... 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 the sheer lack of land inside of the accepted borders of Israel. The third cause of the settler-movement is mass Jewish migration to Israel from the late 1980s onwards as a consequence of the Israeli air ... refugees the occupied territories are of some importance - some refugees would be pleased to return to any reasonable Palestinian state, some others would only want to return to their homes inside of the state of Israel. Palestinian extremists,...

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... " by Israelis. They are the ones who had their land taken away from them and are left with no where to live. In 1948, there were approximately 860,000 Palestinians inside today's Israel. About 700,000 were driven out or fled during the fighting that followed the declaration of Israeli statehood. The Palestinian population of Jerusalem went from 75,000 to ... exceptions of course. Many Jews live in the new ring of suburbs around East Jerusalem and in the new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. And many Arabs live inside of Israel, particularly in Galilee, including Nazareth, and in the...

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... rapidly, even Palestinians with legal Israeli citizenship are discriminated by Jews Israelis and the Jewish law. The United Nations should ensure that every single Palestinian be treated equitably and equally inside Israel, but the United Nations ignores refugees and Palestinian Israelis' demand for a place where they can build their own community. Despite this the United Nations simply supplies refugees' daily basic ... ...

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... 1998, approximately 600,000 Palestinians have been held in Israeli jails for periods ranging from one week to life. The transfer of Palestinians from the Occupied Palestinian Territory to facilities inside Israel is a war crime under international humanitarian law. Torture also remains common against Palestinian prisoners during interrogations by Israeli forces, despite a 1999 Israeli Supreme Court ruling outlawing some interrogation methods ... ...

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