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Israel
Located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, Israel is the only Jewish-majority state in the world. It has a total land area of 22,072 sq km with an estimated population of approximately 7.7 million as of 2010.
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There are a number of inaccuracies with your question, which may help to explain why the Israelis did what they did.
1) Hamas is not a Neo-Nazi Party. -- Whatever horrible things can be said about their methods and their politics, their primary interest is political, i.e. the removal of a State, not ethnic cleansing. While it is likely that given the control of the entire former British Mandate of Palestine, mass pogroms against the Jewish inhabitants would ensue, Hamas would not try to further effectuate them. For them it is a question of political power, not racial purity.
2) Israel did not bequeath the West Bank to Hamas. -- Israel, at the Oslo Accords, set aside territory in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to Fatah and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. These two organizations/terrorist groups were exclusive of Hamas intentionally by both sides. These two groups hybridized and formed the Palestinian Authority, which is still the government of the West Bank. The PA has been working very closely with Israel to improve the situation in the West Bank both for Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.
3) Israel's unilateral disengagement from Gaza was during the PA's control. -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon realized that it was economically unfeasible to maintain settlements in the Gaza Strip because it cost more to defend them and supply them than it the tax revenue and jobs that the region brought to Israel. After a series of failed negotiations, Sharon forcibly removed all Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, making the territory a contiguous zone completely controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
4) Israel had no control of the Palestinian Elections of 2006 or the Palestinian Civil War of 2006. -- In 2006, the Palestinians had one of the freest elections in the history of the Arab World and elected Hamas over Fatah as the rulers of the Palestinian Authority in a landslide. Realizing that Hamas would worsen the lives for Palestinians almost immediately, Fatah made moves to exclude them from actually taking control. Angered that they were denied the power that they won, Hamas launched a civil war against Fatah and were able to force them out of Gaza. They were unsuccessful in taking the West Bank. In both the elections and the Civil War, Israel played no part in Palestinian internal affairs.
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On to what remains of your question. Israel cannot devote all of its efforts to removing Hamas from Gaza. It is an entrenched organization with a large percentage of people in its employ. It is not just a paramilitary organization, but it also has a political wing, a welfare wing, a police corps, an educational division, and healthcare division. It is a complete government with a very violent outlook. Israel attempts to toe the line between tolerating madness and combating insanity. For the moment, anyway, Gaza is not even the biggest threat to Israeli Security. Operation Cast Lead led to a severe reduction in Qassam Rocket attacks and so, Israel has needed to focus its attention on solving the Iran Crisis.
How did Jewish people happen to be in Germany then relocate to Israel?
Jews were all over Europe not only Germany. Many them were murdered during world war 2. The lucky ones escaped to other counteries and then by boats to Israel
Is Israel currently controlling the West Bank and Gaza Strip?
This question is complex. Many claim that Israel is in complete control of both, but in actuality, this is not the case.
Gaza is not directly controlled by Israel. There are minimal, if any, Israeli soldiers, policemen or any other Israeli government apparatus inside of Gaza. However, the Strip is actively blockaded and there are targeted air-strikes against the Hamas leadership, because of terrorist attacks against Israel.
It is Hamas who has direct control of Gaza and is generally responsible for insuring the peace and security of the territory, in which it has failed miserably (or, perhaps more accurately, intentionally run into the ground).
The West Bank is partially controlled by Israel. The West Bank is divided in regions called Category A regions, Category B regions, and Category C regions. Category A regions are primarily ruled by the Palestinian Authority, but with assistance from the Israeli military. More recently, Category A regions have become more independent, especially with the debut of the Palestinian Authority Police Department.
In Category B regions,Israel has security control of the area and has transferred control of civil matters to the Palestinians.
In Category C regions, Israel has retained almost complete control, through the presence of the Israeli military or Israeli settlements, all of which are claimed to be illegal under international law by most international observers and some of which are illegal under Israeli law as well. (There is, of course, debate about whether the building of the settlements is legal or illegal.)
Why did Hitler give all Jewish males the name Israel during the Hollocost?
Hitler himself didn't do that, some Nazi bureaucrat decided on it. All Jewish males would add "Israel" before their own first name, and all females would add "Sara". Just another way to tell the Jews at a glance, for their (the Nazi's) convenience.
Are Zionists devil worshipers?
Answer 1
The question is absurd on its face. After running through roughly fifteen ways to answer it, I decided that the best answer is: No, and if I were you, I'd be careful around whoever put that idea into your head.
Answer 2
This is the type of argument against Israel and its validity that reeks of desperation. The person who made the argument realized that Israel is valid on international legal grounds, historical grounds, political grounds, economic grounds, and so on, but really wishes that it did not exist. Therefore, in order to make Israel impossible to defend, he tars Zionism (which is a form of patriotism towards a Jewish State) with devil worship (which almost everybody seems to agree is wrong), even though the two principles are not at all related.
Additionally, the term Zionist is often incorrectly used to describe a conspiratorial cabal bent on world domination. Not only does this cabal not exist, but this is something that reeks of Anti-Semitism and merely replaces the word "Jew" with the word "Zionist" to seem less offensive.
How did the Holocaust cause the Arab-Israeli Conflict?
It caused an increase in Zionism and a huge increase in emigration to Palestine.
The Holocaust was used on the international stage to justify the need for a State where Jews self-govern and that their survival should not be at the whim of governments who may decide to exterminate them or discriminate against them.
Who are the main leaders of the Arab-Israeli conflict?
The Arab-Israeli Conflict has gone on for the entire length of Israel's existence (64 years). Therefore a list of the leaders of the Arab-Israeli Conflict would be very long. Currently, Israel is headed by Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, the Palestinian Authority is headed by Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), and Hamas is headed by Khaled Meshaal.
How did Israel remove the Palestinians from the land?
(Note: Although the terms Israel/Israeli and Palestine/Palestinian are not the proper terms, given the time period, they will be used anachronistically to keep terminology consistent.)
The question as posed suggests active removal, which is a little strong in my view compared to where the historical facts seem to stand. Active removal requires intent and plans from the top down. The plans typically cited by those who believe that the Israeli militias (like the Haganah or Palmach) had an intent to remove the Palestinians are Plan Dalet, which consolidated and directed Israeli operations. However, even the words of Plan Dalet are vague as to whether Israeli positions and towns are to be held at all costs means that all Palestinian villages should be cleansed or destroyed.
The actual events during the Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949 seem to show a general Israeli willingness to prevent the full integration of the Palestinian Arab population into a Jewish State. It's the idea of "we won't force them out, but it wouldn't be so bad if they did". This feeling of casual disregard was a result of the mistrust built up between Israelis and Palestinians. There were numerous instances of Palestinian Arab Civilians giving Palestinian Militants information on Israeli Militia movements, which resulted in successful ambushes against Israeli personnel. Sometimes Israeli Militiamen were attacked in their sleep. It should be incredibly illustrative that in order to gain the Israelis' trust, the Palestinian Arab Sheikh of Abu Ghosh had to give his five daughters over to Israeli custody for the Israelis to believe that he would pose no threat to them. Abu Ghosh is considered by many Israelis to show how Palestinians could easily have become Israelis. So, naturally, due to this mistrust, Israeli soldiers would on a few occasions, commit atrocities against Palestinian towns (like Deir Yassin) to make Palestinians more fearful of betraying Israelis and to make them more willing to abandon their homes.
This played right into the reciprocal Palestinian Arab interest to play up Israeli violence and militancy. They would add casualties to actual events and allege similar acts where none had occurred. This had the dual goals of making Israel appear worse than it was for international consumption and to make Palestinian civilians flee. The reason the Arabs wanted the Palestinian civilians to flee was that they could attack the Israelis more strongly without fear of collateral damage. Additionally, they would look like liberators when they cleansed the Israelis from the land and brought the Palestinians back to their homes.
Therefore, the two sides with wildly disparate motivations led to a general fearmongering among Palestinian Arabs, which led to their mass departure. In 1947-1949, approximately 720,000 Palestinian Arabs fled from Israel. From 1948-1955, approximately 850,000 Jews fled from Arab countries due to acts of retaliation in those countries for Israeli actions.
What was the major source of conflict between Israel and Palestine in the 1800's?
There was no Israel nor Palestine in the 1800s. The area of the southern Levant where the two parties would later fight was an Ottoman backwater with a population barely larger 600,000. There was no conflict per se. There was discrimination against the Jews in the area, especially from the Blood Libel of Damascus in 1840 where Jews were accused of killing a Syrian Christian Monk to use his blood in matzah preparation. Both the accusation of Jews being responsible for the murder and for using his blood in matzah production were unsupported by evidence and the evidence pointed to a very different set of culprits, but the masses would hear none of it and launched a pogrom against the Jews.
Which episode is ziva sent back to Israel on NCIS?
Ziva was sent back to Israel on Episode"Judgment Day" (part 2).
What was ancient Israel's culture like for its slaves?
"Slavery" in Israel was an indentured servitude, not slavery as the term is usually understood.
1) An unemployed person could sell six years of his life and do tasks which the householder requested.
2) A thief who was unable to make restitution, could be made to work it off.
In both cases:
a) It is forbidden to hit a servant for any reason.
b) Hitting a servant would incur heavy punishment.
c) The servant must be given hefty gifts when he departs (Deuteronomy ch.15).
d) The householder must by law provide the servant with accommodations and food of the same quality as those of the family.
e) The servant is "off duty" during Sabbaths and holidays.
f) The householder must provide financial support to the family of the servant.
g) It is forbidden to overwork the servant or make unreasonable demands.
h) It is forbidden to embarrass the servant.
i) The servant is at all times under the protection of the court, who may intervene on his behalf.
What is Israel's area and what can its size be compared to?
New Jersey (USA) is 7,787 mi2, about 3/4 the area of Israel which is approximately 10,762 mi2 (including disputed territories) [ http:/www.iris.org.il/sizemaps/new_jersey.htm ].
In its pre-1967 borders, Israel was 8,019 mi2, still slightly larger than New Jersey.
(ETA: corrected format - b.)
Is the apple company by zionists?
Answer
No, they are not.
Note:
This seems like a case where the term "Zionist" is being misconstrued.
Zionism: a belief that the Jews should have political self-sovereignty and is the patriotic sentiment behind the Establishment of the State of Israel.
Unfortunately, many people use the term "Zionism" to refer to a non-existent cabal of Jews who "control the world". As such a cabal does not actually exist, Madonna cannot be a part of it.
What marked the beginning of the Arab-Israeli conflict?
The Arab-Israeli Conflict has its origins in the confrontation between immigrant Zionist Jews in the Mandate of Palestine and their interaction with the indigenous Arabs in the 1920s and 1930s. Before that point, the immigration into the land had been a small trickle and Arabs were not terribly concerned. However, the Jewish immigration in the 1920s was quite large and disruptive. By the mid 1930s, both sides had developed militias which they used both to attack British colonial institutions and each other. Jews also flooded back to the Holy Land following World War II, since they felt that they would always be persecuted in countries where they were the minority. In 1947, as UN Resolution 181 was being debated, a full-scale war erupted between the Jewish militias and the Arab militias. When Israel declared its independence in 1948, the Arab States joined in the War which caused it to be internationally recognized and called the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9. The on and off conflict that has remained unresolved for over half a century now.
Therefore, if we use the terms Israeli and Arab retroactively to those people who would eventually identify or would be identified as Israelis or Arabs, the conflict started during the 1920s. If we require that these terms be strictly applied, then the conflict started in 1948 when Israel declared its independence.
Israel colony
What was the British policy towards the Jews and Arabs in the Palestinian mandate?
In order to force Britain's hand and ensure a favourable outcome, the Jews commenced a program of terrorism, with the Stern Gang as the main participant. In 1946, the British headquarters in the King David Hotel were blown up. By February 1947, the number of British casualties in Palestine has risen sharply and Britain called on the UN to solve the Palestinian problem.
because he wanted to.
In pursuit of hezbollah which country did israel attack in 1982 and 2006?
Lebanon.
It is important to note that the invasion in 1982 was to pursue the PLO, not Hezbollah.
What is another name for the Yom Kippur War?
There are several.
The neutral name for the war is the Arab-Israeli War of 1973. The Arabs call this war either the October War or the Ramadan War.
Brief fighting in 1967 when the Israelis defeated the armies of Egypt Syria and Jordan?
The six-day war.
What was one result of US strong support for Israel?
one resolt is that the us strong ary hate the israel people
What is the name of the movie based on the israeli aircraft held hostage in Uganda?
Raid on Entebbe
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076594/
Note: ANY answer to this will be influenced by the biases and prejudices of the author since the question is looking for a thematic discussion of the conflict.
Answer 1
The main reason the conflict started was because Israelis think the land is theirs but in the other hand Palestinians think the land belongs to them. Yasser Arafat the leader of Palestine and Yitzhak Rabin the prim minister of Israel have shook hands to make a peace process but the ended in war over and over to this very day.
Answer 2
The Conflict has four major periods which will be discussed herein.
1) British Mandate Period:
This period was characterized by a British Mandatory Government controlling the area called the British Mandate of Palestine. Some of the major events during this period were the increased Jewish immigration to the Mandate of Palestine and their modernization of the territory. This brought in Arab immigration from neighboring territories who wished to live in the more sanitary and developed conditions in Palestine. This combined immigration led to massive population increases. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Jewish population was becoming more significant and Arab leaders and militias urged the British to prevent further Jewish immigration. This resulted in the British rescinding Jewish immigration rights to the territory and culminated with the 1939 White Papers permitting only nominal Jewish immigration. During World War II, Palestine remained off-limits to Jews wishing to flee the Holocaust. This, combined with the White Papers, led many Jewish leaders to openly resist the British Occupation. In 1947, the British relented and brought the Palestinian and Jewish question to the United Nations. The slaughter of the Holocaust and American and Soviet pressure galvanized the world to provide for a Jewish State and an Arab State. The Palestinian Jewish population (who could anachronistically be called Israelis) approved of the Partition whereas the Palestinian Arab population refused further territorial concessions.
2) 1948-9 War and Armistices
When the United Nations passed Resolution 181, the Arabs rejection of the plan lead to skirmishes between Jewish Militias and Arab Militias. In 1948, when the British announced the end of the Mandate, the Jewish Settlement used the opportunity and the legal avenue opened by Resolution 181 to declare a State (Israel). The day after, seven Arab armies from neighboring countries joined with the Arab Militias already operating. As the fighting progressed, Israel was able to repel the invaders and claim about 78% of British Mandate of Palestine as the grounds of their new state. The War is considered by most to be an Israeli Victory.
Throughout the fighting (from 1947-1949) numerous Palestinians were forced from their homes inside what would become Israeli territory. Other Palestinians left in fear that they too could be attacked and forced to leave. This climate of fear and and desire to leave was increased by Arab leaders who encouraged such activities claiming that it would get civilians out of the way while the fighting occurred. After the War and the elimination of Israel, the Palestinians would return without issue. This did not happen as Israel was victorious. Palestinians call this event (the overall war and removal from their homes) the Nakba or Great Catastrophe. Israel has refused the Right of Return for Palestinians claiming that if it did so, it would no longer have a Jewish majority, putting the entire purpose of a Jewish State in jeopardy.
Additionally, Jews from elsewhere in the Middle East (from Arab countries and Turkey) fled to Israel (in roughly equal numbers) in the wake of mass Arab Anti-Semitism, which had been growing since the early 1940s. Jews in Arab countries were subject to discriminatory treatment, pogroms, executions, and humiliations prior to their flight to Israel.
As a result of the war, there was also a semi-viable State of Israel and remaining Palestinian territories were occupied by other Arab Nations. As a result of the 1948-9 Arab-Israeli War, Israel now occupied 78% of the Mandate of Palestine. During this period, Israel was considered weak by both allies and enemies and was treated to belligerent treatment from its neighbors (even during the "peace"). Syrian missiles rained down on the Galilee lowlands periodically, Egyptians cut off Israeli shipping through the Suez Canal (leading to the Suez Crisis of 1956), skirmishes in the water occurred, and the Old City was forcibly cleansed of its Jewish inhabitants by Jordanian forces. Palestinian rights were also suppressed by the Arab States as Jordan militarized the West Bank and Egypt openly annexed Gaza after watching its Palestinian Puppet State fail. The Egyptians openly taunted Israel and amassed troops at the Israeli border in 1967 in order to eradicate the country.
3) Expansive Israeli Period
This period is characterized by an Israeli State that acquired (through war) numerous additional territories from Arab States. During this period, most Arab States (Egypt excepted) refused to negotiate with Israel and therefore did not successfully reacquire these lands. The Six Day War completely changed the dynamic of Arab-Israeli relations. Israel was now negotiating from a place of strength and ceding territories for peace. Among the territories now under Israeli military authority were what have since been called "the Palestinian Territories" of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Military Occupation attempted to maintain law and order in these regions. Although, Palestinians did have a hard time under occupation, there was no real international non-Arab support for Palestinian self-determination. Many Palestinians sought work in Israel and numerous Israeli companies hired Palestinians as lower-class laborers. This would continue until the late 1980s with the Intifada leading to border closures.
However, the conditions were still less than desirable which lead to the formation of the Terrorist and Paramilitary organization called the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose intent was to create a self-sovereign Palestine. The Palestine Liberation Organization was (of course) illegal in Israel and the Occupied Territories. In 1970, they attempted to launch a coup d'état in Jordan which resulted in their expulsion from that country. They tried out a few other countries like Tunisia and Libya before being kicked out of those countries as well. They eventually found refuge in Southern Lebanon creating their own state-within-a-state and eventually leading to the Lebanese Civil War, which expelled them from Lebanon in 1982. A smaller, more Islamist Paramilitary and Terrorist Organization called Hamas was developing concurrently in Syria and refused to join up with the PLO since they considered the PLO too secular.
4) Palestinian Intifada and the Palestinian States
This period is characterized by the creation of the Palestinian Authority and beginnings of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza Territories. Following the eviction of the PLO from Lebanon, they eventually made their way into the West Bank and were able to coordinate an Intifada or an Uprising of Palestinians. The Palestinian Uprising began to show Palestinian dissatisfaction with the continuing Israeli military occupation of the territory and lasted from 1987-1993. In 1993, the Oslo Accords were signed, granting recognition to a new body called the Palestinian Authority which would be responsible for governing Palestinian affairs. Most of the members of the PA were former members of the PLO who were among the moderate members of the organization. In the wake of the Oslo Accords, Jordan finalized a Peace Treaty with Israel in 1994. Israel ceded discrete pieces of land to the PA, but refused to give up large chunks of land until 2005 when it ceded all of Gaza to the PA. In 2000, the Second Palestinian Intifada began in response to Palestinian anger over perceived Israeli intransigence in devolving more power. This intifada lasted until 2005 and was considered a loss by Palestinians. In 2007, the Palestinian Elections sparked a civil war between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah (the remnant of the PLO in the PA), leading to the former controlling Gaza exclusively and the latter controlling the West Bank exclusively. Hamas continued to exhibit bellicose behavior, bothering both Israelis and Egyptian Military leaders (who termed the territory Hamastan). Responding to constant civilian bombardment, Israel invaded Gaza in December of 2008 in what resulted in nearly 1400 Palestinian Civilian casualties.
Is the black scorpion in Israel poisonous?
All forms of scorpions are poisonous. The question is, just how poisonous?
I would assume that, based on the size of the scorpion, the Israeli Black Scorpion is VERY poisonous, but this is just an educated guess.
Which has been a major goal of both the Zionists and the Palestinian Arabs in the Middle East?
To each establish their own independent countries.
