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| | Telegraph Expat Gibraltar rocks to Hebrew 'God Save the Queen' |
 | | Gibraltar provided a haven for Jews during the Second World War and was an escape route to which Jews were smuggled from Nazi-occupied Europe. | | | The 1713 Treaty of Utrecht which ceded the Gibraltar to Britain in perpetuity stipulated that "her Britannic Majesty, at the request of the Catholic King, does not consent or agree that no leave be given, under any pretext whatsoever, either for Jews to reside or have their dwellings in the said town of Gibraltar". | | | The Jews of Gibraltar are the only Jewish community to sing the anthem in Hebrew, asking not only for the Queen to be saved, but also "her husband". |
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| | Gibraltar: Map, History and Much More From Answers.com |
| | West of the peninsula is the Bay of Gibraltar, an inlet of the strait. | | | Both main political parties, the Gibraltar Social-Democrats (GSD) and the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP) are opposed to any transfer of sovereignty to Spain. | | | Gibraltar was captured by Arabs in 711 and passed to the Spanish in 1462. |
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| | The Scotsman - Top Stories - Gibraltar in uproar at UK ‘sell-out’ |
| | THE people of Gibraltar last night took to the streets in noisy protest, accusing Jack Straw of betrayal after he revealed that the UK and Spain had come to an agreement over the joint sovereignty of the British colony. | | | The Foreign Secretary inspired fury from the 30,000 people of the tiny enclave, while the government of Gibraltar issued a statement condemning his announcement, insisting that it would not take part in any negotiations when the outcome was "pre-determined". | | | Mr Straw attempted to silence his critics by stressing that the plan was intended solely to provide a secure future for the people of Gibraltar, whose homeland has been a source of diplomatic deadlock between the UK and Spain for centuries. |
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| | The Timeshare Beat: IN Europe with Simone; Gibraltar |
| | West of the peninsula is the Bay of Gibraltar, an inlet of the strait. | | | Gibraltar is a beacon which signals the position of the Strait of Gibraltar, the narrow neck which separates Europe from Africa and provides the only link between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. | | | Historians, from very early periods, have noticed Gibraltar, or Mons Calpe, by a well-known mythological fiction denominating it, and Mons Abyla, on the opposite coast of Africa, the Pillars of Hercules. |
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| | BBC NEWS UK Gibraltar's rich heritage celebrated |
| | His assertion that he hoped Britain would not view Gibraltar as a "nasty political problem to be solved" met with a chorus of approval. | | | Donna Seruya, whose father was a former minister for tourism and economic development in Gibraltar, said she had been moved by Tuesday's service. | | | His speech had reflected the sentiments of the people of Gibraltar, he believed. |
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| | Panorama, Gibraltar's Online Daily, Gibraltar news |
| | The Opposition says they are surprised that the Gibraltar Government has been made awareof this by the Foreign Secretary and that neither the Opposition nor the people of Gibraltar themselves have been informed. | | | Placards said that Gibraltar was not for Britain to give away or for Spain to claim. | | | This is part of the campaign being conducted in the United Kingdom in order to raise awareness of the problems that Gibraltar continues to face, said Liberal Party leader Dr Joseph Garcia. |
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| | Latest Empire News |
| | Negotiations on sharing sovereignty over the Rock collapsed in 2002 because of strong opposition from Gibraltar, which had boycotted the talks in protest that it would be treated as subordinate to Britain. | | | Pepper detailed the history of how the Wilson Labour government of the 1960s had tried to sell-out the Falkland Islands, and then went on to emphasise how similar this was to attempts by the Blair government to sell-out Gibraltar in more recent years. | | | Gibraltar came to a halt yesterday as thousands of residents held one of the biggest demonstrations in the 300-year-old colony to protest against plans for Britain and Spain to share sovereignty. |
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| | Disputed status of Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Although Gibraltar is run on democratic principles, with freedom of speech, freedom of political movements and freedom of the press well-established, no political party or pressure group in Gibraltar supports union with Spain. | | | The disputed status of Gibraltar exists because of a three hundred year old claim by Spain which is rejected by the United Kingdom and the Gibraltarians. | | | Gibraltar was a key supply line and controlled the straits of Gibraltar at the western end of the Mediterranean. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputed_status_of_Gibraltar
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| | Jews of Gibraltar celebrate 300 years - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | For centuries Gibraltar was a refuge for the beleaguered Sephardic Jews Sephardim meaning from Spain. | | | Most of the civilian population was evacuated from Gibraltar during the war and it was after the Allied vic-tory that the Jewish population stabilised at about 600, down from a historic high of 2,000. | | | THE National Anthem had rarely sounded so rousing as at the moment the words of a Hebrew translation bounced off the vaulted ceiling of a Gibraltar synagogue to mark the Jewish celebration of 300 years of British rule. |
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| | What's New! |
| | For while this was only part of the 150,000 tons of rock we had removed, it was for this that we had come to Gibraltar and it was a job well done. | | | Gibraltar is the gateway to the Mediterranean, a great British fortress ever since it was seized from the Spanish in 1713. | | | Gibraltar was definitely not prepared to withstand a siege and aerial bombardment. |
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| | Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Spain ceded Gibraltar and Minorca to the United Kingdom, which has retained sovereignty over the former ever since, despite all attempts by Spain to re-capture it. | | | It also ruled that the three had been engaged in an act of terrorism, and consequently dismissed unanimously the applicants’ claims for damages, for costs and expenses incurred in the Gibraltar Inquest and the remainder of the claims for just satisfaction. | | | The Marinids ceded Gibraltar to the Nasri Kingdom of Granada in 1374. |
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| | Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Both main political parties, the Gibraltar Social-Democrats (GSD) and the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP) are opposed to any transfer of sovereignty to Spain. | | | Gibraltar is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. | | | Gibraltar celebrates its National Day annually on 10th September, the date chosen to commemorate the 1967 Referendum which was the first act of self-determination of the people of Gibraltar. |
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| | Another condition of the cession is that "no leave shall be given under any pretence whatsoever, either to Jews or Moors, to reside or have their dwellings in the said town of Gibraltar." This restriction was quickly ignored and for many years both Jews and Arabs have lived peacefully in Gibraltar. | | | Both main political parties, the Gibraltar Social-Democrats (GSD) and the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP) are opposed to any transfer of sovereignty to Spain. | | | For further details, see the in-depth article Politics of Gibraltar. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/g/gi/gibraltar.html
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| | [21 Jun 1999] GA/COL/3007/Rev.1* : SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION BEGINS RESUMED SESSION, TAKES UP REPORT ON GIBRALTAR |
| | WILLIAM SERFATY, on behalf of the non-governmental organization Self- Determination for Gibraltar, said it was hard to believe that, at this stage in the decolonization of the world, he had to be at the present meeting pressing for the rights of self-determination of his people. | | | The Government and people of Gibraltar rejected those Spanish arguments and assertions, which it believed were based on a series of misconceptions. | | | The Chief Minister said that Spain had asserted that, although Gibraltar was a colony, the people of Gibraltar were not a colonial people and, therefore, did not enjoy the right to decolonization. |
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| | Gibraltar on the Rocks by Thomas D. Grant - Policy Review, No. 116 |
| | Over time, Gibraltar would serve the British as an indispensable naval (later, air) base, and its population, a mix of peoples from the British Isles and Mediterranean — including Sephardic Jews expelled from Morocco — took on a distinctive character. | | | If accepted, the Spanish position on Gibraltar, too, would serve as precedent for claims throughout the world to revise territorial arrangements on the basis of alleged past wrongs, however remote. | | | Gibraltar, in furnishing a favorable regulatory regime in key sectors of the international economy, fosters the diversity of regulatory regimes recognized to protect the interests of American enterprise. |
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| | Panorama Gibraltar |
| | The Self-determination for Gibraltar group says it notes the perception by the Spanish foreign minister that the right to self-determination of the Gibraltarians in Gibraltar is a challenge to the aspiration of his ministry to annex Gibraltar to Spain. | | | Spain is not entitled to any role in the affairs of Gibraltar, said the Gibraltar government tonight, and the Treaty of Utrecht, under which Spain ceded the Rock to Britain, does not deny Gibraltar the right to self-determination. | | | Gibraltar was ceded to Britain under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, but Spain has first choice should Britain wish to abrogate its sovereignty. |
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| | Pakistan News PakTribune.Com |
| | Although estimates have put the Pashtun ethnic group as the largest ethnic group, the number remains disputed among the other ethnic groups. | | | Disclaimer: The PakTribune will put up as many of your comments as possible but we cannot guarantee that all comments will be published. | | | Spain and Portugal pull out their troops from Iraq: Report |
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| | Gibraltar |
| | The population of Gibraltar is in the region of 30,000 of which the vast majority are native Gibraltarians of mixed ancestry from Malta, Italy, Britain, Spain and Moroccan Jews, to mention a few. | | | To the Romans, Gibraltar marked not only the end of their Mare Nostrum, but also the end of the world, plus ultra, nothing beyond. | | | There is no exchange control in Gibraltar and complete freedom of movement of funds into and out of Gibraltar. |
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| | Reach The World |
| | Due to the fact that Gibraltar was such an important harbor, many people from maritime powers like Genoa, Malta and Portugal also settled there. | | | Moors from northern Morocco first settled in Gibraltar in 711 A.D. They ruled Gibraltar for more than seven hundred years. | | | Gibraltar is one-of-a-kind because it is a mix of the different cultures that have lived on the peninsula. |
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| | Gibraltar - Psychology Central |
| | In view of the UK Government's repeated commitment to respect the wishes of the people of Gibraltar, as laid out in the Constitution, the proposal for joint sovereignty is now considered dead. | | | As a result of the continued Spanish claim, the issue of sovereignty features strongly in Gibraltar politics. | | | Gibraltar was named at that time as one of the Pillars of Hercules, after the legend of the creation of the Straits of Gibraltar. |
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| | Politics of Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In a referendum on September 10, 1967, the people Gibraltar voted by 12,138 to 44 to reject the transfer of sovereignty to Spain and to remain under British sovereignty. | | | The Conservative Party took 69.52% of the vote, which has generally been interpreted as a protest against the handling of Gibraltar by the Labour Party. | | | Spain argues that Gibraltar's status is an anachronism, and that it should become an autonomous community of Spain, similar to Catalonia or the Basque Country. |
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| | Due to the fact that Gibraltar was such an important harbor, many people from maritime powers like Genoa, Malta and Portugal also settled there. | | | Moors from northern Morocco first settled in Gibraltar in 711 A.D. They ruled Gibraltar for more than seven hundred years. | | | Gibraltar is one-of-a-kind because it is a mix of the different cultures that have lived on the peninsula. |
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| | Artículos sobre España |
| | A detailed presentation of Gibraltar, its geography, politics, history and economy, and analysis of the events that led to the current situation as well as the arguments of Great Britain and Spain in the dispute over Gibraltar. |
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| | Gradually such discrimination has been decreasing and little by little we have been gaining back our own land, with, thanks to public pressure and protest demonstrations by the Voice of Gibraltar Group, Western Beach being one of the, should I say, most recent acquisitions. | | | Gibraltar attracts thousands of tourists from all parts of the world, there are daily flights from the UK and cruise liners from all parts of the world make Gibraltar one of their favorite port of call. | | | The Moors occupied Gibraltar, or Jebel Tarik, as they named it, from 711 to 1309, between 1309 to 1333 it was it was occupied by the Spaniards, to be conquered again by the Moors in 1333. |
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| | RTW Leg 116 |
| | Migratory birds are common, and Gibraltar is the home of the only specimens of Barbary partridge in Europe. | | | The Pillars of Hercules (which have been identified as the Rock of Gibraltar) marked the western end of the classical world. | | | Gibraltar is a heavily fortified British air and naval base that guards the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the only entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| | RADIO BRIDGE OVERSEAS |
| | The Rock of Gibraltar was once one of the two classical Pillars of Hercules, crowned with silver columns by Phoenician mariners to mark the limits of safe navigation for the ancient Mediterranean peoples. | | | Communiqué from ITA -April 1999: Under a bilateral agreement, Spain and Morocco, through their respective agencies S.N.E.D. and S.E.C.E.G, are jointly studying the feasibility of a fixed link across the Strait of Gibraltar, presently developed as an | | | The Economic and Social Council has taken an interest in this project since 1982 following a decision by the Governments of Morocco and Spain to carry out joint studies on the feasibility of the project as part of an agreement on bilateral cooperation adopted on 24 October 1980... |
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| | For a long time demographers estimated that by 2010 the number of Christian and Muslim Palestinians would exceed the number of Jews living in Palestine. | | | Particularly revealing was the reaction of Israeli authorities to an East Jerusalem census by Palestinian demographers inlate 1997. | | | But there may already be 3.5 million Arabs (or more if their numbers have been deliberately undercounted) within the former mandate of Palestine. |
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| | GIBRALTAR |
| | While Gibraltar has been a British colony since 1704, there has been outside political and military pressure from Spain in an attempt to regain sovereignty. | | | There are no exchange control restrictions in force, there being complete freedom to remit funds into and out of Gibraltar and to convert funds into other currencies. | | | Gibraltar has both an international airport and a harbor, which continues to be a prime port of call for many of the worlds shipping lines as a result of both its location and its free port status. |
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| | Talk:Disputed status of Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is clear from the fact that in the past they made a claim to the whole of Gibraltar, not the itshmus and the rest as seperate issues. | | | If Gibnews was German instead of from Gibraltar right now he would be denying the holocaust. | | | Attempts to include Gibraltar into the territory of Spain and allegations that Gibraltarians are drug smuggling money laundering criminals have also declined. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Today's issues Gibraltar |
| | Almost the entire population of Gibraltar turned out for a mass pro-British demonstration in March, and Mr Straw was welcomed to the Rock by shouts of "traitor" and "Judas" from 2,000 protesters. | | | Gibraltar is the only British overseas territory to be technically part of the union, but it is not a member: the UK is responsible for all external interests. | | | In the same year Britain granted Gibraltar a new constitution under which the functions of the legislative and city councils were merged and a Gibraltar House of Assembly was set up establishing self-government in domestic matters. |
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