At the turn of the century, around 1902, Russia fell victim to a famine and a cholera epidemic. Following this terrible year a wave of anti-Semitism swept across the Russian State. ... Jews in every community throughout Russia were in danger of losing their lives. ... Russia was not the only source of persecution for the Jews, they were also fleeing Romania. ... At the end of all of the destruction the German government imposed a one billion mark punitive fine on the entire Jewish community(Morais, 1976). ...

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After learning about the Holocaust, I've asked myself many times how this could have happened. Why would anyone believe it's acceptable to massacre an entire people? This is my reasoning for writing my paper on how Christian theology influenced anti-Semitism. Much of the Holocaust appears to have it...

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The Israeli government allows worshippers to go to the Al Asqa mosque (Dome of the Rock) without hindrances. ... Russia will not allow Chechnya to separate from the Russian republic. ... Why dose the international community turns a blind eye when it comes to Russia, India, or other parts of the world with same issues? ...

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Instead, the government follows "basic laws" that have been passed by the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. ... The local government has elected councils which are the units of local government in Israel. ... The national government divides the country into 6 administrative districts and 14 subdistricts. ... Current Affairs Hours after the Israeli government was handed the road map, tanks were moving into Gaza. The expected response from the Israeli government to come were in words but instead it came with bullets and tanks. ...

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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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Golda Mabovitch was born in Kiev, Russia in 1896. ... She also found herself quite attracted to a young Russian immigrant named Morris Myerson (Mann 44-46). ... In April of 1946, the ship Fede was turned back by the British government to Italy. ...

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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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Peace and Conflict Studies: Core Unit Conflict resolution is one of the most powerful ways of making positive contribution to the field of international relations. Conflict, be it behavioural or based on attitude, is currently creating grave world inequalities and furthering deep rooted problems. Conflict resolution sets out to provide lasting just solutions to these often seemingly endless problems and lay the ground for a lasting peace. In the twenty first century one longstanding international dispute that continues is the known as the Middle East Conflict or the Arab-Israeli Conflict. T...

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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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When the big immigration from Russia came, a lot of them came to Raanana, but during the Ethiopians" migration to Israel, they were settled mostly in the south of Israel. ... The Government does not acknowledge the marriage, but if the couple gets married in a different country, it's legal. ...

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The Conflict between Israel and Palestine The Palestine-Israel conflict is essentially not a religious one, but a fight for land and the rights and freedom of the people residing there now. The claim is to the land which lies between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan Riv...

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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...

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