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Clinton received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.) degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., where he became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega, worked for Senator J. William Fulbright, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and won a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, (University College) in England. After attending Oxford, Clinton obtained a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Yale Law School in 1973. While at Yale, he met a classmate who w ...

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Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, III ; in Hope, Arkansas and raised in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He was named after his father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., a traveling salesman who had been killed in a car accident three months before his son was born. His mother, born Virginia Dell Cassidy (1923–1994), remarried in 1950 to Roger Clinton. Billy, as he was called, was raised by his mother and stepfather, assuming his last name "Clinton" throughout elementary school, but not formally changing it until he was 14. Clinton grew u ...

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The Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research polled 1,316 adults in the West bank and Gaza strip in early December 2005 on their voting intentions for the legislative poll, which indicated the following support:[9] Fatah: 50% Hamas: 32% Others: 9% Undecided: 9% A second poll by PCPSR between 29-31 December covered 4560 potential voters and gave the following results:[10] Fatah: 43% Change and Reform (Hamas): 25% Independent Palestine: 5% Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa: 3%See also:

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The previous elections chose 88 PLC members from several multimember constituencies via block voting. In advance of the 2006 elections, Palestinian electoral law was changed to expand the PLC from 88 to 132 seats and create a degree of proportional representation via a parallel voting system. Each voter receives two ballots. On the first, the voter chooses one of several nationwide party lists. 66 of the PLC seats are distributed proportionally (in accordance with the Sainte-Laguë method) to those lists that receive more than 2 perce ...

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According to B'Tselem, as of July 10, 2005, 821 Israeli civilians have been killed in acts of political violence carried out by Palestinians since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, 553 of whom were killed within the 1949 Armistice lines, mainly by suicide bombers. Targets of attacks included buses, restaurants, discotheques, shopping malls, a university, and civilian homes in Israeli settlements within the West Bank and Gaza Strip. [8],[9]. On-going polls by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center, a Palestinian organizati ...

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Peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Palestinian views of the peace process. See Palestinian views of the peace process Peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Israeli views of the peace process. See Israeli views of the peace process Peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Other views of the peace process. There are many divergent views on the peace process held b ...

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He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 together with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin. Shimon Peres is interested in nanoelectronics. In 1997 he founded the Peres Center for Peace. He is fluent in Hebrew, English, and French. ...

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On November 30, 2005 Peres announced that he was leaving the Labour Party to support Ariel Sharon. In the immediate aftermath of Sharon's debilitating stroke there was speculation that Peres may be chosen to take over as leader of Kadima. One poll suggested the party would win 42 seats in the March 2006 elections with Peres as leader compared to 40 if it were led by Ehud Olmert. Most senior Kadima leaders, however, are former members of Likud and have indicated the ...

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Because nearly all Palestinians (along with the bulk of the nations in the United Nations) consider these territories to be under occupation, they frequently refer to them as the occupied Palestinian territories, or, simply, Occupied Territories. This term is seen by supporters of Israel as connoting much more than a definition, but a host of related propositions that amount to a preventive political argument about the disposition and status of the land: that these territories are under the military control ...

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In 1922, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire that ruled the region of Palestine for four centuries (1517-1917), the British Mandate of Palestine was established. The future of Palestine was hotly disputed between Palestinian Arabs and the Zionist movement. In 1947, the United Nations Partition Plan proposed a division of the mandated territory between an Arab and a Jewish state, with Jerusalem and the surrounding area to be a corpus separatum under a special international regime. The regions allotted to the proposed Arab state in ...

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Golda Meir, a former Israeli Prime Minister, joked that "in Israel, there are 3 million prime ministers". Because of the proportional representation system, there is a large number of political parties, many of whom run on very specialized platforms, often advocating the tenets of particular interest groups. The prevalent balance between the largest parties means that the smaller parties can have disproportionately strong influence to their size. Due to their ability to act as tie breakers, they often use this status to block legislation or promote their own agenda, ev ...

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According to the US Department of State, "The Palestinian National Charter... [was] amended by canceling the articles that are contrary to the letters exchanged between the P.L.O. and the Government of Israel 9-10 September 1993." [8] Yasser Arafat has signed the Declaration of Principles with Israel in 1993 and exchanged mutual renounce of terrorism with Israel mutual recognition between PLO and Israel, a ...

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Politics of Israel - Begin 1977-1983 and Shamir 1983-1984. As head of Likud, Menachem Begin became Prime Minister. He remained Prime Minister through the succeeding election in June 1981, until his resignation in the summer of 1983, when he was succeeded by his Foreign Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. After losing a Knesset vote of confidence early in 1984, Shamir was forced to call for new elections, held in July of that year. The vote was split among numerous parties and provided no clear winner leaving both La ...

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Israeli politics are subject to unique circumstances and often defy simple classification in terms of the political spectrum. Groups are sometimes associated with the political left or right, especially in international circles, according to their stance on issues important to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Politics of Israel - Political right. On the political right: Gush Emunim, Israeli nationalists advocating Jewish settlement of the West Bank and formerly the Gaza Strip, and opposing evacuatio ...

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This note stated that Netanyahu and Arafat met on January 15, 1997, in the presence of the U.S. Special Middle East Coordinator Dennis Ross. They requested him to prepare a "note for the record" to summarize what had been agreed to at their meeting: That the Oslo peace process (1993) must move forward to succeed and that they had concerns and obligations about the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Interim Agreement) of 1995. Accordingly, the two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to implement the Interim Agreement on the ...

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Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Chairman Arafat at the Erez Checkpoint in the presence of US negotiator Dennis Ross. The protocol was initialed at 2 A.M. by Israeli chief negotiator General Dan Shomron and Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. The agreement called for: An IDF withdrawal of 80% of Hebron within ten days. By March 7 Israel would begin the first phase of withdrawal from rural areas in the West Bank. Eight months after the first stage, Israel would carry out the second phase of the withdrawal. ...

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The Gaza Strip is located in the Middle East (at 31°25′N 34°20′E). It has an 11km border with Egypt, near the city of Rafah, and a 51km border with Israel. Religious and nationalist Jews claim the entire Gaza Strip as part of Israel while Palestinians claim it as part of a future Palestinian state. The Government of Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Strip and expelled all Israeli residents who resided mainly in Gush Katif along the South Western coast of Gaza. It also has a 4 ...

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Around 1.37 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip. The majority of the Palestinians are direct descendants of refugees who fled or were expelled from Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. By 1967, the population had grown about six-fold, and the Strip's population has continued to increase since that time. Poverty, unemployment, and poor living conditions are widespread, and their causes have been attributed to the extremely high birth rate, disruptions to the economy due to Israeli closure policies since the first intifada, and/or ...

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Economic output in the Gaza Strip declined by about one-third between 1992 and 1996. This downturn has been variously attributed to corruption and mismanagement by Yasser Arafat and to Israeli closure policies—the imposition of generalized border closures in response to terror attacks in Israel—which disrupted previously established labor and commodity market relationships between Israel and the Strip. The most serious negative social effect of this downturn w ...

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