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... 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 ... known as Palestine until the war of 1948-49, when the land was divided into three parts: the state of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River) and the Gaza Strip. This area is only about 10,000 square miles, about the size of Maryland.(1) Conversely, according to many other sources ... over the ...

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... to 600,000 Arabs without homes. (Gerner,1994) They formed temporary refugee camps both within former Palestine and inside the borders of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Those remaining in Israel became second class citizens. Consequently there grew a rise in Arab nationalism and in Egypt there was a military ... Suez Canal would remain closed for some time. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation came into existence in 1964 was now formerly ordering Fedayeen raids from Jordan and Syria. This organization was a collective of moderate to extreme Palestinian groups. Raids were prevented fr...

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... to 600,000 Arabs without homes. (Gerner,1994) They formed temporary refugee camps both within former Palestine and inside the borders of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Those remaining in Israel became second class citizens. Consequently there grew a rise in Arab nationalism and in Egypt there was a military ... Suez Canal would remain closed for some time. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation came into existence in 1964 was now formerly ordering Fedayeen raids from Jordan and Syria. This organization was a collective of moderate to extreme Palestinian groups. Raids were prevented fr...

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... to 600,000 Arabs without homes. (Gerner,1994) They formed temporary refugee camps both within former Palestine and inside the borders of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Those remaining in Israel became second class citizens. Consequently there grew a rise in Arab nationalism and in Egypt there was a military ... Suez Canal would remain closed for some time. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation came into existence in 1964 was now formerly ordering Fedayeen raids from Jordan and Syria. This organization was a collective of moderate to extreme Palestinian groups. Raids were prevented fr...

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... water ways was vital for Israeli survival, otherwise ˜the Zionist dream could not be realized'.7 However, this "dream " threatened Syria and Jordan as it would significantly reduce water available to their countries. After the Suez Crisis, Arab discontent over the water issue, began to heighten and ... At first these tractor-induced cross-fires ˜were short with little damage to either side',9 however Israel had pushed their luck when on April 7th 1967 two tractors entered the DMZ near Kibbutz Ha'on. The Syrians opened fire, however this time with much more force; shelling ... From her...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... have been forced from power in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen; civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; and major protests have broken out in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan. Some characteristics of this revolutionary movement are the key role of social media, difference of results in monarchies and dictatorial political setups, and the containment ... ongoing and has caused a grave humanitarian crisis with hundreds of thousands of internal and external refugees, and increasing social tensions in neighboring countries, especially Lebanon. In Morocco, Algeria...

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