Israel

Because it could have led to WW 3

The Golan Heights from Syria, the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the Gaza Strip from Lebanon, and the West Bank from Jordan.

In the Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006, Israel was unable to eliminate Hezbollah nor their weapon stock, and Hezbollah was unable to protect the Lebanese villages from destruction. They both failed to reach their goals, but they both believed they won.

The ones who lost are the peaceful Lebanese citizens, and the destruction of their infrastructure, while harming the tourist season and economy.

The areas of dispute between the Israelis and Palestinians are the entire former Mandate of British Palestine which includes Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. The strongest sources of conflict are in the latter two regions and the city of Jerusalem which is partially in Israel and partially in the West Bank according to International Law.

The Israeli War of Independence began in 1948 after the Arab states declared war on the newly declared State of Israel. The Israelis did not kill millions of people, Wikipedia gives casualties as 6,373 killed among the Israelis, between 8,000 and 15,000 among the Arabs, including Palestinians (but also including all militant forces and armies).

As for relocation, there is a heated debate as to whether Palestinian Arabs were forcibly evicted from their homes on threats of violence at one end and were implored to leave by their religious leaders so that they could return after the Arabs were victorious on the other end. Regardless, the current estimates are that 720,000 Palestinian Arabs fled the Israeli-controlled areas of the Mandate of Palestine. It should be noted that at roughly the same time, most Arab countries had instituted strongly negative policies towards the Jews resulting in 850,000 Jews fleeing from Arab Countries between 1948-1955 and leaving almost every Arab country with only a marginal Jewish population if any.

Other important facts to consider, when you talk about killing and relocating:

As of 2008, Arab citizens of Israel comprised just over 20 percent of the country's total population. About 82.6 percent of the Arab population in Israel is Sunni Muslim (with a very small minority of Shia), another 9 percent is Druze, and around 9 percent is Christian Arab. The Arab Muslim citizens of Israel include the Bedouins, who are divided into two main groups: the Bedouin in the north of Israel, who live in villages and towns for the most part, and the Bedouin in the Negev, who include half-nomadic and inhabitants of towns and villages. According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as of 1999, 110,000 Bedouins live in the Negev, 50,000 in the Galilee and 10,000 in the central region of Israel.

During the McMahon-Hussein correspondence in 1915/1916 the British promised the Arabs (Hussein was at their time their main spokesman) an own sovereign, independant country if they helf the British army defeating the Osman Empire during the 1st World War. Instead, not only did the Sykes-Picot agreement between France and England already divide the future Arab country in a french and a british part. With promising the influential Jews surrounding Chaim Weizman to form a Jewish homeland in Palastine (Balfour declaration), the British yet again had clashed the promise made by MacMahon to the Arabs.

The Nation of Israel was formed as a result of UN resolution. Wealthy Arab families migrated from the area fearing clashes and loss of wealth. Other were warned by Clerics to move out of the area. As a result, an independent Settlement of Palestine never happened.

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i think so, but i am not sure

Somalia has no role in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, but like most Muslim-majority states, refuses to recognize the State of Israel.

The Israelis unilaterally withdrew their settlements from the Gaza Strip in 2005. Israeli military incursions into the region happen occasionally, but the last large Israeli military presence in Gaza was as a result of Operation Cast Lead in late 2008 and early 2009. Israel has not withdrawn in any way from the West Bank.

Each side is unwilling to make serious concessions to permit the survival and thriving of the opposite culture and society.

Check out the Shomreymishkal website.

The Jewish claim to Israel is that Jews have lived on this land without interruption for over 3000 years. That this land is their ancestral land. Religious Jews have the additional claim that the land was promised to the Jews by God.

The people who now refer to themselves as Palestinian (prior to 1967, the only people who named themselves were Jews) are made up of a combination of descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity and Islam in ancient times, Syrians, Lebanese, and Egyptians. A large percentage of Jewish people did not enter Israel until after 1920.

The Arabs who chose to not support the attacking Arab countries in 1948 went on to become full Israeli citizens with all the rights citizenship entails.

No. The Six Day War took place in Israel, Egypt, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan, and Syria.

While the Jewish Zionist leadership in Mandatory Palestine was willing to undergo partition in 1947 in a way that the Arab leadership was not, there was a significant minority of Jews who opposed partition. They fell into three general camps: (1) Religious Nationalists, (2) Irridentists, (3) Binationalists.

The Religious Nationalists, which have become a much larger segment of the Israeli population in the last few decades, were historically rather small. They were a religious movement that believed that the entire land of Biblical Israel belonged under Jewish sovereignty because God had given the Jewish people the land as eternal inheritance. Therefore, no assemblage of Jews could make a move to partition the land in such a way to violate that inheritance. Since the 1947 partition plan put most of Biblical Israel in Arab hands, not Jewish ones, the Religious Nationalists believed that agreeing to the partition plan was a violation of the Divine Will.

The Irridentists were a secular movement that held that the Jewish history in the Land of Israel was undeniable and correct. Additionally, they noted that the Mandate for Palestine from 1919-1922 contained both Israel/Palestine and Jordan. As a result, they believed that the two state solution for Palestine had already been implemented, i.e. the Arabs already got Jordan. They saw no reason for Jews to make further concessions to Arabs and give up their historic homelands.

The Binationalists were a secular movement that believed in one nation for two peoples and wished to set up a confessionalist-type one-state solution, similar to what prevails today in Lebanon. The Binationalists felt that the partition would lead to strife and conflict which would be unnecessary if the two parties could simply learn to live together.

They conquered the 10 tribes in Israel and arranged an exchange of the ruling classes, sending the Jewish ones to rule people in Assyria, and bringing in from there a new ruling class. The idea was that the new upper class would not be sympathetic to the people, keep them under control and not foment uprisings. The Babylonians later adopted a similar approach.when they later took over the other two tribes of Judah and Benjamin.

The continued success of Israel in military conflict.

Egypt launched a surprise attack on Israel on the Jewish Holiday of Yom Kippur in 1973, beginning the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 (also known as the Yom Kippur War, the Ramadan War, and the October War).

When a Jew moves to Israel, it is said that he/she is making Aliyah. Aliyah means arising, ascending, going up. It is said that moving to Israel is moving to a higher spiritual plane, thus the usage of the term aliyah. Aliyah is also used to refer to someone coming up to read from the Torah.

However, Aliyah is not the proper opposite to Diaspora. Aliyah is what an individual does. The opposite of Aliyah is Yeridah, when a single person leaves Israel.

The opposite of Diaspora, which is the communal dispersion of the Jewish people, is the communal return of the Jewish people to Israel. This return has not yet happened. There are still more Jews outside of Israel than inside of it. Such a return would likely be called the Geula or Redemption. Another opposite for the Exiling of the Jews (Diaspora) is Kibbutz Galuyot (Ingathering of the Exiles).

Israel is a democracy. As a result there are a variety of different people with different viewpoints.

Mike Reid

Every Arab-Israeli War involves Israel and Palestine can refer to Palestinian Militias, the PLO/Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority.

Years of War

Israeli Name

Arab Name

Egypt

Iraq

Jordan

Lebanon

Palestine

Saudi Arabia

Syria

1947-1949

War of Independence

Al-Nakba (Catastrophe)

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

1956

War of the Sinai

Suez Crisis

YES

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

1967

Six-Day War

Six-Day War

YES

NO

YES

NO

NO

NO

YES

1973

Yom Kippur War

Ramadan War

YES

YES

YES

NO

NO

NO

YES

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