Ariel Sharon

Mapai (Mifleget Poalei Eretz Israel — "Land of Israel Worker's Party") was a Labour Zionist party founded in the 1930s as the right wing (or more moderate) faction of the Zionist socialist Russian party Poale Zion. In the early 1920s the Labour Zionist movement founded the Histadrut ("General Hebrew Workers' Union") which dominated the Hebrew settlement economy and infrastructure, later making Mapai the dominant political faction in the Zionist politics. It is also responsible for the founding of Hashomer and Haganah, the first two armed Jewish groups who secured the people and propert ...

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Labour Israel, Labour Israel - Other names for the party, Labour Israel - History, Labour Israel - Current status, Labour Israel - Ideology, Labour Israel - Past, Labour Israel - Current, Labour Israel - Labour Party leaders 1948-present, Labour Israel - Other famous members, Labour Israel - Related article

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The school was originally founded by famed Protestant evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody (DLM) as two separate institutions: The Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in 1879, and Mount Hermon School for Boys in 1881. DLM envisioned both these schools as parts of his dream to provide the best possible education for less privileged people. Indeed, even, in their infancy, DLM’s schools matriculated students whose parents were slaves, Native-Americans, and from outside the US -- something that was unimaginable in many elite private schools at that time. Dwight Lyman Moody's birthplace and buri ...

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Northfield Mount Hermon, Northfield Mount Hermon - History, Northfield Mount Hermon - Northfield Mount Hermon Today, Northfield Mount Hermon - Mount Hermon Buildings, Northfield Mount Hermon - Dormitories, Northfield Mount Hermon - Classroom Buildings, Northfield Mount Hermon - Offices etc., Northfield Mount Hermon - Clubs & Organizations, Northfield Mount Hermon - Notable alumni

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Moshe Arens is considered by many to have been the Likud's ideological anchor on the right. One of the founding members of Begin's Herut ("Freedom") Party in 1948, Arens helped Begin seize the mantle and inheritance of the founder of Revisionist Zionism, Vladimir Jabotinsky, who had died in 1940 unexpectedly and without a clear heir. Arens had been the representative in North America in the 1940s for the movement's youth organization Betar. He voted against the Camp David Accords, ...

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Moshe Arens, Moshe Arens - Significance in the State and Likud, Moshe Arens - Long Retirement

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What has been called the Michaud Affair started on December 5, 2000, in an interview on the Montreal radio station CKAC. Talk show host Paul Arcand asked: "Don't you feel that there is a lack of interest of a good part of the population on the question of sovereignty and the national question, people who have had enough, for whom it is all over, (who say) let's move on to something else?". To which Yves Michaud replied: Well, I will tell you an anecdote. I was... I went to get my hair cut about a month ago. There was a Liber ...

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Michaud Affair, Michaud Affair - History

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January 2005 - January 31 2005. Arab-Israeli Conflict: A ten-year-old Palestinian girl dies after being shot in the head as she played in her school playground in Rafah. The source of the gunfire is disputed. Hamas launches mortar shells in retaliation, damaging a house in an Israeli settlement.(Al Jazeera)(Reuters) (Jerusalem Post) (BBC) (CBS)(Haaretz) Conflict in Iraq: US guards have shot dead four Iraqi prisoners following an alleged riot at the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. (BBC)

Ongoing events 2004 Canadian Federal Election Conservative leadership race 2004 Taiwan Presidential Election 2004 U.S. Presidential Election Democratic Presidential Primary Bloody Sunday Inquiry Exploration of Mars Mars Exploration Rovers Mars Express Orbiter Bird flu Hutton Inquiry Israeli-Palestinian conflict Road Map to Peace Kyoto Protocol North Korean Crisis Same-sex Marriage SCO v. IBM War on Terrorism Afg ...

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Solana comes from a well-known Spanish family and is the grandson of Spanish League of Nations disarmament chief, diplomat, writer and European integrationist Salvador de Madariaga and Scottish scholar and economic historian Constance Archibald de Madariaga. His father was a chemistry professor, and his mother the writer Nieves Mathews. His older brother Luis was imprisoned for his political activities opposing the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. He studied in the El Pilar College, an exclusive Catholic secondary school, before goin ...

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Javier Solana, Javier Solana - Background and career as physicist, Javier Solana - Spanish politics, Javier Solana - NATO, Javier Solana - Kosovo war, Javier Solana - EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana - Foreign affairs, Javier Solana - Other

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List of places named after people - Australia. Queensland - Queen Victoria Tasmania - Abel Tasman Victoria - Queen Victoria List of places named after people - Brazil. Rondônia - Marshal Cândido Rondon Santa Catarina - Saint Catherine São Paulo - Saint Paul List of places named after people - Canada. Alberta - Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Vict ...

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Yom Kippur War - Causes. This war was part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, a conflict which has included many battles and wars since 1948. During the Six-Day War six years earlier, the Israelis had captured the Sinai clear to the Suez Canal, which had become the cease-fire line. The Israelis had also captured roughly half of the Golan Heights from Syria. In the years following that war, Israel erected lines of fortification in both the Sinai and the Golan Heights. In 1971 Israel spent $500 million fortifying ...

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Yom Kippur War, 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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The war began in June 1968 with sparse Egyptian artillery bombardment of the Israeli front line on the east bank of the canal. More artillery bombardments in the following months killed some Israeli soldiers. IDF's retaliation came on the night of October 30 when heli-borne commandos destroyed Egypt's main electricity supply. The blackout caused Nasser to cease hostilities for a few months while fortifications around hundreds of important targets were built. Simultaneously Israel reinforced its position on the east bank of the Suez Canal by constructing the Bar Lev Line, a set of thirty-five small forts running nor ...

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War of Attrition, War of Attrition - Background, War of Attrition - Timeline, War of Attrition - People

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David Elazar - Events leading up to the war. On 1 October 1973 the armies of Egypt and Syria were placed on alert. Due to an erroneous intelligence assessment and poor decisions by the Israeli military, the IDF responded with only limited measures, few reserve units were called up, and it was determined that war was "unlikely." In the early hours of October 6 (on Yom Kippur, the holiest of the Jewish holidays), Elazar was finally convinced that war would break out that same day, even though the Chief of Military ...

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David Elazar, David Elazar - Early life, David Elazar - Chief of General Staff, David Elazar - The Yom Kippur War, David Elazar - Events leading up to the war, David Elazar - The war, David Elazar - The aftermath, David Elazar - Legacy

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See also: Afghanistan timeline January 1-16, 2002 Afghanistan timeline January 17-31, 2002 January 2002 - January 29 2002. George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union Address to Congress. January 2002 - January 24 2002. Enron hearings begin. Terrorist suspect John Walker Lindh's hearing begins. January 2002 - January 23 2002. Kenneth Lay, CEO of the bank ...

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The Partnership is consistent with efforts under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and complements, rather than replaces, the Kyoto Protocol. US President George W. Bush called it a "new results-oriented partnership" that he said "will allow our nations to develop and accelerate deployment of cleaner, more efficient energy technologies to meet national pollution reduction, energy security and climate change concerns in ways that reduce poverty and promote economic development." [1] John ...

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Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate - Aims, Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate - Areas for collaboration, Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate - Ministerial meeting, Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate - Support, Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate - Criticism

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The Israeli peace camp is highly criticized for lacking realism given the absence of a corresponding movement on the Arab side of the conflict. It is also accused for being forgiving toward Palestinian terrorism and not being able to stand up for the rights of the Israelis and the vital interests of Israel. The Israeli peace camp has poor standings in the Israeli public, as regular surveys by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research show (for example: May 2004). The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research is watching over the Israeli public opinion toward the peace pr ...

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Israeli peace camp, Israeli peace camp - Political movements but not parties, Israeli peace camp - Non-political organizations, Israeli peace camp - Political parties, Israeli peace camp - Political power in the Knesset, Israeli peace camp - Criticism, Israeli peace camp - Ideological right wing, Israeli peace camp - Political center and pragmatists, Israeli peace camp - Zionist left wing, Israeli peace camp - Far left, Israeli peace camp - People, Israeli peace camp - Political leaders, Israeli peace camp - Leaders of organizations, Israeli peace camp - Politicly affiliated peace activists, Israeli peace camp - Peace activists without political affiliation, Israeli peace camp - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties

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Barghouti was born in Ramallah, and became active in Fatah at the age of 15. Marwan Barghouti should not be confused with Mustafa Barghouti, a distant cousin. By the age of 18 in 1976, Marwan Barghouthi was arrested by Israel for his involvement in a Palestinian uprising, and learned Hebrew during his time in Israeli prisons. After his release, he returned to the West Bank and became president of the student body at Birzeit University, where he received a bachelor's degree in history and political science and a master's degree in international relations. He is married to Fadwa Barghouti. See also:

Marwan Barghouti, Marwan Barghouti - Biography, Marwan Barghouti - First Intifada, Marwan Barghouti - Second Intifada, Marwan Barghouti - Arrest, Marwan Barghouti - Trial, Marwan Barghouti - Candidacy for Palestinian Authority presidency, Marwan Barghouti - Movement to Free Barghouti, Marwan Barghouti - Split from Fatah, Marwan Barghouti - Quote

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The settlements have on several occasions been a source of tension between Israel and the U.S. In 1991 there was a clash between the Bush administration and Israel, where the U.S. delayed a subsidized loan in order to pressure Israel not to proceed with the establishment of settlements for instance in the Jerusalem-Bethlehem corridor. Jimmy Carter has said that the settlements constitute a "major obstacle to peace". The current Bush administration, while generally supportive of Israel, has said that settlements are "unhelpful" to the peace p ...

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Israeli settlement, Israeli settlement - Terminology, Israeli settlement - Historical background, Israeli settlement - Population, Israeli settlement - Communities established on the sites of previous recent Jewish communities, Israeli settlement - Legal status of territories, Israeli settlement - Motivations for settlements, Israeli settlement - Land grab accusations, Israeli settlement - International and legal background, Israeli settlement - Tensions mistrust and accusations, Israeli settlement - Dismantlement of Settlements, Israeli settlement - The Sasson Report

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Shinui - Religion and state. Despite nearly 30 years of public support of Liberal-Capitalist economic and social policies, its best known platform plank is a call for separation of religion and state within the confines of Zionist ideology. It demands civil marriage (although it has opposed a bill to enact it in March 2004), the operation of public transportation, businesses, theaters, etc. on Saturdays (the Shabbat, Jewish Sabbath), removal of laws concerning selling and importing non-kosher food, drafting of Haredi Jews into the IDF, and a halt to p ...

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Shinui, Shinui - History, Shinui - Ideology, Shinui - Religion and state, Shinui - Economy, Shinui - Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Shinui - Political ethics and corruption, Shinui - Politics, Shinui - Shinui out of the cabinet, Shinui - Future, Shinui - New Reality, Shinui - Split

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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Origins in the ANM. The PFLP grew out of the Harakat al-Qawmiyyin al-Arab, or Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), founded in 1953 by Dr. George Habash, a Palestinian Christian, from Lydda/Lod in what is now Israel. The family had been forced into exile after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The 22-year-old Habash went to Lebanon to study medicine at the American University in Beirut, graduating in 1951. In an interview with American journalist John Cooley, Haba ...

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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - History of the PFLP, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Origins in the ANM, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Formation of the PFLP, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Breakaway organizations, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - PLO membership, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - After the Oslo Accords, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Elections in the PNA, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Successors to George Habash, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Attitude to the peace process, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Membership profile, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Armed attacks of the PFLP, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Armed attacks before 2000, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - During the Al-Aqsa Intifada

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On June 25, 2003, Ayalon launched together with Palestinian professor Sari Nusseibeh a peace initiative called "The National Census". The initiative goal is to collect as many signatures of Israelis and Palestinians as possible for the peace plan guidelines of two state solution without right of return to Palestinian refugees. See main article: The People's Voice. Though Ayalon promotes traditional left wing ideas, he insists he is not a part of the Israeli left wing and spurns the Israeli peace camp for its hostility toward th ...

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Ami Ayalon, Ami Ayalon - Military and Security Service, Ami Ayalon - Peace Activity

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By the early 15th century a new power had arisen in western Anatolia, the Ottoman emirs, who in 1453 captured Constantinople and made themselves sultans. The Mameluks held the Ottomans out of the Middle East for a century, but in 1514 Selim the Grim began the systematic Ottoman conquest of the region. Iraq was occupied in 1515, Syria in 1516 and Egypt in 1517, extinguishing the Mameluk line. The Ottomans united the whole region under one ruler for the first time since the reign of the Abbasid caliphs o ...

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History of the Middle East, History of the Middle East - The Ancient Middle East, History of the Middle East - The Arab Middle East, History of the Middle East - Turks Crusaders and Mongols, History of the Middle East - The Ottoman era, History of the Middle East - European domination, History of the Middle East - A zone of conflict, History of the Middle East - The contemporary Middle East

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Lipkin-Shahak started his military service as a teenager in the military boarding-school in Haifa. He enlisted as a corporal in the paratrooper brigade in 1962, fulfilled various command positions and eventually became brigade commander. During his military service, he was decorated twice for bravery for his conduct in Operation Inferno, Karameh, Jordan 1968 as a captain, and in Operation Spring of Youth, Beirut, Lebanon 1973 as a Lt. Colonel. As deputy Chief of Staff, he was involved in the negotiations w ...

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Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak - Military service, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak - Political service

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The roots of Jewish-Arab animosity go back to Ottoman times, when the Jewish community of Palestine was under the thumb of a few wealthy effendi (landlord) families. These families, most prominently the Husseinis and the Nashashibis, employed criminals to attack Jews who threatened rent prices by living outside the city walls. [citation needed] Later, after the establishment of the British Mandate of Palestine, the influx of Jews increased dramatically, a result of persecution of Jews in Europe, as well as the ...

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Terrorism against Israel, 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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