Google Share on Facebook Status Quo Also found in:Dictionary,Thesaurus,Idioms,Encyclopedia,Wikipedia. [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.]Status quo ante bellummeans the state of things before the war. Thestatus quoto be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last act...
In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, or the First Arab-Israeli, Zionist forces took control of the western part of the city. To formally end the war, Israel and neighboringEgypt, Lebanon andSyriasigned a set of armistice agreements in 1949 and established armistice lines between Israeli forces and A...
Under Netanyahu, Israel continues to control Jerusalem, but now with the bitter opposition of all Palestinian forces. Indeed, the analysis shows that even after Netanyahu and other key Israeli actors become willing to make dramatic concessions, no peaceful settlement over the city's future remains ...
the struggle of the Egyptians against Anglo-French Israeli aggression in 1956, and the struggle of the South Vietnamese people against American aggressors beginning in 1964. Under contemporary conditions, the national liberation struggle for the achievement of national in-dependence is closely intertwine...
Israel has accused the Palestinian National Authority of "inciting" the unrest. The Palestinians said it was the result of the 50-year Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, home to more than 5 million Palestinians.
A group of seven House Democrats critical of Israel are urging the Treasury Department to review, and possibly revoke, the tax-exempt nonprofit status of several U.S.-based pro-Israel groups due to their links to Israeli groups supporting settlements,rep...
The future of Jerusalem is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Old City is in East Jerusalem, captured by Israel in a 1967 Six Day War and annexed in a move that has not won international recognition. Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of a state they se...
Israeli justice system (illustrative) (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK) The ICC's reasoning for issuing the arrest warrants amounts to a harsh indictment of Israel's policies in its war on Gaza. The hypocritical and distorted decision bythe International Criminal Court (ICC)in The Hague to issue arre...
From The Madwoman in the Attic To The Women's Room : The American Roots of Israeli Literary Feminism The familiar images of female soldiers and even a female Prime Minister [who was not a feminist!] did little to change the life and status of "the woman in the street." "From the time...
The discrimination in this clause referred to limited visiting hours imposed on Jews, according to the Israeli radio. The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, is regarded by Muslims as their third holiest site. The site is supervised by the Jordanian Waqf but is locate...