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United States of America [r]: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. ^[e]
State of Israel [r]: Country established from the British Mandate of Palestine; declared independence in 1948. ^[e]

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Zionism [r]: The ideology that Jews should form a Jewish state in what is traced as the Biblical area of Palestine; there are many interpretations, including the boundaries of such a state and its criteria for citizenship ^[e]
- Christian Zionism [r]: A Christian belief that it is essential for the Jewish people to return to an undivided Israel, before Jesus Christ will return in Jerusalem; basis for opposition to two-state solutions by some American religious conservatives ^[e]
Neoconservatism [r]: Add brief definition or description

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Amnesty International [r]: International non-governmental organisation, founded in London in 1961, which draws attention to human rights abuses and campaigns for compliance with international standards. ^[e]
Brit Tzedek v'Shalom [r]: A liberal grass-roots Zionist U.S. organization, merging with J Street, which strongly opposes Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories and supports a two-state solution ^[e]
B'Tselem [r]: Israeli human rights organization ^[e]
Cato Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America [r]: "CAMERA takes no position with regard to American or Israeli political issues or with regard to ultimate solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict" although has been accused of favoring hard-line positions and having a chilling effect on free speech -- and also has been said to encourage free speech ^[e]
Christians United For Israel [r]: Add brief definition or description
Hamas [r]: The most powerful political and military organization in the Occupied Territories, especially the Gaza Strip; offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood but not Salafism ^[e]

Hezbollah [r]: An Islamist and Shi'a group, centered in Lebanon, which has conducted terrorism there and worldwide, but also acts a shadow government and provides public services ^[e]
Hudson Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
Human Rights Watch [r]: Nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to protecting human rights around the world. ^[e]
Israel Policy Forum [r]: An organization that supports a strong U.S. diplomatic role in resolving the Arab-Israeli conflicts, and maintaining a strategic relationship between the U.S. and Israel; it endorses a two-state solution and engagement with Syria and Iran; it was endorsed, at its founding, by Yitzhak Rabin, and does not unreservedly support Likud positions ^[e]
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description
Jewish Voice for Peace [r]: An American Jewish group focused on the Israel-Palestine Conflict, which is not explicitly anti-Zionist but also does not require a two-state solution; considered far to the left of other U.S. organizations ^[e]
Likud [r]: Headed by Prime Minister and ruling coalition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, a center-right political party of the State of Israel ^[e]
Meretz-USA [r]: American progressive organization affiliated with the World Union of Meretz, with goals of generating and promote partnership between Israelis and Americans who support a progressive Israel ^[e]
Washington Institute for Near East Policy [r]: A think tank on the Middle East, founded with American Israel Public Affairs Committee sponsorship, although considered reasonably objective until the neoconservative push toward U.S. military intervention; still remained more fact-oriented than some more ideologically based groups ^[e]
U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon [r]: A U.S. lobby in favor of multi-ethnic solutions to the government of Lebanon ^[e]

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