... scaled down the offer and eventually retracted it. Seeking a peace plan that would satisfy all parties, Britain called a conference of Jewish and Arab leaders in 1939; but no agreement was reached. Then, Britain issued the White Paper, announcing that the mandate would end in ten years, providing Palestine with full independence. Jewish immigration would be limited until 1944, after which it ... re-admit all the refugees. The Palestine disaster uprooted more than half a million Arabs and they would support any leader who returned their homes and dignity, particularly the Ba'th party, wh...

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... to reconcile. The Zionists envisaged large-scale Jewish immigration, and some spoke of a Jewish state constituting all of Palestine. Palestinians, however, rejected Britain's right to promise their country to a third party and feared dispossession by the Zionists. Fear of Jewish domination was the principal cause of the Arab revolt that broke out in 1936 and continued intermittently until 1939. By that ... time Britain had again restricted Jewish immigration and purchases of land. Various plans for solving the Palestine problem were rejected by one party or the other. Britain finally de...

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... , how can one accept the fact that strength in suppressing victoriously other peoples is righteous? It is indeed a moral dilemma with no distinctly clear or certain conclusion that may be reached. One fascinating approach to the problem was formulated by Daniel Amit, an Israeli scientist at Brandeis University. Amit writes: As far as the Palestinians are concerned the origin of the ... just, but has not been accepted by either of the parties in the conflict. Nor for that matter has any real universal moral point of reference been accepted by either party that might provide a framework fo...

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... to English standards. As the years past the Catholics started to get back at the Protestants forming the I.R.A. I.R.A. and Protestant killings continued into the early 1900s, Britain began launching multi party- talks with the goal of forging a new assembly for northern Ireland and new relations between the north and Irish republic. By 1999, Protestant and Catholic negotiators had turned their efforts ... how and when to dispose of military arms and munitions held by the two sides. Days of intensive negotiations in the spring and summer of 1999 but no agreement was reached. In August 19...

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