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47
   British Prime Minister’s Office, ‘A transcript of a speech given by Prime Minister David Cameron in Ankara, Turkey’, 27 July 2010.

 
48
   European Commission Development and Cooperation Union – Europe Aid, Occupied Palestinian Territory Website (accessed February 2013) / Jim Zanotti, ‘U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians’, Congressional Research Service, 1 January 2013.

 
49
   Adiv Sterman, ‘Israel to Withhold Taxes From Palestinians Until At Least March’,
The Times of Israel
, 12 December 2012.

 
50
   United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Occupied Palestinian Territory,
AREA C OF THE WEST BANK: KEY HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS
, January 2013.

 
51
   Ibid.

 
52
   Ibid.

 
53
   Ibid.

 
54
   Jon Donnison, ‘Gaza’s precious space and the cost of real estate’, BBC News, 12 October 2012.

 
55
   Reuters, ‘In official visit to Gaza, Qatari emir endorses Hamas, slams Israeli settlements’,
Ha’aretz
, 23 October 2012.

 
56
   Natasha Mozgovaya, ‘Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad: Hamas delivered, we have not’,
Ha’aretz
, 30 November 2012.

 
57
   ‘Foreign Secretary welcomes agreement to end hostilities in Gaza and southern Israel’, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 21 November 2012.

 
58
   Gilad Sharon, ‘A decisive conclusion is necessary’,
Jerusalem Post
, 18 November 2012.

 
59
   
Ha’aretz
live blog: ‘Day 4 of Israel–Gaza conflict 2012, 7:55 P.M.’, 17 November 2012.

 
60
   Human Rights Watch, ‘Israel/Gaza: Israeli Airstrike on Home Unlawful’, 7 December 2012.

 
61
   Israel Military Advocate Generals, ‘The Examination of Alleged Misconduct During Operation “Pillar of Defence” – An Update’, 11 April 2013.

 
62
   Human Rights Watch, ‘Gaza: Palestinian Rockets Unlawfully Targeted Israeli Civilians’, 24 December 2012.

 
63
   Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of Human Rights Council resolutions S-9/1 and S-12/1 – Concerns related to adherence to international humanitarian law in the context of the escalation between the State of Israel, the de facto authorities in Gaza and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza that occurred from 14 to 21 November 2012, 6 March 2013.

 
64
   Associated Press, ‘Abbas Avoids Clash with Israel Over State Symbols’,
Ha’aretz
, 8 January 2013.

 
65
   Palestinian News and Info Agency, ‘4.29 M Total Population of Palestinian Territory Mid 2012, says Statistics’, 10 July 2012.

 
66
    Stengel, Ghosh and Vick, ‘Transcript:
TIME
’s Interview with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’.

 
67
   David D. Kirkpatrick, ‘Morsi’s Slurs Against Jews Stir Concern’,
New York Times
, 14 January 2013.

 

4: Israel: It’s Complicated

 
  
1
   Philologos, ‘A Nude Who Inspired Modesty’,
The Jewish Daily Forward
, 1 August 2003.

 
  
2
   Ilan Ben Zion, ‘Culture Minister calls for self-censorship by filmmakers’,
The Times of Israel
, 28 February 2013.

 
  
3
   Tamar Hermann, Nir Atmor, Ella Heller and Yuval Lebel,
The Israeli Democracy Index 2012
, The Israel Democracy Institute.

 
  
4
   Gili Cohen, ‘Top Official: “Price Tag” Attacks are Acts of Terror Meant to Drag Israel into Religious War’,
Ha’aretz
, 10 September 2012.

 
  
5
   Noam Dvir, ‘Vandals desecrate Latrun Monastery’,
ynetnews.com, 4 September 2012.

 
  
6
   Kotaro Ishi, Nicoletta Batini and Jason Harris,
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND:
ISRAEL
,
9 March 2012, p. 6.

 
  
7
   Ibid.

 
  
8
   Ibid.,
p. 2.

 
  
9
   Nachman Ben-Yehuda,
Theocratic Democracy: The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism
, Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 106.

 
10
   Yael Branovsky, ‘State helpless in face of skeletons in haredi closet’
,
ynetnews.com, 3 April 2008.

 
11
   Yaron Doron,
‘ “Modesty Patrol lynched me” ’,
ynetnews.com, 29 February 2012.

 
12
   Amir Oren, ‘Israel’s Haredi minority is ruining the majority’s life’,
Ha’aretz
, 8 January 2012.

 
13
   M.F. Hammer et al., ‘Jewish and Middle Eastern non Jewish populations share a common pool of Y chromosome biallelic haplotypes’
, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
, 97 (12), 9 May 2000.

 
14
   Gabe Fischer, ‘Israel’s middle class erodes amid growing wage disparity report shows’,
The Times of Israel
, 31 December 2012.

 
15
   Itamar Rabinovich and Jehuda Reinharz,
Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present
, University Press of New England, Lebanon, 2008, p. 58.

 
16
   Matthew Wagner, ‘Shas accepted into World Zionist Organization’,
Jerusalem Post
, 20 January 2010.

 
17
   Rotem Starkman, ‘Coalition Math: Settlers in, Ultra-Orthodox Jews Out’,
Ha’aretz
, 17 March 2013.

 
18
   Yair Ettinger, ‘Ultra-Orthodox to Feel the Blow as Unprecedented Power in Israeli Government Ends’,
Ha’aretz
, 11 March 2013.

 
19
   Jeremy Sharon, ‘Haredim Denounce “Hateful” and “Evil” New Gov’t’,
Jerusalem Post
, 15 March 2013.

 
20
   Raanan Ben-Zur, ‘Israeli Neo Nazi Leader detained’
,
ynetnews.com, 3 January 2011.

 
21
   Amy Teibel, Associated Press, ‘Gender Segregation on rise in Israel’,
yahoo.com, 8 November 2011.

 
22
   Reuters, ‘Religion minister fears Jewish divides’
,
ynet.com, 8 January 2012

 
23
   Kobi Nahshoni, ‘Rabbi issues modesty rules from age 3’, ynetnews.com, 6 January 2013.

 
24
   Ishi, Batini and Harris,
IMF:
ISRAEL
,
p. 7.

 
25
   Genesis 1:28, 9:1, 7.

 
26
   Ishi, Batini and Harris,
IMF:
ISRAEL
,
p. 4.

 
27
   Ophir Bar-Zohar, ‘Ultra-Orthodox Population Growing too Fast Not to Join Workforce, Panel Told’,
Ha’aretz
, 6 June 2012.

 
28
   Yedidia Z. Stern, ‘The Haredim and the State of Israel’, The Israel Democracy Institute, 20 September 2012.

 
29
   Ishi, Batini and Harris,
IMF: ISRAEL
, p. 2.

 
30
   Ibid.,
p. 4.

 
31
   Kobi Nahshoni, ‘Troops will die rather than listen to women’, ynetnews.com, 18 November 2011.

 
32
   Ishi, Batini and Harris,
IMF: ISRAEL
, p. 6.

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