| August 2, 2009 | - Two people died in Tel Aviv when a gunman opened fire at a gay club, and 50 Palestinians were evicted from their East Jerusalem homes, some at gunpoint; Jewish families moved in soon after. “Now our future,” said one evictee, “is in the streets.”
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
AP
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| May 31, 2009 | - Six people were killed in the West Bank when Fatah raided a Hamas hideout.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| May 8, 2009 | - Pope Benedict XVI visited Israel, where he spoke of his support for a Palestinian state and Israeli president Shimon Peres presented him with an Old Testament that fits on the head of a pin.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Nanowerk
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| January 22, 2009 | - and Israel reserved the right to blow up Palestinian smuggling tunnels.
| Source:
Hurriyet Daily News
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| January 18, 2009 | -
Israel and Hamas agreed to a one-week ceasefire in Gaza, where Gazan officials estimated that 1,300 Palestinians had died.
| Source:
Hamas Agrees to One-Week Cease-Fire in Gaza Conflict
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| January 16, 2009 | - “My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town of Staszow,” said Sir Gerald Kaufman, a British MP who was raised as an Orthodox Jew. “A German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers.”
| Source:
UK Jewish lawmaker: Israeli forces acting like Nazis
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| January 12, 2009 | - Roughly 900 Palestinians had died in the fighting, half of them civilians and one third of them children. Fourteen Israelis had been killed. Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, reported that Israel was “getting close to achieving the goals it set for itself” and “must not miss out, at the last moment, on what has been achieved through an unprecedented national effort.”
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 4, 2009 | -
Israel extended its occupation of the Gaza strip, sending in ground forces and cutting the territory in two. Hamas fired 32 missiles at Israel. The Palestinian health ministry reported that more than 500 Palestinians, most of them civilians, including 21 children, have been killed so far; the Israeli military stated that 80 percent of the Palestinian dead were members of Hamas. “We don't intend neither to occupy Gaza nor to crush Hamas, but to crush terror,” explained Israeli President Shimon Peres. “And Hamas needs a real and serious lesson.” “We have restrained ourselves for a long time,” said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
BBC
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| December 28, 2008 | -
Israel bombed Hamas targets in Gaza for three days, killing at least 300 people, 50 of them civilians, and blowing up a mosque and a television station. Palestinians seeking to flee into Egypt were turned back; a doctor at a Gaza hospital said that after 18 months of Israeli sanctions the lack of medical facilities made it better for a patient “to be brought in dead.” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that the bombing, ordered in retaliation for ongoing rocket attacks by Hamas, would be “widened and deepened as is necessary,” and an area around Gaza was declared a “closed military zone,” with access forbidden to civilians, including journalists. “No one,” explained an Israeli government spokeswoman, “is trying to hide anything.” Anti-Israeli protests and demonstrations erupted throughout the Arab world, and UFO-cultists in Tel Aviv canceled a “mega-orgy” for world peace.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Ynet News
Source 3:
New York Times
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| March 21, 2008 | - Drivers in the Gaza strip, where Israel limits fuel supplies and black market gas costs $27 per gallon, used vegetable oil and turpentine as fuel, producing toxic fumes that result in diarrhea and stomach pain. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cancelled four global-warming research expeditions, citing the cost of fuel. American cowboys could not afford to drive their horses to rodeos, and those who lived near the border were filling their tanks in Mexico, where gas is subsidized.
| Source 1:
AP via Anchorage Daily News
Source 2:
AP via Detroit Free Press
Source 3:
Houston Chron
Source 4:
LAT
Source 5:
LAT
Source 6:
WP
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| March 9, 2008 | - A Palestinian gunman killed eight Israeli students, seven of them teenagers, at a religious school in Jerusalem. “The attacker didn't come to Mercaz Harav Yeshiva by chance,” said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, calling the school the “flagship of religious Zionism.”
| Source:
Jerusalem Post
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| March 2, 2008 | - Responding to rocket attacks on Ashkelon, once the largest seaport of Canaan, Israel sent tanks, troops, and fighter jets to northern Gaza. Fifty-four Palestinians—eight of them children and sixteen of them militants—and two Israeli soldiers died in one day of fighting; Israel's Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said that the Palestinians were risking a “shoah,” the Hebrew word for “big disaster.” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas described Israeli raids as “more than a holocaust” and, as the number of Palestinian dead rose to about 100, suspended contact with Israel.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Wikipedia
Source 3:
BBC News
Source 4:
BBC News
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| January 27, 2008 | - At 20 points along the Gaza Strip's southern border, Hamas operatives detonated explosives to topple an Israeli-built fence, allowing as many as 200,000 Palestinians—13 percent of the territory's population—to cross into Egypt and shop. The Gazans purchased camels, candy, cement, chairs, cheese, cigarettes, computers, cows, doughnuts, gasoline, generators, goats, mattresses, medicine, motorcycles, pistols, potato chips, sheep, snack cakes, soap, and televisions. Supplies at Egyptian shops dwindled, prices spiked, and fistfights ensued. Several Gazan women married Egyptians, and the Israel Defense Force patrolled its southern border for would-be suicide bombers and hostage takers.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Jerusalem Post
Source 3:
AFP
Source 4:
Dublin Independent
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| January 20, 2008 | - The lone power plant operating in Hamas-controlled Gaza was shut down for lack of fuel. “At least 800,000 people,” said official Derar Abu Sissi, “are now in darkness.”
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BBC News
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| October 15, 2007 | - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice painted an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference as a “moment of opportunity” for Israelis and Palestinians, while film director David Lynch claimed that 250 experts in Transcendental Meditation could end that conflict by dissolving “the suffocating rubber clown suit” of hatred.
| Source 1:
The Boston Herald
Source 2:
Checkpoint Jerusalem
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| October 15, 2007 | - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice painted an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference as a “moment of opportunity” for Israelis and Palestinians, while film director David Lynch claimed that 250 experts in Transcendental Meditation could end that conflict by dissolving “the suffocating rubber clown suit” of hatred.
| Source 1:
The Boston Herald
Source 2:
Checkpoint Jerusalem
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| September 22, 2007 | -
Israel, a few days before Yom Kippur, declared that the Gaza Strip is now a “hostile entity,” and the office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (who is under investigation for corruption) announced a collective-punishment plan that includes “limiting the transfer of goods to the Gaza Strip, cutting back fuel and electricity, and restricting the movement of people to and from the Strip.” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum condemned Israel's “criminal, terrorist Zionist actions.”
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
BBC News
Source 3:
ABC News
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| August 12, 2007 | - A rocket launched from Gaza struck a ranch owned by comatose former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon.
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Israel Today
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| August 10, 2007 | - Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of Muammar Qaddafi, affirmed that recently released Bulgarian and Palestinian medical workers accused of spreading HIV to Libyan babies were tortured while in custody. “Yes,” he said, “they were tortured by electricity, and they were threatened that their family members would be targeted.”
| Source:
Chicago Tribune
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| August 4, 2007 | -
Israelis fired apples, chilis, corn, cucumbers, mangoes, and tomatoes into the Gaza Strip.
| Source:
Daily Mail
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| July 25, 2007 | - An Israeli study concluding that hummus stimulates serotonin production bolstered sentiment that eating the popular chickpea dip could help Israelis and Palestinians reconcile.
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor
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| July 4, 2007 | -
Hamas brokered a deal for the freedom of BBC reporter Alan Johnston, who had been held for 114 days in Gaza.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| July 1, 2007 | -
Tony Blair alighted on a mission to bring cohesion to Palestinian institutions.
| Source:
Jerusalem Post
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| June 17, 2007 | -
Israel and the United States tacitly agreed on a policy to treat the West Bank and Gaza as separate entities.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 15, 2007 | - President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Palestinian unity government and declared a state of emergency after masked Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip. Hamas looters broke into former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat's home and stole military outfits, photographs of his daughter, and his Nobel Peace Prize. “I see Iraq here,” a bystander in Gaza said. “There is no mercy. We are afraid. See how ferocious this fight was? There is no future for us.”
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
The Jerusalem Post
Source 3:
New York Times
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| May 28, 2007 | -
Hamas told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas it would accept a truce with Israel if the IDF halted air attacks in Gaza, and threatened to kill hostage Gilad Shalit should Israel fail to comply.
| Source:
Ha'aretz
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| May 20, 2007 | -
Hamas was fighting Fatah in Gaza and sending Qassam rockets into Israel, which was bombing Gaza in return.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 20, 2007 | - Troops in northern Lebanon were fighting against Fatah Islam, a splinter group from a Syrian-backed
Palestinian splinter group.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 29, 2007 | - In a Ha'aretz op-ed, Gilad Sharon, son of vegetative former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, advocated stripping Arab Israelis of their citizenship. Hamas declared an end to its ceasefire with Israel, armed protestors dropped the corpse of a murdered man named Hassan Abu Sharkh in the Palestinian Authority Parliament, several rockets struck Israel from Gaza, and the Israel Defense Forces killed three Hamas agents planting a bomb by the Gaza border fence.
| Source 1:
Ha'aretz
Source 2:
International Herald Tribune
Source 3:
Jerusalem Post
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| March 27, 2007 | - At least four Palestinians in Gaza were killed by what authorities called a “sewage tsunami.”
| Source:
AFP via Breitbart
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| March 26, 2007 | - At the Gaza‒Egypt border a woman with three baby crocodiles strapped to her waist was detained after guards noticed that she looked “strangely fat.”
| Source:
AP via New York Times
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| March 8, 2007 | - A human rights group in Israel accused the country's army of using Palestinians, including an 11-year-old girl, as human shields.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| February 9, 2007 | - In Israel, the streets of Old Jerusalem “ran slick with pulped oranges and tomatoes” as Palestinian protesters and Israeli police officers battled one another.
| Source:
The Australian
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| January 15, 2007 | -
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Israeli calls for a temporary Palestinian state.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 20, 2006 | -
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya said that Hamas would never recognize Israel.
| Source:
monsters and critics.com
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| September 9, 2006 | -
Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter said Palestinians were wrong to think war with Israel would transform them into “some kind of golden child.” Instead, he said, it made them “a shit child.”
| Source:
The New Yorker
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| August 23, 2006 | - The Holy Jihad Brigades, a Palestinian militant group, justified the kidnapping of two Fox News journalists by saying that "the powers of evil are united in waging wars against Islam and their people.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 21, 2006 | -
Israeli troops detained a Hamas legislator in the West Bank and engaged Hezbollah guerillas in a shootout near Boudai, Lebanon.
| Source:
The Wall Street Journal
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| July 6, 2006 | -
Israel continued its push into Gaza in search of an abducted soldier. “We want to use an iron fist,” said Isaac Herzog, a Labor Party minister, “but cautiously, with a lot of consideration.” Palestinians, who did not cease to fire missiles into Israel, were busy counting their dead.
| Source:
International Herald Tribune
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| June 20, 2006 | - The mother of a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli air strike told reporters, “If I [got] my hands on an explosive belt, I would go and explode myself inside Israel to tear the hearts out for their children.”
| Source:
Forbes via Google News
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| June 18, 2006 | - It was revealed that in 2003 the Bush Administration refused an offer by Iran to end Iranian support of Palestinian
terror organizations and recognize Israel in exchange for an end to sanctions and permission to peacefully develop its nuclear program.
| Source:
The Jerusalem Post
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| June 17, 2006 | - The Israeli military absolved itself of responsibility for the deaths of seven members of the picnicking Ghalia family from explosions on a beach in Gaza. An Israeli committee admitted that Israeli forces fired six shells on and around the beach, but found that a mine planted by Hamas (or possibly a buried shell) had, by coincidence, exploded and killed the family at around the same time as the shelling. A former Pentagon battlefield analyst said that the shrapnel and craters he found at the scene of the explosion were consistent with shelling by Israelis, as were the wounds suffered by survivors.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| June 2, 2006 | -
Palestinian militants conducted a raid in Israel and abducted an Israeli soldier, whom they carried to Gaza via a secret tunnel. Israel retaliated by bombing Gaza's main power plant, two bridges, the offices of Palestine's prime minister and interior minister, and a soccer field, and by arresting as many as 64 Palestinian officials. Palestinian militants demanded that Israel release all Palestinian prisoners who are women or under the age of 18. A number of Israeli and Palestinian officials speculated that Israel's actions were intended to weaken or topple Palestine's Hamas government.
| Source:
VOA News
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| May 25, 2006 | - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the Hamas-led
Palestinian Authority to accept the goal of establishing a Palestinian state (and thus acknowledge Israel's right to exist); if Hamas does not comply, he said that he will call a national referendum on the issue.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| April 17, 2006 | - The Iranian government promised to give $50 million to the Palestinian Authority, now controlled by Hamas, which let it be known that it would recognize Israel's right to exist if the Jewish state were to withdraw from the entire West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
Democracy Now!
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| March 29, 2006 | -
Canada cut off all relations with the Palestinian government.
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CBC News
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| March 28, 2006 | -
Palestine fired a larger-than-usual missile into an Israeli kibbutz, without any casualties.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 14, 2006 | - The Israeli army attacked a Palestinian jail to seize six militants.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 27, 2006 | - The European Union approved a $140 million aid package for Palestine.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 19, 2006 | -
Israel froze its $50 million monthly tax payments to Palestine.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 14, 2006 | - The United States and Israel were working together to destabilize the Hamas-led government of Palestine. “It's not possible,” countered Hamas spokesman Farhat Asaad, “for the U.S. and the world to turn its back on an elected democracy.”
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
| Source 1:
Arab News
Source 2:
Al Jazeera
Source 3:
BBC News
Source 4:
Channel 4
Source 5:
ReviewJournal.com
Source 6:
CBC News
Source 7:
Al Jazeera
Source 8:
ABC News Online
Source 9:
Bloomberg News
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| January 30, 2006 | - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that the United States would cut off aid to Palestine if Hamas assumed power without changing its policies. "I've asked why nobody saw it coming," said Rice, even though publications like The Guardian and the The New York Times had, since at least 2003, published regular reports on the increasing popularity of Hamas in Palestine. "It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse."
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
The New York Times
Source 3:
Gawker.com
Source 4:
The Guardian
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| January 26, 2006 | - The Islamic group Hamas won 76 of 132 parliamentary seats in Palestine's parliamentary elections, unseating the Fatah party. U.S. President George W. Bush, whose administration supported open democratic elections in Palestine, said that the United States would not negotiate with Hamas until the organization renounced its chartered goal of destroying
Israel.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 18, 2005 | -
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had a stroke. Palestinians celebrated Sharon's stroke and leaders of Kahane, the ultra-nationalist Jewish group, called on members to pray for the Prime Minister's death.
| Source:
Y Net News
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| October 10, 2005 | - It was claimed that President Bush had told a group of Palestinian ministers in 2003 that he acted on divine orders. “God would tell me,” Bush said, “‘George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.’ And I did, and then God would tell me, ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq . . .’ And I did.” The White House described these claims as “absurd.”
| Source 1:
BBC Press Office
Source 2:
New Zealand Herald
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| October 6, 2005 | - The Supreme Court of Israel ordered the Israeli Army to stop using Palestinians as human shields.
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 26, 2005 | -
Hamas announced that it would stop using the Gaza Strip to stage incursions into Israel after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised to crack down on the group.
| Source:
LA Times
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| September 12, 2005 | - The last Israeli troops left Gaza,
| Source:
The New York Times
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| August 22, 2005 | - A California
Army veteran and resident of the United States for 51 years was upset with J.P. Morgan Chase for repeatedly getting his name wrong in their credit-card database, misspelling "Sami Habbas" as "Palestinian Bomber."
| Source:
ABC News
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| August 11, 2005 | - Thousands of Israelis rallied against the Gaza pullout in Tel Aviv. “God will hear us,” a rabbi told the crowd. A few days later, Israel began its withdrawal from Gaza, lowering a road barrier at the Kissufim Crossing as 200 people looked on. The barrier didn't work, so Israeli authorities finally rigged it shut with some wire.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
AP
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| August 10, 2005 | -
Palestinian authorities forced hundreds of volunteers to stop making a 2,460-foot sandwich.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 9, 2005 | - President Mahmoud Abbas announced that the Palestinian general election will be delayed until January 2006.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 7, 2005 | -
Israel's finance minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, quit his post in protest of Israel's pullout from Gaza.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 6, 2005 | - The Presbyterian Church USA announced that it would ask Caterpillar, Motorola, ITT Industries, and United Technologies to stop providing Israel with the materials it uses to enforce the occupation of Palestine.
| Source:
Kentucky.com
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| July 8, 2005 | - Leaders at the G8 meeting decided to give $3 billion to Palestine.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 5, 2005 | -
Mahmoud Abbas postponed Palestinian elections until an unspecified date.
| Source:
Haaretz.com
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| June 3, 2005 | - Two Israeli soldiers said that they were ordered to take part in revenge killings of Palestinians. “It doesn't matter,” one of the soldiers said he was told. “They took six of ours, and we are going to take six of theirs.” His unit went on to kill three Palestinians in an ambush. “And we acted flawlessly,” said the soldier. “We performed superbly.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 2, 2005 | -
Israel released three hundred ninety-eight Palestinian prisoners.
| Source:
Haaretz.com
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| June 1, 2005 | - Haim Yavin, one of the founders of Israel's state television channel and the country's most respected news presenter, broadcast a documentary showing Israel's occupation of Palestine as brutal. “I cannot really do anything to relieve this misery,” he said, “other than document it.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 27, 2005 | - In the West Bank, Israeli soldiers broke into the home of a Palestinian family so that they could watch a soccer game.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 26, 2005 | - President George W. Bush promised $50 million in aid to Palestine.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 25, 2005 | -
Israeli settlers were accused of spreading rat poison over the fields of Palestinian
farmers.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 21, 2005 | - In Tehran, around 400 Iranians signed up to become suicide bombers. “As a Muslim, it is my duty,” said a mother of two, “to sacrifice my life for oppressed Palestinian
children.”
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 10, 2005 | -
Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian teenagers in Gaza.
| Source:
Haaretz
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| April 4, 2005 | -
Israel was planning to dump 10,000 tons of garbage a month into the West Bank.
| Source:
Haaretz
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| March 18, 2005 | -
Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced that they would join the PLO.
| Source:
Haaretz
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| March 1, 2005 | - A U.S. government report suggested that there are more Palestinians than Israelis.
| Source:
Electronic Intifada
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| February 28, 2005 | -
West Bank
settlers were given stickers to prove their residency, so that they might drive more quickly through checkpoints.
| Source:
Ha'aretz
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| February 26, 2005 | -
Israel refused to hand over security control of the West Bank to Palestinians.
| Source:
CTV.ca
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| February 25, 2005 | -
Israel planned to build 6,391 new homes for settlers in the West Bank.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 21, 2005 | -
Israel freed five hundred Palestinian prisoners.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 15, 2005 | -
Ariel Sharon announced plans to withdraw 8,500 settlers from Gaza and several hundred settlers from the West Bank. The Knesset ratified the plan, setting aside $870 million for resettlement, even though some Israeli parliamentarians compared the withdrawal to the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
New York Times
Source 3:
New York Times
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| February 8, 2005 | -
Mahmoud Abbas and Ariel Sharon shook hands across a table and declared a truce between Israel and Palestine.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 2, 2005 | -
Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to attend a peace summit in Egypt.
| Source:
CBC News
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| January 19, 2005 | - The day after he was sworn in as president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas asked militants to refrain from violence so as not to "provide excuses to Israel" to attack Palestinians. Two hours later a suicide bomber killed one Israeli and wounded seven, and Ariel Sharon ordered a new crackdown on factions in Gaza.
| Source:
New York Daily News
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| January 9, 2005 | -
Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority. He dedicated his victory to "the soul of the brother martyr Yasir Arafat and to our people."
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 5, 2005 | -
Israel shut the border at Gaza,
| Source:
Xinhua
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| December 28, 2004 | -
Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners and briefly detained presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti for campaigning in Jerusalem without a permit.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 23, 2004 | -
Strike Holdings, which manages several bowling alleys in the United States, decided to return the investments it received from the Palestinian Authority.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| December 17, 2004 | - while Palestinian militants insisted that "the blessed Intifada will continue" and an Israeli raid in Gaza left 11 dead.
| Source:
United Press International
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| December 16, 2004 | -
Mahmoud Abbas called for an end to political violence,
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 12, 2004 | - Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian leader who had vowed to campaign from prison to succeed Yasir Arafat in the January election, withdrew his candidacy and endorsed Mahmoud Abbas, now the clear frontrunner in the race who last week apologized to Kuwait for Palestinian support of the 1990 invasion by Saddam Hussein.
| Source:
BBC
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| December 12, 2004 | -
Israel promised to release dozens of Palestinian prisoners as a favor to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak before the Palestinian election.
| Source:
AP
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| December 3, 2004 | - Hours before a registration deadline, Marwan Barghouti gave word from his prison cell in Israel, where he is serving five life sentences, that he would run for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority. Barghouti's popularity among Palestinian youths has caused fears that he could siphon votes from PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas and cause a split in the Fatah Party; Palestinian leaders urged Barghouti to withdraw his candidacy, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak endorsed Abbas, and Ariel Sharon said Barghouti would be able to campaign only from behind bars.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 22, 2004 | -
Colin Powell visited Israel and the West Bank.
| Source:
BBC
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| November 11, 2004 | - The Palestinian leadership was left wondering where Arafat had stowed his billions of dollars.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| October 16, 2004 | -
Israel pulled back from its latest invasion of the Gaza Strip.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 15, 2004 | -
Israel's security cabinet approved a plan to pay up to $300,000 to Jewish families that agreed to abandon the Gaza Strip.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 5, 2004 | -
Israeli officials were studying whether to use marijuana to treat soldiers suffering the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder from keeping the Palestinians down.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| July 17, 2004 | -
Yasir Arafat rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, and the Palestinian National Security Council declared a state of emergency after militants seized several security officials and four French charity workers.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 10, 2004 | - The World Court declared that Israel's West Bank wall is illegal because it effectively seizes Palestinian land.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 7, 2004 | -
Israel's public-security minister warned that Jewish extremists might try to assassinate Israeli leaders to prevent the planned withdrawal from Gaza.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 31, 2004 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel was still trying to convince his coalition to go along with plans to withdraw from part of the Gaza Strip, and he threatened to fire cabinet members, such as Benjamin Netanyahu, who oppose him.
| Source:
Financial Times
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| May 24, 2004 | -
Israel's justice minister, Yosef Lapid, a Holocaust survivor who lost his father and grandmother to the Nazis, denounced the Sharon government's latest round of home demolitions in the Gaza Strip and said: "When I saw a picture on the TV of an old woman on all fours in the ruins of her home looking under some floor tiles for her medicines — I did think, 'What would I say if it were my grandmother?'" The comment was criticized for its implied comparison of the Israeli army to the Nazis. "We look like monsters in the eyes of the world," Lapid said. "This makes me sick."
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 20, 2004 | -
Israel continued to demolish Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip as part of "Operation Rainbow"; a tank and a helicopter gunship opened fire on protesters in Rafah and killed at least 10 people, including several children; military officials expressed "deep sorrow over the loss of civilian lives" and said that only warning shots had been fired.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 17, 2004 | - Palestinian families in Gaza fled their homes, often with their belongings piled on donkey carts, as Israeli forces surrounded a refugee camp and prepared to demolish hundreds of homes.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 15, 2004 | - More than 120,000 Israelis demonstrated in support of withdrawing from the Gaza Strip.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 8, 2004 | - The Bush Administration was trying to persuade European and other leaders to support Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, even though Sharon's own Likud Party rejected it.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 3, 2004 | - The Likud Party, in a referendum, rejected Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw unilaterally from the Gaza Strip, where a pregnant Israeli woman and her four daughters, ages two to 11, were murdered by Palestinian gunmen.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 15, 2004 | - President Bush announced his support for Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw unilaterally from the Gaza Strip and his approval, "in light of new realities on the ground," for the idea that Israel will never withdraw from its larger settlements in the West Bank.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 26, 2004 | - A lamb was born in Hebron with "Allah" spelled out in Arabic on its flank; the lamb's owner said the animal was born on the day Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was assassinated. Some people claimed they could see the word "Muhammad" spelled out on the lamb's other side.
| Source:
BBC
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| March 24, 2004 | -
Political
violence continued in Kosovo, Gaza, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Syria; there was unrest in Haiti, where armed gangs continued to terrorize the people; in Congo, where the government put down a coup attempt; and in France, where firefighters battled police during a strike over retirement benefits. The firefighters threw garbage cans, firecrackers, and smoke bombs; the police fired tear gas.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 22, 2004 | -
Israel assassinated Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas; Sheikh Yassin, an elderly, partially blind quadriplegic, was hit in his wheelchair with a missile as he left a mosque in Gaza City.
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New York Times
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| March 21, 2004 | - The Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade apologized for murdering a Palestinian college student who was jogging in East Jerusalem; the killers thought he was a Jew.
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New York Times
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| March 4, 2004 | - An Israeli fashion designer staged a photo shoot along the West Bank wall near Jerusalem; several young models were photographed while posing under Arabic graffiti that read: "I AM A BIG DONKEY."
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International Herald Tribune
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| February 23, 2004 | - The International Court of Justice began hearing a case against Israel's
West Bank wall.
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Times of London
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| February 23, 2004 | - A Palestinian
suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing 8 people, including two high school seniors.
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New York Times
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| February 19, 2004 | -
President Bush appeared on Al Hurra ("the Free One"), his new Middle East Television Network, and said that he is "the first American president to have articulated a Palestinian state."
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New York Times
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| February 13, 2004 | - U.S. officials said that the president might support Israel's new plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip and that some of the inhabitants of the prison camps in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, might never get out.
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New York Times
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| February 12, 2004 | -
French prosecutors were investigating $11.4 million in bank transfers to accounts controlled by Yasir Arafat's wife.
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New York Times
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| February 12, 2004 | - The family of Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qureia was accused of supplying concrete for Israel's West Bank Wall.
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Telegraph
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| February 2, 2004 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel announced plans to evacuate 17 Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip. "I am working on the assumption that in the future there will be no Jews in Gaza," he said.
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Reuters
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| January 19, 2004 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is also the target of a corruption investigation, said that Israel might decide to change the route of the wall it is building around the West Bank but not because of any demands made by Palestinians, the United Nations, or the International Court of Justice.
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New York Times
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| January 17, 2004 | - The Israeli ambassador to Sweden attacked and damaged an artwork at the Historical Museum in Stockholm; the work, by an Israeli artist and his Swedish wife, consists of a portrait of Hanadi Jaradat, a Palestinian suicide bomber who killed 19 people at a cafe in Haifa, on a boat floating in a pool of red liquid. The ambassador ripped electrical wires out of the piece and threw a light into the pool.
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Reuters
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| January 14, 2004 | - A 22-year-old Palestinian
mother killed herself and four Israelis. "I was hoping," she said in a videotaped statement, "to be the first woman where parts of my body can fly everywhere."
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ABC News
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| January 12, 2004 | -
Israel began building a wall around Jerusalem, using mostly Arab workers.
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New York Times
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| December 31, 2003 | -
Israel announced that the population of Jewish settlers in the Occupied Territories has doubled since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993.
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New York Times
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| December 2, 2003 | -
Israeli soldiers killed a young boy and three Hamas members in Ramallah.
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New York Times
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| November 14, 2003 | - Four former Israeli security chiefs criticized Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a newspaper interview and said that Israel was headed for a catastrophe if it continues its current policies toward the Palestinians. "We are taking sure, steady steps," said one, "to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy and a home for the Jewish people."
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Associated Press
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| November 8, 2003 | -
Israeli soldiers shot dead a ten-year-old Palestinian boy who apparently wandered into a forbidden area while he was trying to catch birds.
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New York Times
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| November 4, 2003 | -
Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, said that Palestinians should "adopt the ways of Gandhi."
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Times of India
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| October 30, 2003 | - Israel's highest-ranking military officer, Lt. Gen Moshe Yaalon, declared that his country's policy toward the Palestinians is making things worse. "It increases hatred for Israel and strengthens the terror organizations," he said. "In our tactical decisions, we are operating contrary to our strategic interest."
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New York Times
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| October 23, 2003 | - An Israeli helicopter fired a rocket at a car in the Gaza Strip; after a crowd gathered, another rocket was fired, killing at least eight people and injuring 70. Israeli officials initially disputed the claim that bystanders were injured in the second strike and released a videotape as evidence; upon closer examination, however, the tape confirmed the Palestinian version of the events.
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New York Times
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| October 13, 2003 | -
Israel raided the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and left 1,240 Palestinians homeless after demolishing up to 120 houses; Israeli officials said they had destroyed three tunnels used to smuggle weapons from Egypt. Eight Palestinians were killed in the operation, including two children.
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Associated Press
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| October 13, 2003 | - Ahmed Qurei, the new Palestinian prime minister, threatened to resign after Yasir Arafat refused to give him control over the Palestinian security forces.
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New York Times
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| October 5, 2003 | - The bomber was a woman from Jenin, a law student, whose brother and cousin were killed by Israeli troops last June.
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Washington Post
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| September 13, 2003 | - Eight Israelis who were being investigated for terrorist attacks on Palestinians were released from custody,
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New York Times
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| September 10, 2003 | - A Palestinian
suicide bomber blew up a bus stop near Tel Aviv; another bomber exploded in front of a café in Jerusalem.
At least 13 people died in the attacks.
Israeli forces killed three men, two of whom were said to be Hamas leaders, and a twelve-year-old boy, who was hit by shrapnel.
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New York Times
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| September 7, 2003 | -
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister, resigned, and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, was injured in an Israeli
airstrike.
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New York Times
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| August 31, 2003 | -
Israel's defense minister threatened to reinvade the Gaza Strip.
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Reuters
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| August 28, 2003 | -
Yasir Arafat asked Palestinian
terrorists to please stop killing Israelis.
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New York Times
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| August 1, 2003 | - Israel's parliament passed a law forbidding Palestinians who marry Israelis from becoming Israeli citizens.
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New York Times
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| July 24, 2003 | - A poll found that 74 percent of Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would leave if paid to do so.
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Financial Times
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| July 16, 2003 | -
Israel's transportation minister offered to provide buses to take Palestinian prisoners to the Dead Sea, "whence they will not return."
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Ha'aretz
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| June 29, 2003 | -
Israel began to pull back from its positions in the Gaza Strip.
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| June 22, 2003 | - The peace process between Israel and the Palestinians continued to move forward: Israel assassinated a Hamas leader;
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New York Times
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| June 13, 2003 | -
Israelis and Palestinians were doing their best to slaughter one another in a vigorous exchange of revenge attacks; Israel's defense minister ordered security forces to "use everything they have" to destroy Hamas; Hamas responded in kind and released a statement calling on "all military cells to act immediately and act like an earthquake to blow up the Zionist entity and tear it to pieces."
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Guardian
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| June 5, 2003 | - President George W. Bush staged a handshake between the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers at a summit meeting in Jordan.
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Guardian
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| June 5, 2003 | - Elsewhere, in the West Bank, Israeli forces shot a seven-year-old
Palestinian girl in the abdomen.
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Guardian
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| May 19, 2003 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon cancelled a meeting with George W. Bush in response to a new round of suicide attacks and restated his long-standing position that Israel will make peace with the Palestinians only after there is peace with the Palestinians.
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New York Times
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| May 2, 2003 | - A day later Israeli tanks invaded a crowded neighborhood in Gaza and killed 12 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including a two-year-old boy, in a hunt for a Hamas weapons smuggler.
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New York Times
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| May 2, 2003 | -
UNICEF reported that since the beginning of the second Palestinian intifada 92 Israeli and 436 Palestinian children have been killed.
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| May 1, 2003 | - The United States, the
United Nations,
Russia, and the European Union, acting collectively as "the Quartet," presented Israel and Palestine with the famous "road map" to peace that President Bush promised to reveal once the Palestinians acquired a prime minister independent of Yasir Arafat.
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| January 14, 2003 | -
The wife of the president of the European Central Bank compared the Israeli occupation of Palestine to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
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| December 18, 2001 | -
Israelis and Palestinians continued to kill one another; a poll showed that 74 percent of Israelis backed their government's “seek-and-kill” policy of assassinating Palestinian militants, though just 22 percent thought it decreased terrorism and 45 percent said it probably increased terror attacks.
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| December 4, 2001 | -
President Bush sent an envoy to Israel with the aim of restarting peace talks with the Palestinian Authority.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Prime Minister Sharon “declared war on terror.” A paper in the scientific journal Human Immunology found that Jews and Palestinians have no significant genetic differences; after receiving complaints, the journal's editor repudiated the paper and sent letters to libraries asking them to rip out the offending pages.
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| November 27, 2001 | - The United Nations Committee Against Torture warned Israel to stop torturing Palestinians.
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| November 27, 2001 | - Yaakov Levy, an Israeli delegate, told the committee that a “close reading” of the 1987 Convention Against Torture, which Israel signed, “clearly suggests that pain and suffering, in themselves, do not necessarily constitute torture.” An Israeli death squad killed a Hamas leader in the West Bank who was suspected of planning suicide attacks.
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| November 27, 2001 | - A 22-year-old Palestinian
suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint, injuring two Israeli border guards.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Three human rights groups charged that Israel has resumed the systematic torture of Palestinian detainees in violation of an order by the Israeli supreme court.
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Israeli legislators voted to lift parliamentary immunity from an Israeli Arab legislator so that he could be prosecuted for advocating Palestinian resistance to Israeli policies.
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| October 30, 2001 | -
Donald Rumsfeld asserted that the Afghan
war is “not a quagmire.” Israelis and Palestinians continued to make war on one another; the death count rose to 728 Palestinians and 186 Israelis.
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| October 23, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad assassinated a Hamas leader while he was praying on his roof. “This is not the first and not the last,” Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared. A few days later a Palestinian
death squad assassinated Rehavan Zeevi, Israel's minister of tourism, who had been a strong advocate of “transferring” all Palestinians out of the occupied territories.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Osama bin Laden taunted the United States in a televised statement and said, “America will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine, and before all the army of infidels depart the land of Mohammad, peace be upon him.” A suicide
truck bomb killed 26 people at the Legislative Assembly of Kashmir.
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| September 11, 2001 | - A Palestinian
suicide bomber disguised as an ultra-Orthodox Jew smiled out of the corner of his mouth and blew himself up on the Street of the Prophets in Jerusalem, wounding 20 people. It was the fifth bomb to go off in Jerusalem that day. Other bombers had better luck and succeeded in killing innocent people.
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| September 11, 2001 | - After much hullabaloo, the delegates who remained at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance agreed to condemn the old European slave trade and to express concern about the “plight of the Palestinians under foreign occupation.” After two days of throwing stones at Catholic schoolgirls who were on their way to school, Protestants in Belfast decided to throw a pipe bomb.
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| September 4, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad using American-made weapons
assassinated Mustafa Zubari, also known as Abu Ali Mustafa, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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| August 21, 2001 | - Arab leaders warned that extremists might come to power in their countries if America didn't do something about the conflict in Palestine.
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| August 7, 2001 | -
Palestinian worshipers hurled their shoes at Israeli
police outside Al Aksa mosque on the Temple Mount; others threw stones at Jews worshipping at the Western Wall.
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| July 17, 2001 | -
Israel resumed the demolition of Palestinian homes.
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| July 10, 2001 | -
Israel's
security cabinet decided that it would continue to use death squads to eliminate suspected Palestinian
terrorists.
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| June 26, 2001 | -
Killings continued in Israel and Palestine despite the cease-fire; among those murdered were two Israeli soldiers, who were lured into a trap by a suicide bomber, and a Palestinian man who was thought to be “moving suspiciously” and ran when challenged by soldiers, who shot him in the back.
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| June 12, 2001 | - An Israeli received a new heart from a Palestinian man whose family said he was killed by Jewish settlers.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing, decided to ask for a stay of execution; his lawyer said that “the most important thing in his life is to help bring integrity to the criminal justice system.” In Israel, a Palestinian
suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded sidewalk outside a beachside nightclub frequented by teenagers, killing at least 20 and wounding almost 100.
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| May 29, 2001 | -
Israel declared a cease-fire with the Palestinians; Hamas responded by blowing up a car.
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| May 22, 2001 | -
Israeli
security forces assassinated five Palestinian soldiers as they prepared a late-night snack, which was a mistake, as it turned out, since the intended targets were stationed in another guardhouse nearby.
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| May 22, 2001 | - The Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot observed that “only a revenge-seeking fool could believe that eliminations and missile fire, the demolition of neighborhoods, the killing of soldiers and civilians and the destruction of homes could restore personal calm and security.” A Palestinian
suicide bomber killed ten Israelis and wounded 100 others at a shopping mall; Israel responded with F-16 air strikes.
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| May 15, 2001 | - A four-month-old Palestinian girl was killed by tank fire after Israeli forces shelled a crowded refugee camp in Gaza in what one Israeli general reportedly called an “exaggerated” response to a mortar attack.
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| May 15, 2001 | - Two Jewish teenagers who skipped school and went for a hike in the West Bank were found dead in a cave, their heads crushed by rocks.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Israeli
security forces using tanks and bulldozers destroyed a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza; a spokesman described the action as “engineering work.” Segregation was on the rise in American cities, according to new census figures.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Israeli troops bulldozed at least 15 homes at a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza.
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| April 10, 2001 | - A Palestinian man who was suspected of collaborating with Israel was assassinated by three men wearing hoods.
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| April 10, 2001 | -
Israeli soldiers shot an 18-month-old Palestinian girl in the head from a distance of about ten yards.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was angry about a fact-finding mission led by former senator George Mitchell; he said that allowing such an investigation into the causes of the recent Intifada was an “historic mistake” because “no one has the right, no one, to put Israel on trial before the world.” A Palestinian
sniper shot and killed a ten-month-old Israeli girl in Hebron as she lay in her stroller; Israeli troops then shelled a nearby Palestinian neighborhood and other targets, including Yasir Arafat's home.
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| April 3, 2001 | - America vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an observer force in Palestine.
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| March 20, 2001 | - Khalid Abu Elba, the Palestinian
bus driver who ran down and killed eight Israelis at a bus stop last month, testified in court. “I am not sorry,” he announced. Israel relaxed the blockade of the West Bank town of Ramallah, changing it, in the official jargon, from a “suffocating blockade” to a “breathing blockade.”
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| March 13, 2001 | - The new Israeli government of national unity under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was preparing to introduce legislation that would legalize the torture of Palestinian prisoners; such torture was legal in Israel until 1984, and until 1999, Shin Bet, the domestic security service, was allowed to use “moderate physical pressure” during interrogations.
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| March 13, 2001 | - One Shin Bet source made the following unassailable argument to the Times of London: “We interrogate hundreds of Palestinians every day, all suspected of terrorism. Last month we arrested a girl who lured an Israeli boy via the Internet to Ramallah, where he was brutally murdered. It took us 30 days to get a confession out of her. If we had been allowed to apply physical pressure, she would have confessed after a couple of hours.”
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| March 6, 2001 | -
Israeli
security forces killed six Palestinians over the weekend, including a forty-three-year-old mother and a nine-year-old boy.
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| March 6, 2001 | - A Palestinian
suicide bomber killed himself and three elderly Israeli women and injured many others in Netanya. A mob immediately tried to lynch an Arab bystander; police arrived just as they were about to hitch the unconscious man to a truck and drag him through the marketplace.
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| February 20, 2001 | - A Palestinian
security officer was sentenced to die for collaborating with the occupying Israeli security forces.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
Israel
assassinated a Palestinian
security official; Prime Minister Ehud Barak congratulated the army on a job well done.
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| February 20, 2001 | - A Palestinian
bus driver ran down a crowd of Israelis at a bus stop, killing eight.
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| February 13, 2001 | -
Ariel Sharon, a known war criminal, was elected prime minister of Israel; Sharon declared that the peace process was dead and that the Palestinians must submit to Israeli domination before negotiations could resume.
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| February 13, 2001 | -
Palestinians set off a car bomb in Jerusalem; Israeli soldiers shot and killed a teenage Palestinian goatherd.
| |
| February 13, 2001 | - Political violence continued in Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Kashmir, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.
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| January 30, 2001 | - A Jewish settler who beat a ten-year-old Palestinian boy to death (after kicking the little boy to the ground, Nahum Kurman placed his foot on the boy's neck and repeatedly struck his head with a pistol butt) was sentenced to six months of community service.
| |
| January 9, 2001 | - Holding a rifle in one hand, Saddam Hussein fired 140 shots during a five-hour military parade held to show solidarity with the Palestinian Intifada; Saddam's display of manliness was cited as evidence against the rumors that he recently had a stroke.
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| January 2, 2001 | - Binyamin Kahane, son of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, who advocated extermination as a final solution to the Palestinian problem, was killed in an ambush in the West Bank. “They have to know and fear that for every hair on a Jew that is harmed, an Arab head may roll,” Kahane's friend Tiran Pollack told a radio station. “If they understand and feel this, I'm sure we'll have quiet, because an Arab is like his donkey. Both understand only force.”
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| January 2, 2001 | - A mob ran through Jerusalem chanting “Death to the Arabs!” and beating any Palestinians they happened upon.
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| January 2, 2001 | -
Israeli soldiers assassinated Dr. Thabet Thabet, a senior Palestinian health official, near his home in the West Bank: Last week, an Israeli general admitted on the radio that the extra-judicial killing of suspected terrorists was an official policy of the Israeli government.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Jerusalem's
Christian churches endorsed Palestinian demands for sovereignty in East Jerusalem; they condemned Israeli violence against demonstrators and noted that an oppressed people living under a military occupation has the moral right to resist its overlords.
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| December 26, 2000 | - The United Nations Security Council rejected Palestine's request for U.N. peacekeepers; United States Ambassador Richard Holbrooke commented that “this is a resolution that will never be adopted.”
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| December 19, 2000 | - After months of preventing Palestinians from entering Israel to work, thus destroying the economy of the Occupied Territories, the Israeli government “came to the conclusion,” in the words of the defense minister, “that it did not serve any productive purpose to have severe economic distress in the territories.”
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| December 19, 2000 | - Mazen Al-Najjar, a Palestinian professor from Tampa, Florida, who was held by the U.S. government for three and half years based on secret evidence and charges, was finally released on the order of a judge.
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| December 12, 2000 | -
Israeli
snipers shot and killed more unarmed Palestinian
demonstrators.
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| December 5, 2000 | - Mary Robinson, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, recommended sending international monitors to the West Bank and Gaza, saying that life for Palestinians under the Israeli occupation was “dehumanizing.” The Israeli government issued a report claiming that Palestinians and not Israeli defense forces actually shot and killed 12-year-old Mohammed al-Durah as he cowered with his father; the report, which relied heavily on civilians with no training in ballistics, was widely ridiculed. Israel's daily paper Ha'aretz wrote: “It is hard to describe in mild terms the stupidity of this bizarre investigation.”
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| November 21, 2000 | - A German
general was named to head the European Union's “rapid reaction force.” Germans were horrified that Israeli soldiers had killed a German doctor outside his home in the West Bank.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Geneticists found that Jews and Palestinians have a fairly recent common ancestry, which supports historical evidence that Palestinians are descended from Jews and Christians who converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century C.E.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Yasir Arafat ordered Palestinian
policemen to stop firing at Israel's occupying soldiers; no one paid much attention, and the shooting continued as before.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Israel
assassinated a Palestinian paramilitary commander by blowing up his vehicle with missiles fired from helicopter gunships; two women who were standing nearby were also killed. One witness described seeing the women's bodies with “their intestines and livers hanging out.” An Israeli general said that he hoped the assassination would “reduce the violence and bring reason back to this area.” Heavier fighting followed; two Israeli soldiers and more Palestinians, including a twelve-year-old boy, were shot dead.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, asked the United Nations Security Council to send a multinational peacekeeping force to the Occupied Territories.
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| November 7, 2000 | - More Palestinians were killed.
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| October 31, 2000 | -
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called “timeout” and decided to make peace with Ariel Sharon, the right-wing opposition leader, instead of with the Palestinians.
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| October 24, 2000 | - The United Nations General Assembly was considering a motion to condemn Israel for using excessive force against Palestinians; of the 134 people who have died in the recent uprising, all but 8 were Arabs.
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| October 17, 2000 | -
Israelis killed more Palestinians; Palestinians killed more Israelis.
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| October 10, 2000 | - The Mid-East peace process continued as Israeli soldiers killed 84 Palestinians, including over a dozen children, in violence that followed a visit to the Dome of the Rock by Likud leader Ariel Sharon; two Israeli soldiers and two settlers were killed in the fighting.
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| October 10, 2000 | -
Hillary Clinton, alarmed by the violence in Palestine, decided that she had made a mistake after all when she attended a ceremony on the West Bank with Yasir Arafat's wife, Suha, and embraced her; Mrs.
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| September 19, 2000 | - The Palestinian Central Council voted to postpone its declaration of an independent state; in Gaza, members of the Gaza Accountants Association fought with police after several accountants were arrested for firing their weapons in the air.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Three Israeli border police officers were detained after they beat three Palestinians and photographed one another standing on top of them.
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| July 25, 2000 | -
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat failed to meet President Bill Clinton's deadline for making peace in the Middle East; Clinton declared the summit over and flew to Okinawa for a meeting of the G8, the world's seven richest industrialized countries plus Russia, where the leaders issued a strongly worded statement decrying the alarming lack of Internet access in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.
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