The fundamental considerations of HRW, Stork said, are the Geneva Conventions and international treaties. The laws of war as codified in the former have applied to Israel and Palestine not just during the past five years of the second intifada, he explained, but previously as well, because ...
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Gheit said. While Egypt and Jordan signed peace treaties with Israel in 1979 and 1994 respectively, and regained territory lost in war accordingly, most Arab states have insisted on a solution to the Palestinian problem before recognizing Israel. Aboul Gheit referred to the pan-Arab gathering in ...
Regardless of the efforts made by secular Jewish intellectuals, both in the past and present, to dissociate Zionism from religious influences, the fact remains that the millennia-old Jewish connection to Palestine finds its foundation solely in the Torah, the Mishnah, and ...
After the outbreak of the Gaza conflict, Saudi Arabia decided to halt the normalization process with Israel in protest. Egypt and Jordan, which border Israel on opposite sides and have signed peace treaties with Israel, were angered by Israel's attacks on Gaza and the massive displacement of Pa...
Israel fought wars against its Arab neighbors in 1967 and 1973, followed by peace treaties with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994. Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 war, and subsequently administered those territories through military authorities. Israel and ...
Through the fault of the Israeli ruling circles these agreements were not replaced by peace treaties. In January 1950, notwithstanding the UN resolution of Nov. 29, 1947, the government of Israel declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel. The major powers—Great Britain, the USSR, the USA, and...
Under the Oslo peace treaties signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1990s, it was agreed that Israel collects taxes from Palestinian trade on behalf of the PA. Meanwhile, the official Israeli radio reported earlier in the day that the Israeli Central Court in Jerus...
The United States hopes that this brave step will be the first in a series of agreements that ends 72 years of hostilities in the region. Although the peace treaties between Israel and Egypt and Jordan have not yet fulfilled their full potential, since the 1978 Camp David Acc...
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