... in Palestine during the period from 1948 till 1973 had many wars and many conflicts between Israel and the Arabs especially the Palestinians, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The civil war started in Palestine after the declaration of Israel in 1948 and the withdrawal of the British forces. The main starting ... is like the Intifada of the late 1980s, was the first problem in the many Palestinian-Zionist problems in the years from 1949 till today. Jordan was also involved in the Palestine problem as in 1921 Emir Abdullah couldn't make contacts with Palestinian Arabs under the British mandate, b...

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... , headed by Yasser Arafat (discussed below), which began military operations against Israel on Jan. 1, 1965, with an attack on the Israeli national water carrier project to transfer water from the Jordan River to the south of Israel. Although little more than pinpricks to the Israelis, these attacks were effective armed propaganda in the Palestinians' political offensive to force the Arab regimes ... al-Nasser, to practice what they preached regarding Palestine. The first target chosen by Fatah was especially symbolic, since none of the Arab summit meetings called to deal with Israel's Jo...

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... is today started during the First World War when Great Britain took over the Palestine region which was made up of Israel, the West Bank and Jordan. Their plan was to advocate for a Jewish Zionist movement in rebuilding what they once called their home. However, the people that currently lived in ... declaring independence after the war in 1948. Beating all odds, the Jewish state was able to defend itself against the Arab nations surrounding it: Egypt, Jordan and Syria, that wanted Israel gone. As Israel won more and more wars in 1956, 1967, 1973, and 1982 they gained more land, includi...

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... lived in refugee camps, their homes, until now (Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: War). The estimated population of Palestinians in refugee camps has risen to 2.7 million since 1991, including 1 million in Jordan, 600, 000 in the Gaza Strip, 500, 000 in the West Bank, and 300, 000 in both Syria and Lebanon. Those Palestinians do not gain citizenships while living in some ... need to take radical actions to get the attentions. In 1967, Israelis won the victory in the Six-Day War. Even though Israelis gained control of some territories from Egypt, Jordan and Syria, some of these territor...

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... War saw the demographic and geographic face of greater Palestine change indefinitely. In addition to taking the Golan Heights from Syria and the Sinai from Egypt, Israel's forces had driven Jordan's Arab legion from the West Bank and the Egyptian Army from the Gaza Strip. However, re-percussions of the spring offensive of 1967 were to have their greatest influence on ... defeat by the Israelis, but what emerged was a new approach; gaining perpetual support by Arab neighbours, lead by an independent Palestinian authority. Amid the ruins of the Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordan armies rose the...

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... Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) provides a wide variety of assistance to the Palestinians. It provides education, health, and relief services to 3.9 million registered Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The UNRWA educational services currently include both general and higher education as well as vocational, technical and teacher education. The UNRWA ... ...

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... developed in the spirit of self- preservation. Upon this declaration of establishment, as the last British high commissioner departed, Arab military forces declared war. Troops from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen were sent in to open a war on every front. The goal of these twenty five thousand Arabs was to push all Jews (Israelis) into the Mediterranean ... ...

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... Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) provides a wide variety of assistance to the Palestinians. It provides education, health, and relief services to 3.9 million registered Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. • The UNRWA educational services currently include both general and higher education as well as vocational, technical and teacher education. The ... ...

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