There were also reports of elderly people dying of heart attacks because of the lack of medical care in the congested line of cars trying to cross the checkpoint, as well as a birth that resulted in the death of the baby. ... Curfews and closures, imposed in the name of security, have confined millions of Palestinian children and adults to virtual house or town arrest however, these measures have not have not prevented Palestinian armed groups from carrying out suicide bombings and other attacks which have killed some 700 Israelis, most of them civilians and including some 90 children. ... A...

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ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE I. Overview: As Kenneth Waltz put it, states operate in a "self-help" system in which threats to national security are omnipresent. Small states, in particular, have difficulties meeting challenges from powerful aggressors, since such states are by definition limited in their...

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We take such laws for granted in modern western nations, but Israel is, at heart, an anachronistic throwback to an era of primitive racial and religious tribalism. ... But take heart; as you lay weeping in the street with your family while the soldiers destroy your house and your belongings, you can take heart in knowing that your sacrifice made way for proud Jewish settlers (you know, those people who can vote in Israeli elections even though this territory is supposedly not part of Israel). ...

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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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