Councils are responsible for providing education, health and sanitation services, water, road maintenance, fire protection, and park and recreation facilities. ... Current Affairs Hours after the Israeli government was handed the road map, tanks were moving into Gaza. ... Meanwhile three million Palestinians remained imprisoned behind cement walls and roadblocks.Finally, as was almost inevitable, a handful of Palestinians willing to blow themselves up provided Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with the excuse he needed to reject the "road map to peace," a plan proposed by...

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The third terrible father-son relationship Eliezer saw was near the end when everybody was packed into the train leaving Gleiwitz they stopped in a German township and somebody on the road threw a piece of bread into the train and one son, named Meir, beat his own father to death over the piece of bread. ...

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It assists by building water supply networks and sewage collection systems; renovating roads; constructing schools; building the institutional capacity of the Palestinian Authority; supporting decentralized planning and financing for rural development; and promoting gender sensitive education systems. ...

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The holocaust during the early 1940's caused much destruction. The film The Pianist is a historically based film that captivates the audience with its intense, riveting scenes. The film outlines Hitler's policies against the Jewish race during the holocaust. It focuses on one particular Jewish famil...

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Americans depict prisons as buildings that are surrounded by security fences which confine convicted criminals for a determined sentence. In these "prisons" criminals have the comforts of home with all the amenities from a bed and cooked meals to a gym for recreation. Meanwhile, Tanya Reinhart des...

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Jewish merchants could no longer compete with the Christian merchants who had monopolized the whole scene already, and the post-Crusade roads were extremely dangerous , therefore leaving money lending as a possible economic opportunity for the Jewish people. ...

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In order to get to these filling stations Palestinians must cross through a series of roads and checkpoints that may or may not be allowing them to cross on a certain day according to Israel's own personal agenda. ...

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