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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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What is the root of the misunderstanding between the Israelis and the Lebanese?
This question confuses the word "conflict" with "misunderstanding". The Israelis and Lebanese understand the other party's desires quite well, but refuse to concede them, leading to conflict.
Israel was involved in Lebanon's Civil War and supported the Christian Phalangists against the PLO, Lebanese Islamist Militias, and Syrian Forces. Israel believes in a Lebanon that accords rights to all of its inhabitants (including Palestinian Refugees) that include the right to dissent and the right for people to express unpopular opinions.
The Lebanese Muslims are opposed to the existence of a State of Israel and openly endorse organizations like Hezbollah whose stated goals are the destruction and elimination of that State. Lebanese Christians, unfortunately, are by-and-large denied a voice in modern Lebanese politics because they are not allowed to openly oppose these radical Muslim desires.
Where would you find Gaza on a map?
Gaza is a small strip of land located in the southwest corner of Israel on the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Egypt on the west of the strip.
Did the UN give Jerusalem to Israel?
No. Jerusalem has been the capital of modern-day Israel since ancient times (or, when it was called Judea).
No. In the 1947 Partition Plan, Jerusalem was to be a corpus separatum, which meant that it would be controlled neither by the Arab State or the Jewish State, but by a separate United Nations government. The 1947 Partition Plan also stated that after ten years, the people in Jerusalem would have the choice to vote on whether they would join with Jewish State or the Arab State. Given that Jerusalem was encircled entirely within the Arab State, it is likely that Jerusalem would have become part of the Arab State.
However, when the Partition Plan failed on account of the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, Jerusalem was divided by Israeli and Arab forces between West and East Jerusalem. Furthermore, the United Nations abides by International Law which holds that the Jerusalem Law, which established the unified city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, is void given that East Jerusalem is part of the West Bank territories. The United Nations recognizes Tel Aviv as the capital of Israel.
What countries were concidered the holy land and who did they fight?
The holy land was in the middle east, Jerusalem.
The main war that happened there was the Crusades. This was fought between the Christian Europeans and the Arabic people because Jerusalem is a very holy place in both Islam and Christianity.
What 4 countries and 2 seas border israel?
Four Official Countries:
Lebanon
Syria
Jordan
Egypt
Two Quasi-Countries:
Palestinian-Authority-controlled West Bank
Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip
Two Seas
Mediterranean Sea
Red Sea -- on account of its arm the Gulf of Aqabah.
How did Egypt win the Arab-Israeli War of 1973?
There are two questions here that are both important to answer.
Firstly, there is a question of whether or not Egypt actually won the Yom Kippur War. Those that say that it did, show that Israelis suffered defeats early in the war when they were caught off-guard. Also, in the early armistice negotiations, Israelis had to make the first moves of withdrawal from African Egyptian territory. Israelis counter that Egypt lost the Yom Kippur War because they failed to secure their primary objective, the Sinai Peninsula, which remained in Israeli hands after hostilities had ceased.
Secondly, assuming that the Egyptian perspective is held, the Egyptians won the war by calling the armistice at the right time and holding the powerful Egyptian Third Army on the east bank of the Suez Canal, primed to strike. The Israelis counter saying that the armistice was called as Israeli soldiers were advancing on Cairo and that the Egyptian Third Army was cutoff and dependent on Israeli goodwill for food and basic supplies.
Anti-Zionism is a movement which denies the right of Israel to exist, and the right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. However, Israel has been the Jewish homeland since biblical times.
Although much of Anti-Zionism is devoted particularly to the State of Israel, Anti-Zionists reject the idea of any Jewish State anywhere in the world as an unnatural, undesirable, and wrong situation.
What did the ancient Israel do for entertainment?
We know from the Tanakh (Bible) about musical instruments, dance, wine and song. Beyond that, not much is said, since unlike the ancient Greeks, the Israelites (until mid-Second Temple times) did not build theaters or arenas.
Israel protects Israel.
As for foreign allies, the United States is probably Israel's strongest ally, but the United States has never even sent an expeditionary force to join with Israel in any of its wars. (Whereas the Soviet Union actively sent soldiers to fight in the War of Attrition of 1967-1970 and the Arab-Israeli War of 1973.) The main way that the United States protects Israel is by vetoing partisan UNSC resolutions.
There are Jews all over the world.
The one who live in Israel are Israeli Jews, like those in the U.S called American Jews.
How long does it take to fly from Mobile Alabama to Israel?
Mobile, Alabama to Tel Aviv, Israel with a layover in Atlanta, Georgia took 17 hours.
Answer 1
The Palestinians
Answer 2
The lack of definitions for what constitutes "ownership" and what constitutes "Israel" make the question difficult to answer.
As for "Israel" this term is typically interpreted one of two ways. The first way is to refer to all of the land in the British Mandate of Palestine and the Golan Heights which includes the Modern State of Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. The second way is to refer to exclusively those territories which Israel controlled in 1949. Understandably, it changes the argument fundamentally if Resolution 242 territories are exempted from the discussion.
As for "ownership" there are two understandings of this word. The first is the literal definition of possessing something. Therefore whatever persons, companies, organizations, or governments own something with proper title as viewed by recognized governments are those who have "ownership". (This is like any typical sale.) The second definition is the perceived Color of Right of Title, which is to say that a certain person, organization, or government should have proper title but does not have it on account of an illegal activity. (This case would come for example if A owned a book and B stole it. While B has physical possession of the book, A still retains ownership since stealing, the act of transfer and acquisition, is illegal.) Understandably, most Israelis claim that no illegal act took place and therefore title properly belongs to them. Palestinians and their sympathizers often (but not always) argue that their land was stolen and therefore, they retain proper ownership.
As for the 78% of Mandatory Palestine which is now the State of Israel, this came about through Israel's acceptance of UN Resolution 181 and its border defense against Arab aggression to counter international laws that they did not like. As a result, the acquisition in the 1947-1949 of war was not an illegal act since self-defense is not a criminal act unless it is grossly disproportionate to the attack and the war was a relatively balanced affair as well as being resolved at the moment that each Arab state was willing to engage in an armistice. Just to clarify, this means that the 1949 borders of Israel belong to Israel.
As for the remaining Palestinian areas that were acquired in 1967, the situation becomes murkier, but as concerns the West Bank, Jordan attacked Israel first and Israel retaliated. Again the self-defense doctrine comes to the fore. Israel would have the rights to those territories acquired in self-defense. However, Israel was willing to concede some of those rights pursuant to a final, lasting peace with its neighbors, which is all that UN Resolution 242 discusses. Those states that have made peace with Israel since 1967 (Egypt and Jordan) have seen the return of territory (in Egypt's case) or the cession of the rights to occupied territory with tertiary partners (Jordan to the Palestinian Authority).
As for Gaza specifically, at this point in history, there are only two parties that claim it, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Since Hamas is not recognized as an independent government by any country, it retains exclusively de facto control of the area while the Palestinian Authority retains de jurecontrol pursuant to the Oslo Accords of 1993.
As for the West Bank specifically, since Israel ceded the possible claim to the West Bank to Jordan in UN Resolution 242 and Jordan then agreed to cede its rights to claim the land in full to the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian Authority has the right to claim the lands of the West Bank. There are certainly Israelis who disagree with the extent of these rights, their viability vis à vis their religion, or use the doctrine of terra nullius to disavow the Palestinian Authority of these rights, but this is the minority of Israelis. Most Israelis want the majority of the West Bank to revert to the Palestinian Authority with a guarantee of peaceful coexistence.
As for the Golan Heights, Israel has said that they are more than willing to return the Golan Heights to Syria for a lasting peace. If Israel's negotiations with the Egyptians about the Sinai Peninsula are any indication, Israel is more than willing to make the concessions. Syria may find it more difficult.
Did the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict start from cultural differences?
Yes and No.
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has its origins in the confrontation between immigrant Zionist Jews or Yishuv in the Mandate of Palestine and their interaction with the indigenous Settled Arabs or Fellahin in the 1920s and 1930s. Before that point, the immigration into the land had been a small trickle and Fellahin were not terribly concerned. However, the Jewish immigration in the 1920s was quite large and disruptive. By the mid 1930s, both sides had developed militias which they used both to attack British colonial institutions and each other. Jews also flooded back to the Holy Land following World War II, since they felt that they would always be persecuted in countries where they were the minority. In 1947, as UN Resolution 181 was being debated, a full-scale war erupted between the Jewish militias and the Arab militias which is called the Jewish-Arab Engagement. When Israel declared its independence in 1948, the Arab States joined in the War which caused it to be internationally recognized and called the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9. The on and off conflict that has remained unresolved for over half a century now.
Therefore, if we use the terms Israeli and Palestinian retroactively to those people who would eventually identify or would be identified as Israelis or Palestinians, the conflict started during the 1920s. If we require that these terms be strictly applied, then the conflict started in 1948 when Israel declared its independence.
However, merely being culturally different was not the only reason that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict started. There were also non-Fellahin in Palestine such as the Druze, Bedouins, and Circassians. These Arabs and the Circassians actually did endear themselves to the Yishuv and developed strong bonds with them. The Jews and Druze were jointly able to secure Druze rights to Nabi Shu'ayb, which is a Druze holy site. In return, Druze pledged themselves to the physical defense of the Yishuv and fought alongside Jews in the Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949 and in all other Arab-Israeli Conflicts. The Circassians have similarly fought alongside Jews in exchange for recognition of their unique cultural heritage and societal integration. The Bedouins were able to strike a strong trade relationship with the Yishuv. The Yishuv was often able to provide Bedouin camps with water and additional jobs. The Bedouins in turn helped the Yishuv maintain a strong agricultural food base, especially in the Galilee Region. Similarly, Bedouins have served alongside Jews in Israel. Currently the Druze are over-represented in the Knesset and are members of nearly every political party except the Religious Jewish Parties.
The reason that the Fellahin, who are now the Palestinians, objected to the Jewish State in addition to cultural difference was that they wanted to create their own country. The Druze, Circassians, and Bedouins knew that they would never have a population large enough to have their own country and so were willing to settle with the Jews who would respect their unique cultures and rights. The Palestinians were not so willing.
What is the name of the Movie regarding the hijacked Israelis that were miraculously rescued?
Raid on Entebbe.
The Movie concerns Operation Entebbe, an Israeli military operation to rescue Israelis wrongfully detained in Uganda by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Does the movie 'Waltz with Bashir' by Ari Folman have subtitles or dubbing?
"Waltz" is in Hebrew with good English subtitles.
It was screened in Cannes and will be shown in Toronto, after which they'll probably have a release date in the US.
Which kingdom had an advantage in trade Israel or Judah?
Israel had a trade advantage since it bordered more countries, had more fertile land, and it had access to port cities.
