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President of Israel. Strong supporter of peace through economic cooperation, opposed to talks with the PLO he distanced himself from settlers and of a need for territorial compromise, started moving closer to support talks with the PLO. Very closely assoc
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Important people related to Palestine/Israel conflict
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| worked to overthrow the taliban before becoming president of afghanistan in 2004. As president he faced enormous political and economic challenges | Hamid Karzai |
| President of Israel. Strong supporter of peace through economic cooperation, opposed to talks with the PLO he distanced himself from settlers and of a need for territorial compromise, started moving closer to support talks with the PLO. Very closely assoc | Shimon Peres |
| chairman of the PLO | Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) |
| sixth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran | Mahmoud Amadinejad |
| king of Saudi Arabia | King Abdallah bin Abd al-aziz Al Saud |
| king of Jordan; Palestinian Arabs, and neighboring arab states finally pressured him in an “all-arab military intervention” against the newly created state of Israel | King Abdallah 2 bin al-Hussein |
| founded Herat movement, together with his colleages, and headed the party’s list of candidates for the knesset. Head of the Likud bloc party | Menachem Begin |
| current Prime minister of Israel, opposed Oslo accords, advocated economic peace | Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu |
| Palestinian prime minister, joined hamas, opposed the Oslo accords | Ismail Haniya |
| Hamas leader; post-poned talks on a united government | Khaled Mash’al (Meshaal) |
| fought in 1948 war against the newly formed Israel, held a revolt against royal family of Egypt | Gamel Abdel Nasser |
| Third president of Egypt;a close confidant of president Gamel Abdul Nasser, whom he succeeded as president;as president he led Egypt in the October war to re-acquire Egyptian territory lost to Israel in the 1967 Six-Day war, making him a hero in Egypt and | Anwar Sadat |
| chairman of PLO; president of PNA; leader of Fatah political party which he founded; platelet disorder;received Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres for the negotiations at oslo; during this time, Hamas and other militant organiz | Yassir Arafat |
| was an Ashkenazi Jewish Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel | Theodore Herzl |
| founder of Kadima; visited Temple Mount, and the reason for the start of the second Intifada; was a commander in the Israeli army; after retiring for the army joined the Likud party; became leader of the Likud; was Israel’s Prime minister; was personally | Ariel Sharon |
| fifth prime minister of Israel;signed oslo accords; during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war Rabin directed Israeli operations in Jerusalem and fought the Egyptian army in the Negev; “Force, Might and Beatings”; demolished homes; arrested ten of thousands of peop | Yitzhak Rabin |
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