answersLogoWhite

0

✈️

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

Do Arabs and Israelis consider Jerusalem to be a holy place?

Yes. The three monotheistic religions (of which Arabs and Israelis are mainly composed) all venerate the city.

Why did the superpowers feed the Arab-Israeli conflict?

There were numerous conflicts around the world which the superpowers used as proxy wars. The Arab-Israeli Conflict was only one of many. The superpowers engaged in this behavior so that they could have physical confrontation without worrying about nuclear armageddon.

When was the state of israel established?

Saul became the first king of Israel in 878 BCE. The country of Israel was founded four centuries earlier by Joshua.

After conquest and absorption into the Roman Empire nearly 2000 years ago, the modern State Israel was re-established on May 14, 1948.

What are the two groups involved in the Arab-Israeli Conflict?

As counter-intuitive as it might be, the two groups involved in the Arab-Israeli Conflict are the Arabs and the Israelis.

Who created the Jewish state of Israel?

The State of Israel came together as the result of Jewish immigration to the British Mandate of Palestine, Zionist leadership, Jewish militias and political and financial support from the West (primarily Jewish philanthropists). The first group are called the Halutzim or the Pioneers and they took it upon themselves to modernize Israel by cultivating the land and using European technology to improve its output and productivity. The Zionist leadership included some like Theodor Herzl, who envisioned the state, to Eliezer ben Yehuda, who developed Modern Hebrew as a functional language, to David Ben Gurion who declared Israel's independence and sovereignty, among many others. There were numerous Jewish militias defending the Halutzim and attacking the British (and eventually the Arabs when conflict started) such as the Palmach, the Haganah, and the Irgun. Finally, without the monetary contributions from families like the Rothschilds, there would have been no way for the nascent pre-governmental and governmental organizations to acquire enough capital to maintain an internal infrastructure.

Who was involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Mainly the US, Palestine and Israel. But other international countries are being involved e.g. UK, France, Russia etc.

It started in the late 19Th century when the Zionist movement started with a group of secular European Jews to establish a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. Before that Jews lived in peace with Muslims and Christians in Palestine for about 1300 years (except when the European Crusaders killed all the Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem 900 years ago). Most of the Jews who lived in Palestine till then were Arabs.
In short, Arabs and Jews, but there are too many others to list.

Is there a lot of street crime in Israel?

== == Very little. People walk up and use ATM's without and second thought and even count their money in the street. Bus drives handle cash and give change. You can sit in the front seat of a taxi, no barrier between the front and back seats of the cab,

Now, how bad can it be?

not more then anywhere else

What were the perspectives of a Palestinian Arab and a Zionist Jew regarding the United Nations Partition Plan of 1947?

Both were frustrated with it.

The Palestinian Arab believed (and many still do) that all of the land belonged to them and being forced to share it with an invader from outside of the country would be ridiculous. The UN Partition Plan in particular accorded the Jewish State much more land than the Jews controlled at that time and was seen as catering to their interests. In fact, the Jewish State was 56% of the overall land. The Arabs completely rejected the plan.

The Zionists were bothered because they saw the resulting Jewish State as too small to accommodate the Jewish population and as being far too difficult to keep united. In addition, most of the Jewish holy sites, including Jerusalem, Hebron, Shchem, and the Cave of Machpelah were deep inside the territory of the proposed Arab State. However, the Zionists were willing to accept the Partition Plan if it meant that they could have a State at all.

How is Israel the Jewish people's homeland?

It is the place where the Jews originally came from.

When did the PLO begin warfare against Israel?

The PLO was founded in 1964 and immediately declared Israel to be its enemy, so 1964.

What is the capital of Judah?

the capital city of Judah is Jerusalem. both were conquered by both Israel and Judah.

Jerusalem.

Did Obama give 900000000000 to rebuild the Gaza strip?

no Obama gave 9000000000000000 from American taxpayers to israel as an arms deal he did however pledge to give 900 million dollars to rebuild Gaza ( promised but hasn't been delivered yet because of israeli pressure )

Why does Israel hate Palestine?

What Jews are angry about as concerns Palestinians is their consistent denial of historical wrongdoing and segregation (such as the dhimmi status, the jizya and kharaj taxes, and humiliation in general) towards Jews (preferring to believe like Answer 5 that everything was perfect under Muslim rule), 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 desecration of Jewish holy sites, repression of their Christian minorities and other vast human rights abuses in the terretories, their tacit or explicit endorsement of violence against the State of Israel, and a failure to accept the validity of a Jewish State.

Why did egypt go to war with israel in 1966?

Egypt was not at war with Israel (in a de facto sense) in 1966. Egypt was at war with Israel de jure because it did not acknowledge its Right to Exist.

Egypt was preparing to invade Israel in late 1966 and early 1967. It is very likely that Egypt would have invaded in late 1967, if Israel did not launch a preventative strike to cripple the Egyptian Air Force, beginning the Six Day War.

Why do Middle Eastern countries not get along with Israel?

Israel represents a number of major issues to Arab countries. It forcibly uprooted the lives of numerous Palestinians upon its independence and continues to make their lives difficult in the West Bank and Gaza though military occupations, blockades, and settlements. Israel also has regional supremacy in the form of nuclear weapons and the most advanced military in the region. Israel is also based primarily on Western Values and Styles of Governance, leading many Middle Easterners to see Israel as a form of neo-colonialist imperialism. In addition, most Israeli Jews are, at most second generation Sabras (born in Israel), making Israel primarily an immigrant country and Arabs wonder why they must bequeath land that they have lived on for hundreds of years to these newcomers. Finally, there is a strong concept in Islam that holds that land that has entered the Islamic Sphere (Dar Al-Islam) should remain Islamic in perpetuity. Since the land that Israel occupies was part of the Islamic Sphere without pause from 1187-1919, and for nearly 400 years before the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, the loss of this area is felt particularly strongly (as opposed to Spain which was only ever controlled for 781 years and was lost over 500 years ago).

What happened on the day the State of Israel became a nation?

After the Jews in Palestine declared independence as the State of Israel, war immediately broke out between the newborn state and its Arab neighbors, including Egypt and Jordan.

How did the Yom Kippur war cause Arab nations to dislike the us?

The United States supported Israel against the Arab countries of Egypt and Syria in war. However, most Arabs hated US Foreign Policy long before the Arab-Israeli War of 1973.

Who did Israel help in the Peloponnesian War?

At the time of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) Israel was under control of the Persian Empire, and so in no position to intervene in any of the Greek wars, not that it would have had any reason to meddle in Greek affairs anyway.