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Following Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel in 1978, 348 Israeli military reserves officers petitioned Israel's prime minister, Menachem Begin, urging him to continue with the drive for peace. This petition lead to the creation of Peace Now, a grassroots movement dedicated to raising public support for the peace process. At a rally held in Tel-Aviv's Kikar Malkhei Israel (later renamed Kikar Rabin after Yitzhak Rabin), demonstrators called on prime minister Begin to make peace with Egypt, in exchange f ...

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The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (كتائب شهداء الأقصى) are a Palestinian militia closely linked to the Fatah party. They have been one of most active forces in the al-Aqsa Intifada, emerging shortly afterwards. This militia was originally named after the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites and an icon for the Palestinian movement. The group's membership is primarily drawn from the ranks of Tanzim, (organization in Arabic), a militant youth group within al-Fatah. Following Yasser Arafat's death ...

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• Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - Relationship with Arafat and Fatah
• Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - Activities
• Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - List of al-Aqsa Brigades activists

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The Boeing IDS AH-64 Apache Helicopter is the US Army's principal attack helicopter, the successor to the AH-1 Cobra. AH-64 Apache - History. The US Army issued a request for proposals (RFP) in 1972 for an Advanced Attack Helicopter (AAH). From an initial list of 5 manufacturers Hughes Aircraft's Toolco Aircraft Division (later Hughes Helicopters) and Bell were selected as finalists. Hughes' Model 97/YAH-64 was selected over Bell's Model 409/YAH-63 in 1976. First flight of a development prototype occ ...

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• AH-64 Apache - AH-64D
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• AH-64 Apache - United States
• AH-64 Apache - Israel
• AH-64 Apache - Cost and Users
• AH-64 Apache - Films and media

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Ariel "Arik" Sharon ▶ (help·info) (Hebrew: אריאל שרון) (born February 27, 1928) is the eleventh and current Prime Minister of Israel, serving from March 2001. A long-serving Israeli political and military leader, he was a founding member and former head of the Likud party, and previously served for over thirty years in the Israeli Defense Forces, rising to the rank of Major General, and achieving fame within Israel for his actions in the 1967 Six Day ...

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• Ariel Sharon - Early life
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• Ariel Sharon - Sabra and Shatila massacre
• Ariel Sharon - Political career
• Ariel Sharon - Gaza evacuation
• Ariel Sharon - Founding of Kadima
• Ariel Sharon - Health problems

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The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP), were finalized in Oslo, Norway on August 20, 1993, and subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington D.C. on September 13, 1993, with Yasser Arafat signing for the Palestine Liberation Organization and Shimon Peres signing for the State of Israel. It was witnessed by Warren Christopher for the United States and Andrei Kozyrev for Russia, in the presence of US President Bill Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Y ...

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• Oslo Accords - Background
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• Oslo Accords - Annexes of the accords
• Oslo Accords - Agreed minutes of the accords
• Oslo Accords - The acceptance of the accords by the two peoples
• Oslo Accords - Subsequent negotiations
• Oslo Accords - Oslo 2
• Oslo Accords - Additional agreements
• Oslo Accords - Fate of the accords
• Oslo Accords - Loss of credibility
• Oslo Accords - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties
• Oslo Accords - Issues
• Oslo Accords - People

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Articulated buses, also known as bendy buses, accordion buses or jointed buses, have an increased passenger capacity. Found almost exclusively in public transportation use, these buses are usually around 60 feet long, while a regular bus is 35 to 45 feet. To make them nimble enough to safely navigate streets at their increased length, they are fitted with an extra pair of wheels and a flexible joint (usually located slightly behind the midpoint of the bus, behind the second pair of wheels). Some models of articula ...

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• Articulated bus - Use

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This entry contains a timeline of the development of Judaism and the Jewish people. Note that all dates are given according to the Common Era (Christian), not the Jewish calendar. For more detailed information on Jewish history, including links to individual country histories, see Jewish history. Timeline of Jewish history - Biblical history. A separate article exists on the timeline of Biblical characters and the Israelites. See the entry on the history of ancient Israel and Judah. Note, however, that the ...

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• Timeline of Jewish history - 200 BCE to 700 CE
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The 1948 Arab-Israeli War is referred to as the "War of Independence" (Hebrew: מלחמת העצמאות) or as the "War of Liberation" (Hebrew: מלחמת השחרור) by Israelis. For Palestinians, the war marked the beginning of the events referred to as "The Catastrophe" ("al Nakba," Arabic: النكبة ). It was the first in a series of wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict. It established the state of Israel as an independent state, dividing the remaining areas of the British Mandate of Palestine into areas co ...

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• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Background
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - The Great Arab Revolt and Its Aftermath
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Yishuv/British Security and Intelligence Collaboration
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - The End of Colonial Rule
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Amin al-Husayni
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Phases of the War
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - First phase: November 29 1947 - April 1 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Second phase: April 1 1948 - May 15 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Third phase: May 15 1948 - June 11 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - First truce: June 11 1948 - July 8 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Fourth phase: July 8 1948 - July 18 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Second truce: July 18 1948 - October 15 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Fifth phase: October 15 1948 - July 20 1949
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Aftermath
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - 1949 Armistice Agreements
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Casualties
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Demographic outcome
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Footnotes

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The Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David of July 2000 took place between United States President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. It was an attempt to negotiate a "final status settlement" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Camp David 2000 Summit - The summit. President Clinton announced his invitation to Barak and Arafat on July 5, 2000, to come to Camp David to continue their negotiations on the Middle East peace process. Building on th ...

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• Camp David 2000 Summit - The summit
• Camp David 2000 Summit - Trilateral statement full text
• Camp David 2000 Summit - Reasons for impasse
• Camp David 2000 Summit - Territory
• Camp David 2000 Summit - Jerusalem and the Temple Mount
• Camp David 2000 Summit - Refugees and the right of return
• Camp David 2000 Summit - Aftermath
• Camp David 2000 Summit - Calls for peace
• Camp David 2000 Summit - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties

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• YAMAM - Name and organization
• YAMAM - History
• YAMAM - Operational record 1974 - September 2000
• YAMAM - Operational record during the al-Aqsa Intifada since October 2000
• YAMAM - YAMAM Directors

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Since the failure of the Camp David Accords in the summer of 2000, many acts of militancy were committed by individuals, militant Palestinian groups, and members of the Palestinian Authority against Israeli civilians. This is a partial chronology of actions resulting in deaths during the al-Aqsa Intifada: 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 Prior acts of Palestinian militancy are omitted from this page. See Militancy against Israel before 2000. Terrorism against Israel - Early history. ...

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• Terrorism against Israel - Early history
• Terrorism against Israel - After 1967
• Terrorism against Israel - The First Intifada
• Terrorism against Israel - The Palestinian Authority
• Terrorism against Israel - The al-Aqsa Intifada
• Terrorism against Israel - Discussion of terrorism against Israel during the al-Aqsa Intifada

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ZAKA זק"א - איתור חילוץ והצלה - חסד של אמת (an abbreviation for "Identifying Victims of Disaster" (in Hebrew: Zihuy Korbanot Asson)), is a voluntary community emergency response team in the State of Israel, officially recognized by the government. The organization was founded in 1989 by Yehuda Meshi Zahav and Rabbi Moshe Aizenbach. Members of ZAKA, most of whom are Orthodox Jews, assist ambulance crews, identify the victims of terrorism, road accidents and other disasters, and where neces ...

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• ZAKA - Early history
• ZAKA - Growing public recognition
• ZAKA - Recent history

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Benjamin Netanyahu ▶ (help·info) (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ (without niqqud: בנימין נתניהו), Hebrew transliteration written in English: Binyamin Netanyahu, nicknamed Bibi) (born October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv) was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel. Leader of the conservative Likud party, he was Prime Minister from June, 1996 to July, 1999. He is the first (and to date only) Prime Minister o ...

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• Benjamin Netanyahu - Family and personal background
• Benjamin Netanyahu - Prime minister 1996-1999
• Benjamin Netanyahu - Political activity after 2000
• Benjamin Netanyahu - Books and articles

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William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe, III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. Clinton served five terms as the Governor of Arkansas. His wife, former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, is currently the junior U.S. Senator from New York. Generally regarded as a moderate populist, and a member of the moderate New Democrat wing of the Democratic Party, he headed the centrist Democratic Leadership Council in 1990 and 1991. During his tenure as ...

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• Bill Clinton - Arkansas political career and education
• Bill Clinton - Presidency
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• Bill Clinton - Significant events
• Bill Clinton - Legislation and programs
• Bill Clinton - Cabinet
• Bill Clinton - Supreme Court appointments
• Bill Clinton - The economy
• Bill Clinton - Trade
• Bill Clinton - Foreign policy
• Bill Clinton - Impeachment and other scandals
• Bill Clinton - Timeline
• Bill Clinton - Public approval
• Bill Clinton - Public image
• Bill Clinton - Post-presidential career
• Bill Clinton - Trivia

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At the beginning of the 21st century, the United States' strongest allies in west Asia are Turkey (a member of NATO), Israel and Egypt. All of these nations receive financial aid from the U.S. In 2001, the U.S. also had military bases in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman. Background history of the September 11 2001 attacks - Historical background. Background history of the September 11 2001 attacks - Pre-Seventies. 1953-1979: Following nationalization of British oil intere ...

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• Background history of the September 11 2001 attacks - Historical background
• Background history of the September 11 2001 attacks - Pre-Seventies
• Background history of the September 11 2001 attacks - Seventies
• Background history of the September 11 2001 attacks - Eighties
• Background history of the September 11 2001 attacks - Nineties
• Background history of the September 11 2001 attacks - Recent 2000-01
• Background history of the September 11 2001 attacks - Intelligence available pre 9/11
• Background history of the September 11 2001 attacks - Dated
• Background history of the September 11 2001 attacks - Exact dates unknown

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Lebanon This article is part of the series: Politics of Lebanon Constitution President: Emile Lahoud Prime Minister: Fouad Siniora Parliament Speaker of the Parliament Political parties Elections edit Hezbollah (Arabic ‮حزب الله‬, meaning Party of God, for other designations or alternative spellings, see 'name' part of this article) is a Shi'a Islamist group in Le ...

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• Hezbollah - Alternative spellings and names
• Hezbollah - Designations
• Hezbollah - History
• Hezbollah - Origins
• Hezbollah - Hezbollah during the Lebanese war 1982-1990
• Hezbollah - The South Lebanon period 1990-2000
• Hezbollah - Hezbollah after the Israeli withdrawal
• Hezbollah - Post-Lebanese election
• Hezbollah - Political activities
• Hezbollah - Foreign relations
• Hezbollah - Ideology
• Hezbollah - Media operations

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The First Intifada refers to a series of violent incidents between Palestinians and Israelis between 1987 and approximately 1993, when the Oslo accords were signed and the Palestinian National Authority was established. It is also referred to as the "war of the stones." The Second Intifada, also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada, is considered to have been between 2000 and early 2005. The First Intifada is also referred to simply as the Intifada, since that is how it was called before the Second Intifada. Fi ...

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• First Intifada - General Causes
• First Intifada - Series of Preceding Events
• First Intifada - The Uprising
• First Intifada - Outcome

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The movement has been criticized for lacking realism given the absence of a corresponding movement on the Arab side of the conflict. Ami Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet and co-initiator of the National Census peace proposal (with professor Sari Nusseibeh), has criticized Peace Now for demonizing the Jewish settlers, thus encouraging hate towards settlers, and providing the general pu ...

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Peace Now, Peace Now - History, Peace Now - Criticism, Peace Now - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties

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Geographically, the Strip forms the westernmost portion of the Palestinian territories in Southwest Asia, having land borders with Egypt on the south-west and Israel on the north and east. On the west, it is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea. The Strip's borders were originally defined by the armistice lines between Egypt and Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, which followed the dissolution of the British mandate of Palestine. It was occupied by Egypt (except for four months of Israeli occupation during the Suez Crisis) until it w ...

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Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip - Background, Gaza Strip - Demographics, Gaza Strip - Geography, Gaza Strip - Economy, Gaza Strip - Health, Gaza Strip - Transport and communication

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Low intensity conflict - Weapons. As the name suggests, in comparison with conventional operations the armed forces involved operate at a greatly reduced tempo, with fewer soldiers, a reduced range of tactical equipment and limited scope to operate in a military manner. For example the use of air power, pivotal in modern warfare, is often relegated to transport and surveillance. Artillery is often not used when LIC occurs in populated area. The role of the armed forces is dependent on the stage of the insurrection, whether it has progressed to armed str ...

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Low intensity conflict, Low intensity conflict - Low intensity operations, Low intensity conflict - Official state definitions, Low intensity conflict - US Army Field Manual, Low intensity conflict - Implementation, Low intensity conflict - Weapons, Low intensity conflict - Intelligence, Low intensity conflict - Stages, Low intensity conflict - Examples, Low intensity conflict - LIC Doctrines

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