In Mornings in Jenin‚ a Palestinian perspective is given in a way that displays the fundamental argument of the Palestinian people’s claims to their own homeland which includes the merging of clans to one bigger entity. In the region of Palestine the people did not always identify as Palestinians‚ instead they identified with their families or their clans. “Palestinian” itself is a new term given to the people of the region in response to the development of zionism and Israeli nationalism. This is
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which they find themselves? Having only come into existence in 1987 they were not present for the earlier struggles against occupation but now they occupy a position that is in many ways stronger than that of Fatah‚ the successor to the P.L.O. (Palestinian Liberation Organisation). Their rise has been in many ways meteoric and from the outside baffling‚ that an unknown and new entity could become so powerful in such a short space of time without the help of the old guard. It could be argued that the
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Addressing the Impact of House Demolitions on Palestinian Children & Families BROKEN HOMES Palestinian boys search the rubble of dozens of houses demolished by the Israeli army on the border between Rafah and Egypt on June 2‚ 2004. PHOTO/ Apollo images. Broken Homes: Addressing the Impact of House Demolitions on Palestinian Children & Families ©All rights reserved April 2009 Issued by Palestinian Counselling Centre Beit Hanina-entrance to the Garden of Eden P.O. Box: 17402‚ Jerusalem Telephone:
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statistics.) Type your response here: When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced that he would seek recognition from the United Nations for a Palestinian state‚ Israel complained that Abbas should have pursued that objective in face-to-face peace negotiations and warned of grave consequences‚ threatening to expand settlements or even to "cancel" the peace process altogether. Now that the General Assembly has upgraded the Palestinians’ status — from "observer entity" to "nonmember
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibOFF4KfdMQ - What led to this terror attacks: Background: The events of 2000-2001: the Second Intifada‚ also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada‚ (September‚ 2000) 1. More commonly cited is September 28‚ 2000‚ when Palestinian rioting erupted following Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount‚ an area known to Muslims as Al-Haram As-Sharif. 2. 2. Still others believe it started a day later on Friday September 29‚ a day of prayers‚ when an Israeli police and military
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is a part of the long-termIsraeli–Palestinian conflict. It began in the summer of 2006 and is ongoing. Palestinian militant actions escalated in the Gaza Strip following the overwhelming election to government of the Islamic political party Hamas in 2005[5] and 2006.[6] The conflict escalated with the split of the Palestinian Authority to Fatah government in the West Bank and the Hamas Government in Gaza and the following violent ousting of Fatah. Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel[7] and Israel’s blockade
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conditions from either governments. Palestinian laws have done nothing but degraded the already horrible conditions for women. Israeli law enforcement holds a non-interference policy when it comes to domestic abuse because they are said to be “personal matters”. Although women’s groups have gained some ground throughout the years‚ particularly gaining full suffrage in the early 2000s‚ continued court rulings and ignorance has destroyed much progress. Palestinian media has also continued to hide the
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Are the Laws of Belligerent Occupation applicable to the Gaza Strip? The legal debate is not very wide-spread‚ which can point at the politicization of positions rather than the pursuit of just interpretation of the law. In Israeli academia‚ two of the most acclaimed experts on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) tackled this question and reached conflicting conclusions. Prof. Yoram Dinstein supports the position that Partial occupation exists in Gaza‚ while Prof. Yuval Shany sources the obligation
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In chapter one of The Iron Cage‚ Rashid Khalidi sets the stage for the premise of his book‚ by examining the conflicting evidence of the Palestinians’ plight. In order to do so‚ the narrative begins in 1948‚ following the eviction of more than half of the Arab Palestinian population as a result of the Arab – Israel conflict of that year. Khalidi goes on to enumerate a few of the respective differing Arab and Israel accounts of how it was that a people that once constituted the majority of the population
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Turkish people and their government‚ shows sincere efforts to help the truth and disenfranchised Palestinians‚ unlike Iran‚ whose leadership of the Palestine certainly is seen as a subject of bargaining with the West and America. However‚ it is possible that ordinary Iranian people‚ or at least part of it‚ cultivate sincere feelings towards Palestine. Turkey has successfully continued to provide support‚ we know that the supply of Iranian Revolutionary Guards to monitor the Turkish ship for their
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