Israel

8.25 NIS / Liter (September, 2012)

Yes. The overwhelming majority of Gaza's drinking, bathing, and agricultural water comes from Israel. The Gaza Strip does not have sufficient groundwater to provide for its citizens nor the finances to provide desalination plants. Egypt avoids providing Gazans with water since it struggles with meeting its own people's water needs in the Sinai Peninsula.

It is part of Asia. Everything east of the Suez Canal is Asia; everything to the west of it is Africa. Cyprus is also part of Asia, even though people dumbly persist in caling it Europe. Language has nothing to do with geography.

Note: Most Jews would be offended by the phrasing of the question. Those Jews who are religious and live in Israel consider the Modern State of Israel to still be in a state of Galut (spiritual exile). Living in the Land of Israel is a necessary but insufficient condition of the Redemption of Israel (bringing Israel out of Galut); the second necessary component is the presence of the Messiah, for which Jews are still waiting and believe has not yet revealed himself.

The Zionist leadership was ardently secularist with one or two critical exceptions. These leaders included Theodor Herzl (who developed the concept of Modern Jewish Nationalism or Zionism), Eliezer ben Yehuda (who developed the Modern Hebrew Language), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (Jewish Advocate to the British and Leader of the Palmach), Menachem Begin (Leader of the Irgun and future Israeli Prime Minister), and the Halutzim in general (the Jewish pioneers who arrived in the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s). On the religious side, there was primarily Rabbi Avraham Kook (First Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel and .founder of Religious Zionism) who was treading a new theological doctrine to back up Zionism with Jewish religious values.

There are several names for it. The neutral name is the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. The Israeli name for is the Israeli Independence War. The Arab name for it is the Nakba or Great Catastrophe.

According to UNSC Resolution 242, Israel was required to cede the West Bank back to Jordan in order to have a peace treaty. As a result, when the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was negotiating with Jordanian King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan, Rabin offered to discuss a phased withdrawal of Israeli control from the West Bank and its restoration to Jordanian power (similar to the Sinai Peninsula phased withdrawal). King Hussein actually rejected this overture arguing that they wanted to cede their claim to the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority. Israel agreed to transfer the claim to the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority and made peace with Jordan in 1994.

Israel has negotiated on and off with the Palestinian Authority concerning phased withdrawals and areas of local governance. However, Israel has never offered the Palestinian Authority all of the West Bank. (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Arafat roughly 95% of the territory in 2000, but this was rebuffed because Israel refused to approve a Palestinian Right of Return to Israel.)

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Israel immediately became a powerful state because of several factors: It's close political connection to the US, the strength of it's people, the financial retetution owed to It by the German people, etc. Also it's status and strength in the middle east was presumed to be naught. After it became a counter in 1948 many of it's surounding neighbors declared war and attempted to invade Israel. The Jews won and annexed large areas of land from it's new enemies and the modern world has been politically precarious ever since.

Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt became a leader in the Arab world as a result of the Suez Crisis.

He fights only against those who fire rockets at Israeli civilians. He does not hate Palestinians.

No. According to the Oslo Accords in 1993, the Gaza Strip officially belongs to the Palestinian Authority. It is currently occupied by the Hamas Paramilitary/Terrorist Group.

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There is the current country of Israel where any Jew from around the word can naturalize as a citizen.

The Israel was already in turmoil before the Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948. Jewish Militias had been fighting with Arab Militias as early as September of 1947. Many of the Arab States, however, threatened Israel that to declare independence (and therefore seek international legitimacy) would result in them declaring war on Israel, intensifying the already brutal guerrilla campaigns. Deciding that they would rather be recognized and be able to treat with other nations than to exist in eternal fear, Israel chose to declare independence. The Arabs made good on their threat.

According to current historical knowledge, the ancestors of the Native Americans would have had to pass through Israel during their exodus from Africa (which would have eventually gone over Beringia, the Asia-North America Land Bridge). There are no Native American Tribes which claim or have been genetically shown to be descendants of the people who lived in what is now Israel from anytime more recent than 50,000 years ago.

It is called Holy Land because the world's three main religions are tied to Jerusalem: Christians, Judaism, and Islam.

The current (2012) principal allies of the Ba'ath regime are Russia, China and Iran.

Before Oslo Agreement, every country supported one side, after this agreement:

*countries that recognize Israel.

*countries that agree with Israeli actions

*countries that abstaining for both sides.

*countries that support Palestine no matter what.

*countries that support both most of the time.

We can say that most of the Western countries support Israel, some no matter what and some agree on some things with the Palestinians.

Over the years there have been more countries that recognize Israel and support her. In countries where most of the population are religious Muslims or Palestinians, there is problem with recognizing Israel. Many Jews in Europe are afraid that the immigration of Muslims to Europe will make these countries Anti-Israel.

When was the last time that a nation fought a war and then was told they should be a good sport and give back what they fought and died to win- never- only the Israelis have been treated in such a way.

The issue is that the UN Resolution 242 which established the Armistice would be conditioned on a future piece treaty which would see Israelis leave occupied territories.

They met through her father,her father introduced them after a concert where Israel had performed

This is true.

Egypt and other countries declared war against Israel, which was made mostly of Jews, so, YES, but Israel did not declare war on them.