In the year 1179, the Catholic Church held the Third Lateran Council in Rome. ... This act resulted in riots being started and mobs throwing stones at the Jewish people and the roofs of the Jewish residents' homes being burned. ... In 1215, the Catholics held the Fourth Lateran Council stating that the king can make the Jews wear a badge as a public representation of the Jewish people. ... As a result of this letter being written to Oliver Cromwell, Cromwell held a conference of some of the prominent merchants, priests, and lawyers in England. ...

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An estimated 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes in 1948-49, and since then scores of thousands more have been pushed out by force, their houses demolished or taken over. ... Families are removed from their homes almost daily, and often given as little time as fifteen minutes to gather all their belongings. ... Jews feel they have the right to dispossess people of their homes based on a biblical claim that promises the land to Abraham and his descendants. ... Homes are not the only facet of Palestinians" lives that are targeted. ... They are placed under curfew, arrested for ...

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It represents a place where a historically oppressed people may call a safe haven and home. ... Shipler repeatedly emphasizes that the Israeli Jewish public exists completely unaware of the day-to-day occurrences in the West Bank, Gaza, and in Arab communities within Israel itself; People who have been stripped of their homes and farm lands by the Jews immigrating to Israel. ... Jewish-American Tourists would not typically experience this hatred held by Arabs towards Israeli Jews. ...

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In return, Israel is firing rockets at inhabited homes, strafing streets and important Palestinian buildings (Wilson-Smith 1). ... The Palestinians, therefore, had no right to take land and homes from the Israelis. ... In 1996, elections for a Palestine self-rule authority were held and Israel withdrew its forces from Lebanon in mid-2000. ...

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After serving his terms, he retired to his home in Mount Vernon, NJ where he lived out the rest of his days in peace. ... Afterwards, he formed a foundation dedicated to the study of terrorism, a very serious problem in his home country. ... Netanyahu also held various political positions before being elected Prime Minister of Israel. ...

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Once the ship was within two days of the Halifax Harbour, Ottawa, which was under pressure from high ranking officials and politicians, had refused to grant the Jewish refugee families a home in Canada (National Post News, 2011). ... The Jewish refugees were held in eight different camps across Canada from which only two also housed Nazi prisoners (The Jewish Daily Forward, 2013). The point that 7000 European Jews had arrived on Canadian shores and were held in eight different camps across Canada whilst there were only two camps for the Nazi prisoners illustrates the vast majority of Jewish ...

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"(5) In 1897 the first Zionist Congress was held in Switzerland, which issued the Basle Programme on the colonization of Palestine and the establishment of the World Zionist Organization (WZO). (8) "A few Zionist immigrants had already started arriving in the area before 1897. ... John Quigley, "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice." (5) By 1903, there were some 25,000 Jewish immigrants, mostly from Eastern Europe, they lived alongside about half a million Arab residents." (4) In 1904 the Fourth Zionist Congress decided to establish a national home for Jews in Argentina, but in 190...

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Direct elections for prime minister were held in 1996, 1999, and 2001. ... There was no lack of violence during those months, however, as the Israeli army ransacked Palestinians towns and refugee camps, carried out scores of assassinations and random killings of civilians, and demolished hundreds of homes. ...

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Most were given two weeks to sell their homes and possessions. ... Neighborhood people acted as scavengers and offered outrageously low prices for the Japanese homes, businesses, cars, and other personal belongings. ... The Japanese Americans were held in detention camps for three years from 1942-1945. ...

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The five major Jewish bodies Messianic Jews Messianic began with Apostles. Messianic Jews believe that Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth is the promised Messiah of the Jewish scriptures. They still believe in maintaining a Jewish expression of their Faith. There are thousands of Messianic Jews. ...

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Between 1967 and 1998, approximately 600,000 Palestinians have been held in Israeli jails for periods ranging from one week to life. ... For the most part it has failed, due to Israelis refusal to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. ...

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The Construction of the Palestinian Social Movement. In Order to remember I shall continue to carve All the scenes of my tragedy And all the stages of the disaster On the olive tree in the courtyard of my house. In order to understand the origin, development and current status of the contemporary movement for reconciliation within Israel, we must first take a look at the historical impact that Zion colonialism has had upon Israeli Arabs, or the Palestinians. While the terms colonialism and imperialism are familiar, the term Zion colonialism is argua...

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The natives of the Americas have no distinct "homeland" either; should families be displaced from their homes in order to create one for them? ... In the late 1940s, most of their Arabs (>80%) in Palestine were driven into what is now known as "The Occupied Territories" by fear of terrorism such as the massacre at Deir Yassin (either that, or they voluntarily left their family homes to live in squalid refugee camps in order to happily make way for the peaceful Jewish takeover, if you're gullible enough to believe that story). ...

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Defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 precipitated a resumption of anti-British activities by both Haganah and Irgun in pursuance of their common ultimate goal, the establishment of a national home and the creation of a sovereign Jewish state. ...

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