5-28-13 The Palestinian Peoples Party The Palestinian People’s Party (PPP)‚ which is the communist part of Palestine‚ has worked with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to establish a Palestinian state for their people. Palestine’s government is mainly self-run. There are many other organizations‚ such as the PLO‚ and the Palestinian Authority (PA)‚ which later renamed their group to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). The Palestinians believe in a two state solution
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that contain ethical issues used as reasons to justify positions from both sides of the conflict. The conflict in essence is a clash “Between Jewish and Palestinians national movements over the land of Palestine” (Fawcett‚ 2005) the searches for settlement is complicated by inter Arab relations‚ Western Nations‚ and more recently inter Palestinian fragmentation. The issue of Hamas being an illegal terrorist entity has been a source failure for many peace initiatives as well as a reason for escalation
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practice of the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood movement that arose in Egypt in the 1920s. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin founded this Palestinian Islamic group in 1987 during the first intifada‚ as a result of the Israeli taking up most of the West Bank or Gaza strip and later emerged at the forefront of armed resistance to Israel. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was a Palestinian imam and politician who became an activist in local branches of the Muslim Brotherhood. He served as a spiritual leader of the organization
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(SSR). DCAF has been present in the Palestinian Territories since 2005. It assists Palestinians in developing effective‚ and efficient‚ security and justice providers‚ which: * deliver security to the Palestinian people in a transparent manner‚ and in line with their security needs‚ * are properly overseen‚ and controlled‚ by both the Palestinian Legislative Council and the Palestinian National Authority‚ * are fully accountable to the Palestinian people and their elected leaders. To
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The $300 Million Dollar Frame 03/11/03 Comm. 130 Michael Stohl The American public’s acquisition of knowledge concerning current events is reliant on the media. The media as an entity can be described as “organizations of communication that take different forms‚ such as broadcasting and print‚ and create and transmit a vast array of content.”1 The people’s dependence on the media is anchored by their‚ often unquestioned‚ belief in the trustworthiness
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the president of the Palestinian Authority‚ plans to ask the UN for statehood and a full member of the organization in September. The PLO’s primary aim is to regain some badly needed political leverage by forcing a shift in the cost-benefit calculations of Israel and the United States. Palestine’s admission to the United Nations would‚ in Abbas’ view‚ transform the conflict into a matter of one member state violating the sovereign rights of another. In short‚ Palestinians hope to use the bid to
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The Secret Israeli Palestinian negotiations in Oslo Key drivers of Israel’s interest in compromising with the PLO; American relationship after the end of Cold War Since 1967‚ Israel enjoyed full support of the Americans in terms of economy‚ politics and military (11) However‚ by then end of 1980s‚ the gradual reapproachment of the Soviet Union and US eroded the close Israeli-US relationship (12) The public growing tired of the conflict‚ as shown by the election win of the Labor instead of the
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Soviet Union supported the Resolution from a pro-Jewish perspective. Arabs across the Arab World were angry and vehemently declared that they would never allow any part of Mandatory Palestine to become a Jewish State. Israeli War of Independence / Palestinian Catastrophe (Nakba): This war was fought in two main phases. From late 1947 to May of 1948‚ the British still held nominal control of the territory and the fighting was restricted to groups within Mandatory Palestine. Jewish and Arab Militias more
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The Electoral Platform for "Change and Reform" (translation by Khaled Hroub). In K. Hroub‚ A "New Hamas" through its documents (pp. 6-27). Institute for Palestine Studies. Haniyeh‚ I. (2007). Cabinet Platform. Inaugural Address to Palestinian Council. Ramallah: Palestinian Legislative Council. Herzog‚ M. (2006). Can Hamas be tamed? Foreign Affairs ‚ 85 (2)‚ 83-94. Hroub‚ K. (2006a). A ￢ﾀﾜNew Hamas￢ﾀﾝ through Its New Documents. Journal of Palestine Studies ‚ 35 (4)‚ 6-27. Hroub‚ K. (2006b). Hamas‚ a
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life of a Palestinian. Salt of this Sea focuses on a Palestinian-American from Brooklyn‚ Soraya‚ who travels to the West Bank and Israel to rediscover her roots as well as retrieve the savings from her recently deceased grandfather. However‚ Soraya soon finds out that her grandfather’s bank account had been lost during the 1948 war. This is just one of the many instances in which she faces the reality of the hardships of Palestinian life. While visiting‚ Soraya befriends two Palestinian men‚ Emad
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