The Virgin - Click for full painting and artist's statement
December
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December 9
The first Intifada (actually it is the second, following the 1935 uprising) erupts (1987)
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December 9
International Human Rights Day
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December 11
U.N. General Assembly passes resoution 194 (1949)
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December 14
Israel announces unilateral annexation of 500 square miles of Syria's Golan Heights (1981)
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