Israel

Yes. It has been since 1948, is a member of the United Nations, and has full mutual

diplomatic relations with all but about 35 of the other UN member nations.

My Grandmother and Grandfather moved there after the Holocaust. They were Holocaust survivors.

Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel, the US pressured Britain to allow 100,000 Jews held up in Cyprus to Palestine. The overwhelming majority were Holocaust Survivors. Additionally, according to Israeli Statistics, between 1948-1952, Israel absorbed 373,852 Holocaust Survivors.

I think there would have been no motivation for people to conceive an israel nation without the holocaut.

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Zionists had been campaigning for their own nation-state since the 1890s. Morever, the British Mandate in Palestine was due to expire in 1948, so some decision about the future of the area would have had to be taken anyway.

After the Holocaust, the Jewish people of Israel took the land of Palestine because it was the Chosen land by God. They have been fighting ever since.

No that would be racist, it's like getting shot by a white

guy and everybody suddenly thinking all whites are killers.

It isn't racist. It is simply incorrect. Like saying Palestinians are terrorists.

Some Israelis are terrorists, just like some Palestinians are.

Israelis (or rather Jews, because this was before Israel was created) invented modern terrorism. There were many massacres, bombings and assassinations committed by jews well before palestinians caught onto the idea.

The Israeli state practises terrorism. The massacre of civilians, bombing of cities, mass imprisonment of civilians, erection of walls to prevent population movement, cutting off food and medical supplies, torture and assassination of poltiical opponents etc etc. The fact that palestinian terrorist groups may do some of the same things does not justify the state of Israel behaving as a terrorist organisation.

England gave away a portion of the Palestinian area to the Jews, the countries surrounding this state were not particularly impressed by having a western power forced on them in their midst. They did not however have the power to do much about it. Israel in the mean time had expansionist aspirations and acted on them under the guise of self-defence. The rest is history.

Being a Zionist only means one thing: Believing that the Jews have a right to an independent State and that this State should be in the Land of Israel. As a result, the main goal of Zionism has consistently been the establishment and maintenance of such a state.

Many people incorrectly believe that Zionism refers to the Anti-Semitic depictions of a worldwide Jewish Cabal or some other conspiracy theory. However, that is not what Zionism is.

Since the time of Moses, the climate and environment in Israel have experienced changes due to natural variability and human activities. There have been periods of desertification and deforestation, as well as environmental degradation due to agriculture and urbanization. Climate change has also led to shifts in precipitation patterns and temperatures, impacting the region's landscapes and ecosystems.

God promised him the entire land (Genesis ch.13 and 15), but the promise was fulfilled later, in the time of Joshua.

Syria and Jordan share parts of Israel's eastern border.

People in Israel are living like anyone else in the world. There are social services, health care programs, etc. Israel is not different from any other country they are just like people living in the USA and they have very good living conditions just like us. * doctors 80% * health care programs 34% * social services 78%

From Abrahams covenant to Red sea - 430 years. The 430 years refers specifically to the sojourning IN A STRANGE LAND, the land that Abraham stepped on from the onset of the covenant, of which a portion of that time was in Egypt. The sojourning in Egypt took place upon his grandson Jacob's arrival with his family of seventy people, via Joseph, of which their actual bondage was less than 150 of those years.

Partial answer: The salinity of the dead sea is ~31.5% by weight while the salinity of the Mediterranean is ~3.5%

Benjamin Netanyahu was born on October 21, 1949.

The Third Crusade, led by Richard the Lionheart of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold of Austria, recovered the coastline of modern Syria, Israel, and Lebanon that had been lost to Salah-al din in the previous years. In fact, Saladin had been so successful that only the metropoli of Tyre, Antioch, and Triploli remained in Christian hands. When Pope Innocent III called the Third Crusade, the first man to respond was the Emperor Frederick I. Frederick crossed into Asia Minor and captured the city of Iconium before tragically drowing in a river. He was succeeded on the crusade by Leopold of Austria. Richard and Philip arrived next at the coastal city of Acre, whose Muslim inhabitants were under siege by former King Guy de Lusigan of Jerusalem. With the soldiers of Richard, Philip, and Leopold, the crusaders retook the city. Leopold and Philip both left at that point, put off by Richard's predominant role in the endevour. Richard and Saladin began their legandary march down the coast, with Richard hugging the shoreline keeping time with his fleet. Saladin and his emires tailed them, attempting to catch Richard in battle and therefore destroy the Christians once and for all. They did finally meet at the forest of Arsuf, where Richard used his heavy cavalry to annhiliate Saladin's ranks and scatter his army. Next Richard loaded up his forces onto his navy and proceeded to Jaffa, a port city to the south. There Richard again beseiged Saladin and again defeated him taking the city. At that point it was agreed that neither king could continue to fight, and it was agreed that the Christians would be given control of the entire coastline from Tyre to Gaza, while Saladin and the Muslims retained the rest of the Holy Land, including Jerusalem.

Yes. This is a conflict where both sides, the Israelis and the Palestinians, have rights to certain piece of land in the Southern Levant and those rights are in direct conflict. Jews believe they have a right to their ancestral homeland of Israel and Arabs believe they have a right to their ancestral possession of Palestine. Unfortunately, these two rights conflict because Israel and Palestine overlap.

It depends on the war in question:

During the Arab-Israeli War of 1948: Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq joined Egypt.
During the Arab-Israeli War of 1967: Syria and Jordan joined Egypt.
During the War of Attrition of 1967-1970: The USSR joined Egypt.
During the Arab-Israeli War of 1973: Syria joined Egypt.

Since 1979, Egypt and Israel have been at peace.

(Note that Egypt was on the defensive during the Arab-Israeli War of 1956, so it had no countries join it in attack.)

They declared war on the fledgling Jewish State.

Syria has historically aligned with the Arab States against Israel.

Syria has had an extensive role in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, always supporting its fellow Arab allies in wars. The first war in the Arab-Israeli Conflict that Syria committed to was the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9 where it signed an armistice and held on to five square kilometers of the former Mandate of Palestine on the southeast coast of the Sea of Galilee. During this period, many Palestinian Refugees came to Syria where they were shuttered in Refugee Camps. Most still remain in there to this day.

Between 1949 and 1967, the Syrians and Israelis were in a de jure state of non-combat, but periodically, the Syrians would rain rockets down on Israeli villages in the Eastern Galilee region of Israel. Israel was incapable of properly responding as Syria held the high ground. Syria did not participate in the Arab-Israeli War of 1956 in which the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula was invaded.

In 1967, Syria joined the Six Day War on the third day making some small gains in the Eastern Galilee. However, Israeli troops quickly reversed these gains and captured the Golan Heights, the Syrian territory bordering the Eastern Galilee Region of Israel. Syria signed UN Resolution 242 ending the skirmish, but determined with other Arab Nations not to give in to negotiating with Israel. Additional Palestinian Refugees came to Syria in this period as well as Syrian Nationals fleeing from the Israeli Army.

In the late '60s and early '70s, Syria coordinated defense with Egypt and the two jointly launched a surprise attack on Israel in 1973. While the two allies made impressive gains in the first week of the war, Israel appeared to be winning towards the end of the month and Israeli tanks were advancing to Damascus when the ceasefire was called and the antebellum situation restored.

The next confrontation between Syrian and Israeli forces would come by way of the Lebanese Civil War. The Syrians buttressed the Shiite Militant Factions and Hezbollah while the Israelis fought alongside the Maronite Christian Falangists. When it seemed the war was resolving in Syria's favor, Israeli forces withdrew to the Litani River and Syria occupied Lebanon until 2005.

Syria and Israel have had no further direct confrontations, but Syria continues to provide much of the funding for Hezbollah, which did enter a confrontation with Israel in 2006 in Lebanon again.

Syria has continued to refuse to make peace with the nation that still holds the Golan Heights, and that opposes the Palestinian independent State without a guarantee of its own security.

The religion you are looking for is Judaism, however Diaspora is not an exclusively Jewish term and Zionism is not an exclusively Jewish phenomenon.

Diaspora applies to any ethnic group living outside of its original land. While the Jewish Diaspora is the most famous, there is also the Armenian Diaspora, the Palestinian Diaspora, the Greek Diaspora, the Circassian Diaspora, and numerous other Diasporas.

Zionism is the belief that the Jews should have political self-sovereignty and is the patriotic sentiment behind the Establishment of the State of Israel. It is entirely political in nature and a large number of Zionists are Christians, even though the the question is about Jewish sovereignty. Similarly, a person does not have to be Polish to support the right of Poles to have self-determination (as Woodrow Wilson did in 1918) or a person does not have to be Bengali to believe that Bangladesh had the right to be free of India in 1947 and Pakistan in 1971. Additionally, there are some Jews who are either apathetic towards Zionism or are Anti-Zionist.

The First Intifada resulted in numerous Palestinian and Israeli deaths but culminated in the Oslo Accords, recognizing the Palestinian Right to Self-Determination.

The Second Intifada had no positive outcome, only death for both Palestinians and Israelis.

President Sadat of Egypt declared war on Israel in 1973 in order to conquer Israel or at least recover the lands lost in the Six-Day War of 1967: the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip. It can be considered a failure for the Egyptians as neither of those objectives was met, even partially.