This article examines how Indonesian diplomacy takes place in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Armed friction and clashes between Palestinian fighters Israeli military still occur can even affect civilians. Judging from history of Indonesia's closeness to Palestine, Indonesia is one countries that actively call for independence Palestine with a two-state solution. described using conflict reso...

The use of the word “eternal” in the title of Richard Horton's piece “Occupied Palestine, an eternal alliance for health” (March 30, p 1084)1 is apt. It fits with his evangelical intentions “to put science in the service of social justice and selfdetermination.”2 However, Horton omits important data, leading to the spurious conclusion that President Obama, by disappointing the Palestinians, is ...

Understanding the Spread of Malignant Conflict: A Dynamical Systems Perspective Naira Musallam, Peter T. Coleman, and Andrzej Nowak “The other day I was taking a walk across the shore of Jaffa [a Palestinian town prior to 1948] and I was looking at the houses that now have been converted into these galleries [...] They are very nice houses with traditional Arabic Architecture, but I got so upse...

Previous studies have shown that physicians tend to underestimate the risks to patients of radiation exposure. This study in 2 Palestinian hospitals aimed to assess physicians' knowledge about the risks associated with the use of radiological examinations. A questionnaire answered by 163 physicians revealed many gaps in knowledge. Only one-third of physicians had received a radiation protection...

AIM To compare a cohort of corneal graft patients in east Jerusalem with one in Sweden, concerning diagnosis, sex, patient age, preoperative visual acuity in both eyes, and type of operation. METHODS Standard forms developed for the Swedish Corneal Transplant Register were used for data collection at the time of operation. RESULTS In east Jerusalem, keratoconus accounted for 51% of the graf...

Microtubules are hollow rod-like polymers (figure 1). They fulfill a varied range of functions including maintenance of cell integrity, forming a spindle that facilitates chromosome separation and as a protein polymer ‘track’ for intracellular transport by molecular motors such as kinesin and dynein. Each microtubule is made of 13 protofilaments consisting of linearly arranged tubulin molecules...

“Wild thorns” is a novel written by the Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh; it focuses on the colonisation of Palestine from a feminist point of view. She considers the Israeli colonisation as a patriarchy. This paper aims at investigating two types of colonization that have been represented in the form of patriarchy in the novel. The investigation of the issue of Palestine from a feminist poi...

Data Integration presents a core issue in the Palestinian e-Government Technical Framework. The currently used data integration model relies on the Integrated Central Database which lacks quality attributes such as: interoperability and flexibility. We purpose a SOA-based approach for data integration that achieves the above attributes. We present and analyze the current architecture and implem...

The present paper reports on a media effects research experiment in which six groups of participants were asked to read and evaluate differently framed news articles about two scenarios: a Palestinian attack on Israel and an Israeli military operation against Palestinians. The experimental results show that media peace frames of violent events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are generally r...