In April 2002, he was at the head of an activist group arriving in the West Bank to protest the massive Israeli Army operation conducted at that time that caused many civilian Palestinian casualties (" Operation Defensive Shield " in official Israeli terminology ).

Middle East Justice and Development Initiatives ( Mejdi ) is a local grassroots Palestinian organization which was founded by Aziz Abu Sarah, a young Palestinian activist who seeks to advocate cooperation and reconciliation efforts.

Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian (; born January 14, 1958, in Kuwait, to Palestinian parents ), is a former resident of Temple Terrace, Florida, now living in Northern Virginia, who is a Muslim activist, and former University of South Florida professor of computer engineering.

It was founded in 2001 by Ghassan Andoni, a Palestinian activist ; Neta Golan, an Israeli activist ; Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian-American ; and George N. Rishmawi, a Palestinian activist.

* On 14 April 2011, Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni was abducted and killed in Gaza by the Jahafil Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad fi Filastin Palestinian terrorist group.

The Israeli government asserted ISM activist Susan Barclay had " ties with Palestinian terrorist groups ".

Feminist activist Tarab Abdul Hadi, organizer of the Palestinian Arab Women's Association.

One of its most prominent members, the Palestinian-American scholar and activist Edward Said, left the PNC because he believed that the Oslo Accords sold short the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in pre-1967 Israel and would not lead to a lasting peace.

* Edward Said – was a regular guest ; Columbia University professor, literary critic and Palestinian activist and intellectual

Steel is a Palestinian human rights activist, having been a member of the British-based ENOUGH!

In February 2006 at the University of Toronto, Tagar organized a " Know Radical Islam Week " featuring activist Nonie Darwish, former Sudanese slave Simon Deng, Dr. Salim Mansur ( a Muslim activist speaking on gay rights in the Middle East ) and presentations by Honest Reporting and Palestinian Media Watch.

Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi (, born October 8, 1946 ) is a Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar.

Basically, I am a Palestinian, I am a woman, I am an activist and a humanist, more than being a politician.

Margolyes is a Palestinian human rights activist, having been a member of the British-based ENOUGH!

At Glastonbury Festival in 2005 he sang about the Palestinian solidarity activist Rachel Corrie.

His wife was Tarab Abd al-Hadi, a Palestinian activist and feminist.

A democracy activist and head of the Palestinian National Initiative.

Khader regularly meets with Settlers and Israeli government officials, and is a strong opponent of the both the concept of Palestinian State and the Palestinian Authority itself.

One lyrical section features a beautiful sunglasses-clad Palestinian woman ( played by Manal Khader ) whose passing by not only distracts all eyes, but whose gaze causes Israeli military checkpoint towers to crumble.

From its very beginning, the AIC was active in the Israeli and Palestinian peace movements and was very much involved in campaigns such as the ( successful ) one to stop the torture of the prisoner Palestinian Adnan Anans.

He initially declared that it was a Fascist attack, but he later stated it was a Palestinian transport of weapons which went wrong.

Baader, Ensslin, Mahler, and Meinhof then went to Jordan, where they trained in the West Bank and Gaza with Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) guerrillas and looked to the Palestinian cause for inspiration and guidance.

When Arafat's death was announced, the Palestinian people went into a state of mourning, with Qur ' anic mourning prayers emitted from mosque loudspeakers throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and tires burned in the streets.

In September, a delegation of the Arab Higher Committee went to Paris and proposed that Arabs would adopt a neutral position on the North African question in exchange of France's support in the Palestinian question.

Eventually, a dozen D9 bulldozers went into action, razing the center of the refugee camp and forcing the Palestinian militants inside to surrender.

The main ways historians note the failed Arab revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine went on to later affect the course of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war was by giving crucial British Mandate ( British Mandate of Palestine ) support to pre-state Zionist militias like the Haganah ( chiefly via training and support to them directed by British Army officer Orde Wingate ) and on the local Palestinian Arab side the revolt forced the fleeing into exile of the main local Palestinian Arab leader of the period, then Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, who had to leave Mandatory Palestine after the revolt was crushed.

On his return from Egypt Dionysius had troubles with Philoxenus, bishop of Nisibis, who espoused the cause of the anti-patriarch Abraham ; and he then went to Baghdad in 829 to confer with the caliph al-Ma ' mun as to an edict that he had issued on the occasion of dissensions between the Palestinian and Babylonian Jews regarding the appointment of an exilarch.

After the barrier went up, Palestinian suicide bombings and other attacks across Israel dropped by 90 %.

In the 2005 municipal election, six seats went to the United Beit Jala list ( Fatah and Palestinian People's Party ), five seats went to Sons of the Land ( PFLP and independents ), one seat went to Independent Beit Jala Group and one candidate was elected as an independent.

UNRWA defines the Palestinian refugees as: those ( and their descendants ) whose normal place of residence between June 1946 and May 1948 was in the land that is now Israel, but they went outside during the 1948 war.

This occasionally went to extremes, with as-Sa ' iqa leaders denying the existence of a separate Palestinian people within the wider Arab nation ( quote ).

France 2's news editor said in 2005 that no one could say for sure who fired the shots, but other commentators, including the director of the Israeli government press office, went further, saying the scene had been staged by Palestinian protesters.

" When Arafat's death was announced, the Palestinian people went into a state of mourning, with Quranic mourning prayers emitted from mosque loudspeakers, and tires were burned in the streets.

• Musicians presented two works, " Revolution and Hope " presented at the Jordan, Iraq, was a description of what is happening in Palestine, then made a " SOS mother ," which describes the state of a Palestinian mother went proceeds of this business to support the Palestinian uprising in 1986.

He went to the Palestinian territories where he was shot by an Israeli soldier while working with the International Solidarity Movement.

In 2007, after hearing that settlers had stolen a donkey from a Palestinian boy from Tuba, Ta ' ayush went to the Havot Ma ' on settlement to retrieve the donkey.

Eventually, this number was due to increase in the following months with the inclusion of 23, 900 Palestinian guerrilla fighters from both the Rejectionist Front ( RF ) and mainstream PLO factions, later joined by 4, 400 Lebanese regular soldiers from the Lebanese Arab Army ( LAA ) led by Lt. Ahmed al-Khatib who went over to the LNM-PLO side in January 1976.

* 2003 – U. S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the in 1985.

He was born while his father was on crusade, attempting to create the County of Tripoli on the Palestinian coast.

On December 21, 1995, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem, and three days later the city came under the complete administration and military control of the Palestinian National Authority in conformance with the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1995.

A study done on Israeli and Palestinian students in Israel found that RWA scores of right-wing party supporters were significantly higher than those of left-wing party supporters.

* 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel – Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.

The PDFLP soon gained a reputation as the most intellectual of the Palestinian fedayeen groups, and drew heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain the situation in the Middle East.

The PDFLP's original political orientation was based on the view that Palestinian national goals could be achieved only through revolution of the masses and " people's war ".

Inspired by the USSR's Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall, this group also favored a new political orientation, focused less on Marxism and armed struggle, and more on the democratisation of Palestinian society.

In a meeting with 8 Jewish and 8 Protestant Dutch leaders in Israel in May 2011, a statement of cooperation was issued, indicating, for the most part, that the Protestant Church recognizes the issues involved with the Palestinian Christians and that this is sometimes at odds with support for the State of Israel, but standing up for the rights of the Palestinians does not detract from the emphasis on the safety of the State of Israel and vice versa.

The Egyptian Chief of Intelligence, General Omar Suleiman, has played a substantial role in negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian sides and is highly respected on both sides.

Despite this, the government officially recognised the Palestinian state on 25 August.

Though it is on the left wing of Palestinian politics, its character is primarily nationalist rather than social democratic.

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.

Officials on the third day of the Fatah convention in Bethlehem unanimously accepted the proposal put forth by the chairman of the Araft Institute stating that Israel had been behind the " assassination " of the late Palestinian Authority Chairman and affirmed Fatah's request for international aid to probe the issue.

These included strikes against leading Jordanian politicians, as a means of exacting vengeance and raising the price for attacking the Palestinian movement ; and also, most controversially, for " international operations " ( e. g. the Munich Olympics attack ), intended both to put pressure on the US, European countries and Israel, and to raise the visibility of the Palestinian cause, and to upstage radical rivals such as the PFLP.

The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements ( the DOP, better known as the Oslo accords ), signed in Washington on 13 September 1993, provided for a transitional period not exceeding five years of Palestinian interim self-government in sections of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

The US granted a request from the Palestinian National Authority for recognition of the West Bank and Gaza as a Country in view of developments including the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki claimed that official recognition would be announced by the Honduran Foreign Ministry on 20 August following the summit of the Central American Integration System ( SICA ) on 18 August.

Despite this, Honduras and El Salvador both officially recognised the Palestinian state on 26 August.

It pledged itself to remedy " backwardness ", take an active role in the Palestinian Arab cause, promote Arab unity, and encourage domestic policies based on social justice, non-exploitation, and an equitable distribution of wealth.