He shot his film Free Zone in Jordan with a half Palestinian and half Israeli crew.
By the end of the three-month process, 40% of the West Bank should be under Palestinian civilian rule (half of it under exclusive Palestinian control, half under joint security control).
Since then, a low-intensity war has raged--involving suicide bombers and targeted assassinations in Israel and the Palestinian territories--and has left hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis dead and half the Palestinian population living under the poverty line.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed deep disappointment, saying, "a return to 1967 borders as the basis for negotiations, even with 'land swaps' is a non-starter, when at least half of the Palestinian rulers are committed to Israel's destruction".
Jordanian officials have shunned public announcements, apparently for fear of exacerbating emotions in a country where half the population is Palestinian.
Nearly half a million Israelis live on Palestinian land occupied in the 1967 war.
By the second half of the 1990s, the Palestinian Authority had gained day-to-day control over large areas of daily life in the Arab-inhabited areas of Jerusalem.
The Palestinian flag was flying at half-mast on Orient House, the headquarters of the PLO, while black flags flew at others.
Unable to bring in cement to repair its schools, UNRWA, the UN's Palestinian refugee agency which educates half of Gaza's children, arranged to teach children in shipping containers, before Israel banned those too.
But after four-and-a-half years of reading and hearing what Palestinian political, religious, and intellectual leaders write and say, I have sadly concluded that the Arab-Israeli conflict has yet to undergo a fundamental transformation.
But his longer-term strategy is to ensure that a future Palestinian state, which Mr Netanyahu half-heartedly says he would tolerate, is tightly circumscribed.
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Feiglin, when it was his turn, said that Israel ought to pay Palestinian families in the West Bank half a million dollars each to emigrate.
But given that America has twice vetoed such proposals in the United Nations Security Council, even Mr Powell's half-hearted endorsement sounded like music to Palestinian ears.
Many Palestinians feel disgruntled at what they see as the kingdom's half-hearted response to the intifada - or Palestinian uprising against the Israelis.
His Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative opened its lab three and a half years ago at Al-Quds and now has 22 students, 14 medical specialists and four therapists.
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Roughly half of Americans (49.2%) believe that the Palestinian leadership still wants to destroy Israel, compared to only 28.1% that believe it wishes to make peace.
The Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative has already submitted eight research papers, half of which have been published and half are still under academic review.
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When he goes to the UN General Assembly in September to present his case for the recognition of a Palestinian state, he can now fend off barbs that he speaks for only half of Palestine.
By offering Arafat Gaza, 95 percent of Judea and Samaria and half of Jerusalem at Camp David, Barak showed such enormous weakness that he all but invited the Palestinian terror war which Arafat began planning the day he rejected Barak's offer.
Mr. Elashi, already serving a six and a half year sentence, is soon to be tried again on the more serious charge of conspiracy to fund Palestinian terrorists.
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