According to Bruce Hoffman's recently published Inside Terrorism, terrorism is "ineluctably political in aims and motives, violent or, equally important, threatens violence; designed to have far-reaching psychological repercussions beyond immediate victim of target, conducted by an organization with an identifiable chain of command or conspiratorial cell structure (whose members wear no uniform or identifying insignia); and perpetrated by a sub-national group or non-state entity". ... Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers" Party, said that "terrorism could be defined as committ...

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Palestinians, however, rejected Britain's right to promise their country to a third party and feared dispossession by the Zionists. ... Various plans for solving the Palestine problem were rejected by one party or the other. ... But after arms shipments from Czechoslovakia reached Israel, its armed forces established superiority and conquered territories beyond the UN partition plan borders of the Jewish state. ... This is what I believe that we are trying to accomplish and yes I do believe that it will lead to a war where both parties end up losing. ...

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Reaching agreement on the water conflicts between the five riparian countries on the Jordan River basin is a sine qua non for the successful conclusion of a peace agreement (Shuval H. 1994). ... He proposes an institutional approach for the joint management and environmental control of the shared resources because he believes that instead of trying to unravel those complex and almost intractable claims and counter-claims, attempt at reaching agreement on some fundamental basic principles based on concepts of equitable minimal water allocations to meet human needs for survival should be done (...

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Misleading Religion When the term crusade is used in the media, people tend to think that it is in reference to a "holy war." However this is far from the truth. Throughout time wars have been waged with the claims of a religious purpose, but if looked at more closely, the actual wars were fought b...

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