... quot;intifada" means "shaking off" (Bickerton 114). As response of many disastrous events derivatives from the second intifada, The Israeli government took action starting to build what they called "Security Fence" in June 2002. "The West Bank "Separation Barrier" ... confiscate to build the barrier; hundreds of Palestinian farmers and traders are cut off from their land and means of economic survival meanwhile Israel's Government argues that the fence is purely a security obstacle, definitely not a part of a future border and there is nothing to prevent the fence ... regain momentum fro...

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... , in which the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) conducted missions to that country in order to air-transport Ethopian Jews to Israel (under the 1950 Law of Return anybody who can prove their Jewish descendence to the Israeli government is automatically granted Israeli citizenship), and the 800,000 Soviet Jews who migrated to Israel with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ... states. These new Israelis require a place to settle in Israel, and cheap housing is not in short supply if one is willing to live in the West Bank. To Israeli-government economists, the occupied territories repre...

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