A chief of state witch is the King of the monarch Adballah II; a head of government Prime Minister Ali Abul Ragheb; then a cabinet witch is appointed by the prime minister in consultation with the monarch. There are no elections, the monarch is hereditary and the prime minister is appointer be the monarch. ... This has resulted in massive numbers of refugees fleeing to Jordan, and political sanctions against important trading partners. ...

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Jewish and Christian tour groups are still coming to Israel, but their numbers are down by over half because of the travel advisory. ... I was honored on my trip to visit with Mayor Ehud Olmert of Jerusalem; Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Tourism and Transportation Minister in the Barak Government and Former Army Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak; Danny Seaman, Director of the Government Press Office; David Landau, Editor of Haaretz - Israel's largest newspaper - and Knesset Members Rueven "Ruby" Rivlin, Dan Meridor, and Benny Elon. ...

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This deterred countries from accepting large numbers of refugees. ... Prime Minister Mackenzie King wrote in his diary on March 29, 1938, "I fear we would have riots if we agreed to a policy that admitted numbers of Jews," and Frederick Charles Blair, director of the immigration Branch of the Department of mines and Resources had said, "No country could open its doors wide enough to take in the hundreds of thousands Jewish people who want to leave Europe: the line must be drawn somewhere....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both sides know there is no way Israel will allow great numbers of refugees back, so the important thing is to have a small enough number that Israel can accept but large enough for the Palestinians to claim a symbolic victory. ... In order for this to work, it will take extreme diplomatic pressure from the United States and a reasonable Israeli Prime Minister in addition to Palestinian leadership taking a serious look at peace. ...

• Word Count: 1386
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

David Ben-Gurion who was Prime Minister on-and-off from 1948-1963, was extra vigilant when it came to provocations with the Arab countries. ... They manufactured raids into Israel, and sought to establish tensions between Israel and the Arab States in order to achieve their own goals, as ˜this [might have been] the last opportunity to engage Israel in conventional warfare in which Arab numbers should prevail'.15 In 1963, Levi Eshkol was a popular choice for Prime Minister, he had a close relationship with the chief of staff, Yitzhak Rabin, and Abba Eban who became foreign ministe...

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The majority of the population of Palestine had been Arabic since the seventh century A.D. so they are the people who have the right in Palestine. In short, Zionism was based on a wrong, colonialist world view that the rights of the original people of Palestine didn't matter. The Zionists wanted to ...

• Word Count: 4875
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate