... , especially those of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, are a part of 'Biblical Israel', allegedly granted to the Israelites by god as their Holy Land (a significant proportion of the Israeli population are termed by historian Thomas Friedman to be Religious Zionists, who feel that the Messiah will come once the Jewish people have earned the Holy Land back). The second is ... Israel that is truly significant. This view can be seen with increasing terrorist attacks in Israel leading up to the general election of 1996, in order to have the Israeli population show preference for Benjamin Netany...

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... , over 80% of all Israeli settlers living in the West Bank now reside to the west of the Barrier. The population of the settlements and the area they cover have both expanded rapidly in East Jerusalem. In 2004, the Israeli settler population in East Jerusalem was approximately 190,000 compared to 110,000 in 1987. The area covered by the settlements has ... the international community in relation to the "Security Fence" Bickerton state that United State since 2001 under Bush administration had "eight years of unilateral policies, including unflinching American support for Israel, had virt...

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