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lead to the liberation of Palestine. This revolution takes different forms to be carried out at the organizational, military, political, and diplomatic levels. The complementary nature of the different forms of revolution guarantees the continuity of the struggle until victory is achieved. The 1987 Intifada as a popular revolution imposed some changes at the local, regional and international levels. It led to the declaration of independence after the disengagement decision made by Jordan. The Intifada also forced Israel to recognize the PLO as a peace partner with whom it had to sign a peace agreement based on UN resolutions 242, 338 and the principle of land for peace. Once these resolutions are implemented, a Palestinian state will be established after the removal of the Israeli occupation and its settlements. The stalling and deception policy Israel has practiced since the peace project started emptied the project of its positive aspects. Israel continued to build new settlements and expand the present ones as part of a systematic attempt to impose the version of peace it envisages. It aimed to divide the occupied territories into cantons surrounded by settlements. Such a situation will not allow for any kind of territorial continuity that is the pre-requisite for establishing the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital on the basis of UN Resolution 181. At Camp David \1 2 , the moment of truth that the two parties arrived at led to a confrontation. The Palestinian leadership refused the Clinton-Barak's proposals that ignored, among other things, the right of return and the Palestinian interests in Jerusalem. When Barak's government failed to impose its 2 A Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David of July 2000 took place between U.S President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian President Vasser Arafat. It was an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a "final status settlement" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 135
'peace plan', it used its military capability to lower the ambitions and expectations of the Palestinian people. Some senior cadre believes that the roots of the current problems of Fateh is political and as far back as the controversial 1993 Oslo Accords. While the early euphoria of a new peace was the ideal climate for holding elections and consultations on Fateh's political platform, but this there was a fear of exposing its rifts. Fateh was like a sick person, afraid of lifethreatening surgery; half of the members of the CC opposed the Oslo Accords, without the consensus building that was called for, the secret deal negotiated by Arafat and a few confidantes became the faction's litmus test for survival. Others believe that the deadlock of Fateh is a mixture of political and organizational factors. The two state solution, Fateh's platform since difficult deliberations in the late eighties, is being slowly diminished by the annexation wall that Israel is constructing in the West Bank. This wall effectively divides the dream of Palestinian statehood into several severed cantons. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA), the institution that Fateh touted as the kernel of Palestinian statehood, has been diminished by repeated Israeli incursions into Palestinian areas of control, Israel's refusal to refund most Palestinian tax revenues since the start of confrontations in 2000, and the failure of negotiations. In addition, Fateh was associated to all faults of the PNA as some people believed that Fateh is the PNA and the PNA is Fateh. Furthermore, some people believe that the problem is in the selection of tools. In fact, many saw the Intifada as Fateh's means of stopping the slow drain of support. The majority of Palestinians supported both negotiations with Israel and an armed revolt. Out of this understanding, two latent tendencies in Fateh were encouraged to grow: one that posed itself as the 136
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:!: Foundation • of the Finnish I
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CONTENTS Forward ..................
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Forward • • This publication is
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Seminar Finland-Palestine 22-23 Nov
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Finland's support through bilateral
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Finnish Orientalists • • Dr. Mi
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uried when the Romans destroyed it.
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excellent and the locals called her
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The Identification of the So-Called
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over a thousand years, while, elsew
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The basic framework for the interpr
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The three main structures in the gr
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Conclusion The Umayyad Empire was r
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• ____ Mikko LouhIvuori Bloch, F.
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Palestine Research of Hilma Granqvi
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• Along with her initial topic Gr
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Hilma Granqvist got her doctoral de
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death. Nevertheless, Granqvist neve
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Notes Aalto, Pertti, Oriental Studi
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Palestine in Finnish Media A Bro
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The third positive aspect was that
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they know if their husbands are tak
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Development of Relations Between th
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also tries to keep these organizati
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had some contacts to Arab Christian
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shop Qufity, and Catholic apostolic
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• They want to have contact with
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Advocacy What we in Finland could d
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The Development of the EU's Politic
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ing factors may include the need fo
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capacity to act is derived, both, f
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• ___~___ Flora Kurikkal8 ing of
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Bibliography Adler, Emmanuel (1997)
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Reflections on Finnish-Palestinian
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Ms. Eija Rotinen was the second Fin
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Page 112 and 113: Women's Role in Building a Society
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