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Avraham Poraz, Israel's Interior Minister and member of the centrist Shinui Party, said he believed the assassination of Yassin " was a bad idea because I am afraid of a revenge coming from the Palestinian side, from the Hamas side.

In the past 18 months, according to the Associated Press, 1262 people have been killed on the Palestinian side and on 401 on the Israeli side.

During 2010 Mark decided to go rambling in the Middle East and walked the entire length of the Israeli Separation Barrier, crossing between the Israeli and the Palestinian side.

They wanted to annex the numerous settlement blocks on the Palestinian side of the Green Line, and were concerned that a complete return to the 1967 borders was dangerous to Israel's security.

Judged from the perspective of Palestinians ’ and Israelis ’ respective rights under international law, all the concessions at Camp David came from the Palestinian side, none from the Israeli side.

The basic premise of the policy was that the Israelis have no viable negotiating partner on the Palestinian side, and since they cannot remain in indefinite occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, Israel should unilaterally withdraw.

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.

On 25 July 2006 he announced that he would move his office to Gaza until the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops in order to coordinate the Palestinian side of the withdrawal, mediating between the different factions.

The principles of the plan, originally drafted by U. S. Foreign Service Officer Donald Blome, were first outlined by U. S. President George W. Bush in a speech on June 24, 2002, in which he called for an independent Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace: " The Roadmap represents a starting point toward achieving the vision of two states, a secure State of Israel and a viable, peaceful, democratic Palestine.

He writes that the contents of the new documents substantially increase both Israeli and Palestinian responsibility for the refugee problem, revealing more expulsions and atrocities on the Israeli side, and more orders from Arab officials to the Palestinians to leave their villages, or at least to send their women and children away.

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.

Indirect Soviet assistance to the Palestinian side of the Israeli – Palestinian conflict included support for Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ).

He however assert that he has friends both on the Israeli and Palestinian side of the conflict.

Education for Peace / Geneva Initiative-Israel ) on the Israeli side and their Palestinian counterpart Palestine Peace Coalition / Geneva Initiative ( PPC / GI ).

Jamal Zakut, one of the participants and drafters of the plan from the Palestinian side, argued that the section dealing with the refugee issue has " certain ambiguity " and the whole purpose of this document is only to be a model for a future agreement.

Well-lit on the surface of a basin: a styrofoam boat, displaying a portrait of the Palestinian suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat on one side and the word " Snövit " (" Snow White " in Swedish ) written on the backside.

From November 2005 until July 2007, the Rafah Crossing was jointly controlled by Egypt and the Palestinian Authority, with the European Union monitoring Palestinian compliance on the Gaza side.

In 2000, after Yasser Arafat rejected the offer made to him by Ehud Barak based on the two-state solution and declined to negotiate for a more favorable offer, it became clear that Arafat would not make a deal with Israel unless it included the full Palestinian right of return, which would demographically destroy the Jewish character of the State of Israel.

" Civil liberties declined due to: shooting deaths of Palestinian civilians by Palestinian security personnel ; the summary trial and executions of alleged collaborators by the Palestinian Authority ( PA ); extra-judicial killings of suspected collaborators by militias ; and the apparent official encouragement of Palestinian youth to confront Israeli soldiers, thus placing them directly in harm's way.

Jamal's Israeli employer offered to have him taken to an Israeli hospital, but the Palestinian Authority, or Jamal himself, declined the offer.

It established a strong position in the Palestinian trade union movement and retained considerable popularity in the West Bank during the 1970s, but its support subsequently declined.

By 1971, the population had declined to 5, 000 as a result of the war and the 1970-71 conflict between the Palestinian guerrillas and the Jordanian armed forces.

" Civil liberties declined due to: shooting deaths of Palestinian civilians by Palestinian security personnel ; the summary trial and executions of alleged collaborators by the Palestinian Authority ( PA ); extra-judicial killings of suspected collaborators by militias ; and the apparent official encouragement of Palestinian youth to confront Israeli soldiers, thus placing them directly in harm's way.

Although Nasser and his Arab allies had been defeated, Arafat and Fatah could claim a victory, in that the majority of Palestinians, who had up to that time tended to align and sympathize with individual Arab governments, now began to agree that a ' Palestinian ' solution to their dilemma was indispensable.

* Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Prime Minister Yasser Arafat agree to the Peace Process at the culmination of the Oslo Accords, negotiated by the United States President Bill Clinton on 13 September 1993.

The two sides agree to establish an Israeli – Palestinian continuing Committee for economic cooperation, focusing, among other things, on the following:

Palestinian activist Khader Adnan went on a 66-day hunger strike starting December 2011 in order to protest, among other things, his own placement under administrative detention without trial or charge ; he was eventually able to agree to cease his strike in exchange for a planned release in April.

*" We have frankly said, and always will say: If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, we won ’ t agree to the presence of one Israeli in it.

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.

Kristof published several articles criticizing the missed opportunity of the " grand bargain "— a proposal by Iran to normalize relations with the United States, implement procedures to assure the US it will not develop nuclear weapons, deny any monetary support to Palestinian resistance groups until they agree to stop targeting civilians, support the Arab Peace Initiative, and ensure full transparency to assuage any United States concerns.

Nearly all scholars agree that regardless of how one interprets the mission of Jesus, that he must be understood in context as a 1st century Palestinian Jew.

Despite his willingness to agree with Abbas ' election to the presidency, Zubeidi still said he did not trust Abbas with the Palestinians ' national constants which to him were the status of Jerusalem and the right of return for Palestinian refugees.

One possible idea by this essay is to agree ahead of time that following attainment of a final status agreement there will be a negotiated detailed and staged implementation agreement which would define a process which would allow the creation of a stable functional Palestinian state in stages and over time.

The Palestinian side did not agree that the parameters included blocs, and did not accept proposals to annex blocs.

Clinton brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat together at Camp David.

Extensive Israeli settlements have been since built around the city ; they are subject to Israeli, not Palestinian, legal authority.

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.

The real statement was a critique of the Israeli government and its treatment of the Palestinian people.

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.

On 4 February 2008 an Israeli woman was killed and 38 others injured in the town by a Palestinian suicide bomber ( see Dimona bombing ).

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.

Among the 14 preconditions, included the release of all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, freezing all Israeli settlement construction, and lifting the Gaza blockade.

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The Israeli forces left Gaza City and other urban areas, leaving the new Palestinian Authority to administer and police those areas.

The Second Intifada broke out in September 2000 with its waves of protest, civil unrest and bombings against Israeli military and civilians, many of them perpetrated by suicide bombers, and the beginning of rockets and bombings of Israeli border localities by Palestinian guerrillas from Gaza Strip, especially from Hamas and Jihad Islamic movements.

The Palestinian Authority welcomed this plan, but declared that until final status, it would still consider the Gaza Strip under Israeli occupation.

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In addition to killing Israeli civilians and armed forces, Hamas has also attacked suspected Palestinian collaborators, and Fatah rivals.

" In June 2002, shortly after the Israeli government launched Operation Defensive Shield, Nasrallah gave a speech in which he defended and praised suicide bombings of Israeli targets by members of Palestinian groups for " creating a deterrence and equalizing fear.

* First Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories from December 1987 to 1993

* Second Intifada, a period of intensified Palestinian – Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000 and ended around 2005

Central Intelligence Agency | CIA remote sensing map of Greater Jerusalem, showing Israeli settlements, Palestinian refugee camps, fences, walls, etc.

" The Israeli annexing instrument, the Jerusalem Law — one of the Basic Laws of Israel that " serve in the place of a constitution "— declares Jerusalem, " complete and united ", to be the capital of Israel, creating a conflict with Palestinian claims.