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What is a major environmental issue in the israeli-Palestinian dispute?
But it is water that is a major environmental issue.
What three strips of land are issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Gaza Golan Heights West Bank ======================== The Gaza strip was cleared of Israeli settlements by Israel's army, and handed over to the Palestinian Authority, years ago. Shortly after that, Hamas launched an armed takeover and threw out the Palestinian Authority. The real issue in the Arab-Israel "conflict" is the strip of land that runs roughly from Eilat northward to the border of Lebanon, and is labeled "Israel" on maps in places that acknowledge its existence.
Is the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict about land?
This question is divisive and so you may get conflicting answers.Answer 1No. It is a conflict between ideologies. The land-issue is just a diversion from the actual goal, which is to remove Jews and their State from the Middle East.Answer 2Partially. In order to resolve whether a conflict is over is exclusively over a certain piece of land, you can ask the question: if one side got all of the land that they wanted would there be peace. In the Morocco-Algeria Sands War of 1981-1982, there would be (as each just wanted control of a small piece of land). In the case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, there would still be sectarian conflicts, even if the land was returned. However, having access to the land and control over it is certainly among the aims of both sides.The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is primarily a nationalistic conflict, between two camps of peoples: Israelis (Jews, Israeli Arabs, Bedouins, Druze, Circassians, and others on the one side) and Palestinians (Palestinian Muslims, Palestinian Christians, and others on this side) who identify with specific national governments and governing ideologies. This is similar to other conflicts between nations, such as between India and Pakistan where Indians and Pakistanis identify by loyalty to their countries and those countries' governing ideologies. Part of nationalistic identity is a view of where their borders are and in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the Israelis and Palestinians do not agree on where the borders should be between the two countries (or even whether there should be two countries).
How was the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict resolved?
It has not yet been resolved. Israel and Palestine were closest to a long-lasting solution at the Taba Summit in Egypt in 2000 when Ehud Barak conceded on nearly all of the Palestinian requests, but was denied by Yassir Arafat who knew that the remaining concessions that Barak did not make would make the solution untenable for the Palestinians. (The primary issue was that there was no Right of Return for Palestinians to what is now Israel, which is a non-starter with Israel, but most Palestinians will not let go.) Since that time, international focus groups and thinktanks have come up with solutions, but there are too many people who are too unwilling to compromise to implement them.
How do the people of Israel justify what their government is doing?
Generally, people justify the acts of any government based on the powers they have accorded that government and their general needs as a society. Without specifying exactly what Israelis have to justify it's unclear what rationales to provide. The Israeli government does all kinds of things such as oversee the religious life-cycle laws and support a quasi-Millet system, maintain local provinces and proper voting procedures, sustain the education system that teaches Jews and Arabs in their native languages, constructs highways and public transportation that are sometimes controversial, plumbs oil-fields in the Mediterranean such as the Tamar fields, deals with issues of increasing religious presence in the Knesset and increasing male/female segregation, the Israeli housing crisis in 2010-Present, and, of course, the policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and general foreign policy. If this question was intending to ask specfically about Israeli policy towards the Palestinian issue, please see the Related Question below.
What are the aspects of the issues of the Palestinian Israeli Japanese issue?
There is no such thing.
What is a major environmental issue in the israeli-Palestinian dispute?
But it is water that is a major environmental issue.
Is there a Palestinian Nation?
The Palestinian people have a distinct cultural, historical, and political identity, but they do not have full sovereignty over their own nation-state. The status of a Palestinian nation is a complex and contested issue that is closely tied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In the Israeli-Palestinian dispute scarcity of what is a major environmental issue?
its the scarcity of water!
What are the conflicts between the Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs over the land of Israel has led to much conflict. They signed a peace treaty in 2012 and this has settled the issue. Group of answer choicesTrueFalse?
False
What are three issues to be resolved for Arab countries and Israel to have diplomatic relations?
Most of the Arab nations cite the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the main issue preventing them from signing peace accords with Israel, and having diplomatic relations. The Syrian-Israeli issue is with the Golan Heights, a mountain range between the countries, occupied by Israel in the six day war.
What three strips of land are issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Gaza Golan Heights West Bank ======================== The Gaza strip was cleared of Israeli settlements by Israel's army, and handed over to the Palestinian Authority, years ago. Shortly after that, Hamas launched an armed takeover and threw out the Palestinian Authority. The real issue in the Arab-Israel "conflict" is the strip of land that runs roughly from Eilat northward to the border of Lebanon, and is labeled "Israel" on maps in places that acknowledge its existence.
Bearing in mind the terrible events of the Holocaust how do you think the Israeli government and people should act towards the Palestinian people?
There is an implicit assumption in this question that Israel is committing a genocide in against the Palestinian People and that the memory of the Holocaust should be a warning against such conduct. That is not the case and merely hyperbole. Read the Related Question below which discusses this issue. If the question only approaches the situation from "How could Jews use their past experiences to inform the Israeli Government position towards the Palestinians?" there is certainly much room to discuss this important issue and there are numerous opinions on the topic: 1) The Israeli Government already does more to help the Palestinians than any other situated government. Israel is responsible for 80% of Gaza's electrical and gas power, even though Hamas refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist. Israel also provides most of the food and medicine to Gaza. The Israeli government informs civilians where attacks are going to come from and where to flee to in order to avoid hostilities. Palestinians can take up cases in the Israeli Supreme Court and occasionally win legal issues against Israeli Citizens. How is the Turkish government dealing with Kurds? How are the Iranians and Pakistanis dealing with the Baloch? What did Yugoslavia look like in the 90's and the recent Kosovo War? Not even a fraction of these niceties have been observed. This shows that the Israeli government goes out of its way to help Palestinians. 2) The Israeli Government could afford to do more to help the Palestinian people. Israel could help to build a functioning civilian judiciary for the Palestinian people, organize departments, promote economic independence for Palestinians, increase trade and financial support to those Palestinians who are improving the situation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel should also provide compensation to the Palestinians for the events of the 1948 War and the dispossession of their land. None of these activities are required by international law, but Jews should aspire to higher level of morality than the letter of the law.
What are the current problems facing the Palestinian Arabs under Israeli control?
AnswerFirst, we should separate the Palestinians who are citizens of Israel (and live within Israel proper) from the Palestinians who are citizens of the State of Palestine and live under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank. These two groups suffer differently to the degree that they do suffer.It should be made clear that the Palestinians who suffer in the Gaza Strip are NOT under Israeli control since Israel maintains no army, navy, air force, police or other gubernatorial presence in Gaza at all; the area is completely enthralled to Hamas. Hamas is the only party responsible for vast human rights atrocities in the Gaza Strip like: the execution of protesters, the banning of female dancing and scooters, and the both the inane laws and use of torture by a vice and virtue police modeled after Saudi Arabia. (Also not discussed in this answer is Arab repression of Palestinians, which is often crueler than Israeli repression, see the Comment at the end of this Answer.)Palestinian Citizens of IsraelIt should be noted that the Palestinian Citizens of Israel have every right and privilege as the Jewish Citizens of Israel and every requirement in common save that Palestinian Citizens of Israel do not face mandatory conscription. Arabs, even Anti-Zionist Arabs, have been elected to all of the major offices of government. The suffering incurred by Palestinian Citizens in Israel comes from disproportionate effects of laws applied equally to Palestinian Citizens of Israel as Jewish Citizens of Israel on the Palestinian population. For example, for the easier maintenance of water and service provisioning, there are a number of laws that limit the expansion of municipal boundaries. This disproportionately affects Palestinian Citizens of Israel because they have a higher birth rate and their communities are expanding. This issue arises alongside the creation of new towns and villages or expanding current ones; not the loss of current territory. Additionally, when Jewish neighborhoods expand beyond legal boundaries, they are just as penalized. The only other grievance that Palestinian Citizens of Israel have is that they feel that the identity of the State of Israel does not represent them. What they fail to realize is that every nationalist state will have a dominant ethnicity and identity. Circassians, Druze, and Bedouins accept this, but Palestinians want to play this “feelings game”.Palestinians Under Military Occupation in the Palestinian TerritoriesBeing under a military occupation, there are a number of difficulties that Palestinians in the West Bank suffer through at Israeli hands:1) Checkpoints and Barriers: The Israeli military has placed numerous checkpoints throughout the West Bank in order to minimize the possibility of terrorist attacks. Additionally, as another aspect of security, Israel has built a fence (and in some places a concrete wall) to stop Palestinian suicide bombings. However, the Security Fence cuts across Palestinian personal property, encircles Israeli Settlements, and cuts Palestinians off from a number of aquifers (which are necessary to provide water for a mostly agrarian Palestinian people). 2) Settlements and Land Confiscation: Land in the West Bank is confiscated according to a variety of arcane, inane, and relatively unjust laws (depending on your perspective) in order to create Israeli Jewish townships in the less-populous parts of the West Bank. In addition to the lands taken in order for the Settlers to live, Settlers have also taken sufficient lands to build highways and other infrastructure to connect the Settlements to 1949 Israel, bypassing Palestinian cities and making it more difficult for Palestinians to move between different Palestinian cities in the territories. Several Israeli Settler Highways even prohibit Palestinian usage.3) Israeli Settler Belligerence and Disparate Legal Treatment: Israeli Settlers live under Israeli Civil Law even though their Palestinian Neighbors live under Israeli Martial Law. This creates a weird dynamic where Settlers who commit crimes are judged in Israel Proper in front a judge and Israeli jury. Palestinians who commit crimes are judged in the West Bank at a military tribunal presided over by an Israeli Army Judge. It creates incentives for Israeli Settler recklessness since Palestinians are likelier to face worse treatment for counterattacks than the Settlers for the original attacks. This is not to say that Palestinians are innocent in the bloody Settler-Palestinian clashes, but that the legal structure makes it easier for Israeli Settlers to provoke Palestinians without worrying about the consequences. 4) Abuse from Israeli Soldiers: In order to counter alleged threats in some areas of the West Bank, Israeli soldiers will commandeer inhabited Palestinian homes in the middle of the night in a procedure known as a “Straw Widow”. These incidents can be frightening and enraging to Palestinians, even though no Palestinians are killed or seriously injured in these attacks. There are also cases of violence between Israeli Soldiers and Palestinian Civilians on a daily basis. Some of this comes from Palestinians who rush at the soldiers using rocks and bricks as projectiles and some of this comes from soldiers who want to demonstrate macho-ness. Either way, the antagonism between the parties causes problems for Palestinians.5) Evictions and Gentrification: This is an issue that often happens throughout the West Bank, but especially in East Jerusalem is that Palestinian homes are declared to be illegal constructions since they were never registered with an Ottoman, British, Jordanian, or Israeli building authority. Of course, this ignores that when these houses were likely built, in the Ottoman Period, there was not the degree of bureaucracy that would mark down all house construction. Since the Palestinian homes are marked as illegal constructions, it is permissible under Israeli law to destroy them. Often the net result is that a new house with Israeli Settler occupants shows up with minimal delay on the same land. A different, but parallel situation is also happening in Jerusalem as (1) prices are forcing Palestinians out of their homes due to inability to afford the areas (2) Israelis want to build new housing in undeveloped areas around Jerusalem that are officially part of the West Bank, and (3) Israeli archaeology is going on in Palestinian East Jerusalem (especially the neighborhood of Silwan). This has pushed a not-insignificant number of Palestinians out of their homes and made a number of Palestinian neighborhoods.Commentary on the Question:Let us note that the question is specifically talking about the issues facing Palestinians at Israeli hands and completely ignore the Palestinian suffering at the hands or Palestinian Arab governments (like those of Hamas or within Palestinian-Authority-controlled Zone A in the West Bank) or at the hands of other Arab governments (like Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt). It is likely that deaths perpetrated by these government (excluding incentivizing their people to commit suicide bombings and to act as human shields) is as high 24,000 deaths. The fact that Israel is usually discussed as repressing these people more than the Palestinians is indicative of myopic attentions.Please read more about Palestinian suffering in other Arab countries in this Related Question: What are the events of the Arab-Palestinian Conflict?Palestinian suffering at the hands of Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority is also discussed in depth by Palestinian Human Rights Advocate Bassem Eid in this article, among many others he has authored: Calling for an Awakening of Conscience: Palestinians Are Real People
What is the issue between Jews and Palestinians?
It is unclear what "all this hostility" refers to. Contrary to what many Arab and Muslim commentators may say, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict really only affects the Israelis and Palestinians and had marginal to reasonably important effects on the Arab countries directly bordering Israel or Palestine. However, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict does not cause the majority of problems or conflicts in the Middle East and is actually quite insignificant. (Such conflicts include the Turko-Cypriot War, the current Syrian Civil War, Saudi Repression of Women and Minorities, the Iran-Iraq War, the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991, the Iraq War and the Insurgency, the Anfal Campaign and other Genocides in Iraq prior to Saddam Hussein's overthrow, the Iranian-Israeli Proxy Wars, the Cultural and Political Repression of the Kurds, South Sudanese, Darfurians, Amazigh, Pied Noirs, Jews and Christians, and numerous other conflicts). As for the issues between Israelis and Palestinians currently, most of them have to do with the current Israeli and Palestinian governments not being interested in pursuing bilateral negotiations because of mutual distrust. Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, is angered by Hamas' bellicose nature along the Israeli border and does not believe that Mahmoud Abbas is truly interested in a negotiated solution since he went to the UN to acquire statehood without a formal peace agreement. Abbas, the Palestinian Authority Chairman, is bothered by increased Israeli settlement construction and a failure on the Israeli government's part to reward his positive management of the West Bank with increased autonomy and land-area. As for the general issues, please see the Related Questions below.
Which is not a result of the UN resolution dividing palestine?
The issue of a Palestinian homeland was finally settled..
Why has cooperation between Israel and Jordan been so difficult in regards to water?
Both countries have large populations that the freshwater reserves of the Sea of Galilee cannot jointly support. As a result, Israel is building desalination plants, but the maintenance of those plants is costly and the effectiveness of those plants is still questionable. As a result, each would prefer a bigger percentage of access to the Sea of Galilee. However, Jordan is in a bind since the Sea of Galilee is entirely surrounded by Israel and only has direct access to the weak Jordan River. (Jordan has no claim to any coastal areas of the Sea of Galilee.) Additionally, Israel is also plumbing aquifers that run under both Israeli national and Palestinian occupied territories which makes the water issue also a Palestinian occupation issue since the Palestinian Authority has not authorized Israeli withdrawals from these joint aquifers.
