Due to the Camp David Accords not resolving the Palestinian question; throughout most of this period until the 1990's the Israeli government maintained an uncompromising policy as it had from 1948. ... Understanding a need to address the continuing unrest in the middle east and the irony behind Saddam Hussein's logic of "only really doing what Israel did to the Palestinians," the U.S launched a diplomatic initiative in cooperation with Russia which resulted in the October 1991 Madrid peace conference. ... With the change in government in Israel 1992, to Rabin's Labor government,...

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Conscious of the role played by domestic, regional, and international power dynamics, these new governments must work to give human rights claims a more formidable stage on which to pursue political reform, while maintaining status with the role of Islam in the political system. ... Complicating Factors In Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen "in that order" undemocratic leaders were ousted and replaced by popularly elected bodies or, in the case of Yemen, a transitional government. ... The reason for this is that comprehensive democratic reforms are necessary, and an orderly and purpos...

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It had become clear the Soviet Union's effort to expand influence had been severely weakened by treating "non communist states as anti-communist states," and therefore "Khrushchev made it clear that the Soviet Union would provide arms and support to any left-wing government as a way of undercutting western influence," (The Library of Congress n.d); a perceived offer to Egypt. ... Although Eisenhower knew that Nasser would seek Soviet assistance, he wrote in a diary entry on the 8th of March 1956 that "If Egypt finds herself thus isolated from the rest of the Arab ...

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Since its creation, it has been the partner of all government coalitions and traditionally occupied the Ministry of the Interior and Religion, which has been taken over by the oriental orthodox Shas since 1992. ... Resenting 30 years of Labour domination and the social conditions in which they were maintained, an increasing number of Sephardi and Oriental Jews voted for the Likud Party, which led in 1977 to the historical defeat of the Labour Party under Ytzhak Rabin and to the formation of the first Israeli right-wing government under the leadership of Menahem Begin. ...

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The Balfour Declaration, made in November 1917 by the British Government...was made by a European power; about a non-European territory because Palestine was an Arab country, the declaration ignored both the presence and wishes of the people majority in that territory who were the Palestinians in 1917. ...

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As a result of the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, a small number of Jews began settling in the area of Palestine and, determined to end the centuries of persecution, created self-defense units called Shomrim, or Guardsmen, to protect the early settlements. ... After the British government issued a white paper in May 1939 extending the Mandate for ten years and placing limits on Jewish immigration, however, the Irgun turned its terrorist activities against the British troops in Palestine in an all-out struggle against the Mandate authority. ... Eleven days later, Israel's provisional gove...

• Word Count: 6784
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