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The question is peculiarly constructed. Where Israel "is the enemy" of another
country, the reason is that the people or power structure of that country have
decided that Israel is their enemy. And the reason for THAT, at least in the case
of Israel's 'neighbors', is that they have never come to peace with the concept of
a Jewish country in their neighborhood, and have set their mind to eliminating it.
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What decision and resulting action led Israel and its Arab neighbors into several major wars?
On May 15, 1948, the day after Israel's Declaration of Independence , five Arab Nations (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq) declared war on Israel and they were assisted by armies sent from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Arab armies' inability to eliminate Israel resulted in following wars with a renewed attempt to remove Israel, all of which were unsuccessful.
How did the creation of Israel help to unify the Arab world?
In many scenarios where there is a lot of internal fighting and jousting for power, a singular enemy provides a commonality that can be used to bring the various factions together. Israel was the perfect enemy to rally Arabs from all different countries together to form an opposition movement.
There have been many conflicts between Israel and its neighbors?
Yes.
Did Arab Nations like the creation of Israel?
No, in a very strong, vehement way. Israel represented many negative things to them such as, Arab repression, Jewish ascendance, Western Imperialism, and Division of the Unified Arab Lands.
Did the Arab Nations like the new state of Israel?
No, and many of them still do not.
Did the Arab states accept Israel as an independent state?
No. Generally they never recognized the State of Israel as a sovereign and independent entity although it certainly is. Of course it all has to do with politics - so the only two nations that reached peace with the Israelis - Jordan and Egypt - only they recognize Israel as a legitimate country. The rest of the middle east will only recognize a Palestinian state (if there will ever be one) and they see Israel as a foreign invasive entity. But of course practically almost all Arab countries have secret touches with the Israelis and you could actually say there is cooperation between them in some manner - especially since both the Arabs and the Israelis are very threatened by the current Iranian regime and as they say "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" - they hate Iran much more than they hate Israel. Actually the Iranian nuclear saga is the best thing that happened to Israel in terms of relations with it's Arab neighbors. Never in history were these people so close as before united against the Iranian regime.
Why is there world attention between Israel and its neighbors?
There are many tensions between the countries.
What is the significance of the Camp David Accords?
The Camp David Accords marked a peaceful solution to a dispute between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Under this first signed peace agreement with an Arab country, Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula, which it had seized from Egypt during the Six-Day War in 1967. Egypt, in turn, formally recognized Israel's right to exist. Still, many issues were left unresolved.
How did the Arab Israeli war of 1948 affect Palestinian Arab '?
Many Arabs fled Israel and were forced to live in refugee camps for decades.
Did some Arab nations hate Israel and want it destroyed?
The simple answer is "Yes" and many of them still want it destroyed, but have realized that Israel's destruction will not come through a conventional war since Israel is far better armed than most Arab States.
When the US gave aid to Israel during the Yom Kippur War were the Arab nations pleased?
No. The Arab Nations openly stated that they were trying to erase Israel from the map during the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 (also known as the Yom Kippur War or Ramadan War). Any support of Israel would have been counter to their agenda and would thus be very displeasing to them. The Arab displeasure with American support for Israel during that conflict was expressed through the Arab Oil Embargo that attempted to cow into submission the many nations that had supported Israel in the past.
What was Israel's argument against Arabs?
Answer 1Basically, despite elaborate attempts to confuse the issues, the origin and essence of Arab/Israeli disputes can be reduced to the fact that Arabs were living on land which Zionists desired in order to create a Jewish state, and, after Israel was created in 1948, that Arabs resided on land which Israel wanted to use for expanding its size. All of this hostility is compounded by continuing attempts on the part of many Arabs to regain land taken by Israelis, and by the continued presence of Christian and Muslim Arabs in what many Israelis feel should be an exclusively Jewish state.Answer 2The way the question is posed is confusing and nonsensical. Israel does not oppose Arab people (no genetic hatred or disgust), Arab culture (no hatred or disgust of Arab traditions or foods), Arab nations (no hatred toward the existence of over 20 Arab countries, their foreign policy aside), Arab religions (Christians, Muslims, Druze, and Bahai'i live peacefully in Israel and constitute 20% of its population), or Arab language (which is the second official language of Israel). Secondly, "was" implies some historical period and Arab-Israeli relations have always been changing. Egypt under Anwar Sadat led the Arab-Israeli War of 1973, but he chose to make peace with Israel in 1979, 15 years before Jordan and was the first Arab State to recognize Israel. Therefore, "was" is subject to violently different arguments at different time periods.However, the most consistent Anti-Arab argument that Israel holds is that it does oppose violent and extremist political groups that wish for its eventual and permanent removal from the map in addition to the ideologies that pervade the Arab World that sanction such groups. Israelis do not wish for the end of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, or Egypt as much as they may detest the current governments of those countries and the majority of Israelis support a Palestinian State (under the definition that it is a separate sovereign state for Arabs). However, many Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians, and Egyptians wish for the State of Israel to be gone. This is what Israel cannot stand about its Arab neighbors, that many of them do not begrudge them existence and even those who admit that Israel is not going anywhere do not believe it has the Right to Exist.
