... by Serb military and police. This genocide was characterized by concentration camps, mass murders, and a Serb policy of raping Muslim women. "The vast majority of casualties were civilian. An out flow of refugees resulted with approximately 800,000 Bosnians displaced to other countries and more than 200,000 coming ... or Croats. In Northern Ireland, it would seem that Protestants and Catholics had a civil war about religions, when in fact it was about British rule in Ireland. Ireland, originally a distinct and independent country, was invaded by Britain and forced to become part of the ...

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... we have to look at the conditions the terrorist lives under. Since 1948, the Palestinians have been continuously robbed of their land and self-rule while being subjugated to third-class citizenry and terror. The Israeli government is the only one in the world that openly admits to sponsoring ... or not. Take the sanctions against Iraq, for example, which is heavily endorsed and enforced by the United States against the will of the majority of the world. The sanctions restrict food and medicine imports to Iraq in order to bring down Saddam Hussein. The result is more than ... 1.2 millio...

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... we have to look at the conditions the terrorist lives under. Since 1948, the Palestinians have been continuously robbed of their land and self-rule while being subjugated to third-class citizenry and terror. The Israeli government is the only one in the world that openly admits to sponsoring ... or not. Take the sanctions against Iraq, for example, which is heavily endorsed and enforced by the United States against the will of the majority of the world. The sanctions restrict food and medicine imports to Iraq in order to bring down Saddam Hussein. The result is more than ... 1.2 millio...

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... everywhere. Arab Caliphs built these holy places over the site of the Jewish Temple, which the Romans destroyed. Before the catastrophic First World War, Palestine was under Turkish rule, but had an Arab majority within its boundaries. Stuck under the arm of the Ottoman Empire, the Arabs turned to Britain for help to regain its once cherished lands. Thus, Britain accepted the ... agreements and set forth an agreement with the French to greedily partition the Ottoman Empire between themselves; leaving out the Arabs or Jews to have an independent land for self- rule. The Arabs and the Jew...

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... could cause great aggression threatening to destroy all that has been achieved to keep peace between Israelis and Palestinians (Palestinian National Authority). The Oslo agreement established a limited form of self-rule for Palestinians living in the main population centers of the West Bank and Gaza (CNN). Total and final sovereignty over those areas remained with Israel (CNN). It is an implied ... out that would be a impossibility for Israel (CNN). Israel has no intention of allowing Palestinians to return to the territory seized in 1948 because of fear of decreasing the Jewish majorit...

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... laws. There is also an article in the Constitution for a Senate that will represent different groups to secure that not one group has the majority in political voice. The Senate, however, is mentioned in the Constitution yet to this day, it does not exist. Another major attribute of ... 6 to 5 respectively. The president had executive powers, in which he could make any decision. In 1944 the French government recognized Lebanon's self-rule and not until 1945 did Lebanon declare its independence after the last French troops left. As article 17 stated, "Executive power shall be entrusted to...

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... Britain. In 1922 Britain allocated nearly 80% of Palestine to Tran Jordan. In 1947 UN partitioned this remaining land into two states. A second Arab state: Palestine and Israel. The great majority of Arabs in Jordan and Israel share the same culture, language and religion. The Arabs in the area began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967. Two decades ... after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. Almost all the Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the West Bank of Jordan River have complete autonomy under the rule of the Palestinian Authority. For ove...

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... . The only reason the Jewish community was brought to England with the Normans was solely for financial services specifically moneylending. The Normans needed the Jewish community's money to establish their rule over England. The Normans used their money to build castles and cathedrals throughout the conquered land. The Jewish people performed usury as their source of wealth. Usury is the act ... held the Fourth Lateran Council stating that the king can make the Jews wear a badge as a public representation of the Jewish people. England was the first country to enforce this rule throughou...

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... . The meeting helped to form Zionist organizations in most countries with large Jewish populations. The first issue to split the Zionist movement was whether Palestine was essential to a Jewish state. A majority of the delegates to the 1903 congress felt that it was essential and rejected the British offer of a homeland in Uganda. Within the Zionist movement a broad range of perspectives developed ... progress was made, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed an accord providing for joint recognition and for limited Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip. In 1995, Israel...

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... a framework for a just solution. Amit's solution, although encompassing no specific steps towards fulmination, shows the fair, good and just principles by which he believes the moral dilemmas of the Jewish majority in Palestine may be solved. Perhaps Amit's principles are to idealistic and unselfish. Perhaps universal justice isn't what we're after, only that justice for ourselves should suffice? Golda Meir ... likely to lead to conflict than to pacify it. There is no possibility that Israel will give up its sovereignty in order to solve the moral dilemma of having a Jewish majority in ...

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... in Arab communities within Israel itself; People who have been stripped of their homes and farm lands by the Jews immigrating to Israel. This isolation from the Arabs under Israeli rule, combined with the fear and hatred created by decades of war and violence, has led to the racist stereotypes. There is the common view of Arabs as a primitive people possessing ... nine years old, Amal makes it obvious that there is no befriending Israelis; the only answer is violence. The results of a 1981 survey of 11-year-olds, in which a large majority in both camps said they felt war was ``always ne...

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