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  Israel’s violence against Palestinians intensifies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
ISRAEL’S SAVAGE violence against Palestinians intensified by yet another notch in early April.
Israel’s brutality has made life a living hell for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories--and will only fuel the fury that has erupted into resistance.
Israel was responding with excessive force against a population that traditionally uses stones and slingshots and Molotov cocktails.
www.socialistworker.org /2001/366/366_07_Israel.shtml   (1382 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Violence against Israel
The years between Israel's independence and the Six-Day War were characterized by incessant terrorist activity, carried out by Palestinians and often sponsored by Arab nations.
Within months, Israel was again the target of a wave of attacks (at that time mainly consisting of, but not limited to bombings), that originated either in the Palestinian population within the occupied territories, or in Jordan, which was no longer able to contain them.
Notwithstanding the continued European general condemnation of any violence towards civilians, Israelis included, the State of Israel continues to complain that acts taken against European citizens are always labeled as terrorist, but that similar actions against Israel are seldom labeled as such.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Violence-against-Israel   (2769 words)

  
 No2Violence Israel - Combat Violence Against Women
Violence against women is in the daily vernacular naming a woman a slut, a bitch, a hag, a piece of ass, referring to lovemaking as bashing, banging, screwing.
Violence against women is jealousy & possession in a casual or spousal relationship, controlling relationships with friends and family, deciding what you may or may not wear, whether and where you can work, taking charge of your money and finances.
Society must purge itself of the scourge of violence: the police, judiciary, social welfare authorities, the medical establishment, the educational system, leaders in the community, clergy, Rabbis, Kadis - we must all be actively committed to stop violence against women and consequently against children.
www.no2violence.co.il /index_eng.htm   (405 words)

  
 FAQ: Palestinian Violence and Terrorism - Israel's War Against Terror - Palestinian Intentions
Israel only acts in a manner which is in compliance with the principles and practice of armed conflict, and makes every effort to avoid involvement of innocent civilians, taking action only in conditions where inaction by Israel would result in additional loss of innocent lives in imminent terrorist actions.
Israel considers the Fact-Finding Committee's report to be a constructive and positive document, and accepted the four-stage outline recommended in the report: a) the cessation of violence; b) a period of calm; c) confidence building measures by both sides; and d) the renewal of negotiations.
Israel called upon the Palestinian Authority to join the ceasefire, to put an immediate end to the violence and to return to the negotiations in order to resolve the dispute by peaceful means, as both sides had committed themselves to do in the Oslo Accords.
www.israel-wat.com /faq2_eng.htm   (7798 words)

  
 Israel and Mideast Peace
Israel's beginnings were Scorpionic to be sure: a Jewish State, born of world guilt, rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the Holocaust.
Israel's Ascendant, South Node and Chiron are all in Scorpio in the 1st house.
Israel must understand that the only real solution to this conflict is to create a symbiotic, economic society between Israel and Palestine that connects their mutual survival to their mutual prosperity and happiness.
www.astrowisdom.com /Israel.htm   (1606 words)

  
 Violence against Israelis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The years between Israel's independence and the (Tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967; Israel emerged as a major power in the Middle East) Six-Day War were characterized by incessant terrorist activity, carried out by Palestinians and often sponsored by Arab nations.
Israel names the towns of (Click link for more info and facts about Hebron) Hebron, (Click link for more info and facts about Jenin) Jenin, (Click link for more info and facts about Nablus) Nablus and (Click link for more info and facts about Ramallah) Ramallah as centers of this activity.
Many Palestinian spokespeople claim that the (A terrorist bombing carried out by someone who does not hope to survive it) suicide bombings are understandable effects of the unsatisfactory situation in which Palestinians live; mass-murdering Israeli civilians is seen by many Palestinians as the only way to achieve their desired results.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/violence_against_israelis.htm   (2665 words)

  
 Embassy of israel Press releases
Israel cannot accept a situation in which the Palestinians resort to organized, armed confrontations whenever their demands at the negotiating table are not met in full.
Israel cannot accept a negotiating partner who claims to speak the language of peace even as it calls its people to violence and bloodshed.
Israel calls on the governments of countries where the plague of anti-Semitism is spreading to take all measures necessary to ensure the security of Jewish communities - and to bring the perpetrators of these cowardly attacks to justice.
www.israelemb.org /press/2000/November/2000111300.html   (2313 words)

  
 Kadima's Platform, Violence Against Women, HRW vs. Clinton
Implicitly sanctioned violence against women (tacitly upheld by the allocation of budgets and the attitudes of courts, police, media, etc.) is one of the social mechanisms perpetuating relative powerlessness.
Widespread indifference to violence against women in Israel, both at the institutional and social-cultural levels, is clearly discernible in the fact that the distinct phenomenon of Israeli women's murders by Israeli security forces remains largely invisible.
In 2004, the International Court of Justice concluded that Israel’s construction of the wall within the boundaries of the OPT contravenes international humanitarian law and is tantamount to an illegal annexation of the settlements on the “Israel side” of the wall.
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org /publish/article_230.shtml   (2421 words)

  
 Tougher love for Israel | csmonitor.com
The inability or unwillingness of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to curb acts of terrorism against Israel conveys the impression that he alone is the obstacle to peace in the Middle East.
Israel's reluctance is exacerbated by the failure of the country's current leadership to grasp the central fact of a pending Arab majority in geographical Palestine that helped nudge Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to the bargaining table a decade ago.
Without such leadership, the younger Bush risks sharing equally with Israel the blame for the continuation of violence against the Jewish state and for nourishing the atmosphere that has energized the radical groups in the region against which he declared verbal war in his recent State of the Union address.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/0213/p11s02-coop.htm   (747 words)

  
 Israel Hasbara Committee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Israel’s Health Ministry is presently checking whether other countries are encountering the same problem with the bacteria, which seems to be immune to all types of antibiotics.
Israel’s smaller hospitals and health institutions, especially those serving the elderly and people in lower income categories, are also in dire need of finances, medical equipment and supplies to meet the growing needs of the underprivileged.
Israel’s choice for this year’s Eurovision song contest was composed in response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nuclear ambitions and ongoing violent rhetoric towards Israel.
www.infoisrael.net /cgi-local/text.pl?source=2/a/ix/080320072   (3902 words)

  
 Outbreak of Palestinian Violence September 2000
Israeli leaders maintain that the violence was orchestrated by the Palestinian leadership pointing to other incidents of violence against Israeli targets in the Gaza Strip days before the Sharon visit, and to the fact that widespread violence did not break out until a full day after Mr.
The outbreak of Palestinian violence and terrorism was particularly disheartening for Israelis, especially those who were supportive of negotiations with the Palestinians, because it erupted just as the most serious negotiations for a final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians were being pursued.
The PA authorized the members of the Tanzim to conduct armed warfare against Israeli soldiers and civilians and encouraged Palestinian children and teenagers to participate in the early demonstrations to provide cover for Palestinian militia shooting at Israelis.
www.adl.org /israel/advocacy/glossary/outbreak_of_violence.asp   (753 words)

  
 israelinsider: The "cycle of violence" in the Middle East
Israel, which generally assumes enemy rationality in its counterterrorism and war-planning scenarios, can no longer overlook the fact that this assumption is often just plain wrong.
Israel's Islamic enemies, at least on occasion, are altogether ready to disregard ordinary calculations of cost-effectiveness and military balance.
Israel's only choice is to fight this war in a timely and conclusive fashion, or to invite another Jewish genocide.
www.israelinsider.com /views/articles/views_0110.htm   (704 words)

  
 Arafat, the Palestinian Authority and Violence Against Israel
Presumably Arafat understands that the Israeli public "gets the message," without reacting against him, when there is rioting without loss of life, and in reaction to acts perceived as Israeli provocation, as in Hebron initially; hence it is likely that here he made direct decisions as to when to commence and when to cease.
The use of violence -- often low-level demonstrations, occasionally worse -- will likely remain one of the arrows in the PLO quiver at least until it achieves a status, and obtains resources, that enable it to rely on classical political means of realizing its policies.
Violence will also remain a relatively easy option as long as Israelis and Palestinians live and/or work in close proximity, and behave aggressively toward one another, as in Hebron and around several other settlements.
www.charitywire.com /charity11/00331.html   (997 words)

  
 Violence And The Sacred: Understanding The Coming Wave Of Terrorism Against Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
To understand the rationale and operation of coming Palestinian terrorism against Israel, it is first necessary to understand PLO/HAMAS/ISLAMIC JIHAD conceptions of the sacred.
This is the true meaning of Islamic terrorism against Israel; it is a form of sacred violence oriented toward the sacrifice of both enemies and martyrs.
For the Palestinians who act upon linkage between violence and the sacred, the strength of their sacrificial behavior is drawn from concealment.
www.gamla.org.il /english/beres/26.htm   (1006 words)

  
 Violence against Israel 'a mistake': Abbas - Middle East Conflict - www.smh.com.au
The armed uprising against Israel was a mistake and should end, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview published yesterday, for the first time speaking in public about a long-held view.
Israel is keeping its distance from Abbas ahead of the election, not wanting to hurt his chances.
Israel has continued targeting militants with smaller raids and military officials said Tuesday that Mofaz ordered the army to step up its targeted attacks against Palestinians responsible for digging the tunnels, which are also used to smuggle weapons into Gaza.
www.smh.com.au /news/Middle-East-Conflict/Violence-against-Israel-a-mistake-Abbas/2004/12/14/1102787085325.html   (780 words)

  
 israelinsider: After Netanya: the religious basis of Palestinian suicide bombing
To understand the still widening Palestinian war against Israel's civilians, it is first necessary to understand the Palestinian concept of sacrifice.
For Palestinians who will continue their indecent war against Israel - and they number in the tens if not hundreds of thousands - terrorism will be the preferred means to restore harmony to their fractionated community and to reinforce the Palestinian social fabric.
Only as Israel begins to understand that this solution is rooted in the concept of sacrifice can it begin to take essential steps toward national survival.
www.israelinsider.com /views/articles/views_0046.htm   (922 words)

  
 Hamas tells Russia it plans to stop violence against Israelis
Renouncing violence and recognizing Israel are both key demands of international peace negotiators.
Israel should start by giving the Palestinians back their land and water back to the Green Line.
Palestinian militants fired more missiles on southern Israel Monday morning, one of which struck Sderot city as Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz was in his hometown casting his ballot for primaries in his coalition Labour Party.
www.israelnews.net /story/230940   (694 words)

  
 The Israeli Government's Official Website, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Arava and Eilat region in southern Israel is committed to becoming a global leader by adopting a comprehensive strategy of innovative renewable energy ventures as the core of its regional development plans.
Israel is encouraged by the Arab League’s move to support the moderates in the Palestinian Authority and help them reach compromises with Israel.
Israel urges the truly moderate forces of the Muslim world to pressure the Palestinian leadership to cease violence and fulfill their commitments, so peace can emerge on the political horizon.
www.mfa.gov.il /MFA/Archive/Peace   (708 words)

  
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New York, New York, February 16, 2007 … Protests and violence from the Muslim world in response to Israel's rebuilding of a ramp near the Al Aksa compound are "a deliberate attempt to incite hatred against Israel," according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
"The false charge that Israel is plotting to destroy Al Aksa mosque to build a Jewish temple has been used by Palestinian and Muslim leaders as a tactic to mobilize popular outrage against Israel for decades.
Their alarmist and unfounded charges that the excavations were part of a plot against the mosque were echoed throughout the Arab and Muslim media.
www.adl.org /PresRele/IslME_62/4979_14.htm   (449 words)

  
 BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Egypt acts against Israel violence
In Israel's first reaction to the recall, Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami said Egypt's decision was "grave" and could harm Egypt's ability to play a role in the Middle East peace process.
In further violence overnight, Israeli troops are reported to have shot and killed three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Israel rejects any deployment of an observer mission except in the context of an overall peace settlement.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/middle_east/1033526.stm   (700 words)

  
 Findings from the National Violence against Women Survey, July 2000
According to the National Violence against Women (NVAW) survey, sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, intimate partner violence is pervasive in U.S. society.
Violence perpetrated against women by intimates is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior.
Legislative reform and the struggle to eradicate violence against women in the Dominican Republic.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0875303.html   (758 words)

  
 Zionist Organization of America - April 12, 2000 - Egypt, Jordan & PA Join Arab League In Demanding Halt To Aliyah ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Regarding the use of violence, the Arab League asserted that "there should be a distinction between terrorism and the right of peoples to resist foreign occupation in order to gain their national liberation"; the Arab League has always used "resistance" and "national liberation" as euphemisms for Arab terrorism against Israel.
Morton A. Klein, National President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), said: "This is a virtual declaration of war against Israel's survival as a Jewish State.
It is especially shocking that three regimes that have signed peace treaties with Israel continue to engage in this sort of hostile behavior against Israel.
www.zoa.org /pressrel2000/20000412a.htm   (249 words)

  
 newsobserver.com | Hamas militants vow violence against Israel
Hamas promises to resume attacks on Israel in retaliation for the deaths of at least 10 Palestinians, including three children.
The Hamas statement came as the Israeli military said it was investigating whether an artillery shell fired by its forces struck a beach in the northern Gaza Strip, killing at least seven Palestinian civilians.
Israel regularly fires shells into an area of the northern Gaza Strip from which Palestinian militants who have rejected the truce often launch Qassam rockets into southern Israel.
www.newsobserver.com /110/story/449144.html   (606 words)

  
 American Thinker: Escalating Violence Faces Israel
Israel and the prospects for peace in the Middle East face grave difficulties in the face of Prime Minister Sharon's massive stroke.
Israel's current military offensive is also in response to the inability of Palestinian Authority (PA) forces and that of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to disarm terrorists and clamp down on their operations.
Israel should never again be put in a situation that every time it reaches a dead lock in negotiations three car bombs go off in Tel Aviv.
www.americanthinker.com /2006/01/escalating_violence_faces_isra.html   (2094 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Violence against Israelis Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Many acts of violence and acts of terrorism were committed by individuals, groups and employees of the Palestinian National Authority against Israeli civili...
Prior acts of Palestinian terrorism omitted, as are acts have not resulted in deaths but may have resulted in woundings.
Accept destruction at the hands of groups known for their violence and with the stated goal, as well as a history of, mass murder of Israeli civilians.
www.ipedia.com /violence_against_israelis.html   (2888 words)

  
 The Washington Post's Israel Problem
Israel demanded that Palestinian Authority President Yasir Arafat desist from abetting such savagery and abide by his commitment under Oslo to fight terrorism.
In a sermon on July 11 the PA-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem promised revenge "against the colonialist settlers who are sons of monkeys and pigs..." The PA Sport Minister declared on July 22 that "All of Palestine is the homeland of the Palestinian people, beginning with Acre, Haifa and Jaffa." And so on and on.
Moreover, Arafat has sanctioned violence in other ways, allowing PA security services to recruit into their own ranks members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad who had been involved in terrorist attacks against Israelis.
world.std.com /~camera/docs/oncamera/ocgellmn.html   (1325 words)

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