This area is only about 10,000 square miles, about the size of Maryland.(1) Conversely, according to many other sources, what is known as Palestine today, before 1900 was never an individual nation but mostly a barren, empty land surrounded by Arabs inhabiting other independent Arabic nations. ... During what's now known as the Classical period, from about 333 BC until about 638 AD the Romans controlled the area, persecuted the Jews who were allowed to return and after a few failed revolts by the The Conflict between Israel and Palestine Jewish people, the second temple and surroun...

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At the San Francisco Conference of 1945, Zeineddine of Syria described that the concept of sovereign equality of States include the principles that; firstly, the States are juridically equal; that each State enjoys the right inherent in full sovereignty; that the personality of the State is respected, as well as its territorial integrity; and finally that the State should, under international order, comply faithfully with its international duties and obligations.14Furthermore, the principle of sovereign equality of States has also been described as including the elements of juridical equality...

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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. ... In international views about this situation, the leaders of the Jews lied to the world about the truth of the situation in Palestine and said the Arabs were terrorists who don't want the Jews to live in Peace. ... The main starting point for the problem was the Balfour Declaration. .....

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Israel considers itself to be a Jewish state (formally codified in its 1948 Declaration of Independence), which means that its entire purpose is to provide what is commonly referred to as a "Jewish homeland". ... If a human-rights violator condemns another nation for human-rights violations, there is something rather surreal about that, but if the criticism is valid, this only means that the critic should face subsequent scrutiny himself, not that the target is somehow exonerated. 2. ... Simply put, Israel would not exist if Britain had not promised the land (liberated from the Turks with the...

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Israel's goal was "independence" in what Shimon Peres called in 1975, "uniquely decisive situations." ... They also established a precedent of armed self-defense of the Zionist movement, which during the War of Independence in 1948 would flower into the IDF. ... At their peaks, the Irgun contained about 4,000 men; the Stern Gang, 200 to 300. ... During World War II, about 32,000 Palestinian Jews, both men and women, volunteered for the British army. ... When Israel achieved its independence on May 14, 1948, the Haganah became the de facto Israeli army. ...

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The PLO was vocal about the utilization of armed struggle as the only means to liberate the nation and regain the territories "forcibly occupied" by Israel. ... Armed with no more than rocks, the Palestinians effectively (though unofficially) threw off the mantle of PLO leadership as it sought independence and liberation from the appalling living conditions. ...

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Morris agreed with Golda that she should become a teacher, and was also eventually willing to support Golda in her ideals about immigrating to Palestine (Davidson 107). ... By 1936, Jewish settlers in Palestine were adding to their territories by sometimes taking advantage of an old Palestinian law about taking possession of land (Noble 49). ...

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