... Growing Palestinian activism in the early part of the 1960's provided the impetus for the convening of the first summit conference of Arab leaders in 1964 to plan a unified response to Israeli plans to divert some of the waters of the Jordan River. This activism influenced the decision, made at that conference, to create the PLO. It also precipitated the slide of the Arab states into the June 1967 war with Israel. In the mid-1960's the Arab regimes were again ... they had nothing left to lose. What resulted starting on Dec. 9, 1987, was clearly a popular uprising. It included children, ...

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... Bank & half of Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Arabs, the rest became Israel. This was also unfair and the rights of the Palestinians were taken. Then in 1967 Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Egypt tried to resists the attack of Israel. The Israeli army managed to win, and when the war ended, Israel was from the Suez Canal to the Jordan River and the Golan Heights. Many Palestinians fled across the Jordan River to Jordan ... Resolutions 242 and 338. Resolution 242 makes Israel to withdraw from the lands it occupied in the 1967 war and for a fair solution for the Palestinian ...

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... 's troop movements, Israel forced Jordanian military groups out of Jerusalem and back over the Jordan river and Syria was defeated on the Golan Heights. After all these actions, Israel turned into the super power of the Middle East, with "its forces sitting on a large expanse of territory extending from the banks of the Suez Canal to the Jordan River and the Golan Heights" . A decade of U.N peacekeeping under the UNEF came to an end in warfare. This ... from power by a coup and substituted by a guerrilla gunman. The Turks took control of roughly half of the island with an army of 40,000 ...

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... is an area in the eastern Mediterranean region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea in Asia. Palestine territories include the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and parts of modern Israel. This region has a strategic location between Jordan in the east, Lebanon and part of modern Israel to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, and Negev and Gulf of Aqaba to the South. Syria, Egypt, and the Arabian nations are its neighboring ... their homeland in Palestine, many after the 1993 Oslo Accords, bringing their children with them. Many of the returned obtained the best jobs through...

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