Event class: israel, israeli, palestinian, gaza, war, government, peace, jewish, state, arab

Events with high posterior probability

Stas Misezhnikov	There was further controversy in October 2010 when Misezhnikov was accused of politicizing a forthcoming OECD tourism conference in Jerusalem, when he stated that by holding a meeting in Jerusalem, the OECD recognized the city as Israel's capital.
Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge	In 2003 Tonge and Labour Party Member of Parliament Oona King visited the Gaza Strip and compared Gaza Strip living conditions for Palestinians to conditions Jews suffered in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
Cornelis Hulsman	In March 2008 Hulsman coordinated efforts of the Center for Arab-West Understanding in a successful attempt to defuse the crises created by Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders' film `` Fitna,'' through organizing a visit of a delegation of Dutch church representatives and Muslim organizations to Egypt which was widely reported about in the Netherlands, asking Egyptian scholars to write reports explaining the Qur' an ic texts Wilders highlighted and discussing the crisis on Egyptian TV and in public meetings at Cairo University.
Mustafa Barghouti	For example, he rejected the claim that Israel had `` ended the occupation of the Gaza Strip in 2005,'' accusing it of intensifying its `` military aggression,'' carrying out `` frequent raids and targeted assassinations,'' and imposing `` a comprehensive siege on the Strip,'' forcing Gazans to live `` on the edge of starvation and without the most basic necessities of human life'' and causing `` a humanitarian catastrophe.''
David Ignatius	At the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Ignatius moderated a discussion including Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Israel i President Shimon Peres, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa.
Salam Fayyad	On 15 June 2007, following the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, Fayyad was appointed prime minister of a new'' independent'' government (without any Fatah or Hamas members) which is supported by the Fatah, Israel and the West.
Moshe Dayan	It was during Dayan's tenure as Chief of Staff that he delivered his famous eulogy of Ro'i Rutenberg, a young Israeli resident of the kibbutz of Nahal Oz, killed by Egyptian soldiers who ambushed the kibbutz, in 1956.
Ban Ki-moon	Ban Ki-moon criticized Israel on 10 March 2008 for planning to build housing units in a West Bank settlement, saying the decision conflicts with'' Israel's obligation under the road map'' for Middle East peace.
John Lydon	In August 2010, Lydon played with Public Image Ltd in Tel Aviv, Israel despite protests against the Israel show.
Mairead Maguire	In May -- June 2010, Maguire was a passenger on board the MV'' Rachel Corrie'', one of seven vessels that were part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists that attempted to bust the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip.
James Grover McDonald	He protested to the State Department when, in June 1949, President Truman criticised Israel and threatened sanctions following announcements that Israel might annex the Gaza Strip.
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi	After a new series of protests in November 2011, that escalated by 22 November to over 33 dead and over 2,000 injured in the wake of the use of force by the police to quell protests at Tahrir Square and its vicinity, Tantawi appeared on Egyptian national television to pledge the speeding up of presidential elections -- the principal demand of protesters -- and that the armed forces'' are fully prepared to immediately hand over power and to return to their original duty in protecting the homeland if that's what the people want, through a popular referendum if necessary.
Rehavam Ze'evi	In 1988, Ze'evi established the Moledet (Homeland) party advocating the population transfer of Arabs from Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and the Gaza Strip to the neighboring Arab countries.
Shmuel Tamir	Irgun detainees in Eritrea ; on right is -LSB- -LSB- Meir Shamgar, future President of Israel's Supreme Court, and third from right is Dov Milman, future Israeli Knesset member and Ambassador -RSB- -RSB- He was arrested by the British several times, and in March 1947 was exiled to Detention Camps in Africa where he finished his Law studies.
Abdelkader El Djezairi	His consistent regard for what would now be called human rights, especially as regards his Christian opponents, drew widespread admiration, and a crucial intervention to save the Christian community of Damascus from a massacre in 1860 brought honours and awards from around the world.
Shulamit Aloni	Aloni is on the board of the Yesh Din organization, which was established in March 2005, and it is'' volunteers who have organized to oppose the continuing violation of Palestinian human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory''.
Norman Spector	After the Oslo peace agreement was signed in 1994, he became Canada's first Representative to the Palestinian Authority in Gaza.
Charles Krauthammer	In a speech to the Foreign Policy Association in Philadelphia, he argued that the beginnings of democratization in the Arab world had been met in 2006 with a'' fierce counterattack'' by radical Islamist forces in Lebanon, Palestine and especially Iraq, which witnessed a major intensification in sectarian warfare.
Mahmoud Abbas	Under international pressure, on 19 March 2003 Arafat appointed Abbas Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority.
Pope Benedict XVI	President of Russia -LSB- -LSB- Vladimir Putin on 13 March 2007 -RSB- -RSB- Pope Benedict also promoted various UN events, such as World Refugee Day, on which he offered up special prayers for refugees and called for the international community to do more to secure refugees' human rights.
Avi Shlaim	Referring to a meeting between Ernest Bevin and Tawfik Abu al-Huda, the Prime Minister of Transjordan, at the Foreign Office on 7 February 1948, Shlaim writes that Bevin have told Abul Huda that invading the Arab parts of Palestine was'' the obvious thing to do,'' as claimed by Glubb, and he have warned him off invading the Jewish areas.
Paula Abdul	In November 2006, Israeli Tourist Minister Isaac Herzog invited her to Israel, Abdul responding with a hug, adding,'' I will come ; you have helped me make a dream come true.''
Roger Waters	Later that year, he pledged his support to the Gaza Freedom March, and in 2011 he announced that he had joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
Gerald Scarfe	In its edition of 27 January 2013 (Britain's Holocaust Memorial Day), London's Sunday Times published a cartoon by Scarfe depicting Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paving a wall with the blood and bodies of Palestinians, captioned'' Israeli elections -- will cementing peace continue ?''
Sin?ad Cusack	In August 2010, Cusack signed the'' Irish artists' pledge to boycott Israel'' initiated by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Gilad Atzmon	In November 2011, Hope not Hate, a United Kingdom anti-fascism and anti-racism campaign group issued a call to cancel a Gilad Atzmon performance at the'' Raise Your Banners'' festival of political song, stating'' Bradford TUC has long been at the fore of the anti-fascist movement in the area and it is in this tradition that we demand the withdrawal of Atzmon's invitation''.
Tom Lantos	In October 2007, Dutch parliament members said Lantos insulted them while discussing the War on Terror by stating that the Netherlands had to help the United States because it liberated them in World War II, while adding that'' Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.''
Hamdija Pozderac	His legacy certainly can be credited with contributions to the constitutional recognition of Muslims (historically revived as Bosniaks in 1993) as a constituent people within Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with the already recognised Croats and Serbs, and his persistent position in protecting those rights.
Sultan al-Atrash	In 1948 he called for the establishment of a unified Arab Liberation Army of Palestine, for which hundreds of young people had already volunteered and sent to participate in during the 1948 Arab -- Israeli War.
Gary Sinise	Sinise's name was in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times (August 17, 2006) that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.
Sabri Jiryis	cfm In 1977 Jiryis, as a member of the Palestinian National Council, wrote : The Palestinians may, in certain circumstances, be ready to seek a settlement in the area to which Israel is a party.
Samantha Power	According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,'' -LSB- a -RSB- fter joining the Obama team in 2009 as a member of the National Security Council -- a post she left in February -- she assuaged many concerns -LSB- about her commitment to Israel -RSB-, first by joining -LSB- Susan -RSB- Rice in taking the lead against the singling out of Israel at the United Nations.
Abu Daoud	In 1999, the Palestinian Prize for Culture was granted to Abu Daoud for his book Palestine : From Jerusalem to Munich, in which he describes how he planned and executed the Munich operation.
Conrad Schmidt	In 2003, Schmidt organised a protest in which 50 demonstrators from Artists Against War formed a peace sign with their naked bodies to protest against possible US action in Iraq.
Haim Bar-Lev	In late 1968 he accepted Maj. Gen. Adan's proposal that a high sand-dune wall be built along the east bank of the Suez Canal to prevent the Egypt ian military from observing Israeli defenses along the Suez Canal.
Mattityahu Peled	In 1993, he took part in forming Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc -- a grassroots peace movement in whose ranks Peled alternately expressed a sharp criticism of his old friend Rabin for severe human rights violations in the occupied territories ; warmly commended and congratulated him for his dramatic rapprochement with the PLO and the handshake with Arafat on the White House lawn ; and finally expressed a growing worry and anxiety at the slow pace of the peace process and the continuing occupation, oppression and settlement activity -- which gave ample opportunity, as Peled wrote in several admonitory articles, to extremists on both sides to create a renewed dynamic of escalation.
Ari Emanuel	Emanuel's name was in an August 17, 2006, advertisement in the Los Angeles Times that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel -- Lebanon conflict.
Ron Kovic	Kovic planned to co-lead with Mr. Galloway a humanitarian relief convoy to the Gaza Strip in early July 2009.
Mahmoud Abbas	On 2 March 2008, Abbas stated he was suspending peace talks with Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to press on with military operations against militants who have been launching home-made rockets into southern Israel.
Caoimhe Butterly	In April 2002, she was one of a group of foreign activists who occupied the compound of Yasser Arafat, in Ramallah, in solidarity with the Palestinians and to protest the Israel i military presence in the area.
Eugen Relgis	In 1962, Eugen Relgis visited Israel and Jerusalem, tightening his links with the Romanian Israeli community, including the Menora Association and Rabbi David Şafran.
William Maurice Brown	Then in the Middle East, he was successively the Chairman of Israeli Egyptian Mixed Armistice Commission, for the UN troops Supervisory Organization in the Gaza Strip and later in 1958 as Chief Military Observer of the UN in Lebanon.
Elias Khoury	In March 2001 Khoury signed a statement along with 13 other Arab intellectuals (including Mahmoud Darwish, Samir Kassir and Adonis), opposing the holding of a Holocaust denial conference in Beirut, a statement which was praised in the newspaper Le Monde by the Israel i ambassador to France.
Femi Fani-Kayode	In 2011 he called for the'' crushing'' of the Islamic fundamentalist sect called Boko Haram which claimed responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of Nigerians in a campaign of terror and bombing in their quest to ban western education and set up an Islamic fundamentalist caliphate in the whole of northern Nigeria''.
Gideon Levy	In 2008, Arutz Sheva reported that Levy's article about the Jerusalem bulldozer attack was translated into Arabic for a Hamas website.
Huwaida Arraf	Mairead Maguire, 2009 Arraf has acknowledged that the ISM has direct contact with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the PFLP -- all US-designated terror organizations.
Sari Nusseibeh	Nusseibeh criticised the militarization of the intifada in January 2002 and called for the renunciation of suicide bombings and the establishment of Palestine as a demilitarized state :'' A Palestinian state should be demilitarized - not because that's what Israel demands, but in our own interest.''
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad	In 2001 Ahmad joined a delegation of American Muslims participating in the'' First Conference on Jerusalem'' in Beirut which was'' dedicated to the liberation of Jerusalem.''
Zakaria Zubeidi	On release after the 1993 Oslo Accords, he joined the Palestinian Authority's Palestinian Security Forces He became a sergeant, but left, disillusioned, after a year, complaining :'' There were colleagues whom I had taught to read who were promoted to senior positions because of nepotism and corruption.''
Amos Oz	In March 2011, Israeli media reported that Oz had sent imprisoned former Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti a copy of his book A Tale of Love and Darkness in Arabic translation with his personal dedication in Hebrew : `` This story is our story, I hope you read it and understand us as we understand you, hoping to see you outside and in peace, yours, Amos Oz''.
Bruno Hussar	He originally proposed setting up a new interfaith centre, an oasis of peace modelled on the kibbutz, on the slopes of Kiryat Ye'arim by Abu Ghosh, but decided to settle on larger grounds, some ten hectares, owned by the Trappist order of the Latrun Abbey, on no man's land according to the 1949 armistice lines, and equidistant from the three cities central to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Ramallah, implying thereby the' equal proximity to the three Abrahamic religions of the Holy Land.
Hasib Sabbagh	In 1982, after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Sabbagh accompanied by Munib al-Masri and Abdul Majid Shoman, went to Saudi Arabia to ask King Khalid to intercede with the United States in an effort to stop Israel's bombing of Beirut, to allow the PLO to leave the city.
Prince Talal bin Muhammad	These duties expanded to charge of the King's political correspondence and speech writing -- Prince Talal co-authored King Hussein's speech before a Joint Session of the US Congress marking the end of a State of War between Jordan and Israel in July 1994.
Essam el-Erian	In 2012 during an interview on Egypt's Dream TV, Erian called on former Egyptian Jews who had immigrated to Israel and their descendants to return to Egypt, and called for all Israeli Jews to return to their countries of origin, be it'' Poland, Egypt, or anywhere'', and also called for the return of Palestinian refugee s. Erian stated that although his party was against Zionism, it was not against the Jews, stating that'' they have a complicated history, but the Jewish motherland is not Israel''.
Edward Said	In 1999, Said and Daniel Barenboim founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which is composed of young Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab musicians.
Francis Boyle	(...)'' In interview which aired on Al-Jazeera TV, October 26, 2010 (as translated by MEMRI), Boyle stated that Israel is'' nothing more than a Jewish Bantustan, set up by the Western colonial powers, in the Middle East, to control and dominate the Middle East at their behest.
Mairead Maguire	In March 2009 Mairead Maguire joined a campaign for the immediate and unconditional removal of Hamas from the European Union list of proscribed terrorist organisations.
Hedy Epstein	Epstein has spoken about the situation in the occupied territories, and about her own life and experiences, for audiences in the United States.
Alessandro Portelli	In the fall of 2013, Portelli became embroiled in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel's occupation of Palestine after accepting an invitation to an international oral history conference organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Mahmoud Abbas	On 15 January 2006 he declared that despite unrest in Gaza, he would not change the set date of the elections (25 January), unless Israel decided to prevent Palestinians in East Jerusalem from voting.
Petro Trad	He was one of six signatories to a petition presented to the French Foreign Ministry in 1913 on behalf of Christian sects in Beirut, that demanded an end to Ottoman control of Syria (including Palestine and Lebanon) and called for a separate entity run by'' French emissaries.''
Roy Pinney	In 1973 Pinney also photographed and reported on the Yom Kippur War in the Gaza Strip.
Jonathan Pollard	In 2012, President Shimon Peres presented a letter signed by 80 Israel legislators and addressed to President Obama requesting Pollard's release on behalf of the citizens of Israel.
David Ben-Gurion	Ben-Gurion led Israel during the 1948 Arab -- Israeli War, and united the various Jewish militias into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
David Ben-Gurion	Under his leadership, Israel responded aggressively to Arab guerrilla attacks, and in 1956, invaded Egypt along with British and French forces after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal.
Glykeria	Also in 2006 during the Israel -- Lebanon conflict she came to Israel with her son and met Ehud Olmert and sang for the soldiers at the borders.
Fouad Ajami	A year after arriving at SAIS, Ajami published his first book, The Arab Predicament, which analyzed what Ajami described as an intellectual and political crisis that swept the Arab world following its defeat by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War.
Omar Suleiman	Amos Gilad, head of the Israeli Defense Ministry's Diplomatic-Security Bureau, and Suleiman discussed their common fear of Hamas winning the Palestinian elections set for January 2006.
Evan Bayh	Speaking to 2002 luncheon hosted by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group, Bayh'' described his lifelong affection for the state of Israel, beginning with a boyhood vacation there, and deepening with his many official visits as a governor and senator.''
Nidal Fat'hi Rabah Farahat	At the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, in 2000, Farahat officially joined the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and soon became an active member in the organization, planning and carrying out numerous terrorist operations including mortar attacks on Jewish settlements in the Gaza strip.
Danny Ayalon	In a video titled `` The Truth About the West Bank'' released by the Israeli foreign ministry in June 2011, Ayalon presents a historical narrative meant to help wage the public diplomacy battle about Israel's ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.
John Pilger	In 2010, Pilger endorsed the'' Canadian Boat to Gaza,'' part of the Freedom Flotilla 2.
David Blair (journalist)	He was among the first journalists to enter Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank after the controversial Israel i assault in April 2002.
Tom Blundell	On 15 September 2010, Blundell, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.
Eyal Eizenberg	He led the brigade during Operation Days of Penitence, and according to Human Rights Watch, he was one of the key Israeli decision-makers in the Gaza Strip during Operation Rainbow in May 2004.
Dorit Beinisch	In a 2005 ruling against the Israeli army's use of `` human shields'' she concurred with then-President Aharon Barak that the practice of sending in a local Palestinian ahead of Israeli troops during arrest raids endangered his life, violated his free will and his human dignity.
Elvis Costello	On 15 May 2010, Costello announced he would withdraw from a concert performed in Israel in opposition to Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
Aryeh Eldad	Prior to the scheduled Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank in August 2005, Eldad was the only member of parliament to call for non-violent civil disobedience as a tactic in the struggle against the government.
Ren? Massigli	In 1943, Massigli opposed the visit of the Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri as-Said Pasha to Algeria after a summit with the Prime Minister of Egypt, Mustafa el-Nahhas Pasha, on the grounds that such visit would encourage Arab nationalist sentiment in French North Africa, would give the impression that France was aligning itself with one fraction centered around as-Said Pasha and might weaken the electoral chances of pro-French Lebanese nationalists in the upcoming Lebanese elections.
Hassan Nasrallah	Two popular songs were written about Nasrallah during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, with vastly different views of the Hezbollah leader : The Hawk of Lebanon in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Yalla Ya Nasrallah, against Nasrallah, in Israel.
Michel Samaha	He was one of the pro- Syria n Lebanese officials who were sanctioned in 2007 by the United States for alleged'' contributing to political and economic instability in Lebanon.''
Mahdi Abdul Hadi	After the kidnapping of Naser in 1972, Abdul Hadi felt the urge to start writing about the Palestinian question.
Ali Abunimah	A 2007 article in New York Jewish Week reported that Palestinian activist and Israel critic Rashid Khalidi had held an Obama fundraiser in his home when Obama was running for the House of Representatives, and quoted Abunimah as saying that Obama `` convinced me he was very aware of the issues -LSB- and -RSB- critical of U. S. bias toward Israel and lack of sensitivity to Arabs... He was very supportive of U. S. pressure on Israel.'''
Pierre van Paassen	This redoubled political violence was in part planned by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, whom Van Paassen had interviewed in 1929 about his incitement of the bloody uprising that year against the Jews in Palestine.
Rudi Bakhtiar	In May 2011, Bakhtiar testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Sub-Committee on Iran's human rights crisis, claiming under the leadership of Ayatollah Khamenei'' Iran has become one of the worst violators of human rights in the world... egregiously violating virtually every article of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, of which Iran is a member state.''
Wolf Blitzer	At an April 1977 White House press conference, Blitzer asked Egypt ian leader Anwar Sadat why Egyptian scholars, athletes and journalists were not permitted to visit Israel.
Robert Maxwell	He was notably litigious and often embroiled in controversy, including about his support for Israel at the time of its War of Independence in 1948.
Shalom Dov Wolpo	In December 2007, Wolpo stated that his followers will secede from Israel if the Israeli government withdraws from Judea and Samaria It is unclear which part of Israel Wolpo and his followers would claim, or how they would achieve autonomous status.
Salam Fayyad	In September 2010, The New York Review of Books published an article by Nathan Thrall that raised questions about the Fayyad plan and one of its central elements : United States-sponsored training, equipping, and funding of the Palestinian Authority's security forces, which have been cooperating with Israel at unprecedented levels in the West Bank to quell supporters of Hamas, the main Palestinian Islamist group that opposes negotiations with Israel.
Pauline McNeill	She was the Convener of the Cross Party Group on Palestine, and was a United Nations observer at the 2006 Palestinian Authority elections, later in 2006 she visited Lebanon in the aftermath of the war there, and continues to speak out, both in the Parliament, and at demonstrations, public meetings and protests on the need for a peaceful and just solution in the Middle East.
Folke Bernadotte	In July 1948, Bernadotte said that the Arab nations were reluctant to resume the fighting in Palestine and that the conflict now consisted of'' incidents.''
Khaled Mashal	Former US President Jimmy Carter met with Mashal on 21 April 2008 and reached an agreement that Hamas would accept the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, provided that such a state was ratified by the Palestinian people in a referendum.
Lowkey	In February 2009, he travelled to Palestinian refugee camps around the West Bank area to perform fundraising shows to help rebuild the Gaza Strip but was detained by the Israel Police for nine hours at Ben Gurion International Airport and interrogated, while having his passport confiscated.
Yuval Steinitz	In 2008, when Israel refused permission for Palestinian Fulbright students to leave Gaza and study in the United States, Steinitz supported this action.
Barack Obama	In March 2010, Obama took a public stance against plans by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to continue building Jewish housing projects in predominantly Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.
Kevin Rudd	Rudd backs the road map for peace plan and defended Israel's actions during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, condemning Hezbollah and Hamas for violating Israeli territory.
Meir Kahane	He framed this deportation as an'' exchange of populations'' that would continue the Jewish exodus from Arab lands :'' A total of some 750,000 Jews fled Arab lands since 1948.
Zeev Sternhell	In a 2001 Hebrew op-ed piece in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Sternhell wrote :'' Many in Israel, perhaps even the majority of the voters, do not doubt the legitimacy of the armed resistance in the territories themselves.
Mairead Maguire	The Post applauded Maguire's expulsion from Israel,'' not because of Maguire's outrageous comparison in 2004 of Israel's purported nuclear capability to Auschwitz's gas chambers, nor because of her absurd, reprehensible accusation made in court Monday that Israel is an `` apartheid state'' perpetrating `` ethnic cleansing against Palestinians,'' but because she had taken `` actions that undermine Israel's ability to protect itself.''
Yousra	Despite all the troubles and the tension between Algeria and Egypt after 2009 Egypt -- Algeria World Cup dispute, the Egyptian actress Yousra assured that she will cheer for Algeria in the World Cup which will be held in South Africa.