... clashes. Arab-Israeli acrimony over the exploitation of the headwaters of the Jordan River, had been ongoing since 1950.The Jordan River ran through Lake Tiberias which was in the DMZ between Syria and Israel. In 1956 the completion of Israel's National Water Carrier marked a turning point. The main aim of this carrier was to channel water from Lake Tiberias throughout the country for agriculture and drinking ... began a long chain of Israeli-Syrian clashes in the DMZ that became significantly violent. The Israelis started to provoke the Syrians by sending tractors to plough the fields in...

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... the east of the Roman Frontier. W.C. McCullough supports this view and posits some of his theories, drawing from examples from the Jews. The Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas also attribute the saint's mission to India with the help of a merchant. In the Book of Revelation's letters to the 7 churches, there are implicit references to Christian traders in Asia Minor ( 2:14, 20; 4:14-18). With the exception of Laodicea, all the other ... Minor eventually to join the Via Egnatia into Europe. Likewise the King's Highway branched from the Via Maris through the Negev desert to the eastern shore ...

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... 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 ... for negotiation: recognition for the rights of Israel to exist and a renouncement of terrorism. The critical sentence at that...

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... War II, during which both sides cooperated with the British. The crisis of Palestine reached the worst point in the years immediately after the war. With international world taking the side of the Jews because of the Holocaust, Zionist leaders pressured the British to accept thousands of Jews in Palestine. At the same time, Jewish groups as the Irgun and the renegade Stern Gang started a campaign of terrorism against the British. The problems increased when Britain decided to leave. Britain ... invitation that socialists must support the struggle of the Palestinians for national liberat...

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