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=__Intro - The Country That Once Was__ = Palestine has been through a lot of tragic events. It was once a country full of Palestinians, became a smaller country, then it pretty much became history. Today if you are looking for Palestine you would have to go through a series of check points, then enter a fenced off area within Israel just to see an area full of poor people with less and less land. It isn’t even considered a country anymore by the UN and most of the western world. Now if you say that you are fighting for the rights for a Palestinian then you are probably thought of as a terrorist, the people have been beat down and backed into a corner to the point to where they have nowhere to go. Palestine’s recent history has started in around the 1940’s. The events of it’s downfall has occurred as a result of World War 2 when the Jews from Europe had to leave from their persecution and flee to a nearby country where they would be free from Hitler’s grasp. The UN gave them some land and then the Israelis fought off the nearby Arabs then took even more land. The Palestinians began to lose more and more and now have nearly nothing left.

=**__PreIsrael - 1967__** =

In 1936 starting from a small Arab-Jewish fight and leading to a large scale revolt, a political Palestinian party was born. They started a strike for the demand of national government. As the strike went on, the violence continued to rise. They attacked British soldiers, police officers and destroyed many roads including pipelines. The British administration commanded curfews, made arrests and held people in concentration camps. The failure of the Palestine revolt led the British government to investigate the cause of the racket. The Jewish counted 275 deaths and 1,112 wounded, but the Royal Commission's estimation was 1,000 deaths.

Israel got their independence in 1948 also known as the Yom Ha'atzmaut. Since 1948 we can clearly see how much land the Palestinians have lost in the course of 65 years that was slowly captured from the Israelis. The Palestinians violently lost their land to Israel. The Israeli's used deadly weapons such as guns and bombs and eventually seized the land by force. Nakba day, which falls on May 15, is a day of mourning along with demanding independence for the Palestinian. For the younger people, they look at it as a day of rage. They do non violence strike while Israelis soldiers take shots at unarmed civilians.


 * http://youtu.be/BQf0DE6RUfo **
 * This clip shows the current event in Gaza where Israel are shooting unarmed civilians **

The Gaza strip can be identified as a compacted poverty place that is populated with mainly Muslim Palestinian refugees.

**Before the six day war:** In 1948 to 1967, the West Bank, along with East Jerusalem, was ruled by Jordan. At that time, the Gaza Strip was under Egyptian military administration. Israeli troops took over Egypt's Sinai peninsula during the 1956 British, French and Israeli military campaign in response to the nationalisation of the Suez Canal. The Israelis eventually backed out and were replaced with a UN force. In 1967, Egypt ordered the UN troops to stop Israeli shipping routes - adding to already high levels of statics between Israel and its near by residence.

**After the six day war:**, Israel gained land by capturing the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula up to the Suez Canal. The land-for-peace that has formed the foundation of Arab-Israeli negotiations is based on Israel giving up land that was won in the 1967 and lost by the Palestinians. The Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace deal with Israel.

Born in Gaza 1919 and died in 2007 Haider Abdel Shafi Was important to the Palestnian commuintity. He was the Co founder and the face of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 1967 he was known as a hero for protecting human rights and building democracy in Palestine. In 1944 he united with the British Jordanian army, then part of a new British Ninth Army to open a second front in the Balkans. He spent the war in Palestine, and then set up a private practice in Gaza. In 1948 war, he was in charge of medical station in Gaza along with over 200,00 a refugee**.**

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=__**1967 - Oslo Accords**__= <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">After the defeat the Arab nations suffered at the Six Day War in 1967, Yassser Arafat gained power and decided to make the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) an independent entity. Arafat advocated guerilla warfare and so when he came into power Israeli leaders said that the PLO were the same as Nazis, while the PLO at the time never said they were opposed to an Israeli state living alongside a Palestinian one.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The PLO at the time had the support of the surrounding countries. Saudi Arabia put an embargo on oil to countries that supported Israel. Which would have worked but that mainly hurt the European countries who got at least sixty percent of their oil from Saudi Arabia. The United States didn’t feel Saudi Arabia’s impact very much, the only thing that happened to the US was that Britain would no longer allow them access to their aircraft carriers. The US supported Israel mainly to oppose the Soviets who were supporting the Arabs in the middle east and they looked for <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">an ally in Israel. Jordan allowed the PLO to operate within their country as long as they abided by certain rules such as not stealing their army recruits, walk around in uniform and stop and search civilian vehicles among other provisions. That relationship however did not work out and King Hussien of Jordan became opposed to the PLO operating within Jordan.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When the First Intifada occurred in 1987, the PLO was caught by surprise. The Intifada is a Palestinian uprising against Israel. It began in a refugee camp and spread like wild fire. By the end of the Initfada the PLO agreed to a pre-1967 boarder with Israel, where Palestine would be consisted of the West Bank and Gaza. Although the US agreed to this, Palestine was still recognized as a state. Yet they were by one hundred other countries.

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=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__**The Oslo Accords**__ =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> In 1993 Israeli and Palestinian leaders were secretly meeting in Oslo, Norway to work toward an agreement for the future if the two countries. The meetings were being held between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). The secret meetings led to <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">the signing of the Declaration of Principles in Washington D.C. at a public ceremony with Bill Clinton PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, and Israeli <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Oslo Accords led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority to begin governing the areas where Israel was returning land to the Palestinians, such as Gaza Strip,Jericho and some of the West Bank. The Palestinian <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Authority (PA) had elections for a president in 1996, which Yasser Arafat won pretty easily.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Now just because the PLO held some authority, they were still weak because they didn’t have a lot of people backing them up. Arab nations didn't take them very seriously and even the local arabs in the community and Islamic radicals actually challenged Yasser Arafat’s legitimacy. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">They were not able to achieve much as a result even though they were the PA was the only organization that was granted the authority to make deals with Israel. And Isr ael didn't mind the PA because they were able to push them around pretty easily because they n ever had much people backing them. Israel was supposed to gradually give more and more power back to Palestine and it was supposed to achieve its goal by 1999 but they <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 24px;"> were reluctant to do so. Then the Palestinians who were against the Oslo Accords began to act violently and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just put an end to the Oslo agreements.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In the end the Oslo agreements just turned into somewhat of a joke for what looked like what would be a beacon of hope to lead to some peace and stability in the area. Final negotiations between Israel and Palestine were set to begin in 1996 but they never actually started until the year 2000. It ended up leaving Palestine with only a fraction of the West Bank and Gaza Strip with Israeli forces heavily controlling the surrounding territory. You couldn't get in or out of Palestinian controlled land without permission from Israel.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">The video below provides information on the Oslo Accords and what <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;"> happened to lead to its demise <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">media type="youtube" key="p9IPvqhWiSs" height="315" width="420" http://youtu.be/BQf0DE6RUfo This clip shows the current event in Gaza where Israel are shooting unarmed civilians

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