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Middle East Peace Process: Violent Clashes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2001

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References

1 See Murphy, Sean D., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 94 AJIL 116 (2000)Google ScholarPubMed.

2 See Hockstader, Lee, Arafat, Barak Trade Views on Reviving Peace Talks, Wash. Post, Sept. 26, 2000, at A18 Google Scholar.

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13 See Lynch, Colum, Palestinians Lose Bid for U.N. Observers, Wash. Post, Dec. 19, 2000, at A34 Google Scholar; Sontag, Susan, Barak Declares Early Elections, in Surprise Move, N.Y. Times, Nov. 29, 2000, at Al Google Scholar (includes chart, “Two Months of Bloodshed”); Richburg, Keith B., Young Palestinians Suffer Bone-Shattering Experience, Wash. Post, Nov. 30, 2000, at Al Google Scholar.