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Oslo Accords
OSLO ACCORD (1993) Agreement between Israel and the PLO negotiated secretly in Oslo, Norway, and signed at the White House on 13 September 1993. In 1993 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) agreed to recognize each other, and signed a Declaration of Principles (DOP)... Read more |
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Intifada
Intifada [Arab.,=uprising, shaking off], the Palestinian uprising during the late 1980s and early 90s in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , areas that had been occupied by Israel since 1967. A vehicular accident that killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in Dec., 1987, sparked immediate local... Read more |
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Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), coordinating council for Palestinian organizations, founded (1964) by Egypt and the Arab League and initially controlled by Egypt. Composed of various guerrilla groups and political factions, the PLO is dominated by Al Fatah, the largest group, whose leader,... Read more |
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Hamas
Hamas [Arab., = zeal], Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization that was founded in 1987 during the Intifada ; it seeks to establish an Islamic state in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip (the former mandate of ... Read more |
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Nablus
Nablus , Heb. Shechem, city (2003 est. pop. 127,000), the West Bank . It is the market center for a region where wheat and olives are grown and sheep and goats are grazed. Manufactures include soap made from olive oil and colorful shepherds' coats. The city is linked by highway with Jerusalem.... Read more |
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Palestinian Authority
Palestinian Authority (PA) or Palestinian National Authority, interim self-government body responsible for areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip under Palestinian control. The PA was authorized by the Oslo Accords (1993) and subsequent Palestinian agreements with Israel, and was established... Read more |
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Palestinian Arabs
Palestinians ETHNONYM: Filastinyoun Orientation Identification. Palestinians inhabit an area east of the Mediterranean Sea and south of Lebanon. The Jordan River, Lakes Huleh and Tiberias, and the Dead Sea separate Palestine from Jordan. Palestinian territory stretches as far south as... Read more |
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Yasir Arafat
Yasir Arafat , 1929-2004, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the coordinating body for Palestinian organizations, and head of Al Fatah, the largest group in the PLO. He was born in Cairo, but spent most of his youth in Jerusalem. After smuggling arms to Arab forces during the... Read more |
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Mahmud Darwish
Mahmud Darwish Probably the foremost Palestinian poet of the late 20th century, Mahmud Darwish (born 1942) was one of the leading poets of the Arab world. Mahmud Darwish was born in al Birwah, a village that lies to the east of Acca (Acre), now in Israel, in 1942. In the 1948 war when he was... Read more |
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Akiba ben Joseph
Akiba ben Joseph The Palestinian rabbi Akiba ben Joseph (ca. 50-ca. 135) was a founder of rabbinic Judaism. He developed a method of Hebrew scriptural interpretation. The early life of Akiba ben Joseph is enshrouded in legends, anecdotes, sayings, and numerous references in the Talmud. He... Read more |
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Israel
...be divided into four geographical regions...of rainfall a year, and temperatures...of thousands of Palestinians fled. In the first...and suppressed Palestinian uprisings. Following...In 1987, the Intifada began in Israeli-occupied...signed ... |
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Twenty years in the making: the Palestinian Intifada of 1987.
...Israel in the 20 years following its illegal...which bottled-up Palestinian grievances and...variable at hand, the Intifada of 1987. After...detriments, the Palestinians wanted their sovereignty...causal, and the Intifada is far from ... |
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At 10th anniversary, a far poorer Palestinian Authority; The four-year...
...opened here four summers ago...feels like a year," moans desk...joint Israeli-Palestinian investment...employed 184 Palestinians. Only about...sector of the Palestinian economy. Now...Strip. Ten years ago this week...start ... |
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World Bank report: Palestinian economy remains stagnant after four years of...
...stagnant after four years of intifada; Closures continue...11222004 WASHINGTON - Four years since the outbreak of the intifada in September 2000...have fragmented Palestinian economic space...living ... |
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Analysis: Palestinians debate over outcome of 4-year intifada
...outcome of 4-year intifada by Saud...Xinhua) -- As the Palestinians mark the fourth...negative results this intifada has brought about...Gaza say that the intifada brought the Palestinian people nothing...said that the ... |
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A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent...
...the product of years of field research...that transformed Palestinian society and challenged...shortcomings of the first Intifada, a "shaking off' led by Palestinians living under occupation...any time in the Palestinian ... |
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PALESTINE AND PALESTINIANS: A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian...
...first Palestinian intifada was defined by...literature on the Palestinian resistance movement...examination of the Palestinians (p. 16). In...the nonviolent Palestinian struggle in Chapters...initially, the intifada was ... |
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The year of living dangerously. (Palestinian intifada)
A YEAR ago, on December...army lorry killed four Arabs. The army...accident; the Palestinians said the killings...that set off the intifada, the Palestinian uprising in the...the 1-1/2 m Palestinians of the occupied...the ... |
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A third Palestinian intifada
...thousands of Palestinians going to...Checkpoints between Palestinian cities...the second intifada. All international...allowed into Palestinian cities are...psyche. Many Palestinians comment that...feeling among Palestinians ... |
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MIDDLE EAST HISTORY: IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER; The Intifada Erupts, Forcing...
...DECEMBER; The Intifada Erupts, Forcing...to Recognize Palestinians It was 10 years ago, on Dec...1987, that the Palestinian intifada, the uprising...this case the Palestinians had no arms...Strip, killing ... |
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Will Israel heritage sites spark next Palestinian intifada?(World)
...Palestinian intifada. Clashes...uprising, or intifada. But will...rhetoric on the Palestinian side about...encroachment, Palestinians in the West...than a dozen Palestinians were injured and four Israeli ... |
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