Using the Case of Palestinian Violence Against Israeli Interests, Discuss

question 10

Essay

Using the case of Palestinian violence against Israeli interests, discuss the Maoist concepts of "people's war" and "war of national liberation." Discuss why the Palestinian nationalist movement has been viable for decades despite repeated setbacks and constant Israeli pressure.

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Definitions:

Z-score

A metric that depicts how far a certain value stands from the mean of a collection of values, using the unit of standard deviations for measurement.

First Quartile

The value below which 25% of the data falls, marking the lower quarter of a data set.

Quartile

A type of quantile that divides a rank-ordered dataset into four equal parts.

Standard Normal Variable

A random variable that has a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, following the standard normal distribution.