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incidents initiated by political extremists opposed to the peace process. These are exemplified by the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995 and ongoing settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Still, the divisions among Jews within Israeli society over the peace process that have led to a quick succession of coalition governments have not created fundamental opposition to the
inclusion and exclusion took place in the pre-state military sphere. During the initial stages of warfare, women struggled to be equally included in military operations. However, the issue of gender equality was continually sidelined as tensions escalated between Jews and the local Arab population opposed to the Zionist settlement project. Women were excluded from the first Jewish pre-state defence
insignia. As the company explains, this eagle with batwings behind it was chosen to symbolise strength, readiness, and superiority. 6 Another US company, which was founded by an American Jew who joined the IDF and served in a special combat unit, portrays a shooter with a handgun, above him a text in Hebrew which says ‘Counter Terror School’. 7 Beneath the shooting figure we find the English translation. A third US company also
the impact of the working hypothesis on the negative connection between peace and Islamism in the case of the Maghreb, it is pertinent to explore the notion of ‘peace’ used here. Prior to the age of nationalism and the formation of the State of Israel, Muslims and Jews lived in peace with one another to the extent of having a Jewish–Islamic symbiosis 21 – to use
not intervene militarily on behalf of the Jews of Russia or the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire? 6 And why did the US intervene only in Cuba and not in, say, oppressive regimes of South America, which instead it chose to support? 7 But as even Franck and Rodley are prepared to accept, the Greek case and some others against the Ottoman Empire ‘are probably not to be dismissed as bogus. At least they struck a responsive chord in Western European and Russian public
, according to Netanyahu, would pose a grave danger to Israel, prompting him to lament about ‘what this would mean for [Israeli] security’. 13 In response to the Hebron massacre of twenty-nine Palestinians by the settler Baruch Goldstein that same year, Netanyahu remarked that ‘Jews are slain on the roads every day and none of these cases was ever inquired into. We need an inquiry into the overall
security practices, and the protection of its regime boundaries. In terms of regime boundaries, the ‘ascent’ ( aliyah ) of Jews from the diaspora to ‘Eretz Israel’ (the land of Israel) was at the core of the Zionist project according to which ‘similar progression of immigration and colonization was the precondition for the coming into existence of the State of Israel in 1948’ (Shafir 1984 : 803). The Law
minimum proposal. The first suggested the creation of a large independent Bulgaria with an extended outlet to the Aegean Sea, including Salonica (where a large segment of the population were Sephardic Jews) as well as major gains for Serbia, Montenegro and Greece. The minimum plan was accepted, which limited the gains to Montenegro and the Bulgarians (the climate was not favourable to Serbia). Independence for Bulgaria, including Salonica, were not accepted, but a large
–32. Marrus, M. R. and R. O. Paxton, 1995. Vichy France and the Jews , Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Simonin, A., 2008. Le Déshonneur dans la République: Une histoire de l’Indignité 1791–1958 [Dishonor in the Republic: A History of Indignity 1791–1958] , Paris: Grasset. Tuman, J. S., 2010. Communicating Terror: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism
instead put forward certain pre-conditions for future negotiations ( Klein, 1997 : 116). In 1993, Yasin explicitly differentiated between full-fledged peace ( sulh ) with the Jews and a temporary armistice ( hudna ) which he would accept if Israel would immediately withdraw from the occupied territories. 14 In addition, in late 1995, Yasin led the moderate wing of the Party in endorsing Hamas