Other disruptions linked to resistance to Israeli rule were perhaps more damaging.

Morris writes they had concluded that living under Israeli rule was not sustainable.

"If you insist that all settlements and the roads to them remain under Israeli rule, there's no chance to achieve peace."

On the other hand, merely fighting for equality means playing by the Israeli rules.

The reason for this is widely recognized to be the opportunities they have been provided under Israeli rule.

The city remained under Israeli military rule for over four decades.

Palestinians who hold this view object to maintaining Israeli rule in any form.

What caused the problem, he said, was an Israeli rule that government hospitals report the arrival of people wounded or killed in the street battles.

Until the mid-1960's, he and his village lived under Israeli military rule.

Jerusalem was never a more open city to all religions than under Israeli rule after 1967.