The first is that are that the territories, especially those of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, are a part of 'Biblical Israel', allegedly granted to the Israelites by god as their Holy Land (a significant proportion of the Israeli population are termed by historian Thomas Friedman to be Religious Zionists, who feel that the Messiah will come once the Jewish people have earned the Holy Land back). ... This view can be seen with increasing terrorist attacks in Israel leading up to the general election of 1996, in order to have the Israeli population show preference for Benjamin Netanyah...

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Cohabiting couples have doubled since 1986. one of the reasons for this could be secularization, which means that the influence of religion has decreased therefore people don't see cohabitation and divorce to be immoral as a result of this Churches and other religious practices have loosened their views on divorce in order to maintain what little followers that remain. ... During the 1980s premarital sex was still frowned upon within society as 56% of people were against the idea of premarital sex, this could be due to the influence of religion within society, however in 2000 the majority...

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