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The Six-Day War (Hebrew: מלחמת ששת הימים transliteration: Milhemet Sheshet Hayamim), also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Six Days' War, or June War, was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. It began when Israel launched what it considered a pre-emptive attack against Egypt, following the latter's closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and the deployment of troops in the Sinai near the Israeli border, and after months of increasingly tense bord ...

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• Six-Day War - Background
• Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war
• Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies
• Six-Day War - Warfare
• Six-Day War - Preliminary Air Attack
• Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula
• Six-Day War - West Bank
• Six-Day War - Golan Heights
• Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea
• Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation
• Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims
• Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war
• Six-Day War - U.S. and British support
• Six-Day War - Soviet instigation
• Six-Day War - Footnotes

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The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War (Hebrew: מלחמת יום הכיפורים; transliterated: Milkhemet Yom HaKipurim or מלחמת יום כיפור Milkhemet Yom Kipur; Arabic: حرب أكتوبر; transliterated: Harb October or حرب تشرين transliterated: Harb Tishrin), also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 (the day of Yom Kippur) to October 26, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Egypt and Syria. The War began with a surprise joi ...

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• Yom Kippur War - Background
• Yom Kippur War - Causes
• Yom Kippur War - Events leading up to the War
• Yom Kippur War - Lead up to the surprise attack
• Yom Kippur War - Lack of an Israeli pre-emptive attack
• Yom Kippur War - The War
• Yom Kippur War - In the Sinai
• Yom Kippur War - On the Golan Heights
• Yom Kippur War - At sea
• Yom Kippur War - Participation by other Arab states
• Yom Kippur War - Armaments
• Yom Kippur War - The cease-fire and immediate aftermath
• Yom Kippur War - Egypt's trapped Third Army
• Yom Kippur War - Nuclear alert
• Yom Kippur War - Northern front de-escalation
• Yom Kippur War - Post-cease-fire negotiations
• Yom Kippur War - Long-term effects of the war
• Yom Kippur War - Fallout in Israel
• Yom Kippur War - Camp David Accords
• Yom Kippur War - Commemorations
• Yom Kippur War - Notes

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This article is about the year 2000. For other uses of 2000, see 2000 (number) or 2000 (breakdancing move). 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium. By strict interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar, however, this distinction falls to the year 2001. This is due to the fact that the first century began with the year 1, and there does not exist a year zero. The first century ...

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• 2000 - Events
• 2000 - January
• 2000 - February
• 2000 - March
• 2000 - April
• 2000 - May
• 2000 - June
• 2000 - July
• 2000 - August
• 2000 - September
• 2000 - October
• 2000 - November
• 2000 - December
• 2000 - Unknown Date
• 2000 - Births
• 2000 - Deaths
• 2000 - January
• 2000 - February
• 2000 - April
• 2000 - May
• 2000 - June
• 2000 - July
• 2000 - August
• 2000 - September
• 2000 - October
• 2000 - November
• 2000 - December
• 2000 - Nobel Prizes
• 2000 - Templeton Prize

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From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon was involved in a civil war between groups in competing alliances with neighboring countries. The Lebanese Maronite Christians, led by the Phalangist party and militia, were allied initially with Syria then with Israel, which provided them with arms and training to fight against the PLO faction; other factions were allied with Syria, Iran, and other states of the region. In addition, Israel had been training, arming, supplying and uniforming the Christian South Lebanon Army, led by Saad Haddad, since 1978. Infighti ...

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Sabra and Shatila massacre, Sabra and Shatila massacre - Background, Sabra and Shatila massacre - Events, Sabra and Shatila massacre - Israel's role in the massacre, Sabra and Shatila massacre - Sabra and Shatila After the Israeli Invasion, Sabra and Shatila massacre - Belgian court proceedings

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Lebanon War (Hebrew: מלחמת לבנון Milkhemet Levanon), also known as the 1982 Invasion of Lebanon or Operation Peace of the Galilee (מבצע שלום הגליל Mivtsa Shlom HaGalil in Hebrew), began June 6, 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon. The Government of Israel justified the invasion as a response to the Abu Nidal organization's assassination attempt against Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov and to artillery attacks launched by the Palestine Liberation Organization against populat ...

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• 1982 Lebanon War - Background
• 1982 Lebanon War - Reasons for the war
• 1982 Lebanon War - Course of the fighting
• 1982 Lebanon War - Outcome of the war
• 1982 Lebanon War - Casualties
• 1982 Lebanon War - The security buffer zone
• 1982 Lebanon War - Political results
• 1982 Lebanon War - Consequences

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1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. 1982 - Events. 1982 - January. January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself into twenty-two subdivisions. January 10 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This equals the record set in the same place in 1895. January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of ...

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• 1982 - Events
• 1982 - January
• 1982 - February
• 1982 - March
• 1982 - April
• 1982 - May
• 1982 - June
• 1982 - July
• 1982 - August
• 1982 - September
• 1982 - October
• 1982 - November
• 1982 - December
• 1982 - Unknown dates
• 1982 - Births
• 1982 - January
• 1982 - February
• 1982 - March
• 1982 - April
• 1982 - May
• 1982 - June
• 1982 - July
• 1982 - August
• 1982 - September
• 1982 - October
• 1982 - November-December
• 1982 - Deaths
• 1982 - January-June
• 1982 - July-December
• 1982 - Nobel Prizes
• 1982 - Fields Medalists
• 1982 - Templeton Prize

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Palestinian National Authority This article is part of the series: Politics of the Palestinian National Authority President: Mahmoud Abbas Prime Minister: Nabil Shaath Palestinian Legislative Council PLO List of political parties Elections: President: 2005 Legislative: 2006 Oslo Accords Al-Aqsa Intifada St ...

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• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Prior events
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Timeline
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2000
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2001
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2002
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2003
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2004
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2005
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Tactics
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Palestinians
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Israel
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - The West Bank barrier
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - International Involvement
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Effects on Oslo Accords
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Economic and human costs

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John Zogby (born 1948) is a noted American political pollster. He is known for both his phone polling and interactive, Internet-based polling. Some consider his poll methods questionable, especially in his Internet polls, which are based entirely upon a self-selected body of respondents. John Zogby - Polling Track Record. Zogby correctly predicted the cliffhanger result of the 2000 presidential election for George W. Bush, in contrast to most other pollsters who had expected Bush to win easily. In 2004, how ...

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• John Zogby - Polling Track Record
• John Zogby - Education
• John Zogby - Family
• John Zogby - Political Activities

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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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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 - Biblical history
• Timeline of Jewish history - Post Biblical-history
• Timeline of Jewish history - 200 BCE to 700 CE
• Timeline of Jewish history - 701 to 1500
• Timeline of Jewish history - 1501 to 1800
• Timeline of Jewish history - 1801 to 1900
• Timeline of Jewish history - 1901 to 1945
• Timeline of Jewish history - 1946 to Today

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Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (English: Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions) is an umbrella organization of French Jewish organizations. CRIF opposes anti-Semitism and policies that they perceive to be anti-Semitic. CRIF generally supports Zionist goals and the state of Israel, although CRIF denounced Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's 2004 characterization of anti-Semitism in France and his calls for all French Jews to emigrate to Israel. On 20 November 2004, CRIF accused the French gove ...

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• Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France - External link

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Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎) (August 4 or August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), born Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) and also known by the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار), was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004); President1 of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004 ...

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• Yasser Arafat - Early life
• Yasser Arafat - Fatah and the PLO
• Yasser Arafat - Jordan
• Yasser Arafat - Lebanon
• Yasser Arafat - Tunisia
• Yasser Arafat - Palestinian Authority and peace negotiations
• Yasser Arafat - Political survival and marginalization
• Yasser Arafat - Financial dealings
• Yasser Arafat - Illness and death
• Yasser Arafat - Aftermath
• Yasser Arafat - Bibliography
• Yasser Arafat - Notes

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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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Tzahi Hanegbi (in Hebrew צחי הנגבי) (born February 26, 1957) is an Israeli politician. He was the acting Chairman of the Likud party after Ariel Sharon left the party but has since left it himself. Tzahi Hanegbi was born in Jerusalem. His mother was Geula Cohen, a prominent member of the 1940s underground group Lehi and later a politician. He is a married father of four children. Hanegbi studied international relations at Hebrew University and earned a law degree from Tel Aviv University. Hanegbi joined the Kness ...

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• Tzahi Hanegbi - Quotes

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Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963–January 29/30, 2002) was a Jewish American journalist. He was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan, while investigating the case of Richard Pearl, the links between Al Qaeda and the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) links, and $100,000 wired to September 11's chief operative Mohammed Atta's account in the US by one Ahmad Umar Sheikh, following instructions by Pakistani General Ahmad Mehmoud - the ISI director general at the time. It is believed by many that Pearl was killed beca ...

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• Daniel Pearl - His life
• Daniel Pearl - His death
• Daniel Pearl - The Daniel Pearl video
• Daniel Pearl - Arrests
• Daniel Pearl - Controversy
• Daniel Pearl - Aftermath
• Daniel Pearl - Video of Pearl Beheading

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• Current events - 8 January 2006 Sunday
• Current events - 7 January 2006 Saturday
• Current events - 6 January 2006 Friday
• Current events - 5 January 2006 Thursday
• Current events - 4 January 2006 Wednesday
• Current events - 3 January 2006 Tuesday
• Current events - 2 January 2006 Monday
• Current events - 1 January 2006 Sunday
• Current events - Events by month

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Universal jurisdiction or universality principle is a controversial principle in international law whereby states claim criminal jurisdiction over persons whose alleged crimes were committed outside the boundaries of the prosecuting state, regardless of nationality, country of residence, or any other relation with the prosecuting country. The state backs its claim on the grounds that the crime committed is considered a crime against humanity, which any state is authorised to punish. This controversed concept received a great de ...

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• Universal jurisdiction - Debate over universal jurisdiction & progress of international law
• Universal jurisdiction - Extraterritorial jurisdiction and international courts throughout the 20th century
• Universal jurisdiction - Belgium's 1993 law of universal jurisdiction & Spain's 2005 court decision
• Universal jurisdiction - A new concept ?
• Universal jurisdiction - Applicable jurisdictions
• Universal jurisdiction - Notes

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The Bnei Menashe ("Children of Menasseh", Hebrew בני מנשה) are an estimated 7000 Jewish converts from India's remote North-Eastern border states of Manipur and Mizoram who claim descent from one of the ten lost tribes of Israel. The Bnei Menashe are members of the Tibeto-Burman Mizo-Kuki-Chin hilltribes who were headhunting animists until their conversion to Christianity in the 19th century. Depending on their affiliations, individual tribes refer to themselves as either Kuki or Mizo, or more commonly, by the names of their subtribes. They are known as Chin in Burma where they are an ethnic minority. Some Chin ...

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• Bnei Menashe - History
• Bnei Menashe - Shavei Israel
• Bnei Menashe - Controversy in Israel
• Bnei Menashe - Controversy in India
• Bnei Menashe - Timeline Modern

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Binational solution is a term most often used in reference to a proposed resolution of the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is also known as the One-State Solution, as opposed to the Two-State Solution. Proponents of a binational solution to the conflict advocate a common state in historic Palestine shared between Jewish and Arab populations. All of the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be annexed to Israel, with their Palestinian Arab inhabitants given citizenship and an equal status to the Jewish and Arab citizens of present-day Israel. The new state would have a secular ...

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• Binational solution - Binationalism in British Mandate Palestine
• Binational solution - Binationalism in Israel 1948-1973
• Binational solution - Binationalism after 1973
• Binational solution - The Friedlander-Goldscheider study

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2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the years 5766-5767 in the Hebrew Calendar, 5107-5108 in the Hindu Calendar, 1426-1427 in the Islamic Calendar, 1384-1385 in the Iranian calendar, 4703 in the Chinese calendar, and 2759 a.U.c. It is also the current year. It has been designated: The International Year of Deserts and Desertification The Rembrandt Year, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrand ...

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• 2006 - Events
• 2006 - January
• 2006 - Predicted and scheduled events
• 2006 - January
• 2006 - February
• 2006 - March
• 2006 - April
• 2006 - May
• 2006 - June
• 2006 - July
• 2006 - August
• 2006 - September
• 2006 - October
• 2006 - November
• 2006 - December
• 2006 - Major Religious Holidays
• 2006 - Unknown/undecided dates
• 2006 - Deaths in 2006
• 2006 - January
• 2006 - 2006 in Fiction

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2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponded to the years 5765-5766 in the Hebrew Calendar, 1425-1426 in the Islamic Calendar, 1383-1384 in the Iranian calendar and 2758 a.U.c. 2005 was the World Year of Physics, the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar, and the International Year of the Eucharist in Catholicism. 2005 - Events. 2005 - January. January 4 - Death of the Governor of Baghdad, Ali Al-Haidri, a ...

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• 2005 - Events
• 2005 - January
• 2005 - February
• 2005 - March
• 2005 - April
• 2005 - May
• 2005 - June
• 2005 - July
• 2005 - August
• 2005 - September
• 2005 - October
• 2005 - November
• 2005 - December
• 2005 - Births
• 2005 - Deaths
• 2005 - January-March
• 2005 - April-June
• 2005 - July-September
• 2005 - October-December
• 2005 - Nobel Prizes
• 2005 - 2005 in fiction

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