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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
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• 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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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 - 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
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Shomron (Samaria) is literally a watch-mountain or a watch-tower. In the heart of the mountains of Israel, a few miles north-west of Shechem, stands the "hill of Shomeron," a solitary mountain, a great "mamelon". It is an oblong hill, with steep but not inaccessible sides, and a long flat top. Omri, the king of Israel, purchased this hill from Shemer its owner for two talents of silver, and built on its broad summit the city to which he gave the name of "Shomeron", i.e., Samaria, as the new capital of his kingdom instead of Tirzah (1 Kings 16:24). As such it possessed many advantage ...

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Samaria, Samaria - Geographical location, Samaria - Political control, Samaria - Samaria today, Samaria - Samaritans, Samaria - Capital of the Kingdom of Israel, Samaria - Ancient occupation, Samaria - New Testament reference

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In essence, the accords call for withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank and affirm the Palestinian right to self-government within those areas through the creation of the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian rule would last for a five year interim period during which a permanent agreement would be negotiated (beginning not later than May 1996). Permanent issues such as Jerusalem, refugees, Israeli settlements in the area, security and borders were deliberately excluded from the Accords and left to be decided ...

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Palestinian National Authority - Violence against civilians. The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group reports everyday disagreements and clashes between the various political factions, families and cities that a complete picture of Palestinian society is painted. These divisions have during the course of the al Aqsa Intifada also led to an increasingly violent ‘Intrafada’. In the 10 year period from 1993 to ...

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Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Israeli Security. Israeli statistics indicate that the barrier has drastically reduced the number of Palestinian infiltrations and suicide bombings and other attacks on civilians in Israel and in Israeli settlements, and Israeli officials assert that completion of the barrier will make it even more effective in stopping these attacks [15] since "An absolute halt in terrorist activities has been noti ...

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Israeli West Bank barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - History and purpose, Israeli West Bank barrier - Route and Route Timeline, Israeli West Bank barrier - Structure, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects and Consequences, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Israeli Security, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Demography and Asset Values, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Palestinians, Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli Supreme Court decisions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Decision of 2004, Israeli West Bank barrier - Decision of 2005, Israeli West Bank barrier - United Nations and International Court of Justice, Israeli West Bank barrier - Opinions on the barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Palestinian opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - International opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Names of the barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - Graffiti on wall sections, Israeli West Bank barrier - Footnotes

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The land, where the city of Kfar-Sava now is, was bought in 1892 by a group of Jewish Zionist settlers, who then offered the lands for sale. The acquisition turned out to be unsuccessful, because the lands were located at a desolate, neglected area and was far from any other Jewish settlement. After the failure they were finally bought 1896 by the Baron Edmond James de Rothschild. In 1903, the Baron sold the land to the farmers of Petah-Tikva to be populated by the 2nd generation - the immediate descendants of the farmers. However, they in t ...

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Kefar Sava, Kefar Sava - Demographics, Kefar Sava - History, Kefar Sava - Income, Kefar Sava - Education, Kefar Sava - External link

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Palestinian National Authority - Violence against civilians. The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group reports everyday disagreements and clashes between the various political factions, families and cities that a complete picture of Palestinian society is painted. These divisions have during the course of the al Aqsa Intifada also led to an increasingly violent ‘Intrafada’. In the 10 year period from 1993 to ...

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Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian National Authority - Officials, Palestinian National Authority - Political parties and elections, Palestinian National Authority - Politics and Internal structure, Palestinian National Authority - Current events, Palestinian National Authority - Finances, Palestinian National Authority - Use of European Union assistance, Palestinian National Authority - Payments to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, Palestinian National Authority - Allegations of lawlessness in Palestinian areas, Palestinian National Authority - Violence against civilians, Palestinian National Authority - Violence against officials, Palestinian National Authority - Footnotes

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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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Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli opinions. Israeli public opinion has been very strongly in favor of the barrier, partly in the hope that it will improve security and partly in the belief (denied by the government) that the barrier marks the eventual border of a Palestinian state. Due to the latter possibility, the settler movement opposes the barrier, although this opposition has waned since it became clear the barrier would be diverted to the east of major Israeli settlements such as Ariel. According to Haar ...

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Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2000. On September 27, Sgt. David Biri (Information from Israeli government) was killed; Israeli sources typically view this as the start of the Intifada. On September 28, the Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited in the Temple Mount (called Har HaBayit in Hebrew, Al-Haram As-Sharif in Arabic) in the Old City of Jerusalem, the holiest site for Judaism, the third holiest site in Islam, and a place of special significance to Christianity. The pretext for Shar ...

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Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli opinions. Israeli public opinion has been very strongly in favor of the barrier, partly in the hope that it will improve security and partly in the belief (denied by the government) that the barrier marks the eventual border of a Palestinian state. Due to the latter possibility, the settler movement opposes the barrier, although this opposition has waned since it became clear the barrier would be diverted to the east of major Israeli settlements such as Ariel. According to Haar ...

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Israeli West Bank barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - History and purpose, Israeli West Bank barrier - Route and Route Timeline, Israeli West Bank barrier - Structure, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects and Consequences, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Israeli Security, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Demography and Asset Values, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Palestinians, Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli Supreme Court decisions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Decision of 2004, Israeli West Bank barrier - Decision of 2005, Israeli West Bank barrier - United Nations and International Court of Justice, Israeli West Bank barrier - Opinions on the barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Palestinian opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - International opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Names of the barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - Graffiti on wall sections, Israeli West Bank barrier - Footnotes

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According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), in 2001 the ethnic makeup of the city was 99.9% Jewish and 0.1% Others. There were 523 immigrant settlers. See Population groups in Israel. According to CBS, in 2001 there were 37,000 males and 39,600 females. The population of the city was spread out with 31.1% 19 years of age or younger, 16.3% between 20 and 29, 17.7% between 30 and 44, 20.2% from 45 to 59, 3.5% from 60 to 64, and 11.3% 65 years of age or older. T ...

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Kefar Sava, Kefar Sava - Demographics, Kefar Sava - History, Kefar Sava - Income, Kefar Sava - Education, Kefar Sava - External link

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On two occasions the Israeli government has been instructed by the Supreme Court of Israel to alter the route of the barrier to ensure that negative impacts on Palestinians would be minimized and proportional [53] [54]. Israeli West Bank barrier - Decision of 2004. In February 2004, Israel's High Court of Justice began hearing petitions from two Israeli human rights organizations, the Hamoked Centre for the Defense of the Individual and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, against the building of th ...

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Israeli West Bank barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - History and purpose, Israeli West Bank barrier - Route and Route Timeline, Israeli West Bank barrier - Structure, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects and Consequences, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Israeli Security, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Demography and Asset Values, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Palestinians, Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli Supreme Court decisions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Decision of 2004, Israeli West Bank barrier - Decision of 2005, Israeli West Bank barrier - United Nations and International Court of Justice, Israeli West Bank barrier - Opinions on the barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Palestinian opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - International opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Names of the barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - Graffiti on wall sections, Israeli West Bank barrier - Footnotes

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The tactics of the two sides in the conflict are largely based upon their resources and goals. Despite the claims of both sides to the contrary, polling consistently shows that a majority of both Palestinians and Israelis agree on the same basic goals: a two state solution and a right for Palestinian refugees to move to the new Palestinian state (but not to Israel). Al-Aqsa Intifada - Palestinians. On the Palestinian side, a variety of groups are involved in violence such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al ...

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Oslo Accords, Oslo Accords - Background, Oslo Accords - Principles of the Accords, 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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Since its inception, Israel has erected physical barriers as a means of protection against fedayeen and guerrilla attacks. The idea of creating a physical barrier between the Israeli and Palestinian populations was first proposed by Yitzhak Rabin in 1992, following the murder of an Israeli teenage girl in Jerusalem. Rabin said that Israel must "take Gaza out of Tel Aviv", in order to minimize friction between the peoples. Following an outbreak of violent incidents in Gaza in October 1994, Rabin announced his stance that "we have to de ...

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Israeli West Bank barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - History and purpose, Israeli West Bank barrier - Route and Route Timeline, Israeli West Bank barrier - Structure, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects and Consequences, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Israeli Security, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Demography and Asset Values, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Palestinians, Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli Supreme Court decisions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Decision of 2004, Israeli West Bank barrier - Decision of 2005, Israeli West Bank barrier - United Nations and International Court of Justice, Israeli West Bank barrier - Opinions on the barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Palestinian opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - International opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Names of the barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - Graffiti on wall sections, Israeli West Bank barrier - Footnotes

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The barrier generally runs along or near the 1949 Jordanian-Israeli armistice/Green Line, but diverges in many places [7] to include on the Israeli side several of the highly populated areas of Jewish settlements in the West Bank such as East Jerusalem, Ariel, Gush Etzion, Emmanuel, Karnei Shomron, Givat Ze'ev, Oranit, and Maale Adumim. Because of the complex path it follows, most of the barrier is actually set in the West Bank [8] and diverges from the "Green Line" by anywhere from 200 meters to as much as 20 kilometers, with the result tha ...

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Israeli West Bank barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - History and purpose, Israeli West Bank barrier - Route and Route Timeline, Israeli West Bank barrier - Structure, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects and Consequences, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Israeli Security, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Demography and Asset Values, Israeli West Bank barrier - Effects on Palestinians, Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli Supreme Court decisions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Decision of 2004, Israeli West Bank barrier - Decision of 2005, Israeli West Bank barrier - United Nations and International Court of Justice, Israeli West Bank barrier - Opinions on the barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - Israeli opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Palestinian opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - International opinions, Israeli West Bank barrier - Names of the barrier, Israeli West Bank barrier - Graffiti on wall sections, Israeli West Bank barrier - Footnotes

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According to CBS, as of 2000, in the city there were 31,528 salaried workers and 2,648 are self-employed. The mean monthly wage in 2000 for a salaried worker in the city is ILS 7,120, a real change of 10.1% over the course of 2000. Salaried males have a mean monthly wage of ILS 9,343 (a real change of 9.9%) versus ILS 5,033 for females (a real change of 9.7%). The mean income for the self-employed is 8,980. There are 1,015 people who receive unemployment benefits and 1,682 pe ...

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Kefar Sava, Kefar Sava - Demographics, Kefar Sava - History, Kefar Sava - Income, Kefar Sava - Education, Kefar Sava - External link

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The accords aroused in the two peoples, the Israeli and the Palestinian, wave of hope to the end of the violence, but not everyone participated in this hope. In Israel, a hard argument developed around the accords. Opposite the support of the left wing, there was a strong resistance of the right wing. After a two days discussion in the Knesset on the government proclamation in the issue of the accord and the exchange of the letters, in September 23, 1993 a vote of confidence was held in w ...

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Oslo Accords, Oslo Accords - Background, Oslo Accords - Principles of the Accords, 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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