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There is an ethnic and national conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and therefore there are several cases of Israeli Security Forces torturing Palestinians. Additionally, a number of the laws used in the Occupied Territories are subject only to Israeli Military Review which prevents Civil Law from taking action to prevent such abuses.

However, it is incorrect to assume that all Israelis or even most Israelis torture Palestinians.

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.

Parts of Israel's borders are defined by the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Galilee,
the Dead Sea, and the Gulf of Aqaba (which is the far north end of the Red Sea).

In order of longest to shortest border as the countries currently exist de facto: Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon.

Ariel Sharon was in a coma for eight years before he died on January 11, 2014.

It was during the British occupation of Mandatory Palestine that the Zionist dream of creating a Jewish State in the Middle East was finally realized in large portion. The influx of a large foreign Jewish population made a Jewish State viable and therefore allowed for the beginnings of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Additionally, the British failed to adequately maintain the peace between the different communities, allowing the small internecine conflicts and pogroms to become more sporadic militia fights and eventually boiling to proper war.

List of Countries:

Egypt......No, Africa and Asia (Sinai Peninsula)

Israel......No, Asia

Syria.......No, Asia

Greece....Yes, Europe only

Italy........Yes, Europe only

Spain......Mainly Europe, also Africa*

Algeria....No, Africa

Libya.......No, Africa

Spain's territories on the African mainland include Ceuta and Melilla. Additionally the Canary Islands are also considered part of Africa.

Israel has two official languages ... Hebrew and Arabic. In addition, English is taught in

all Israeli school, is widely spoken, and enjoys a semi-official social and diplomatic status.

Most city-street signs and highway-information signs in the country are printed in all three

of those languages.

-- Hebrew is written in the Hebrew alphabet.

-- Arabic is written in the Arabic alphabet

-- English is written in the English alphabet.

In addition to these official and widely-spoken languages in Israel, the population

has roots in more than 130 countries, and a huge number of those languages are

spoken in many homes and ethnic enclaves.

It is important to note that Israel being recognized by foreign countries was not what caused the Arab flight from Israel. There were three factors that led to the Arab flight which were: Jewish/Israeli attacks on Arab neighborhoods during the Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949, Arab fear of mistreatment in any future non-Arab state, and incitement to leave by Mullahs and Arab Political leaders who promised resettlement in those areas after the conflict. After the war, which Israel won, Arabs were not allowed the Right of Return which made their flight a memorable historical event.

There are an incredible number of estimates floating around as to how many Arabs left. The most common number accepted by Academics is 700,000, but there are conservative estimates that place the number at around 450,000-500,000 and there are much more liberal estimates that place the number close to 1.2 million.

Yes, and No. Several Arab and North African countries do not consider Israel a legitimate state, and therefore have no diplomatic relationship with it. Those countries that have no diplomatic relations with Israel will, in some cases, reject a passport that contains an Israeli Visa. (A Visa being the stamp given upon arrival, or any other official document or stamp given by Israeli passport officials.)

Israel, recognizing this, allows the option of stamping a loose-leaf insert to the passport that can be removed before travel to a state that does not recognize Israel. (It is worth noting, however, that Arab border police at crossings with Israel are not as kind. Most Arab countries that ban Israeli stamps will also deny entry to someone who crossed at an Israeli crossing like Taba or Wadi Arabah with only the Arab stamp.)

Almost every war between Egypt and Israel has been fought in or using the Sinai Peninsula.

Egypt has used the Sinai Peninsula as a launching point for its invasion of Israel in 1948 and in preparations for the likely invasion of Israel in 1967. Israel conquered the Sinai and was forced to relinquish it in 1956. In 1973, the Sinai Peninsula (under Israeli Occupation) served as a strong buffer to the Egyptian surprise invasion attempt.

Israel was the name for the people, they had no ships.

The Arab Spring is the outcome of a number of repressive policies against Arab citizens from their own governments. This anger was fomenting in the Arab populaces (at different rates in different countries) pretty much since the Independence Movements secured the European Colonizers' retreat. The reason the Arab Spring did not happen earlier is that most Arabs did not believe that they had the power to overthrow their governments. The ouster of Zine Abidine ben Ali in Tunisia changed that view and encouraged Arabs in different states to revolt against their leadership.

However, Israel has been a democratic country since independence. Minorities have always been in the Israeli Knesset. (Seif el-Din el-Zoubi was an Arab Muslim member of the first Knesset in 1949.) As a result, while there may be anger in Israel proper, it was insufficient to demand a government change. There were protests in Israel at around the same time, but these were over housing price issues.

In the Palestinian Territories, there were some protests in the West Bank over Fatah's perceived failure to create an independent Palestinian State, but there is no real opposition party or group to challenge Fatah, so many Palestinians feel desperate, but with no alternatives. There was also the fear of Israeli soldiers mobilizing against the protests. In Gaza, Hamas violently quelled any attempt at Arab Spring.

This is not to say that the changes in foreign governments that come about as a result of the Arab Spring will not affect the Arab-Israeli Conflict. The strongest change will most likely be the ending of the Egyptian-Israeli Alliance that Mubarak maintained. (This is not to say that Egypt will reneg on the Peace of 1979, but that they will not coordinate military policies with Israel.)

A number of things would have to take place before a long-standing peace (as opposed to a mere cessation of hostilities) could take place. There are other requisites, but there are the most important.

1) Mutual Recognition: Israel would need to recognize a completely independent and sovereign Palestinian Government that would fully control a certain amount of the former British Mandate of Palestine (most likely Gaza and the West Bank). Israel would also have to confer on this state the unambiguous nature of being correct and necessary for Israel. Conversely, Palestine would have to recognize the Right for Israel to Exist as a Jewish State occupying the remaining amount of the British Mandate of Palestine (most likely 1949-Israel). Both sides would have to recognize the historical and emotional value that the land also has to the other.

2) Regional/International Recognition: States that have adopted attitudes strongly favoring one side at the expense of the other, such as the Arab States would need to recognize the legitimacy of both Israel and Palestine.

3) Israeli Reparation Payments: Israel dispossessed many Palestinians of their property, either by malicious activities that took place during the Arab-Israeli Wars or by Ben-Gurion refusing to let Palestinians who left return after the 1948-9 War. Israel needs to pay the Palestinian government reparations for the land that was taken in this way.

4) Israeli Withdrawal from the Settlements: Israel must withdraw from the Settlements to provide Palestine with a viable infrastructure and complete sovereignty. The Settlers must return to Israeli territory. The buildings, however, should be left as partial payment of the above-mentioned reparations.

5) Palestinians Must Concede Right of Return: Recognizing the State of Israel as a Jewish State is meaningless if Palestinians en masse are allowed to Return to Israel. Therefore, Palestinians (and their backers) must abandon the notion that they can ever return to Israeli territory. Palestinians should leave the refugee camps and become proper citizens in this new country of Palestine.

6) Jerusalem Must Be Shared or Internationalized:Palestine and Israel both want Jerusalem and the only way to solve this is either divide the city East/West respectively and divide the Old City or Internationalize the City or some combination of Internationalization and division. Neither side will rest until it can assure its followers that its holy sites will be protected.

7) Liberal Thought: Just in general, people have to be willing to compromise and live with that compromise.

Jewish surname is Israel, which is much less common.

Jewish thought often divides Jews into three groups: Kohein, Levy and Israel. Israel basically means the rest of us. Variations on this surname include Israeli, Yisrael, Yisroel and most notably Disraeli

(the surname of a Jewish-born British Prime Minister and Earl who was baptized as a child but apparently retained some sense of Jewish identity).

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The question is nebulously written and as a result, there are numerous answers, from smallest in territory to largest: Palestinian Territories, the former British Mandate of Palestine, Israel 1967-1993, the Levant, the Middle East, Asia, and the Old World.

Saudi Arabia: Command Economy which is powered through oil.

Israel: Advanced Market Economy which is supported by it's people, not oil or other resources.

Turkey: Advanced Market Economy which is supported by it's people, not oil or other resources.

Iran: Hybrid Command-Market Economy supported by oil and industry, but currently floundering under international sanctions.

Lyndon B. Johnson.

Richard von Weizsaecker

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.

The existence and preservation of the State of Israel is probably the clearest example of Zionism.

Looking at this question from a global scale, Israel's key allies are the United States, the UK, Canada and a few other notable Western Countries.

Their main enemies are found in the Middle East and Africa and most notably include Iran and Libya.

Conversley, the Palestinians find a lot of their support from a number of Arab Countries, including Iran and Libya....

Partially, but not entirely.

There are also national differences, governmental differences, religious differences, land valuation, and numerous other reasons that help to perpetuate the conflict. Cultural differences, though, explain a lot.

Most people would find this to be self-evident. With the exception of a few, everybody hopes and dreams for a day when everyone can come home after a hard day's work and raise kids without the fear of recriminations, retaliations, bombs, or hateful rhetoric. Only a just and peaceful solution to the Arab-Israeli Conflict can do that for the Israelis and Palestinians.

In the King James version we read

Exo 16:1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

and

Exo 16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

and

Exo 16:35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

So they got the manna one month and fifteen days after they left Egypt, and they got it for forty years - so forty years, one month and fifteen days - but this is usually rounded off to 'forty years' when people speak of it.