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…l message is depressingly familiar to Palestinians: creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem is simply not on the list of priorities for Israel at the current time. And the Palestinian Authority is proving itself to be an increasingly fragile...

… 1967. That freed him to do something which — after decades of Arab-Israeli conflict — was astonishing. He travelled to Jerusalem, the capital of a country which neither Egypt nor any other Arab country even recognized. He met Begin, and he addressed the Knesset with a call for p...

… I had just turned 26 years old. I was finishing my studies in math, physics and economics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and had joined my Sayeret Matkal comrades the night before the assault. It was a huge operation: ten battalions, including crack infantry units. Our...

…we don’t jump, many, many innocent people who are now walking the streets of Gaza and Ramallah and Hebron, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, will die.” Arafat again just nodded, leaving me, and the President, unsure whether anything I’d said had struck home. The true test of that would co...

…ts, and by increasing settlement construction all over the occupied West Bank, particularly in and around Occupied East Jerusalem. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029787

…za. But Arafat emerged to tell a cheering crowd: “Our people don’t care. They don’t hesitate to continue their march to Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian independent state.” Israelis did care. It is hard to say which emotion was more powerful: disgust or fury. But if the...

…ed, the Palestinians would now end up, after a land swap near Gaza, with a “mid-90- percent” share of the West Bank. On Jerusalem, the guiding principle would be “what is Arab will be Palestinian, and what is Jewish, Israeli.” On the Temple Mount, the Haram al-Sharif, each side w...

…d parts of the West Bank. Since the new Hamas attacks, Arafat had been saying the right things. After the first bomb in Jerusalem, he’d phoned Shimon to offer condolences, telling reporters afterward that this was “a terrorist operation. I condemn it completely. It is not only ag...

… moon-landing mission, NASA 18 https://futureoflife.org/ai-principles/ 19 See, for example, Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin Classics, 2006). 67 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016287

… Members of the Administration began privately calling Bibi “the Republican senator from Rechavia” — a reference to the Jerusalem neighborhood where the Prime Minister’s residence was located. 420 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028268

…d make things worse, I held off doing anything else until there seemed to me no choice, after Talansky gave evidence in Jerusalem’s District Court. Though he genuinely seemed not to have expected anything specific in return, he said he had given Olmert something like $150,000 in...

…ge Iranian Fajr-5s and Russian Grads. For the first time since the 1991 Gulf war, several were targeted at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Fortunately, they were not significantly more accurate than in the past. More than half landed in fields or orchards. And with Iron Dome deployed aro...

…directing films. But he had volunteered for the Haganah at age 17, a year before the 1948 war. As the losses mounted in Jerusalem, he found himself in the Palmach’s crack Harel Brigade, under the command of a future Israeli chief-of-staff, Dado Elazar. His vision for Sayeret Mat...

…d to play our part on the battlefields of the Six-Day War — in the Sinai, on the Golan, in the bitter battle to capture Jerusalem, or amid the olive-green hills and valleys of the West Bank — we had to accept that, at most, we’d been freelance support troops. Or mere spectators....

…ah Abueid 24/08/2011 -- Until 1923, Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. In December 1917, British troops entered Jerusalem and ended 400 years of Ottoman rule. In 1922, the League of Nations issued the Mandate of Palestine which authorized the United Kingdom to become the...