The claim is to the land which lies between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Both sides have reasonable arguments and it is the fault of neither side that this conflict began. However, over the course of the past 50 years or so, both sides have committed abominable acts against the other and this must end. ... 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 inh...

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This essay will explain that the origins of the Six Day War was a combination of domestic and external factors on both Israeli and Arab sides including: pre-war provocations and Palestinian guerrilla attacks, divisions within the Israeli government, the Arab League and the "water wars "; with Syria being the primarily belligerent actor against Israel. ... Arab-Israeli acrimony over the exploitation of the headwaters of the Jordan River, had been ongoing since 1950.The Jordan River ran through Lake Tiberias which was in the DMZ between Syria and Israel. ... At first these tractor-induced cro...

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Imagine living in a nation were the government wasn't on your side. ... Imagine that in this so called nation the kids instead or going to school would rather throw rocks at members of the other nation instead of going to school. ... The new area east of the Jordan river was an Arab nation and called Trans-Jordan, meaning across the Jordan river, which today is known as Jordan. The land that lies west of the Jordan River remains Palestine, "which will soon be called Israel and imaginary Jewish land that is made reality(Bard 22)." ... This time when the Arabs attacked the other Arab cou...

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The Jews acted worse than any other group might have acted in their situation. ... Both sides blamed the British, who failed in their attempts to reach a settlement acceptable to all. The conflict stopped for some time by the World War II, during which both sides cooperated with the British. ... The Israeli army managed to win, and when the war ended, Israel was from the Suez Canal to the Jordan River and the Golan Heights. Many Palestinians fled across the Jordan River to Jordan and remain to this day as inhabitants of the desert parts in Jordan. ...

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Unfortunately, General Burns was never able to establish a reciprocal understanding between the Arabs and the Israelis, stating that "there were disputes about the interpretation of the armistice agreements all the while, both sides violated or failed to observe the agreements" The main shortcomings of this U.N commission were that the Israelis disapprove of the observers, accusing them of not protecting the Israeli people and not thwarting any brutal incidents. ... On the other hand, the UNTSO did provide a channel that allowed the Israelis and the Palestinians to speak to one another and ...

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That figure fell below 50 per cent after the immigration of Sephardi Jews (Maghrib and Asia minor) and Oriental Jews (Irak, Yemen and Syria) from Arab countries, but increased again above 50 per cent as a result of the large scale immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union and other East European countries at the end of the 1980's. ... The 1975 Agreement deals with other forms of co-operation. ...

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