(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(3) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(4) This is the first archaeological evidence of operative dentistry in ancient Israel, as well as the earliest date for this specific treatment in the world.
(5) Officials in Israel, using intermediaries in Europe, tried to reach out to Ayatollah Khamenei, via Khatami.
(6) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(7) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(8) It said: “We will be seeking to inform and encourage dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians in the wider cultural and creative community.
(9) Israel’s president has told his Mexican counterpart that he was “sorry for the hurt” over a tweet in which the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to praise Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US-Mexican border.
(10) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
(11) Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, a vigorous defender of Israel, called the speech “ill-advised”.
(12) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(13) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
(14) Other Hamas demands include the rebuilding of Gaza international airport, which Israel destroyed in 2001 , the release of prisoners and the reopening of the “safe passage” to the West Bank.
(15) Egged on by Israel, Trump has threatened to tear up Obama’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
(16) We studied the incidence and mortality of stroke in northern Israel to determine possible reasons for the differences previously found in mortality from this condition between the sex and ethnic groups in Israel as a whole.
(17) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(18) Israel's control of a huge swath of the West Bank is costing the Palestinian economy $3.4bn (£2.1bn) a year, or 35% of its GDP, according to a report from the World Bank .
(19) The disease has been confined to sub-Saharan Africa, until it recently appeared in epizootic form in Egypt and in Israel.
(20) They are also deeply disappointed in the lack of pressure exerted on Israel by the US.
Nakba
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Example Sentences:
(1) The group’s first meeting concerned the Nakba Day protests, and a majority opposed any participation.
(2) On the Israeli side, awareness of the Nakba has grown in recent years thanks to myth-busting historical research and to the work of an organisation called Zochrot , though that does not translate into Jewish support for the return of Palestinian refugees.
(3) And no one can stop me.” Like many Palestinians whose families were displaced during the Nakba, Hinn said he could not see Jaffa as “Israel” but still as “Palestine”.
(4) I want to build in a control so that if, for example, you listen to an oral testimony from a Nakba refugee, you won’t be able to continue until you’ve also listened to a Holocaust refugee.
(5) It was followed at once by the outbreak of the first stage of the war that in 1948 secured Israel's independence and caused the Palestinian Nakba – the "catastrophe" – whose human and political consequences persist, through half a dozen more wars, to this day.
(6) We heard much about the Nakba from our parents and grandparents, about their suffering when forced to leave their country, at having lost everything,” he wrote.
(7) In 2011, he explained, the Israeli parliament passed a piece of legislation called the Nakba Law.
(8) Supported by right-leaning NGOs, it authorised the government to penalise any state-funded institution for organising events connected to Nakba day , which Palestinians observe alongside Israel’s independence day, in mid-May, to commemorate their displacement at the founding of the state.
(9) "In our Nakba you can negotiate, you can walk out of the prison.
(10) If a budgeted entity spends part of its resources on commemorating the Nakba, then the minister of finance has the authority to deduct up to three times the amount on the said action,” El-Ad said.
(11) As we approach the 68th anniversary of our catastrophe or Nakba , our occupiers need to acknowledge the wrong they did to us, apologise and pursue a genuine reconciliation, which may necessitate a very different political arrangement in historic Palestine.
(12) In May 2011, during the preparations for Nakba Day , which commemorates the expulsion of Palestinian refugees during the creation of Israel in 1948, representatives of the Assad regime began to promote the idea of a demonstration at the Israeli border on the Golan Heights.
(13) For the Arabs, it was the year of the Nakba [disaster] that led to the loss of their homes and lands.
(14) I lived in a culture where the Holocaust was not viewed in depth and was used artificially, linking it to the Nakba.
(15) "I told her that that is one way of making a distinction between our Nakba and their Holocaust," Dajani said.
(16) But on the morning of Nakba Day the government supplied buses, which hundreds of people got on.
(17) But Shavit might be the first such voice from deep inside the Zionist mainstream to speak so directly of the events the Palestinians regard as the nakba , the catastrophe.
(18) If I’m the director of the Jerusalem Cinematheque,” he said, “and you suggest a film festival with documentaries of the Nakba, I have to think: it could cause me trouble.
(19) The tools speak of a previous era and of one moment in particular: the day in 1948 when Hinn’s father, a barber, fled the coastal city of Jaffa with the tools of his trade in the midst of the event Palestinians mark as the Nakba – “catastrophe” – that accompanied the creation of the state of Israel.
(20) In Hinn’s barbershop, evidence of the Nakba is still unusually present – even if his father did not like to talk to his children about his flight from Jaffa.