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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.
6,421 Questions
Who won the Battle of Beersheba?
A British army from Egypt, commanded by General Allenby, won the battle of Beersheba against the Turks and Germans in 1916. I do not have exact information on the forces involved, but this battle is famous for the successful action of the Australian Light Horse Infantry (charging as cavalry with their Lee-Enfield bayonets as sabers) against Turkish artillery.
Are Zac Efron's Mom and Dad Israeli?
No. His father is descended from two Polish Jews and grew up in America. It is because of his father that he has a Hebrew-language last name, but no Israeli connection. His mother was also born in the USA.
Why is there always war in Middle East?
Answer 1
For one reason the middle east is rich in oil, which makes it a target for external powers. The second reason, is that the middle east contains many diverse ethnic and religeous groups increasing the risks of internal wars.
Answer 2
The Arab invasion and colonization of the middle east has oppressed much of the indigenous tribal and religious minorities, often leading to disputes and wars. Examples of this includes Iraq with Arabs dominating the Kurdish, Assyrian, Yazidi and Turkmen minorities. The Kurdish are also fighting for independence from Turkey. The Jews were able to establish sovereignty in their homeland in Israel, but the Arabs continue to use the Palestinian Arabs as a means to destroy Jewish sovereignty.
What was Israel's argument against Arabs?
Answer 1
Basically, despite elaborate attempts to confuse the issues, the origin and essence of Arab/Israeli disputes can be reduced to the fact that Arabs were living on land which Zionists desired in order to create a Jewish state, and, after Israel was created in 1948, that Arabs resided on land which Israel wanted to use for expanding its size. All of this hostility is compounded by continuing attempts on the part of many Arabs to regain land taken by Israelis, and by the continued presence of Christian and Muslim Arabs in what many Israelis feel should be an exclusively Jewish state.
Answer 2
The way the question is posed is confusing and nonsensical. Israel does not oppose Arab people (no genetic hatred or disgust), Arab culture (no hatred or disgust of Arab traditions or foods), Arab nations (no hatred toward the existence of over 20 Arab countries, their foreign policy aside), Arab religions (Christians, Muslims, Druze, and Bahai'i live peacefully in Israel and constitute 20% of its population), or Arab language (which is the second official language of Israel). Secondly, "was" implies some historical period and Arab-Israeli relations have always been changing. Egypt under Anwar Sadat led the Arab-Israeli War of 1973, but he chose to make peace with Israel in 1979, 15 years before Jordan and was the first Arab State to recognize Israel. Therefore, "was" is subject to violently different arguments at different time periods.
However, the most consistent Anti-Arab argument that Israel holds is that it does oppose violent and extremist political groups that wish for its eventual and permanent removal from the map in addition to the ideologies that pervade the Arab World that sanction such groups. Israelis do not wish for the end of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, or Egypt as much as they may detest the current governments of those countries and the majority of Israelis support a Palestinian State (under the definition that it is a separate sovereign state for Arabs). However, many Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians, and Egyptians wish for the State of Israel to be gone. This is what Israel cannot stand about its Arab neighbors, that many of them do not begrudge them existence and even those who admit that Israel is not going anywhere do not believe it has the Right to Exist.
Who won the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 - Egypt or Israel?
General Information
It is unclear who won the war on the Egyptian-Israeli front. The United States, Western Countries, and Israel typically hold it to be an Israeli victory. The Arab Countries, including Egypt, typically hold it to be an Egyptian victory.
Considering that the reason that the Arabs declared war on Israel in 1973 was to conquer Israel or at least recover the lands lost in the Six-Day War of 1967, it can be considered a failure for the Egyptians and Syrians, as neither of those objectives was met, even partially. However, the Arabs did regain a sense of honor and prestige in that they caused a number of major Israeli defeats early in the war when they were caught off-guard. In Israel, these are seen as failures in the Israeli Intelligence Ministry. However, the War ended with a ceasefire restoring pre-bellum conditions, which is more-or-less of a stalemate and the early armistice negotiations, Israelis had to make the first moves of withdrawal from African Egyptian territory.
Israeli Perspective
Assuming that the Israeli perspective is held, the Israelis note that the Egyptians called the armistice as Israeli soldiers were advancing on Cairo and that the Egyptian Third Army was cutoff and dependent on Israeli goodwill for food and basic supplies. The Egyptians counter saying that they were holding the powerful Egyptian Third Army on the east bank of the Suez Canal, primed to strike. They called the ceasefire to spare both sides more violence.
Egyptian Perspective
Assuming that the Egyptian perspective is held, the Egyptians won the war by calling the armistice at the right time and holding the powerful Egyptian Third Army on the east bank of the Suez Canal, primed to strike. The Israelis counter saying that the armistice was called as Israeli soldiers were advancing on Cairo and that the Egyptian Third Army was cutoff and dependent on Israeli goodwill for food and basic supplies.
Note on the Israeli-Syrian part of the war
In terms of the Syrian front, while there were small Syrian advances into the Golan, they were quickly turned back through strategic and decisive tank movements. There is no question that the Israelis won the Arab-Israeli War on the Syrian front, halting within 40 kilometers (25 miles) of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the population of Palestine consisted substantially of Muslim and Christian Arabs, plus around 20,000 Jews. Until 1948, Palestine was a British mandated territory and British policy on the territory was informed by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, whereby Palestine would be regarded as a homeland for the Jews, subject to the rights of the Arabs, but would not necessarily be an independent state. By 1939, Britain was moving away from this position, and a white Paper recommended that an Arab state of Palestine be created.
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.
At this point, the United States reached agreement with USSR that Palestine was to be divided. In November 1947, a UN Special Committee on Palestine presented a report to the General Assembly, with a majority advocating division, but a minority advocating a unitary state based on democracy. Intense pressure by USA and USSR was necessary to gain the necessary two thirds majority vote for partition.
At first, the international solution was for the Palestinians to receive the major portion of the divided territory, but the Jews gradually achieved concessions, until a United Nations "Green Line" was drawn, dividing the territory approximately into two, by means of four sectors which touched at one point, so that a Jew or Palestinian need not cross the other's territory in order to move from one of his two sectors to the other.
Some publications that may provide more information include:
- A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples(2004) by Professor Ilan Pappe (University of Haifa, Israel);
- The History of Israel (1998) by Professor Arnold Blumberg;
- Bitter Harvest: A Modern History of Palestine (1989), by Sami Hadawi (official land valuer during the British Mandate)
How do you get swimming pool maintenance certificate in Israel?
You need to have from five to ten years working experience in the service, repair and/ or building of swimming pools. Once you've accomplished those items then you should take an in depth course(s) in the related field so that you can prepare for the tradescontractor's test in your state. The tests, depending upon your state requirements, cover items such as figuring the volume of water in a multi cube/shape aquatic pool with varing depths, widths and lengths. You must have a thorough knowledge of swimming pool chemistry, an indepth knowledge of heater components and what makes the work and not work. You should be extremely good at water hydraulics ... knowing how to plumb, install heaters, filters, pumps, and other automatic devices. You should know how to size heaters, pumps or filters or multiple heaters, filters and pumps to the varing sizes of swimming pools. You should know the flow rates of the above pieces of equipment and flow rates of various sizes of PVC & copper pipe. You need a good handle on your math and calculating skills. Matering soldering, glueing of copper or PVC pipe are a given. And oh, you also have to pass the test to qualify for your license. Once you've passed your test for the license and paid for your bond and insurance you are ready. You also must keep current on the latest of equipment and all the codes which pertain to swimming pools or aquatic recreational facilities. You must take and pass other series of tests in the related field ... CPO certification, Water Chemistry certification etc. among other items.
What do you think the Iran president will do to Israel?
Iran's president will rail about the zionist Israel, claiming that they have no right to exist, and attempt to provoke other countries to respond. If countries do respond, it only helps his cause and helps to highlight it. This cause only serves to further nationalist sentiment, and distract from domestic issues. He is all talk and little action.
From the links below:
"Well, Ahmadinejad is a ceremonial president. He is a little bit more active, has stronger links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps than his predecessor, Mohammad Khatami, who, by the way -- the previous president of Iran -- has upbraided Ahmadinejad for his comments regarding Holocaust denial. So Ahmadinejad is -- he is not commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He can't order anybody to kill anybody. He can't launch a war. He can't launch missiles. Those powers are vested in the Supreme Jurisprudent, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad can, you know, cut the ribbons and open bridges and things like that. So the American right's fascination with him is entirely misplaced, and it's because he's a quirky character and he has objectionable views, and so it's easy to use him to demonize Iran." JUAN COLE
Trita Parsi is author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States. Our guest also, Ervand Abrahamian, Iran expert, Distinguished Professor at Baruch College. I wanted, Professor Abrahamian, to read from Juan Cole's piece, who says, talking about Ahmadinejad, "He has been depicted as a Hitler figure intent on killing Israeli Jews, even though he is not commander in chief of the Iranian armed forces, has never invaded any other country, denies he is an anti-Semite, has never called for any Israeli civilians to be killed, and allows Iran's 20,000 Jews to have representation in Parliament," that Khamenei is the one with the real power.
Iran is the country that is in danger. It is not a danger to anyone.
Israel exists because, in effect, God created it. God promised it to Jacob (Genesis ch.28), the father of the Israelites, and his descendants. Jacob was renamed Israel by God (Genesis ch.35); and the Israelites lived in Israel during the era of the Patriarchs (220 years), during the era from Joshua until the First Destruction (850 years), during the Second Temple era (420 years) and afterwards. They remained a majority in the land for another 300 years after the Second Destruction; and a minority of Jews remained there throughout the ensuing centuries. Recently, the modern State of Israel was formed. Even if its founders were non-religious, they were implicitly basing the founding of modern Israel by Jews, upon the history of the Jewish people, as listed above.
Israel had been the site of the First Temple, built by King Solomon; the dynasty of King David; the Second Temple, built by Ezra; and the Hasmonean Dynasty. It was where the Hebrew Prophets lived, and where the Mishna (Oral Torah) was codified. Also, many of the Torah's commands apply only in Israel. See: Jewish history timeline. See also: Where have Jews lived more than anywhere else?
Why did the USSR want to allow the Jewish people into Palestine during the British mandate?
As far as I am aware, the premise of this question is incorrect. The Soviet Union was actually opposed to the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine until after World War II, which is when Israel became independent. The Soviet Union actually saw the British Mandate in Palestine as an attempt by the British to create a sphere of influence in the Middle East and by allowing Jews to settle there, the British would transplant a Western-leaning, and relatively wealthy population in the Middle East. This would be disadvantageous to Soviet interests in the region. As a result, Stalin created Birobidzian Autonomous Jewish Oblast in southeast Siberia to be Jewish homeland in the Soviet Union. Understandably, it was not that successful since it was nowhere near the Jewish population centers.
Soviet interests aligned with the Zionists in Palestine after World War II because it had become clear that the Zionists were furious with the British by this point, possibly severring that alliance (it did not actually sever, but it could have) and that Zionist Yishuv's economy had a strong socialist component which meant that Israel could join the Soviet sphere. By 1953, the Soviet Union decided that Israel was too Western and capitalist of a country to be part of the Soviet sphere.
Camp David.
Why is Israel known as Miracle in the Desert?
Israel is known as a "Holy Land". It has specifically earned the title "Miracle in the Desert" because of the style of agronomy that it employs, which has literally turned large tracts of semi-arid land into crop-producing areas. It also has a modern technology industry which replaces the subsistence agriculture that prevailed less than a century ago.
What lands do the Arabs and Palestinians want from Israel?
This question is very difficult to answer as there are over 300 million Arabs and there are a correspondingly large myriad of opinions. I will focus on the two most pertinent to the general discussion.
Most Arabs would tell you that if you were to give them carte blanche to go back to 1948 and design it as they'd like, there would be no Israel and there would be a state of Palestine. (This assertion is a non-starter with most Jews.) By the same token, if you asked most Jews if they were to get carte blanche what they would do, they would have most (if not all) of the Palestinians shunted into the neighboring Arab countries and there would be no future Palestinian State. (This is especially true among Jews who consider Jordan to be the proper Palestinian State. This point is a non-starter with Arabs and Palestinians.)
The difference between the Arabs and the Jews with this carte blanche analysis is that while many Jews have accepted the inevitability of a Palestinian State, far fewer Arabs have accepted the inevitability of a Jewish Israeli State. While this is the majority opinion, it is certainly not the only one in Arab circles.
Some Arabs are willing to compromise to the 1949 borders in the same fashion that some Israelis are willing to compromise to the 1949 borders. This is a more acceptable and workable solution for the two parties and has been the basis of negotiations. Fatah has committed itself to the fulfillment of this objective, while other organizations like Hamas prefer to pursue the pie-in-the-sky and condemn their citizens in the interim to the Israeli blockade as a result of their belligerence.
The balfour declaration of 1917 supported the idea of a?
gave power to the brtian - No. Answer: The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.
Why do Israelis hate Palestinians?
Answer 1
Truthfully, most Israelis do not hate the Palestinians, they simply don't get along with them. The reason is because of an ancient feud that started when Israel's first Patriarch, Abraham had a son by another woman. This son named Ishmael became the father of the Arabian peoples. Abraham's full blood son, Isaac was the one who inherited the promise of the land of Israel But since Ishmael is "technically" also the son of Abraham, the Palestinians claim that they have the promise of god for the Land.
So they "hate" each other simply because they have a feud over who the land Israel belongs to.
Answer 2
What Israelis are angry about as concerns Arabs in general, and Palestinians in particular, is their consistent denial of historical wrongdoing and segregation (such as the dhimmi status, the jizya and kharaj taxes, and humiliation in general), their failure to educate their children in the virtue of tolerance (instead teaching them literalist Qur'anic interpretations which inform them that Jews are the children of swine and that jihad will not end until all Jews die), the promulgation of anti-Semitic teachings (such as the Protocols of Zion and Holocaust-Denial), their toleration of torture and other vast human rights abuses of their own people, and a failure to accept the validity of a Jewish State.
However, most Israelis would tell you that they do not hate the Palestinians, they only hate those Palestinians who have dedicated their lives to the murder of Israeli citizens.
The kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrians in about 720 BC. when it ceased to exist. However, if by "Israel" you mean the territory that composes present day Israel, it was variously named. The southern kingdom of Judah became the Roman territory of Judea which was ruled as a part of the province of Syria. Hadrian renamed the area Palestina Syria. The Ottoman empire ruled after the fall of the Roman empire and the British had a ruling interest in the area up until the establishment of the modern country of Israel.
Why did the Arab nations invade Israel immediately after it was founded in 1948?
The Arab nations formally declared War on Israel on the 19th of May 1948, the day after Israel declared its independence. They refused to permit a Jewish State to come into existence in the Middle East.
Arabs, who form the majority of the Middle East were initially unhappy with the State of Israel because they believed that the land that had physically belonged to fellow Arabs' parents and grandparents should have remained in Arab hands as inheritance. In their minds, it did not make sense that a group of German, Polish, French, English, and Russian speaking people should claim land that their ancestors had not even visited for centuries. Even by the time of Israel's Declaration of Statehood, less than half of the land within the UN proscribed borders of Resolution 181 was owned by Jews. Therefore, the idea of Jewish State being even more physically expansive than the land already taken was alarming. This is why the Arabs urged their states to take military action against the Jewish State.
During the Jewish-Arab engagement (the term is nebulous because it was a conflict fought by militias as opposed to proper armies) of 1947-1949, both Arab and Jewish soldiers committed acts against civilians and tried to assist in the removal of the "undesirable party". This resulted in numerous Palestinian towns being attacked, some rapes occurring, and occasional murders. Fear of further attacks and incitement by Arab Mullahs drove many Palestinians away from their homes. The Arab States saw the Israeli Declaration of Independence as the Red Line that compelled their involvement.
What type of economic activity do the majority of Israelis involved in?
The majority of economic activity is
Zionism has as its definition only one thing: the Jews should have an independent Jewish State.
Herzl explained quite well that the European concept of a nation-state was dependent on the idea that all of the people in any particular nation were of the same ethnic stock and heritage. Jews were branded by this system to be "the Other" and were regarded at best as possible equals and at worse as traitors, spies, thieves, and fifth columns. When the Dreyfus Affair turned out marches in Paris that said "Death to the Jews" on account of a kangaroo court against a particular guiltless Jew, it became clear that the Jew could not be integrated into Europe. After the Holocaust, the strongest proof that the Jew and the European Nation-State were irreconcilable, this view was strengthened.
Jews did not have such a place to return if the discrimination became intolerable. This is why the Jewish State is necessary. Since it came into existence it has accepted Jewish political refugees from over 50 nations and flown missions at its own expense to rescue Jews from at least 10 nations.
What date was Israel conquered?
There are two ways to read this question:
When did the Israeli army conquer Israel from "Palestine"?: Israel did not conquer Palestine. There were Jewish communities living in the land of Historic Palestine before the creation of the state of Israel. Israel also had international law allowing them to declare independence separately from the Arabs who would have been entitled to declare an Arab State. The Arabs chose to wage an aggressive war to remove the Jewish State. They lost this war and now wish to use diplomacy to reverse their disastrous mistake. This particular war took place from 1947-1949.
When was the land of Israel overrun by military force?:The Land of Israel has been overrun by so many different empires at different points in history that without more specificity (i.e. which empire), a date cannot be provided.
What jet fighters does Israel fly?
Israel has about 400 fighters today, March 2013. Approximately 240 of them are different marks of the F-16 including the F-16i, a special Israel-only version with proprietary upper fuselage-mount fuel tanks to extend their range, some 90 or so F-15, and about 50 F-4 Phantoms in the radar jamming "Wild Weasel" role.
