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Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict LIST OF ENTRIES Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict edited by Cheryl A. Rubenberg Copyright © 2010 ISBN: 978-1-58826-686-6 1800 30th Street, Suite 314 Boulder, CO 80301 USA telephone 303.444.6684 fax 303.444.0824 This was downloaded from the Lynne Rienner Publishers website www.rienner.com LIST OF ENTRIES Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict • Cheryl A. Rubenberg, editor A Ahdut Ha’avoda-Po’alei Zion Aaronsohn, Aaron Aid to Israel (See US Aid to Israel) Aaronsohn, Sara Airport, Palestinian (See Restrictions on Movement) Abandoned Areas Ordinance, 1948 Al-Alami Family Abbas, Mahmud Al-Alami, Musa Abbas, Muhammad Albright, Madeleine (See Zeidan, Muhammad Ahmad Fahd Abbas) Algiers Declaration, 1988 (See Declaration of ‘Abd al-Hadi Family (See Al-Hadi Family) Independence, Palestinian) ‘Abd al-Nasir, Jamal (See Al-Nasir, Jamal ‘Abd) Algiers Summit, 1973 ‘Abd al-Shafi, Haydar (See Al-Shafi) Al-Ali, Naji al-Azami ‘Abd Rabbu, Yasir Aliya Abdullah Ibn al-Husayn (See Jordan) Alliance Israélite Universelle Absentee Landlords Allon, Yigal Absentee Property Law Allon Plan Abu Ala’a (See Ahmed Qurei’) All Palestine Government Abu al-Abbas/Abul Abbas (See Zeidan, Muhammad Aloni, Shulamit Ahmad Fahd Abbas) Altalena Affair Abu al-Hawl (See Al-Hamid, Hayil `Abd) Alternative Information Center Abu Ali Hasan (See Salamah, Ali Hasan) Amal Abu Ali Mustafa (See Al-Zabri, Mustafa) Am Echad Abu al-Lutf (See Al-Qaddumi, Farouk) American-Israel Cooperative Enterprise Abu ‘Ammar (See Arafat, Yasir) American-Israel Public Affairs Committee/AIPAC Abu Dis (See American Jewish Organizations; Media, US; Abu Iyad (See Khalaf, Salah) US Aid to Israel) Abu Jihad (See Al-Wazir, Khalil) American Jewish Committee (See American Jewish Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim Organizations and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Abu Mazen (See Abbas, Mahmud) US Aid to Israel and Media, US) Abu Mazen–Beilin Plan (See Geneva Accord) American Jewish Congress (See American Jewish Abu Musa (See Muragha, Sa’id Musa) Organizations and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Abu Nidal (See Al-Banna, Sabri Khalil) US Aid to Israel and Media, US) Abu Sa’id (See Al-Hasan, Khalid Muhammad) American Jewish Organizations Abu Salih (See Salih, Nimr) American Media (See Media, US) Abu Salma (See Al-Karmi, ‘Abd-al-Karim) Amir, Yigal ‘Abu-Sharar, Majed Amman Agreement, 1985 Abu Sharif, Bassam Tawfiq (See Husayn-Arafat Agreement) Abu Za`im (See ‘Atallah ‘Atallah) Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1945–1946 Achille Lauro Anglo-Palestine Bank (See Jewish Colonial Trust) Acre Anti-Defamation League (ADL) (See American Jewish Adalah Organizations; Media, US; US Aid to Israel) Addameer: Prisoners Support and Anti-Incitement Presidential Decree Human Rights Association Anti-Semitism Aden-Algiers Accord Anti-Zionism Administrative Detention Antonius, George (1893–1941) Advisory Council Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem Agriculture, Palestinian (See Economy: Al-Aqsa Intifada The Effects of Occupation) Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades Agudat Yisrael Al-Aqsa Mosque Ahdut Ha’avodah Arab Agency Lynne Rienner Publishers • www.rienner.com 1 LIST OF ENTRIES Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict • Cheryl A. Rubenberg, editor Arab Association for Human Rights B Arab Congresses Ba’athism Arab Democratic Party BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency Arab Executive and Refugee Rights Arab Higher Committee Baily Committee Arab League (See League of Arab States) Baker, James Addison III Arab Liberation Army Baker Plan Arab Liberation Front Balad Party Arab Movement for Change Balfour, Lord Arthur James (1848–1930) Arab Nationalist Movement Balfour Declaration (See Movement of Arab Nationalists) Ball, George W. Arab Nationalists’ Land Sales to the Zionists Al-Banna, Sabri Khalil (Abu Nidal) Arab-Palestine Communist Party Bantustans Arab-Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Barak, Ehud Arab Party Barak’s Generous Offer Arab Peace Initiative, 2002 and 2007 Al-Barghuthi, Marwan Hasib Husayn Arab Revolt, 1936–1939 Al-Barghuthi, Mustafa Kamil Mustafa Arab State Peace Overtures, 1949–Present Bar Giora Arab States: Inter-Arab Politics Barrier Arab Studies Society Basel Program Arab Thought Forum Basic Laws (Israel) Arab Uprising, 1929 (See Western Wall Disturbances) Basilica of the Annunciation (See Nazareth: Arab World and Palestine (See Egypt; Iraq; Jordan; Basilica of the Annunciation) Kuwait; Lebanon; Saudi Arabia; Syria) Bat Shalom Arafat, Yasir Bedouin in Israel Archaeology Beged Ivri (See Third Temple Movement) Al-Ard Begin, Benjamin “Benny” Ze’ev Areas A, B, C (See Interim Agreement) Begin, Menahem Arlozorov, Haim Victor Beilin, Yossi Armed Struggle, Palestinian Beilin–Abu Mazen Accord Armistice Agreements, 1949 Beirut, Siege of 1982 (See Lebanon War; Sabra and ‘Asfur, Hasan Shatila Massacre) Ashkenazi Beit Orot Ashrawi, Hanan Mikha’il (1946–) Beit Sahour Tax Revolt (See Tax Revolt, Beit Sahour) Al-‘Asifa Ben-Eliezer, Benjamin Assassination (See Targeted Assassinations) Ben-Gurion, David Association for Civil Rights in Israel Benvenisti, Meron Association of Forty Ben-Yehudah, Eliezer ‘Attallah, ‘Attallah Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak Atara L’ Yoshna Bereaved Families Forum (See Parents Circle) Ateret Cohanim Bernadotte, Count Folke A Tur Betar Avnery, Uri Bethlehem Avram Avinu Settlement Bethlehem: Siege of the Church of the Nativity Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Bialik, Hayyim Nachman Ayalon, Ami Biltmore Program, 1942 Ayyash, Yahya Bilu Group Lynne Rienner Publishers • www.rienner.com 2 LIST OF ENTRIES Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict • Cheryl A. Rubenberg, editor Binationalism China Birzeit University Christianity Bishara, Azmi Christian Peacemaker Teams Bitterlemons.org Christopher, Warren Minor Black September, 1970 Churchill Memorandum, 1922 Black September Organization Church of the Annunciation (See Nazareth: Bloc of the Faithful (See Gush Emunim) Basilica of the Annunciation) Bludan Conference, 1937 Church of the Holy Sepulcher Border Police Church of the Nativity, Siege of the (See Bethlehem: Borders Siege of the Church of the Nativity) Brandeis, Justice Louis Dembitz Cinema, Israeli Breaking the Silence Cinema, Palestinian British Mandate in Palestine Citizens’ Rights Movement Brit Shalom City of David Foundation Brit Tzedek v’Shalom Civil Administration B’Tselem Civil Society, Israel (See Conscientious Objectors; Buber, Martin Israeli Militarism; Israeli Peace Movement) Al-Budayri Family Civil Society in the West Bank and Gaza Building Permits Civil War (Palestinian) in Lebanon, 1983 Bush, George H. W. (See Camps’ War; Lebanon War) Bush, George W. Clifford, Clark McAdams Bustan L’Shalom-Wadi Na’am Clinton, William (Bill) Jefferson Bypass Roads (See Road System, West Bank) Clinton Parameters Closed Military Zones C Closure Cairo I (See Gaza-Jericho Agreement I) Coalition of Women for Peace Cairo II (See Gaza-Jericho Agreement II) Collaborators, Palestinian Cairo Agreement, 1969 (See Lebanon) Combatants’ Letter Cairo Declaration, 1985 Communists in Israel Cairo Declaration, 2005 Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish CAMERA/Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Organizations (See American Jewish Organizations; Reporting in America (See American Jewish Media, US; US Aid to Israel) Organizations; Media, US; US Aid to Israel) “Conquest of Labor” (See Histadrut) Camp David Accords, 1979 Conscientious Objectors Camp David Summit, 2000 Convergence Plan Camps’ War, 1985–1987 Councilists (See Arab Party) Cantons (See Bantustans) Courage to Refuse Al-Carmel Covenant of the League of Nations, Article 22 Carter, James (Jimmy) Earl, Jr. Crusades Cattan, Henry Cultural Zionism (See Zionism) Cave of Machpelah Curfew Center for Architectural Conservation Custodian of Absentee Property (See Centre for Architectural Conservation) Center for Security Policy D Center of Life Policy Da’am Central Intelligence Agency Dahlan, Muhammad Yusuf Centre for Architectural Conservation Dajani Family Chai Vekayam (See Third Temple Movement) Dalet Plan/Plan Dalet Checkpoints Darwish, Mahmud Lynne Rienner Publishers • www.rienner.com 3 LIST OF ENTRIES Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict • Cheryl A. Rubenberg, editor Dayan, Moshe Education and the Role of Textbooks Dayan Plan Egypt Dayr Yasin (See Deir Yassin) Eisenhower, Dwight D. Declaration of Independence, Israel ELAD Declaration of Independence, Palestinian Elections, Palestinian Declaration of Principles Elon, Amos De-development (See Economy: Elon, Benyamin The Effects of Occupation on the Palestinians) Elon Moreh Settlement Defense Emergency Regulations Emergency Articles for the Exploitation of Degel HaTorah Uncultivated Areas Deir Yassin Emergency Defense Regulations Deir Yassin Remembered (See Defense Emergency Regulations) Demilitarized Zones (DMZs) (See United Nations Truce Enclaves (See “Bantustans”) Supervision Organization) The Engineer (See Yahya Ayyash) Democracy (See Elections; Israeli Regime and the Entebbe, 1976 Question of Democracy) Environmental Degradation Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center Erekat, Saeb Muhammad Salih Democratic Alliance, 1983 Eretz Crossing Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Eretz Yisrael l’Hashlema (See Greater Land Demography of Israel Movement) Demography and Foreign Nationals Eshkol, Levi Deportation Ethnic Cleansing Development Authority ETZEL (See Irgun Tzeva’i Le’umi) Dhimma/Dhimmis Europe (See policies of individual countries Diaspora, Jewish, from the Perspective of the Diaspora and places: France; Germany; Moscow; Diaspora, Jewish, from the Perspective
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