... then the Jews refuse to let Palestinians return to their homes. Jordan captured the West Bank in 1948 but in 1967, Israel took old Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip. However, the Arabic population disallows to co-exist with the Jewish state; making the wars still going strong to this day. Even though these disputes started ... a long time ago current disputes over the Golan Heights, West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem are happening to this day. Most Israelis, polls show, want to leave the occupied territories. This government acts against their will to...

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... if the Israelis gave up the land in the West Bank and Gaza Strip they would have no buffer zones for security. The Golan Heights captured in the war of 1967 is a key military site. Syria gains control of the Golan Heights it controls the Sea Galilee and can fire mortar shells on to Jewish villages at the bottom of the Golan ... Heights. When Vassar Arafat was offered land for peace he turned it away. Ehud Barak gave the Palestinians more concessions then any other previous Israeli leader. The Arab world also wants ... ...

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... Jordan virtually removing their entire artillery. In quick fighting the Israeli's captured the Sinai and Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jordan from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria. These territories became known as the occupied territories. Israel's policy of slow incorporation and settlement in these territories would become a major part of this conflict. With Egyptians on ... intifada began in 2000 and in Israel Ariel Sharon became Prime Minister and launched a series of military attacks on Palestinian self-rule areas while Arab suicide bombing numbers reached n...

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... surrounding Arab nations, causing the Six-Day War, breaking the blockade at the Gulf of Aqaba (Egypt), captured the West Bank and the Old City (Jordan), and took the Golan Heights (Syria). The strike was initially for defensive purposes, but Israel decided to keep the spoils of war as bargaining chips, fueling Arab fears of Israeli expansion. The UN Security Council ... into the region. In 1973, Egypt and Syria planned a surprise attack on Israel, known as the Yom Kippur War. Egypt went into the Sinai and Syrians went down the Golan Heights. The first week of fighting, Israel concentrat...

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... can't do. Again, Israel attacked their neighbors in 1967 (CQ 6). They attacked Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and gained a lot of land, and began to colonize the captured territories of Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza strip, and the Sinai Peninsula (CQ 6). In the cease-fire agreement, they demanded that Jerusalem become the capitol of Israel, instead of being an international city. Of ... be wrong.""(NMS 41). In October of 1973, the Jewish state of Israel was celebrating Yom Kippur. In coordinated surprise attacks, Egypt and Syria conquer the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights (CQ 6). With the...

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... time, the Arabs wanted no part in Jewish immigration to a nation they viewed as their homeland. And during the next couple decades, the violence, hatred, and bloodshed escalated to unimaginable heights (Mideast 5-6). Following WWII, Great Britain decided to withdraw its troops from Palestine and disregard the responsibility given by the League of Nations for its inability to contain the endless violence ... or Palestinian Liberation Organization was established, seeking revenge and a chance to take back Palestine. During the Six Day War, Israel conquered the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip,...

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... and on the East Bank under unified Palestinian rule. Violation or abrogation of the Peace Treaty with Egypt. War with Syria, resultant from a pre-planned Syrian attack on the Golan Heights or from a deteriorating situation in South Lebanon, where Iranian-supported Hezbollah guerrillas have inflicted a steady trickle of casualties on Israel. Weapons of mass destruction from the "Outer Ring" - that is ... June 1985, more than six Syrian divisions are concentrated in the Golan-Damascus area. The IDF responded by constructing several defensive lines of mines and antitank obstacles in the Go...

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... Jordan virtually removing their entire artillery. In quick fighting the Israeli's captured the Sinai and Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jordan from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria. These territories became known as the occupied territories. Israel's policy of slow incorporation and settlement in these territories would become a major part of this conflict. With Egyptians on ... intifada began in 2000 and in Israel Ariel Sharon became Prime Minister and launched a series of military attacks on Palestinian self-rule areas while Arab suicide bombing numbers reached n...

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... Jordan in 1994), the peace process stalled nearly completely. Likud stood under heavy pressure of the settlers and rightist and extremist religious parties not to give back the Syrian Golan Heights nor to hand over more land to the Palestinian Authority. Mr. Netanyahu also linked further withdrawals to security. Consequently, every Palestinian attack became pretext for not honouring existing agreements. Meanwhile ... ...

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... Egypt had been taking down most of the areas around Israel already. The Yom Kippur war in 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a surprise attack on Israeli forces in Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula. U.S. provided support to prevent a possible Arab victory. In 1987 riots broke out between residents and Israeli troops. This was the first "intifada" which was a palestinian ... ...

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... 's relations with the Soviet Union. All of these accusations led to the Suez Crisis. The Six-Day War soon followed, in which Israeli forces overran the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights on the Syrian border, and East Jerusalem. The Israelis also ignored the decision of the UN that Jerusalem should be an international city by making it their eternal capital. The ... ...

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... 's relations with the Soviet Union. All of these accusations led to the Suez Crisis. The Six-Day War soon followed, in which Israeli forces overran the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights on the Syrian border, and East Jerusalem. The Israelis also ignored the decision of the UN that Jerusalem should be an international city by making it their eternal capital. The ... ...

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... Israelis counterattacked and defeated the Jordanians. They then attacked the Syrians. Within six days they had captured the entire Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza strip, Judea and Samaria, and the Golan Heights. Israeli forces were able to keep terrorist attacks to a minimum from 1967 to 1973, but Arab terrorist bases were able to set up in Jordan and Lebanon. On Saturday, October ... ...

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... the balance of power in the Middle East and created a new reality both politically and religiously. Israel acquired extensive territories, many considered holy such as the Sinai Desert, the Golan Heights and the West Bank. These new territories expanded Israel to several times that of its borders set back in 1948. Religion has acted as a divisive factor in the Israel/Palestine ... ...

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... to come as Israel rose to take on the personification of the indestructible West, albeit a Middle Eastern country. After the swift defeat of Egypt, the devastating damage done in Golan Heights, and the fury with which the PLO was dealt with, the Middle East saw the legitimacy that Israel was ready to establish not only as a state, but as a military super ... ...

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... Jordan counterattacked and destroyed the whole Egyptian air force leaving them paralyzed for battle. Israel conquered what are today the west bank and Gaza strip as well as the Golan Heights from Syria and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. The Arab people were left in humiliation and Nasser shortly after proposed resignation. However, the people would not allow him to do ... ...

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... Israeli occupation of the territories of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank of the River Jordan (referred to by Israel as Judea and Samaria), the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights region, and the issue of Jewish settlers since 1967 has been of great relevance in the conflict since 1967. The significance is most easily assessed in judging its relevance in ... ...

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... are still preventing peace today. Israel took a lot of Arab territory in the war. During the six days of fighting Israel captured Sinai, the West Bank, the Gaza strip, Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. The territories gained were Arab and had been given to the Arabs by the UN as part of the divide in 1948. The newly acquired territories are ... ...

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