Israel

There were two prime ministers during 1995: Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.

Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995) was prime minister for most of 1995, but was assassinated on November 4, 1995, the only Israeli prime minister killed in office.

Shimon Peres became acting prime minister succeeding Rabin, from November 4-22. He was elected on November 22, 1995 and was voted out on June 18, 1996. He served twice as prime minister, previously from 1984-1986. Shimon Peres is now the current president of the State of Israel, having been elected in 2007.

Answer 1

Despite which country is involved, it is often difficult for one country to intervene in another country's affairs because of cultural differences. Most countries want to be respectful to other cultures, without imposing one set of morals or standards on another culture. Questions about "innocence" or "guilt" often are blurry when unrest occurs within a country; other countries do not want to impose an outside morality or vision of morality on a different culture. The UN, despite it's desire to be helpful, the UN also has no military power to enforce its regulations; instead, the UN seeks cooperative changes where countries still maintain an autonomous control over their own in-country difficulties. Plus... the fact is, any country who steps into high tension conflicts must be prepared to 'go to war'... and most countries do not want to go to that high of risk, for obvious reasons.

Answer 2

Assuming for the sake of argument that Israel is attacking innocent Palestinians, (and there is definitely room to contest this issue), there are several reasons why the United States government would be less concerned about this:

Voter Capital: The Jews in the United States are not a very large population but they are strategically placed in the battleground state of Florida. Additionally, many American Evangelicals express a strong support of Israel since they believe that this will lead to Armageddon and the Rapture, for which they are very excited. As a result, candidates will show their Support for Israel by not criticizing actions that may be less than desirable. Pro-Arab voters are not typically swing votes since the Republican Party has thoroughly disgusted most Arab Americans with its hateful rhetoric towards them and are therefore not courted by the Republicans and not seen as needing courtship by Democrats.

Foreign Capital: There are numerous states whose human rights abuses the United States does not discuss or condemn. The most obvious is Saudi Arabia with its horrific treatment of women, the incarcerated and the stifling of dissent. China's repression of the Muslims in Xinjiang Province is almost never discussed by the administration. Pakistan's violent engagement with the Baloch is also off-limits. There are other examples as well of this trend. The thing unifying these countries with Israel is that the United States wishes to retain strategic relationships with these countries and one way to do that is to refrain from criticizing undesirable behavior.

State Development: Especially as concerns Jerusalem, it could be argued that Israel should not be put in a position where it has to freeze all construction and modernization of the city simply because the territory is disputed. Nobody claims that India, Pakistan, and China cannot build new structures and modify existing structures in Jammu, Kashmir, and Aksai Chin. No nation has objection to Turkish Cypriot construction and development of North Cyprus, even though most countries see it as a Turkish occupation. The reasons are simple, the world does not stop because a territory is disputed and as time passes, the situations change.

Right to Defense: American recognize that every state has the right to protect its people, even states that the US believes are illegitimate or bellicose (such as Iran or Venezuela). Therefore, Israel has the legitimate right to defend its people. Whether or not that defense is disproportionate to the need may be questioned, but there is no way to avoid civilian casualties when a state is constantly required to put down insurrections and insurgencies.

As concerns the United Nations, there have been more resolutions proposed about the Arab-Israeli Conflict than about any singular other event-group. This is because the UN has a large group of Muslim-majority countries that would rather blame Israel for everything that goes wrong in the world than confront the fact that most of them are immoral dictatorships that repress their own people. The United States has vetoed nearly every such resolution since 1970. One of the main exceptions to this was UN Resolution 3379 in 1975 which claimed that Zionism was racism. (Since this was a General Assembly vote, the United States had no veto.) The Resolution has since been revoked by UN Resolution 4686.

Nobody knows, but it is presumed that they assimilated into Babylonian culture.

It should be noted that we Jews, descendants of Judah, do possess among us small percentages of every one of the other eleven Tribes, since there was a slight amount of intermingling before the two Kingdoms separated. See for example the Talmud, Pesachim 4a.

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Israel in conflict and not in war, sometimes this conflict make wars, and these are local and not all over israel, so when there is war most of israel work fine and regular .

As of May 5, 2012, Israel is not actively engaged in any war. However, Israel has a de jure state of war with Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen as a result of not signing any proper peace accords with them since 1948. (A de jure state of war results when no treaty ending a war has been signed. For example, the United States and the Second Reich of Germany were at war from 1917-1921 in a de jure sense because even though the Armistice was signed in 1918, no American-German Treaty was ratified until 1921.) Israel additionally controls the occupied territories, which is seen as some as act of war. If this is true, then the Pakistani, Indian and Chinese occupations of parts of Jammu and Kashmir should also be considered acts of war since they are controlling disputed territories with different ethnicities than those of the country at large.

Answer 1
Hezbollah are based in Lebanon, although in reality they are from Iran and are of Iranian nationality. They live and work in Lebanon. Hezbollah is a milita and despite what most people believe, Hezbollah does not have absolute power over governments. That is, even Hezbollah and other militas can only do what the governments will allow them to do.The current Gaza crisis now in January 2009 is very similar to the Lebanon invasion of 2006. And it has been reported that other governments have not done anything to stop the Israeli bombing of Gaza. Hamas is also not helping the people in Gaza either. Also Gaza cannot be reached easily by other countries, as to get there one has to go Israel, and this is difficult. As Israel does not allow a lot of people into the country, people with Syrian or Lebanese passports and with passports from most other countries Arab and others who are not at peace with Israel or have not signed a peace treaty. Egypt and Jordan have, but even citizens of those countries cannot get into Israel. Egypt has closed its borders with Israel and Israel won't let anybody in or out now. Hezbollah and other militas cannot get into Israel anymore than anybody else can. They and other militas have been forbidden by the Lebanese government from intervening in any way.The Iranian government, who originally created Hezbollah, fears that if Hezbollah or other militas get involved in any way with the currant crisis, Israel will invade Lebanon again or even invade Iran or other Arab countries. As mentioned Hezbollah cannot go against the government,and also the country, Israel and Gaza is closed to outsiders.There for entry into or out of by the militas is impossible. Other governments want to help, but Israel is closed even to other governments. The Israelis have killed and arrested innocent people trying to help aid workers and reporters. So Gaza is out of reach for everybody and people in Gaza are trapped there, as they cannot get out.

Answer 2
There are a few reasons why Hezbollah has not assisted the Palestinians during the Gazan War of 2008.

Lack of Access: Hezbollah has no naval craft and could not have made an amphibious landing in Gaza or Egypt to begin an offensive in Gaza against Israel.

Avoiding an Invasion of Lebanon: Hezbollah is aware from the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah War that Israel is more than willing to hunt them down if they violate the UN Ceasefire Zone along the Israeli-Lebanese border to attack from Lebanon. Hezbollah may have packaged the war as a victory against Israel, but it was not interested in losing militants for no real benefit.

Dead Body Propaganda: Hezbollah at its core is not interested in the Palestinians, but the eradication of Israel. Nothing makes Israel look worse than numerous civilian casualties in Palestine. As a result, they also choose to intentionally do nothing to prolong the fighting and increase the number of Palestinian deaths to humiliate Israel.

Iranian Prohibition: Iran is more than happy to maintain the current Iranian-Israeli Proxy Wars, but Hezbollah's direct involvement in the Gazan War could spark a rise from mere proxy wars to actual war. Iran wishes to avoid conflict until a time when it could assure victory and has ordered Hezbollah to stand down.

Notes on Answer 1
There are a few assertions that Answer 1 makes that are false:

• Hezbollah is under the yoke of the Lebanese government: This has been proven to not be the case. When Hezbollah did not win the Lebanese elections later in 2009, they launched a military attack on the capital until parts of their vision were realized for Lebanon. While Hezbollah may take Lebanese laws into account, it is not bound by them.
• Gaza can only be reached by Israel: While this is the current political reality, it is not the geographic reality. Egypt maintains a border crossing at Rafah. However, Egypt, both under Mubarak and later under Morsi has kept the border closed. Egyptians are just as afraid of the Gaza Hamastan as the Israelis. However, there are numerous smuggling tunnels between Egypt and Gaza, so Hezbollah militants could get into Gaza if they really wanted to go.
• Israel's borders were closed: Israel's borders with all of its neighbors (Jordan and Egypt) remained open throughout the conflict. There may have been increased border procedures since the country was at war. The only borders that were under strict scrutiny were those with the Gaza Strip. Getting into and out of Israel was not a problem. Hezbollah would have a problem entering Israel since Lebanese, Syrian, and Iranian citizens cannot enter Israel (as their countries reject its legitimacy).