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There is evidence that it was first used in Ancient Egypt. The Egyptians made paper from the papyrus plant, as far back as 5000 years ago.

1). Israel stole the land from the palestinians and now they are trying to take over

Syria by giving weapons to terrorists.

2). Israel does not respect palestinians, they put them in jails for years without the

assistance of a lawer.

3). Israel put kids in jail which is against the Geneva Convention.

4). Israel kills palestinians around the world because they have the courage to fight

for their country.

5). Israel consider their arabs citizens like secind class citizens. The state of Israel

does not recognize them because they are not Jew. And Israel call himself a jewish state.

6). Israel ignore since 1967 the resolution of UN about the occupied territories.

Israel refused to give them back to the Palestinians.

7). But Palestinians will get their land back like the algerians did against the French.

History is on the move.

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The first answer is a particularly interesting one. Not only for its content, but

even more so because this is only the 2nd time its author felt moved to post a

contribution on the site ... the first one having been almost exactly 3 years ago,

in the heated discussion of whether Erroll Flynn was gay. Since that one, nothing

in the interim has aroused his passions like this one did.

I added the numbers that you see before some lines in the first answer, and

I'll offer a few facts to juxtapose opposite a few of the numbered lines. I hope

also that other contributors, more knowledgeable than I am on the topic, will

add to the facts.

1).

-- Except for all the land that Jews bought and paid for during the 20th Century.

-- And except for the fact that there were no such people as 'Palestinians' for at least

the first half of the 20th Century.

-- And yes, it's obvious, as always, that if trouble is brewing in Syria, it must be the

Jews' fault.

-- But who are those 'terrorists' ? Do you mean the citizens of Syria, who have to

find a new and innovative way to change their government, because they have no

system of democratic elections like their next-door neighbors in Israel have ?

2).

-- Except for the Muslim Arabs who populate and govern the towns throughout the

north of Israel.

-- There are certainly Palestinians in Israeli prisons. If there is to be a debate on the

due process of law in the country, then for accurate comparison, it ought to include

a fair and representative description of its counterpart in any of the surrounding Arab

countries, particularly vis a vis their resident Palestinian refugees and their Jewish citizens.

3).

Presumably you'd be able to name specific children in Israeli jails of whom you

have direct knowledge, not just something that your brother-in-law's barber's

girl-friend heard somewhere from somebody. Confined as I am most of the time

to the USA, I have no details on the subject, but I can get them from my extensive

network of contacts and informants in Israel.

4). This one is truly convoluted, and cries out for a response in kind.

-- Where around the world is Israel killing Palestinians ?

-- Besides dropping rockets into the enemy civilian neighborhoods or blowing up

enemy pizza shops, how are Palestinians going about fighting for their country ?

-- Do Bali or Mumbai or 9/11 or the Achille Lauro figure in somehow ? I don't get

the connection. Perhaps you could explain how it's supposed to work.

-- What country is it that they're fighting for, as they don't have one yet ?

5).

-- Except for the Arab doctors on staff at Israeli hospitals.

-- And except for the Muslim Arab citizens of Israel who stood for election, and were

elected by their constituents to represent their communities in Israel's parliament.

-- And except for the Muslim Arab citizens of Israel (men and women) who voted for them.

-- And except for the Arab lawyers who practice before Israeli courts.

-- And except for the Muslim Arab judge who sat (next to a female judge) on the Israeli

court that convicted a former Israeli president and sent him to prison.

6).

-- Israel transferred the entire Sinai Peninsula ... an area larger than all of Israel ...

to Egypt when those two countries negotiated and signed a peace treaty. Israel

withdrew from southern Lebanon when the UN agreed to occupy the area as

'peacekeepers'. Israel withdrew its settlers by force from the Gaza Strip and

transferred control over it to the Palestinian Authority.

-- Those who seek exclusive title and control of the West Bank are asked to

acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a nation, and to express their intention

to eliminate violence against Israel and live side-by-side in peace. And have

refused.

How is this thing not like the others ? Is there any pattern evident here ?

7).

This confident vision of future triumph rings forth in its pure conviction without

ever once using the word "Judenrein". Truly inspiring.

Mainly geography; Israel uses a combination of advanced irrigation systems, combined with the genetic engineering of crops to produce food. However, in the Negev desert farming is almost impossible.

If The Scriptures are correct: NONE! Jeremiah 29:23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.

Only if you're a Jew. Israel welcomes invites people from all over the world to become citizens but only if they are Jews. Its definition of a Jew is closely connected to the Nazi classification of Jews. The indigineous non Jewish Arab population is however discriminated against in almost all fields. A majority of them have not even been given Israeli citizenship and are officially categorized as an occupied people. Israel is often criticized as one of the worst human rights violators among developed states.

He called upon the various European States of his time, including: the Germanic States of the Holy Roman Empire, the Frankish Empire, the various Iberian Kingdoms like Castilla-Leon, Aragon, and Catalonia, the Hungarian Empire, and the British States.

Insufficient water.

During the time of King Solomon, around 3000 years ago, Jerusalem include much of what is now the Jewish Quarter, small parts of what is now the Islamic Quarter, and the (currently) extra-mural neighborhood of Silwan. (In fact, most excavations of to discover things about Davidic and Solomonic Jerusalem take place in Silwan to the chagrin of the Palestinian residents living there.)

Same place as today, though it was smaller.

The Negev in the south.

He has a wife and kids and 6 grandkids

but, since he became the president of Israel, his wife does not live with him and they are separated.

It depends because if something happens to your child while they are gone then if you give your parents/parents in law power of attorney then they will be able to make medical decisions for your child. So the answer is yes if you want the grandparents to have medical control and no if you don't.

The great majority of Jews today, some 80% or so, are descended from the tribe of Judah (plus converts and descendents of converts). The remaining 20% include Levites (from the tribe of Levi), Cohanim (also a part of the Levites), and a small percentage from every one of the remaining tribes. (When the Ten Tribes were carried off into Assyria and didn't return, a few of them had already mixed into the tribe of Judah before that, through marriage.)

There are several different one state proposals, ranging from the "One Jewish State" proposal to the "One Arab State" proposal. The intermediate proposal (and the most common one entertained) is the Bi-National State organized along a confessionalist model.

Definition of Confessionalism:
Confessionalism is a political system where individuals in a society have different political rights because of which religious community they ascribe to. Unlike the West, in the Middle East, you inherit a religious community regardless of whether you believe or not; it is almost the equivalent of the ethnicity. This is a form of binationalism. The most common example given is Lebanon, where the President must be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister must be a Sunni Muslim, and the Speaker of the Parliament must be a Shiite Muslim. The Parliament itself must also be divided 50-50 between Muslims and Christians.

"Isratine" as a Confessionalist State
If the populations of Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank were added together, you would have 6.0 million Jews and 6.1 million Arab Muslims and 300,000 or so other minorities. Additionally, since the Arab Muslim population growth rates are higher than those of Jews in aggregate, the Muslim population would grow higher and higher over time and Jews would never constitute a majority. The Isratinian government would likely be derived from the Israeli government which is stable and effective in governance. The President/Prime Minister relationship would probably become more balanced (à la Turkey or à la Lebanon) and the President would be required to be a Jew while the Prime Minister would be required to be a Muslim. The Parliament would probably be divided evenly between Jews and Muslims with a few remaining seats allocated for Druze, Christians, and other religious minorities. Proponents say that this type of plan is good because it allows for demographic changes to leave the fabric of Isratine intact. It would also require the interaction of the various communities on a much higher level than full independence would allow.

CRITICISMS

Lack of Pluralism in the Middle East (primarily a Jewish argument)
Most people who advocate confessionalism use Lebanon as a blueprint, since, in 1920, the division between Christians and Arab Muslims in Lebanon was roughly the same as would be between Jews and Arab Muslims currently over the entirety of former Mandatory Palestine. The differing parties created a confessionalist system of governance and tried to live together. Unfortunately, Lebanon demonstrates the failure of the confessionalist system. Muslims in the Middle East tend to hate or think less of Non-Muslims. Over the course of the 1920s-1960s, as the Muslim population rose, they became more and more violent towards the Christian population, leading to a mass exodus of Christians from Lebanon who were afraid for their lives and property. In 1975, the situation had deteriorated so badly that the country broke out in a civil war that raged for 16 years and resulted in several changes to the confessionalist system that further emboldened the Muslim majority. Christians in Lebanon are being treated increasingly as second-class citizens and a large percentage of Lebanese emigrants are Christians. In fact, the issue is so sensitive that there has been no official census in Lebanon since the 1930s because it would further embolden Muslims to take away rights from the shrinking Christian minority.

And then realize that Judenhass (Jew-hatred) in the Arab Muslim world (and Palestine in particular) is orders of magnitude greater than hatred for Christians. The situation could only be worse for Isratine. If liberalism existed in the Middle East, there could be promise for a multi-ethnic pluralistic country, but such does not exist. The majority of Palestinians polled have consistently held that under any Isratine-type solution that all European Jews would be required to emigrate from Isratine to their "home countries" even though the majority of them were born in Israel. Unlike the Lebanese case, where there was sporadic violence that led to flight, but was not perpetrated in order to cause flight, this sets up a mechanism for pogroms against the Jews in the Isratine state, i.e. in order to force Jews to feel unsafe and to return to their "countries of origin".

Defeats the Purpose of Israel (primarily a Jewish argument)
Israel was developed to be a center of Jewish culture and civilization as a rebirth of the historic Jewish cultures and civilizations that used to exist there. It was also designed to be a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution elsewhere in the world. Israel has already accepted Jewish refugees from dozens of countries under its Jewish Right of Return. In addition to the violence that would be visited on the Jewish community (as described in Lack of Pluralism), it is quite likely that the Isratinian government would end the Right of Return and limit its support of Jewish culture, depriving Israel of its inherent purpose for many of its citizens.

Economic Disenfranchisment (primarily a Muslim argument)
Since most of the wealthy and economically affluent individuals in what would become Isratine would be Jewish and confessionalist systems reward in-group favoritism, it is likely that the Isratinian economic elite would be almost exclusively Jewish, leading to Muslim economic disenfranchisement. Historically, a similar issue arose in Lebanon and in Turkey when those countries had large Non-Muslim minorities who were relatively economically powerful and, through in-group favoritism, prevented Muslims from improving their economic position.

Alteration of the Blood Pact (primarily a Druze and Bedouin argument)
The Druze and Bedouins made a number of pacts with the early Zionists, even before the State of Israel came into existence, because the Zionists, unlike the future Palestinians, treated them as equals, not inferiors. The Zionists additionally offerred concrete benefits to these minorities. In the case of the Druze, it was the repatriation of their holiest site: Nabi Shuayb from exclusivist Muslim control. In the case of the Bedouins, it was access to water and education. These groups have proudly fought alongside the Jews of Israel in defense of Zionism and lost many thousands of souls in defense of the state. The alteration of the state in a significant way would, to them, invalidate the sacrifice on behalf of the state. Additionally, because they are Arabs they will likely face additional backlash from the Palestinian Muslims for appearing to be traitors or appeasors.

Prevents the Creation of Truly National Identity (primarily a Liberal argument)
The creation of a confessionalist state requires individuals to have a loyalty primarily to their group and not to the nation overall. Admittedly, this is currently a problem in Israel, where the Israeli Supreme Court recently ruled that there is no "Israeli identity", a person is either Jewish or Arab. A confessionalist state will only intensify the problem.

Requires Atheists to Define Themselves by Faith (primarily an Atheist argument)
This is straightforward. In order for an Atheist to be represented in a confessionalist system, the Atheist has to define himself as a member of a faith community, which may strike him as disengenuous, since he does not actually believe the tenets of that faith.

The water density depends on the temperature of the lake water already in the Sea of Galilee, also called Lake Kinneret, and the temperature of the river water coming from the Jordan River. Lake KinneretÕs water density averages around 0.99991 kilograms per Liter.

Every month has either 29 or 30 days. (one month 29, the next 30). There are 12 months altogether but once every 3-4 years, another month is added so that the Jewish holidays always fall in the right time since the Hebrew calendar is both by the moon and sun (Passover in spring etc.) The calender is from right to left as the Jews write from right to left.

Not only the price of silver has changed, but also the purchasing power of its equivalent value.

To answer the question, in ancient times a person could live, sparsely, on one shekel per month. A simple full garment could be had, even in Talmud times, for one-quarter-shekel.

Common ingredients to Israeli foods are:

Chickpeas

Olives

tomatoes

eggplant

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because Israel takeover Palestinian ( they and all Arabs -including me- think Israel is a terrorist country )

Those who curse Israel will be cursed by God (Numbers 24:5-9, and many other Tanakh-verses).

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