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The term Zionist as it was originally intended and still used by Jews refers to someone who is a nationalist believing in the proper establishment of a Jewish State in the historic Jewish homeland called the Land of Israel, i.e. Israeli patriots. (For those who prefer analogies, a US Patriot is to the United States of America what a Zionist is to Israel.) A Zionist, like a patriot of any other country, may have left-wing views and argue vociferously against government policies that he dislikes. What makes somebody a patriot is his defense of that country's right to exist with the current general government structure.

Arabs tend to use the word Zionist to refer derisively to those that Jews would call Religious Zionists or Settlers. These are the individuals who hold that the State of Israel should include the West Bank and the Palestinians should remain stateless. Of course, this group of individuals is the minority, but by settling the disputed territory, they cause negative Arab and left-wing Israeli sentiment. Since most Arabs do not believe that the Jews have a right to a state, this has provided additional fuel to the hatred infused into the word Zionist. Many Arabs will refer to Jews as Zionists regardless of whether or not they openly support Israel or not.

The Palestinians (Arabs) and Israelis (Jews) do not get along and do not live in the same territory in Israel. There has been constant fighting between them since Israel became a nation in 1948. No peace treaty has held, and no relinquishment of the land has achieved peace.

The Rothschilds were some of the earliest backers of modern Zionism, joining the fold in the mid-1890s. They were one of the major forces behind Britain's issuance of the Balfour Declaration.

Mexico recognizes Israel as a free state, making specific and noteworthy trade agreements and military treaties with the country. However, the country does support UN resolutions, such as the one condemning Israel's actions in Gaza in 2004.

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American Zionist Movement's motto is 'Zionist Advocacy'.

If this question is asking about political relations between Israel and Palestine, then the answer is rather simple: Palestine did not exist. Palestine only became a country in the late 1980s or early 1990s depending on the particular interpretation of history chosen. At this point, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the forerunner to the current Palestinian Authority (the recognized government of Palestine), was a stateless organization that believed in no negotiation or peace with the State of Israel.

If this question is asking about personal relationships between Israelis and Palestinians, the question becomes more complicated. Between 1949 and 1967, Israeli Jews had little if any contact with Palestinians. The Israeli Arab communities tried to maintain links across the border with Jordan, but with little luck. Between 1967 and 1987, many Palestinians got jobs in Israel and correspondingly, there was relatively high degree of contact. Palestinians formed large portions of the workforce in many unskilled professions during this period. While the Occupation certainly bothered and infuriated the Palestinians, it was nowhere near as strong and omnipresent as it has been since the Intifadas.

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.

Communism actually refers to two different things. It refers to an economic system where all means of production are owned by the workers as opposed to a capitalist. It also refers to an oppressive dictatorial system where all power is concentrated in a singular political party called the Communist Party.

There are no lines of similarity, so they are different in almost every facet.

No. No country is leased by or to another country. Additionally, Palestine had no ability to lease out territory given that it was not a country at the time of Israel's independence. Israel received independence as a result of the UN Partition Plan of Mandatory Palestine.

The Holocaust, or the genocide of the Jews and other minorities in Nazi Germany, bore out two major truths as concerned the Jewish people. The first was that without a government loyal to their interests, they could easily be targeted against and brutally murdered. The second major truth was that such an event was no longer a hypothetical since 6 million Jews were intentionally mass-murdered by what had previously been seen as one of the most progressive modern countries: Germany. This led many countries to feel compelled to help the Jews create a nation-state of their own to protect their interests as a people.

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Not every Israeli thinks the same way and you can find a wide variety of opinions across the Israeli political and social spectrum. Some Israelis think that the Palestinians are to blame and that the Palestinians as a group and Arabs as a whole cannot imagine the possibility that someone other than them has a right to govern any area in the Southern Levant. There are other Israelis who think that the entire conflict would end if Israel would only retreat from the Occupied Territories in the West Bank and withdraw all of the settlements.

Most Israeli opinion, though, is somewhere in the middle, faulting both Palestinian Militants and Israeli Government Intransigence.

Yes. There are land disputes between Israelis and Palestinians and the land in dispute is located in Southwest Asia.

Many Arabs fled Israel and were forced to live in refugee camps for decades

Jerusalem was the first capital of the Israelites after it was captured by King David in about 1000 BCE. It remained the capital of Judah (after whom the Jews are named) and stayed the capital even after the Roman conquests, temporarily being renamed Aelia Capitolina.

Prior to the capture of Jerusalem, the United Kingdom of Israel was ruled from Shiloh and later Hebron. After the split of Israel and Judah, Jerusalem remained the capital of Judah and Samaria became the capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

In December 2005 and January 2006, Ariel Sharon suffered a pair of strokes, the first relatively

mild, the second massive and debilitating. In mid-2010, he remains clinically alive in a comatose,

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The national food of Israel is Falafel (it was invented in Israel).

Zionism is a support of the Jewish culture and state coupled with an opposition for Jews to assimilate into other cultures. Zionists highly advocate the relocation of Jews back to Israel in order for them to be a majority in their own nation.

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Palestine. Before that it was called Judea, and before that it was Israel. Its first name was Canaan.

If the question seeks to ask specifically before World War 1, Palestine was the term used for the general region of the southern Levant under Ottoman Turkish Occupation. The territory was administrated as part of three different wilayaat or governates: the Wilayat Beirut (which consisted of much of Lebanon and northern Israel/Palestine), Mutasaffirat al-Qods (which consisted of Jerusalem and the surrounding area in central Israel/Palestine), and Wilayat Dimashq (which consisted of much of Syria, Jordan, and the southern Negev Desert in Israel). The Palestinian Arabs had little to no power in the administration or politics of any of the three wilayaat, which were ruled entirely by Turkish nobility in Beirut, Damascus, and Istanbul.

The modern country of Israel was formed in 1948 within the borders of what had been the historic region of Palestine. The term had existed for two thousand years, ever since the Romans named it Syria-Palaestina as punishment for the Jewish Revolts.

They will have to settle it between themselves. So far mediating countries haven't gotten that far.