“We will continue to protect the Palestinians from Israeli actions that violate the law and human conscience”, the statement said. “We got close to 55 percent support for the package when it is an Arab-Israeli peace rather than just a Palestinian-Israeli peace”.
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However, Peace Now argued that since the land was leased to the Hebron municipality – first by the Jordanians and then by Israel – should the military seizure be lifted, the land must be returned to its Palestinian owners. The security company has been a stakeholder in the occupation of Palestine, running Israeli military checkpoints and terminals while providing services and material to Israeli prisons and interrogation centers. Israel says most of the dead were attackers, though the Palestinians have challenged numerous Israeli accounts.
The poll released Monday found 51 percent of Palestinians and 59 percent of Israelis still support a two-state solution.
Palestinians seek to create a diplomatically recognized independent state on the territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, according to the frontiers that were in existence before the 1967 Six-Day War with Israel.
Israel has uncovered an illegal Palestinian weapons manufacturing network in the West Bank in one of its largest raids during a months-long crackdown on illicit arms, the military said Tuesday.
The action, organized by Ecuador For Palestine-a coalition of social organizations and individuals-is the latest move in an worldwide campaign calling for boycotts, divestments, and sanctions, or BDS, against the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
More than half of all Palestinians and Israelis are in favor of a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a recent poll has found.
There is little trust between Israelis and Palestinians, the poll revealed. Among the Israelis, 35% (40% of Israeli Jews and 8% of Israeli Arabs) think Palestinians’ main aspiration is to conquer the State of Israel and destroy much of its Jewish population; 19% think the goal of the Palestinians is to take over the entire State of Israel. “I see that the conviction of the importance of peace is rising among the Israeli side, and the conviction about finding an exit to the issue is a positive sign”. Some 89% of Palestinians feel Israeli Jews are untrustworthy, while 68% of Israelis Jews expressed similar sentiments.
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Secular and left-wing Israeli Jews are more likely to be supportive, while more-religious and right-wing Israeli Jews are less likely to be.
