The conflict between Palestine and Israel have historical connotations, becoming through the years the most notorious, protracted, implacable and dangerous conflict of the twentieth century, and which even remains in force. An important event of the contemporary history of this long conflict was the beginning of the al-Aqsa intifada or second intifada in December of 2000, "second national revolt in less than a decade" (Dolphin 1), which was a far more violent and long-lasting confrontation than the first intifada. The Arabic term "intifada" means "shaking off" (Bickerton 114). As response of m...

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... territories provide the chance for a deal with the nations from whom they were conquered, much in the same way as the 1978-79 Camp David Peace Accords were signed between Israel's Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat. Many small factions of Israeli society ... to create a de-facto (as opposed to de jure) Palestinian state in Israel, and therefore upholding the possibilities of this agreement are of particular significance to them, if not for themselves, then for their legitimacy in the eyes of the Palestinian peoples. To the Palestinian refugees t...

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