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Israel
Located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, Israel is the only Jewish-majority state in the world. It has a total land area of 22,072 sq km with an estimated population of approximately 7.7 million as of 2010.
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Does Modern Day Israel possess all of the Promised Land of Genesis 15?
No, not based on that passage (Genesis 15:18), nor should the State of Israel be so large.
The passage describes Israel's borders as encompassing all of the Sinai Peninsula up to the east bank of the Nile River (including a large section of the modern Egyptian population. By extending the western border to the Euphrates, you swallow the entire nations of Jordan and Lebanon and over half of Syria. Avocation for the view that Israel should be so massive is usually classified under the "Greater Israel" theory and few people advocate for it because such a physically large state would make the Arab population far in excess (over 3x) the Jewish population and make Israel into an Arab State. However, a number of anti-Israel sympathizers like to point to the few individuals who do hold this view to "prove" that Israel has an intent to conquer these independent states, even though no Israeli government, leadership, or ministry has ever made such a statement or affirmation.
Genesis 15:18: In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: 'Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates
What does Hosea 3 say about the outcome of the unfaithful love affair between god and Israel?
The Israelites will seek God again.
Which countries went to fight Israel?
Since there are a number of different Arab-Israeli Wars (wars between Israel and its neighbors) and there are different belligerents in each of them. The Arab countries most often involved have been Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. See the Table Below for more information.
Note: Every Arab-Israeli War involves Israel, although in the Persian Gulf War of 1991 Israel did not retaliate when attacked.
Note 2: Palestine can refer to Palestinian Militias, the PLO/Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority.
This list is not exhaustive.
Years of War Israeli NameArab Name EgyptIraq JordanLebanon Palestine Saudi Arabia Syria USSR1947-1949 War of Independence An-Nakba (Catastrophe) YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO 1956 Suez Crisis / Sinai Campaign Tripartite War of Aggression YES NO NO NO YES NO NO NO 1967 Six-Day War Six-Day War / An-Naksa (Setback) YES YES YES NO NO NO YES NO 1967-1970 War of Attrition War of Attrition YES NO YES NO YES NO YES YES 1973 Yom Kippur War Ramadan War / October War YES YES YES NO NO NO YES NO 1980-1982 Lebanon War Lebanese Civil War NO NO NO YES YES NO YES NO 1991 Persian Gulf War Persian Gulf War YES (but against Iraq) YES NO NO NO YES (but against Iraq) YES (but against Iraq) DNE 2006 War on Hezbollah Israeli Invasion of Lebanon NO NO NO YES NO NO YES DNE 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead Invasion of Gaza NO NO NO NO YES (Gaza Only) NO NO DNE 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense Operation Blue Sky NO NO NO NO YES (Gaza Only) NO NO DNE
Can you travel from Dubai to Israel?
Don't. If you have ever entered Israel do not go to any Arab country with the exception of Jordan and Egypt. The reason is that Israeli intellegence agents are believed to have carried out an assassination in Dubai using foreign passports. Anyone coming from Israel is a suspect in Dubai and could face the law.
Which two empires conquered ancient israel forcing Jewish people to flee?
Assyria and (later) Babylonia.
Why is Israel building a barrier on the West Bank of the Jordan River?
Israel is not building a barrier on the West Bank of the Jordan River. Israel is building a barrier between 1948-Israel and the West Bank that crosses onto Palestinian territory at numerous points. The barrier is designed to prevent easy access of Palestinians to Israel in order to limit suicide bombings. In this regard, it has proven successful and regions with the barrier have seen a marked decrease in terrorist attacks. However, the barrier has a number of humanitarian costs, like estranging Palestinian families, cutting Palestinian properties in half, limiting Palestinian access to water, and promoting settlement growth. Many Palestinians see it as a way for Israelis to reshape the borders of Israel by taking more Palestinian land.
What part of Israel's past has influenced the country today?
Israel is a Jewish country, with a 75% Jewish population, of which a significant percentage is religious. Reform Judaism has made no inroads here.
Judaism is visible wherever you turn, with myriads of synagogues, thousands of institutions of Torah-learning, and public displays of Jewish occasions and concepts. To this day, the Hebrew Bible is held as our title-deed to the Holy Land. A certain amount of Torah-concepts are taught even in the non-religious schools and army.
David Volfson in the early 1940's. It was originally created as a flag for the zionist party, and then adopted as the country flag in 1948.
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How many times has Israel attacked its neighboring countries since its creation in 1948?
1) In 1956, Israel attacked Egypt with the prompting of the United Kingdom and France.
2) In 1967, Israel attacked Egypt responding to an Egyptian blockade of Israel's southern port.
All other wars that Israel has participated in have been brought about due to attacks on its land or its people first.
How did the rest of the world feel about the Balfour Declaration?
take a look at Palestinians refugee camps, and the answer is clear
The surrounding Muslim nations all with vast amounts of open, unsettled land refuse to open their land to these people.
Millions of Palestinians were paid for the land on which they "settled"; often more than one time by the U.N and Israel. Nothing was "taken"; it was paid for.
Still, these refugee camps continue to present day.
Jordan, Egypt have built fences to keep these refugees out -what does that say?
Which one is correct at Israel or in Israel?
Depends on how you use it.
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I would not say "My daughter and my brother live at Israel",
any more than I would say "I live at Chicago".
What atrocities has Israel committed against the Palestinians?
Answer 1
The question is one-sided. Israel has certainly made mistakes and civilians have been killed. Israel is defending itself against the terrorists of the nationality named in your question; and collateral incidents do sometimes occur, just as by the hands of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Unlike Palestinian terrorists, Israel never deliberately targets innocent people.
Answer 2
The question is appalling. It asks the responding contributor to spend time and thought, and come up with a list of charges that can be used to condemn.
One can only reiterate the statement in Answer 1, and urge you to think about it: Unlike many of its neighbors, Israel never deliberately targets innocent people.
Answer 3
While agreeing with Answers 1 & 2 that the question is biased and written in a way so as to avoid mentioning of the numerous Palestinian atrocities against Israelis, there are several particular atrocities committed by Israelis (mostly without government sanction) against Palestinians that are commonly mentioned as actual atrocities (see below). However, most people who use the term "atrocity against the Palestinians" use it to refer to anything that Israelis do regardless of whether it is considered an atrocity when Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians, and Egyptians do the exact same things.
Deir Yassin (1947): This is probably the best-known Israeli atrocity. The Irgun, a Jewish terrorist organization entered the Palestinian town of Deir Yassin and massacred 107 non-combatant Palestinians. The Israeli leadership under Ben Gurion made it clear that such activities would not be tolerated and forcibly disbanded the Irgun.
Qibya Massacre (1953): Called Operation Shoshana by the Israeli Defense forces, Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank. 69 Palestinian Arabs, two thirds of them women and children, were killed and 45 houses, a school, and a mosque were destroyed. The attack followed cross-border raids from the Jordanian occupied West Bank in which Israeli civilians were killed. The U.S. State Department and Jewish communities around the world condemned the attack.
Kafr Qasim Massacre (1956): On October 29, 1956, Israeli border police (MAGAV) conducted a raid in the Arab-Israeli town, resulting in 48 Arab civilians dead, including 6 women and 23 children. Arab sources usually give the death toll as 49, as they include the unborn child of one of the women. The Israeli court found that the command to kill civilians was "blatantly illegal", and sentenced the border police responsible to lengthy jail terms which were later pardoned by the government. In December 2007, President of Israel Shimon Peres formally apologised for the massacre.
Cave of the Patriarchs Massacre (1994): American-born Israeli Baruch Goldstein, a member of the far-right Israeli Kach movement, opened fire on unarmed Palestinian Muslims praying inside the Abraham Mosque at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, West Bank. The attack left 29 male worshippers dead and 125 wounded. The attack only ended after Goldstein had expended his ammunition and was beaten to death by survivors. Within 48 hours of the massacre, riots all across the West Bank led to altercations between Palestinians and Israeli Defense forces, leading to the deaths of another 19 Palestinians. The Israeli government condemned the massacre and responded by arresting members of the Kach movement, forbidding certain settlers from entering Arab towns and demanding that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles. Goldstein was denounced by mainstream Orthodox Judaism and was widely described as insane by Israelis.
How did Zionism create conflict in the Middle East?
Zionism is certainly one of the causes of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. It is not the only cause of the conflict and is also not the most important cause of the conflict. Zionism is responsible for the existence of the State of Israel since Zionism was the Jewish Nationalist movement to establish a Jewish State in the Land of Israel. Without Israel, there would be no Arab-Israeli conflict.
However, it is worth noting that while Zionism is a base cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict, numerous other far more lethal conflicts (like the Iran-Iraq War) have nothing to do with Israel.
What organization declared Israel an independent state?
The citizens and administration of Israel did, in 1948.
United Nations Resolution 181 only provided permission for Israel to declare a state. As said above, it was the Israelis who actually did the Declaring.
Do Arab Israelis consider themselves to belong to the Arab People or to Israel?
Almost every type of Arab Israeli considers himself to be a part of the Arab People in the same way that German Americans still consider themselves to be ethnically German even though they do not live inside of a German State (such as Germany, Austria, or Switzerland). The more pertinent question is whether they see Israel as their State of Citizenship in a positive light or a more positive light than they would see having the citizenship of an extant Arab State or Palestine.
The majority of Israeli Arabs consider themselves ethnically Palestinian. (Note that a minority of Arab Israelis do NOT consider themselves Palestinians and do not identify with that society, but all Palestinians at this point in history are Arabs.) They hold Israeli citizenship but are forbidden from serving in the Israeli Army. (This is as opposed to Jewish Israelis and some other Arab Israelis who are required to serve in the Israeli Army.) Within Israel, they often talk of how disgruntled (to put it mildly) they are with the current political structure and the treatment of the non-Israeli citizen Palestinians.
Regardless of any disagreement that ethnically Palestinian Arab Israelis may have with the State of Israel, the vast majority, if pushed to answer, would not give up their Israeli citizenship for the citizenship of any other Arab State. This sentiment, combined with the fact that they pay Israeli taxes, work at Israeli companies, and carry Israeli passports makes Arabs outside of Israel see these Arab Israelis as Israelis first and Arab second. Concurrently, since Israel is by law a Jewish State, the ethnically Palestinian Arab Israelis are seen by most Jewish Israelis as Arabs first and Israelis second. Caught in the middle, most ethnically Palestinian Arab Israelis feel that although they are Israeli citizens, they are truly Arabs in a foreign state.
As concerns Arab Israelis who are not ethnically Palestinian, such as the Druze and Bedouins and other minorities which are called Arab Israelis by laymen even though they are not Arab such as Circassians and Armenians, the situation is markedly different. These Arab Israelis (which cumulatively form less than 5% of the Arab Israeli population) have declared sole loyalty to the State of Israel and consider themselves Israeli non-Jewish citizens. The Druze and Circassians put their men in the mandatory Israeli Army draft pool and a number of Bedouin voluntarily join the Israeli Army as trackers. They have little to no interest in joining with other Arab Nations.
Note: There are certainly exceptions, but this is the general answer.
