Israeli protesters call for end to 50-year occupation of Palestine

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It was there that the Arab League passed a resolution that said no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with Israel.

On 14 May 1948, the State of Israel was born, but nearly seven decades later, “the world still awaits the birth of an independent Palestinian state, ” he said, offering once again to work with all relevant stakeholders to support a genuine peace process. After fierce fighting, a ceasefire agreement was reached.

"Once you are in control of the lives of millions of people without equal rights, then you are not serious about democracy", Professor Yedidia Stern, Vice President and researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute told The Media Line.

Greenblatt added his appreciation for Guterres' "supportive statements on Israel, including recognizing the double standard with which Israel is treated at the United Nations, and his labeling as anti-Semitism the delegitimization of Israel's right to exist".

"The new secure and recognized worldwide borders between Israel and Palestine will be negotiated based on the 1967 lines with mutually-agreed swaps whose size and location will be negotiated, so that Palestine will have viable territory corresponding in size to the territory controlled by Egypt and Jordan before June 4, 1967, with territorial contiguity in the West Bank". Every synagogue was bombed and desecrated.

"There is no future for us as long as Israel is in this area", Sayed said, glancing across the green hills just outside the Palestinian village of Burin, which is hemmed in by two Israeli settlements. Instead, Finkelstein explains, Israel was trying to finish what it had started in the 1956 Suez Crisis, Mondoweiss reports.

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The anniversary of the Six Day War has highlighted the divisions within Israeli society, where many on the right will celebrate the existing political reality that a peace agreement with the Palestinians seems now unrealistic, while others are calling for a renewed push to find a negotiated settlement. The Arab states' tally was 452 planes and hundreds of tanks destroyed.

Settlements in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem are illegal under worldwide law and are seen as one of the greatest obstacles to peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

For the first time since Israel's independence, Jews now had access to Judaism's holiest sites and historical landmarks in Jerusalem. Israel will claim that the Arabs were simply not ready for peace.

Let's remind Israel's detractors that it was a war of self-defense.

Israel's reasoning for attacking Egypt was not based upon threats targeting the Jewish state, but the public remains ignorant to this history 50 years later. President Sadat of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan made courageous decisions to end their nation's conflict with Israel. The 1948 exodus came to be known by the Palestinians as "the Nakba" or "the Catastrophe".

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