases as fighters and suicide bombers in attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.

However, Eritrea condemned Israeli military action during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict.

However, Cypriot politicians have frequently spoken out against Israeli military raids in the Palestinian territories as well as the 2006 Lebanon War, during which Cyprus was forced to manage a heavy flow of refugees and aid out of and in to Lebanon.

" However, it has been noted that although kibbutzim comprise only 5 % of the Israeli population, surprisingly large numbers of kibbutzniks become teachers, lawyers, doctors, and political leaders.

However, he was generally known to be on the " dovish " side of Israeli politics and was increasingly outspoken after leaving the cabinet.

However Arkia had a contract with the Israeli government, and one of its two Boeing 757 planes had earlier that year flown Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Washington.

However, there are Israeli Jews who partake in some sort of celebration.

However, many native Israeli Chabad Hasidim pronounce Hebrew according to the Modern Israeli Hebrew dialect.

However, as a practicing historian, he, himself, has left few clues to the amount of professional scholarship that he used when writing history.

However, according to the architectural historian Vitruvius, the column was created by the sculptor Callimachus, probably an Athenian, who drew acanthus leaves growing around a votive basket.

However, because of the diversity of noir ( much greater than that of the screwball comedy ), certain scholars in the field, such as film historian Thomas Schatz, treat it as not a genre but a " style ".

However, Oxford Brookes University historian David Nash says the removal of the scene represented " a form of self-censorship " and the Otto sequence " which involved a character representative of extreme forms of Zionism " was cut " in the interests of smoothing the way for the film's distribution in America.

However, the tradition is comparatively late ( it dates from Josephus, a 1st century AD historian ), and scholars are practically unanimous that the book had a long period of growth, that it includes some material of considerable antiquity, and that it reached its present form in the Persian period ( 538 – 332 BC ).

" However, during modern times, Luke's competence as a historian is questioned, although that depends on one's a priori view of the supernatural.

However, according to the 1st century AD historian Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Arminius sent Varus ' head to Maroboduus.

However, the nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt noted that Jean Buridan had climbed the same mountain a few years before, and ascents accomplished during the Middle Ages have been recorded, including that of Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne.

However, the Jephson family's historian provides no evidence of this.

However, by the late 1960s, many of Structuralism's basic tenets came under attack from a new wave of predominantly French intellectuals such as the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, the philosopher and social commentator Jacques Derrida, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and the literary critic Roland Barthes.

However, art historian Sarane Alexandrian ( 1970 ) states, " the death of André Breton in 1966 marked the end of Surrealism as an organized movement.

However, the unlikelihood that the reputable historian Bede invented Ninian without some basis in the historical record, combined with an increased knowledge of Ireland's early saints and Whithorn's early Christian connections, has led to serious scholarly efforts to find Bede's basis.

However, early forms of world history were not truly global, and were limited to only the regions known by historian.

" However, the abuse went both ways, as historian William Manchester noted: " above all, he should never have been subjected to the accusation of Henry Wallace, FDR's new vice-presidential candidate, that Willkie was the Nazis ' choice.

However, the historian Kaiming Chiu argues in his The Introduction of Spectacles Into China that spectacles were introduced into China as far back as the late 13th century.

However, historian Stephen Ambrose has argued against this since the companies repaid both the capital and interest.

However, authors such as Ed Moloney, Peter Taylor, Mark Urban and historian Richard English have all named Adams as part of the IRA leadership since the 1970s.

However, jazz historian, musician, and composer Gunther Schuller writes about Morton's " hyperbolic assertions " that there is " no proof to the contrary " and that Morton's " considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation ".

However, even this anti-Ismaili historian makes no mention of the gardens on the Alamut grounds.

However, in Orff's denazification file, which has been discovered by Viennese historian Oliver Rathkolb in 1999, no remark on the White Rose is recorded.

However, the Arab historian Abu al-Hasan ' Alī al-Mas ' ūdī, citing ' traditional ' Arab history, relates that the Amalekites did indeed exist at this early period having originated in the region of Mecca before the time of Abraham.

However, historian Lady Antonia Fraser asserts that Queen Mary was already on her way to visit Bothwell on matters of state before she heard about his illness, and that therefore this visit is not evidence they were already lovers at the time of his accident.

However, both the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society have issued statements that they have seen no evidence to support these claims in the Book of Mormon and furthermore, no secular archeologist or historian has supported their existence.

However, the only statement in support of this idea comes from Sosibius, a Spartan historian from the 2nd.

However, the Roman historian Tacitus informs us that in the 1st century CE, Greek and native inhabitants still had institutions of their own.