... to whom Abraham entitled Palestine to. However, Palestinians first resided east of the Jordan River until political outbreak and war forced families to travel across the river into current Israel. These families either faced death or injury or took a chance and crossed the river; a more than reasonable justification. Palestinians have no rooted beliefs of hate towards Jews other than recent (approximately 125 years) oppression brought upon Zionist movements " ... his father. This elastic rope and tug-of-war has to end somewhere for the sake of humanity or just perhaps the Palestinia...

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... for land and the rights and freedom of the people residing there now. The claim is to the land which lies between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Both sides have reasonable arguments and it is the fault of neither side that this conflict began. However, over the course of the past 50 years or so, both sides have committed abominable acts against the other and this must end. The conflict is between Jews ... and Palestinian Arabs, including Muslims, Druze, and Christians. The goal of the Jewish people ... ...

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... clashes. Arab-Israeli acrimony over the exploitation of the headwaters of the Jordan River, had been ongoing since 1950.The Jordan River ran through Lake Tiberias which was in the DMZ between Syria and Israel. In 1956 the completion of Israel's National Water Carrier marked a turning point. The main aim of this carrier was to channel water from Lake Tiberias throughout the country for agriculture and drinking ... began a long chain of Israeli-Syrian clashes in the DMZ that became significantly violent. The Israelis started to provoke the Syrians by sending tractors to plough the fields in...

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... Arabs living in that territory for thirty years (1918-1948). In 1921 Britain gave the area of British-mandate Palestine east of the Jordan River to Emir Abdullah who then ruled as king over the Hashemite Kingdom of TransJordan. At the border of Jaffa-Tel Aviv, the first ever major intercommunal violence (which is a form of violence that is over ethnic or communal lines) between Palestinians and Arabs commenced leaving many ... in society accepting each other. Secondly, they could bring in some of the women from each side and let them do the same. Then, the men, the people who have the r...

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... the east of the Roman Frontier. W.C. McCullough supports this view and posits some of his theories, drawing from examples from the Jews. The Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas also attribute the saint's mission to India with the help of a merchant. In the Book of Revelation's letters to the 7 churches, there are implicit references to Christian traders in Asia Minor ( 2:14, 20; 4:14-18). With the exception of Laodicea, all the other ... Minor eventually to join the Via Egnatia into Europe. Likewise the King's Highway branched from the Via Maris through the Negev desert to the eastern shore ...

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... a new idea, such as the Jew and the Christians. After the death of Muhammad, it would have been easy for the people to disband Islam but that is far from what happened. The growth of the Arabian empire was rapid. From 632 to 733 CE, the territory of Islam expanded from southern modern day Saudi Arabia to parts of Spain in the West to the Indus river as the Eastern border. The Islamic people created a vast ... empire in which trade and culture was spread throughout much of the Europe and Southwest Asia. Some of the Islamic cities such as Cairo, Tunis ... victorious. To his followers, th...

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... was his master plan simply to wipe all Jews off the face of the Earth? It is this question that gives rise to the debate of whether Hitler held an intentionalist or a functionalist ideology. The arguments in favor of intentionalism insist that Hitler's intent, even before the war, was to systematically and effectively annihilate the Jewish population from the world. On the other side of this argument is Functionalism. This ideology holds that Hitler ... afraid to supply information that may seem to contradict her original point. She simply states her stance on the issue and provides all...

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... the belt on the constellation Orion. On the other hand, being helped by a supernatural being would explain why many of the passages" lengths, when added up, equal certain dates in time- dates in the very distant future of ancient Egypt including the start of World War I. Measurements of different aspects of the pyramids show that whoever built them had an incredible knowledge of mathematics. For example, if you take the circumference of the ... temple near a harbor on the Nile River. This temple was called the valley temple. It was connected to the main pyramid by a causeway, which is a l...

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... Americans were portrayed as a racial nest of spies and sabotagers. The government was convinced the Japanese people were traitors to the United States and they would side with Japan when they got the chance. The government relocated anyone of Japanese ancestry to concentration camps. They considered their actions to be a "military necessity." The government had no proof any Japanese person ... becoming a traitor " The governments policy was based on the incredible notion that this group of people, solely on the basis of ... , businesses, cars, and other personal belongings. They knew th...

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... , though. Then in July 1922 the British divided the "Holy Land" into two districts. The land that was given to the Jews, west of the Jordan River, was only about 22% of Palestine. They didn't even receive a quarter of the land they were promised. Mandate passports went along with this division. In 1946, Britain partitioned Palestine and gave the TransJordan, the east side of the Jordan River, it's independence. This created ... a Palestine-Arab state. In 1947 the UN passed a partition on 2/3 majority that created western Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state; 75% of the land given to th...

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... Growing Palestinian activism in the early part of the 1960's provided the impetus for the convening of the first summit conference of Arab leaders in 1964 to plan a unified response to Israeli plans to divert some of the waters of the Jordan River. This activism influenced the decision, made at that conference, to create the PLO. It also precipitated the slide of the Arab states into the June 1967 war with Israel. In the mid-1960's the Arab regimes were again ... for negotiation: recognition for the rights of Israel to exist and a renouncement of terrorism. The critical sentence at that...

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... your side. Everything that the government did was in there best interest without any consideration of the people. Imagine that your government was in a conflict with another government and this government had the power to say if you were getting food eat and water to drink. Imagine that in this so called nation the kids instead or going to school would rather throw rocks at members of the other ... Winston Churchill claimed he created, "in an afternoon," Trans-Jordan which separated Palestine into two parts(Kifner)." The new area east of the Jordan river was an Arab nation and called Tr...

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... that he has with his fellow friend-soldiers. The Israeli armed forces fight along side each other for quite some time. While at war, they develop a bond greater than what they have with their own family. "Beyond politics, I just couldn't stay at home and let the burden fall on them. If something would have happened to one of them I might have prevented by being here ... that Israel would gain complete control over internal and external crossings from and to Egypt. The Taba Agreement divided the West Bank among the two countries, but just recently the Israelis gained control of the rest ...

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... War II, during which both sides cooperated with the British. The crisis of Palestine reached the worst point in the years immediately after the war. With international world taking the side of the Jews because of the Holocaust, Zionist leaders pressured the British to accept thousands of Jews in Palestine. At the same time, Jewish groups as the Irgun and the renegade Stern Gang started a campaign of terrorism against the British. The problems increased when Britain decided to leave. Britain ... invitation that socialists must support the struggle of the Palestinians for national liberat...

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... because of the Jewish lobby in the US, but also because of the dependence of oil and the need for calmness in the "oil world". The entrance of the US in the conflict would be imperative to the direction the Arab-Israeli conflict will take in the future. At this point, however, the US was not directly supplying either side with weapons. In July of 1948 ... not siding against each other. There were, however, regional issues that drew the Arab League into the conflict. The first being the idea of independence for all Arabs, which in turn meant the denial of an independent Jewish state in Pa...

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... because of the Jewish lobby in the US, but also because of the dependence of oil and the need for calmness in the "oil world". The entrance of the US in the conflict would be imperative to the direction the Arab-Israeli conflict will take in the future. At this point, however, the US was not directly supplying either side with weapons. In July of 1948 ... not siding against each other. There were, however, regional issues that drew the Arab League into the conflict. The first being the idea of independence for all Arabs, which in turn meant the denial of an independent Jewish state in Pa...

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