However, the Hamas legislative victory led to a split between the two main Palestinian political parties, with Fatah retaining control of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank.

However, he added that there was no other way but to sit down and strike a deal, calling on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to enter negotiations.

However, he soon became involved in controversy, initiating protests advocating the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the Palestinian territories.

However, many Christians still live in Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories.

However, some form critics have disagreed, instead holding that only Palestinian Jews would have had any problem worshipping Jesus as God.

However, instead of joining the ranks of the Palestinian fedayeen, Arafat fought alongside the Muslim Brotherhood, although he did not join the organization.

However, in 1959, the group's existence was attested to in the pages of a Palestinian nationalist magazine, Filastununa Nida al-Hayat ( Our Palestine, The Call of Life ), which was written and edited by Abu Jihad.

However, due to the hostility of relations between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad ( who had previously ousted President Salah Jadid ), the Palestinian fighters crossed the border into Lebanon to join PLO forces in that country, where they set up their new headquarters.

However, the IMF did not claim that there were any improprieties, and it specifically stated that most of the funds had been used to invest in Palestinian assets, both internally and abroad.

However, a spokesman for the Institute of Radiation Physics stressed that the " symptoms described in Arafat's medical reports were not consistent with polonium-210 and that conclusions could not be drawn as to whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned or not.

However, Shomaly goes onto state that there is no systematic recruitment and that senior representatives of the groups and the Palestinian community are against the recruitment of children as a political strategy, although in Shomaly's opinion the political leadership of the Palestinians could do more to discourage the use of children by paramilitaries by requesting that the leadership of the paramilitaries sign a memorandum forbidding the training and recruitment of children.

However, the Palestinians and Israelis had not yet agreed on the wording of the Letters of Mutual Recognition, which constituted an agreement in which the PLO would acknowledge the state of Israel and pledge to reject violence, and Israel would recognize the ( unelected ) PLO as the official Palestinian authority, allowing Yasser Arafat to return to the West Bank.

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, in July 2003, the truce unravelled after a Palestinian suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus left 21 people dead.

However, the interim process put in place under Oslo had fulfilled neither Israeli nor Palestinian expectations, and Arafat argued that the summit was premature.

However, Israel would retain around 9 % of Palestinian lands in exchange for 1 % of Israeli land.

However, following the fiasco of the Franco-Syrian War and the collapse of the Arab Hashemite rule in Damascus, his early position on pan-Arabism shifted to a form of local nationalism for Palestinian Arabs and he moved back to Jerusalem.

However, Shamir refused to concede the idea of a Palestinian state, and as a result was blamed by some ( including United States Secretary of State James Baker ) for the failure of the summit.

However, continuing violence and Israeli " target killings " of known leaders forced Abbas to pledge a crackdown in order to uphold the Palestinian Authority's side of the Road map for peace.

" However, he refused to disarm Palestinian militants and use force against groups designated as terrorist organizations.

However, the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government could not reach an agreement on the extension of the mandate, and the observers were therefore withdrawn on August 8, 1994

" However, Hamas later repudiated this offer and claimed they would never recognize Israel or compromise on their position that Israel needed to be dismantled and replaced by a single Palestinian state.

However, the Arab Independence Party was formed by Palestinian and Iraqi activists from al-Fatat as a direct result of the Jerusalem conference on 13 August 1932.

However, a percentage of the indigenous Assyrian population ( known as Ashuriyun by the Arabs ) resisted this process, Assyrian Aramaic language and Church of the East Christianity were still dominant in the north, as late as the 11th and 12th centuries AD.

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, further sieges followed in the course of attacks from the Arabs, a first from 674 to 678, and a second from 717 to 718.

However Batutta reported that Arabs and Christians were safe, as their flesh was " unripe " and would cause the eater to fall ill.

However, he soon began initiating protests advocating the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the occupied territories.

However, these incursions and epochs, though pivotal, did not shape the region's history as the invasions of two later invading groups: Muslim Arabs and the Oghuz Turks.

However, the Arabs retained the old name of Chach for the surrounding region, pronouncing it al-Shash instead.

However many others too, such as Chinese, Hispanics, and Arabs, have growing numbers.

However, since the Arabs were known to use catapults, naptha, and devices attached to ships to prevent boarding parties, one can reasonably conclude that Chola navies not only transported troops but also provided support, protection, and attack capabilities against enemy targets.

However, there were differences between him and Mullah Omar, regarding the influence of the Arabs and the need to establish a proper consultative government mechanism.

However, the bird was known to both ancient Egyptians and Arabs.

However, by 1979 / 80, the bubble had burst due to the global economic crisis set in motion by the Yom Kippur War between Israel and the Arabs in 1973.

However, some modern Arabs in Southern Palestine believe their tribes and houses to be of Isaac's blood line.

However, on 16 or 17 December, the factory suffered a surprise attack by some 300 ( according to other accounts, perhaps as many as several thousand ) Muslim Arabs and Hindu Indians.

However, the fact that most Arabs were Muslims was used by some as an important building block in creating a new Arab national identity.

However, the party did agree to giving the Palestinian Arabs self-governing autonomy, subject to Israel's authority only in matters of security and foreign affairs ( such as in borders and diplomacy ), without the dismantling of the Jewish settlements.

However, this caused some turmoil in the Yishuv for there were those who felt that they were discriminating against the Arabs just as they had been discriminated against in Russia.

However, as being newcomers to the area recently arrived from Europe, they were evidently suspected by the local Arabs of being pro-French, which ultimately led to armed clash.

However, pockets of militant young Muslims, mostly Moroccan Arabs, on a number of occasions assaulted or intimidated identifiable Jews.

However, some Iranian Arabs claim that as a minority they face discrimination from the central government ; they agitate for the right to preserve their cultural and linguistic distinction and more provincial autonomy.

However, with the influx of Arabic travellers, foreign Muslim women ( Arabs ) wearing hijab that leave only their eyes exposed are often spotted in tourist attractions, not the least at the shopping malls.

However, the small Tilling-Stevens and the Arabs which the CMB deployed were not up to the challenge due to the large population of Chai Wan, and the large double-deckers used by CMB did not have the required engine power.