Israel

Countries that belong to the United Nations Organization.

I don't know about his primary school but he went to Lindisfarne College. It's a private school in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

1994

If you are speaking of the people who died during the First Jewish-Roman War, they committed suicide.

The term you are looking for is Zionism, but Zionism is not a religious movement and religious Jews did not start support Zionism (many today do not give the ideology approval even if they approve of Israel) until the mid-1930s and 1940s (whereas the movement began in the 1880s).

There was no increase in the number of Jewish countries after the Six Day War. There was still only one: Israel.

In terms of the territories acquired by Israel in the Six Day War, those included (in order of size): the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the Southeastern Bank of the Sea of Galilee.

Presumably, Israelis and Palestinians will reap the greatest benefits. Both peoples will live in peace an security and be able to establish free and open diplomatic, economic, social, and political relations with any other nation or group of citizens.

Additionally, numerous other countries will be positively affected. Peace benefits just about everyone.

The Romans renamed the province Judea as Palestina after the Philistines, the Jews historic adversaries, in order to punish them for their uprisings against Roman authority.

Yes. Israel took the Sinai Peninsula twice (1956 and 1967) and returned it twice (1957 and 1979-1982).

In both cases Israel took the Sinai Peninsula because Egypt was posing a threat to Israel and rather than fight a defensive war within Israeli borders, Israel decided to fight an offensive war. In both 1956 and 1967, Egypt declare a ceasefire without a resolution, meaning that the armistices (with the Sinai securely in Israeli hands) became the de facto borders. Israel withdrew in 1957 due to American pressure and withdrew in 1979-1982 due to a final, lasting peace treaty with Egypt.

Passively.

The Shah of Iran was an ally of Israel during the relevant period and made sure that Israel had sufficient petroleum to satisfy its military needs. However, the Shah did not extend and financial or military aid to Israel, seeking to maintain neutrality in the conflict.

They wouldn't go to war given the strong relationship between the United States and Israel.

If they were compelled to go to war with one another (for the sake of discussion), the United States would probably launch cruise missiles off the Mediterranean Coast and start a beachhead between Tel Aviv and Netanya and a second beachhead between Netanya and Hadera.

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.

The Jews view the region of modern Israel and Palestine as their ancient homeland. They were exiled from it several times in history. However, the country of Israel was not and cannot be exiled because it is a place. When king Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon destroyed Solomon's Temple (The First Temple) in 586 BCE, the Jews were exiled to Babylon but were allowed to return by Cyrus the Great in 537 BCE. In the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt in 132--136 AD, the Romans destroyed the Second Temple and again many Jews were exiled or left the country on their own. This later exile is the one that spread Jews around the known world and from which they are returning when they return to the modern state of Israel today.

Zero.

Israel pulled out of Gaza unilaterally about 8 years ago, and removed all settlements.

If any would try to live there under Hammas rule, they would likely be shot.

an Israeli student

Between the various wars and Intifadas, around 16,000 to 19,000 Arabs identifying as Palestinians have died either as a result of Israeli military action, Israeli civilian action, or from blowing themselves up in Suicide Bombings during the Intifadas.

The number decreases to 6,000-7,000 if the Palestinian Suicide Bombers in the Intifadas are removed from the calculation.

In terms of other countries that have also killed Palestinians.

Jordan: 10,000-20,000
Lebanon: 4,000-7,000
Syria: 500-1,000
Egypt: 500-1,000

Harold, King Richard III's brother, tried to take the throne (or did, i cannot remember) and Richard had to leave to stop his brother, thus, the land was left for Saladin's taking.

Palestine has never been a colony of Israel. Israel took control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967 after conquering these territories from Jordan and Egypt respectively, where they were annexed territories under military authority.

The State of Israel came together as the result of Jewish immigration to the British Mandate of Palestine, Zionist leadership, Jewish militias and political and financial support from the West (primarily Jewish philanthropists). The first group are called the Halutzim or the Pioneers and they took it upon themselves to modernize Israel by cultivating the land and using European technology to improve its output and productivity. The Zionist leadership included some like Theodor Herzl, who envisioned the state, to Eliezer ben Yehuda, who developed Modern Hebrew as a functional language, to David Ben Gurion who declared Israel's independence and sovereignty, among many others. There were numerous Jewish militias defending the Halutzim and attacking the British (and eventually the Arabs when conflict started) such as the Palmach, the Haganah, and the Irgun. Finally, without the monetary contributions from families like the Rothschilds, there would have been no way for the nascent pre-governmental and governmental organizations to acquire enough capital to maintain an internal infrastructure.

By the late 1940s, there was Jewish civil society and local government in Mandatory Palestine. Israel's Declaration of Independence was a natural part in the development of that community.

Because some Arabs decided that Israel was rightfully theirs, even though they declined the UN's 1947 partition plan of a two state solution. And did not even ask for a country until 1967 when Israel conquered land in a defensive war (which according to international law allows them to hold the territories until an agreement is signed by both parties involved).

Despite what some people may try to say, the state of Israel does not simply go around killing innocent Arabs. They do not take away rights from Palestinians, in fact when the state of Israel was founded, Palestinians were offered Israeli citizenship, some accepted but many declined. Through the years there have been a number of Arab ministers in the Israeli government. Right now there are a number of Arab representatives in the Israeli government.

The conflict between Israel and Gaza was caused due to Hamas being elected into power in Gaza in 2005. In Hamas' charter, it calls for the destruction of the Jewish state (Israel).

Israel and America, in trying to get the Palestinians to the negotiating table, mistakenly withdrew from Gaza as a goodwill gesture, but didn't expect Hamas to get elected.

Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and as such vehemently opposed to any nation, anywhere in the world, which has any kind of rule other than Shari'ah (Islamic law).

The conflict between Israel and Gaza is no different to the conflict and violence caused by Muslims in India, Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia, Thailand, the Philippines etc.