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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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What is self-determination in Israel and Palestine?
Self-determination is the right for each ethnic group to be able to govern its own affairs and create a state that reflects its owns values. Israel is the Jewish attempt at self-determination. The Palestinian Authority is the Palestinian Arab attempt at self-determination.
What kind of Arabs are found in Israel?
Israel has a number of different types of Arabs, including: Arab Urban Muslims, Arab Christians, Bedouin Muslims, Druze Arabs, and Baha'i.
How did the creation of Israel affect the cold war?
Via proxy, the USSR & US got to test some weapons there. Not too many though, as Vietnam had already tested most of them: SAMs, T54/55 medium tanks, PT76 tanks, MiG17, MiG19, MiG21 jets, Sagger Wire Guided Missiles, etc.
Why were Roman soldiers stationed in Galilee in the first half of the first century?
Because Galilee was part of Roman territory at that time.
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Who were the great grandparents of Israel the king?
The great grandparents of King David were Boaz and Ruth. These are the same Boaz and Ruth that are the main characters in the Book of Ruth.
How did the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict start in the 1990s?
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict started as early as the 1920s between the New Yishuv (proto-Israel) and the Levantine Arabs (proto-Palestinians). Even the Intifada, which is the most clearly Israeli-Palestinian confrontation since the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, began in 1987. The Intifada began as an organized violent resistance to the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with the intent of forcing Israel to end the Occupation (and hopefully, in their view, bequeath all of Israel to the Palestinians).
What sports were played in ancient Israel?
The Bible does not actually mention any sports that would have been played. Mesopotamians, Canaanites and other inhabitants of the Middle East would have played various ball games at that time. Although, the idea of a communal sport would not have arisen during this time period.
Most modern sports were not played according to anything resembling the current rules prior to 1500 C.E.
no,it is not true, they havent even met
Were dogs common in the Holy Land at the time of Jesus?
They must have been, the first dog mentioned in the Bible in the OT is the Greyhound, from where all variety (not species) of dogs came from.
Do Israeli Arabs have the right to live in West Bank settlements?
Israeli Arabs have the same rights as Israeli Jews and therefore can choose to live wherever they want within Israel or Area C in the West Bank.
Unlike Jews however they can also settle in Areas B and A where Jews are prohibited to enter by law.
However few Arabs choose to live in settlements, except for Ariel where many Arabs study in the Shomron Academic Center, and few Jews in Judea and Samaria would like to have Arabs for neighbors.
Israel produces a lot of things:
They are one of the leading developers for tech, they make computer, they even made Windows XP and Vista!! They made Intel, dripping system for planting water, tsunami detectors for Indonesia, UV filters in turkey to make fish bacteria free, firewall started for the Israel's Defence Force, anti-virus and much more!!!
They are also the leading for military:
They make a lot of UAV's, Screens, guns and bullets, upgrading planes provided by the US and much more!!!
IMPROVED ANSWER: Export figures from 2007 show that 46% of Israel's exports were cut DIAMONDS, another 13% was Dental, Medical and Pharmaceuticals.
Only 1.8% was electrical parts, 3.6% telecom equipment and just 1.2% was computer related. Israel had a US$5 billion trade deficit- it imports more than it exports; it was # 46 in the world for GDP per capita just below Spain (which is in major financial trouble) and had 23.7% of its population below the Israeli poverty line of US$7.30 per day...hardly the booming, dynamic, innovative economy that many websites make out. Figures are from the CIA facts page.
What happened to two Israeli athletes in the 1972 Summer Olympics?
Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics killed the Israeli athletes.
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How did Turkey try to help the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Turkey, for many years was an anomaly in the Middle East: a Muslim-majority country with strong diplomatic and cultural relations with Israel. The Turks attempted to use this unique historical and cultural character to mediate between Israel and Palestine. After the Flotilla Incident, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan made sharp comments to Israelis and endorsed anti-Israeli TV show leading to Israel declaring them to be clearly biased.
No hes not single hes in a relationship with his fellow rugby player Zac Guildford. Err Wrong hes not gay but i think hes single.
A long-term effect of the Balfour Declaration on the Middle East was the?
The Arabs wanted Palestine to be an Arab state, not a Jewish one. Tension and violence came from this for years to come.
People are fighting in israel and palestine cause of the crusades why?
While there is conflict in Israel now and there was conflict in Israel during the Crusades, it is not as if the current Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is an extension of the Crusades. It is being fought by very different people for very different reasons. There have also been long periods of relative peace in the region; no major war broke out in that area from 1500-1900. The Related Question below discusses the differences between the modern conflict and the Crusades.
Are Jehovah's Witnesses a Zionist organization?
Not really.
Jehovah's Witnesses are fundamentally opposed to the concept of nations and politics. They maintain that all believers in all places should form local communities and self-administer according to the light of God. However, they hold that it is imperative that all Jews congregate in the Land of Israel to being about the Second Coming of Jesus. So, while they do not support Israel's existence (because they do not support the existence of any nation), they do support Israel's policies in regards to bringing Jews to Israel from afar.
Also, Israel and Lebanon are the only countries in that area of the Middle East that permit Jehovah's Witnesses to practice, which makes Jehovah's Witnesses more likely to favor Israel than the neighboring Arab States which have banned their practice. Several Arab States have argued that Jehovah's Witnesses (like any ideology that they do not like) are Zionists in order to justify this infringement of religious freedom. Some other countries that ban Jehovah's Witnesses, like China and Vietnam do not make the same argument.
What type of weapons does Israel use against Gaza?
Israel does not use weapons against Gaza in general. Israel targets rockets, rocket launchers, and the terrorists who build and operate them against Israel's cities, and the tunnels that the terrorists have built to slip into Israel and murder civilians. When firing on terrorists in built-up areas, Israel uses laser-guided camera-equipped rockets, air-to-ground as well as ship-to-shore, and INFORMS the residents of the area BEFORE the weapons are used. When firing on open areas (terrorists in the field), regular tank shells are used. You can see the action in the videos that have been released to the public by the IDF.
Note again: Before firing into a built-up area, Israel notifies the residents there of the imminent danger, by TELEPHONE calls, leaflet drops, and drops of non-explosive articles onto roof-tops. Equipment is being targeted. People are not; except those responsible for launching rockets into Israel, and in some inadvertent cases, the people they use as their shields. The conflict is NOT about a land or its people, at least from Israel's perspective. More than 2/3 of the air strikes on Gaza produced not one single casualty on the ground.
