... other hand, Bickerton state that: "Developments in the conflict began to regain momentum from a somewhat stalled situation when US President Barack Obama assumed office in January 2009, and when Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded in forming government in Israel two months later, Obama in contrast to his predecessor, George W. Bush, identified achieving peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict as necessary to creating ... ...

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... 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 Netanyahu's Likud opposition, so as to see the Oslo peace process fail. Hence, the occupied territories are of varying relevance to different Palestinian groups. To the non-Palestinian Arabs the ... ...

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