Israel

The Israelis believe it is rightfully theirs according to the Biblical land of Israel, but the UN-recognized border goes outside it, so the Palestinians want to have it as their own nation.

The previous opinion is incorrect. Israelis do not actually want the Gaza Strip, specifically because it is NOT part of the Biblical Land of Israel (Gaza is recognized to be part of the Philistine State in Biblical Times). The reason that there is conflict in Gaza is that Israel believes that the regime in Gaza is hard-set on the destruction of Israel. Palestinians do want the Gaza Strip, as explained by the previous opinion, so that they can have their own country.

Several Lebanese militant groups, such as the PLO, began to fire rockets into Northern Israel in 1981 and 1982. Israel finally responded by entering the Lebanese Civil War which was going on concurrently with the aim of removing such militant groups from Lebanon.

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This happened over the issue of taxes. See 1 Kings 12. This is the story of how Israel became divided.

After Solomon's death, the people approached his son Rehav'am (Rehoboam) and asked that he now lower the tax. He ignored the counsel of his elder advisers and refused the people's request. This led the Ten Tribes to turn away from him (1 Kings ch.12).

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Actually in Hosea we discover that the "house" of Israel God divorced and their identity was absorbed into the kingdom of Judah described as the "children" of Israel (Hosea 1:4-11) in which Christ is the head.

If you are referring to ancient times; King Solomon became idolatrous and cruel in his old age. After his death the Israelites asked his successor, Rehoboam, to be easier on them. Rehoboam took bad advice and refused,, so the majority of the tribes ceded from his rulership and came under the rulership of his rival Jeroboam. Then Israel was split into the nation of Judah , in the south, and the nation of Israel , in the north.

There are no famous inventions (in term of mechanical devices) made by the Ancient Israelites, though in modern times they have been involved with inventing the laser, the pacemaker and defibrillator, genetic engineering, stainless steel, mass-engergy equivalence (Einstein), Cholera and Bubonic Plague vaccines, Polio vaccine, nuclear weapons, and Google (founders are Jewish).

Many Jews consider Israel to be their homeland.

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 states that the UK supported to establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Since Palestine was largely Muslim (including many Arabian Muslims), many Arabians opposed establishing a state for European Jews in an area largely inhabited by Muslims (both those descended from ancient Jews that converted to Islam and other Muslims that had immigrated there over the centuries.

On the one hand, many Arab people were displaced, whether deliberately by the Jewish fighters and settlers, or by the Arabs' own decision. Many felt disenfranchised.

On the other hand, the living standard of Arabs in Israel is significntly higher than in Arab and Muslim countries. Israel has brought employment and modern conveniences to the entire population. Those who have chosen to be Israeli citizens have many towns and villages, and own very many businesses throughout the country. Here in the Galilee region, Arabs and Jews live in close proximity and generally get along well.

On Yom Kippur in 1973 Egyptian forces attacked the Bar-Lev line( set up by the Israeli army after the conquest of the Sinai peninsula by Israel in 1967). The Egyptians had initial success but were eventually pushed back by Israeli forces led by General Sharon. At the time of the UN mandated cease fire the Israeli army had crossed the Suez canal and were on the Eastern shore of the Suez canal.

They were established by Israel as a counterbalance to the PLO.

Meanwhile, back on Earth . . .

Based on the principles of Islamic fundamentalism gaining momentum throughout

the Arab world in the 1980s, Hamas was founded in 1987 (during the First Intifada)

as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Co-founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin

stated in 1987 and the Hamas Charter affirmed in 1988 that Hamas was founded to

liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the area

that is now Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.

The Soviet Union was the first country to recognize Israel on May 17, 1948, less than a week after the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

When the Israeli leadership pushes for Arab countries to recognize Israel as a Jewish State, what they actually mean is that want the Arab countries not just to recognize the Israeli government, but the right for Israel to be primarily Jewish State. A number of Arabs outside of government make a sort-of-work-around for accepting Israel in that they accept Israel as a country controlling a certain piece of planet, but believe all of the Palestinians who used to live there and all of their descendants should be allowed to return. If this happened Israel would become an Arab majority country and defeat the entire purpose of Zionism (the belief that there should be a Jewish State) and Israel's existence. As a result, Israeli leadership presses the Arabs to recognize Israel as it is, not Israel as they would like it.

In the case of the USSR, which recognized Israel first, the USSR was quite willing to recognize Israel according to the tenets of Zionism, so although the term "recognize Israel as a Jewish State" was not used, the intent was the one desired by those who use those magic words.

Some Orthodox Jews did not approve of the modern nation of Israel, because it was created by humans via the United Nations. It was not directly created by God. Most Jews have no problem with the modern nation of Israel, and those Orthodox Jews are in the minority as far as most Jews are concerned.

The Arab-Israeli Conflict existed long before 1948 and actually entered a violent stage as early as 1921. In 1948, however, Israel declared Independence which caused the internal Jewish-Arab Engagements to escalate into an international war when Arab Nations declared war on Israel.

To see a discussion of causes for the Arab-Israeli Conflict, see the related question below.

In 1947 the united nations voted to divide Palestine into a Jewish and a Arab state. while arab counries rejected this plan, the Jews accepted it, and a year later created the state of Israel.

Israel is Israel and Palestine is Palestine. Confusion occurs because both things refer to an extant piece of land with people living on it, a nationality, an ethnicity, and a prior piece of land which no longer exists.

Israel is a Jewish State that contains territory from the former British Mandate of Palestine. The remainder of the British Mandate of Palestine belongs to the modern Palestinian State. Israel is a majority Jewish population who returned from their Exile in Europe and the Middle East. Palestinians are a majority Arab population whose families lived in the region for centuries. Palestinians did not simply become Israelis (except for those who did not flee during the Israeli-Arab War of 1948-9) or vice versa.

If the question is asking why Israel exists where Palestine formerly existed, the premise is faulty. Palestine was the name that the British assigned to that piece of land regardless of its history. Prior to the British, the Ottomans administered Palestine as three distinct regions: Vilayet of Beirut (which included Lebanon and northern Israel), the Vilayet of Damascus (which included Syria, Jordan, and southern Israel), and the Mutasaffirat of Jerusalem (which included central Israel and the Palestinian Territories). The name had nothing to do with the previous administration or the indigenous peoples.

As a result, when the Palestinian Jews declared independence, they chose to call their country according to how they see themselves. This is no different than how the British colony of Rhodesia in Africa became independent as Zambia in the north and Zimbabwe in the south. Since the British name was unconnected to the people on that land, the people reasserted their own identity. Since the Palestinian Arabs did not have a unique identity prior to Israeli independence, they continued to use the term Palestinian to describe their experience.

The West Bank is a kidney-bean shaped piece of land on the West Bank of the Jordan River, bordered on its east both by the river and by the Kingdom of Jordan. It is bordered on the north, south, and west by State of Israel. The West Bank also controls a quarter of the Dead Sea.

The Gaza Strip is a thin coastal piece of land, bordered on the northwest by the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered on the northeast and southeast by the State of Israel. It is bordered in the southwest by the Republic of Egypt.

Israel declared their independence from the British in 1948. Then was attacked by six other countries within an hour who refused to accept it as a nation. There was never peace because they claimed Israel was not a nation so a ceasefire was called instead. Please people stop editing things just for fun this is a resource not an online game. most people dont appreciate it!

The conflicts that involved both the State of Israel and an Arab belligerent force occurred during the following years, 1948-49, 1956, 1967-70, 1973, 1981-82, 1987-1993, 1995-2000, 2006, and 2008-09. These correspond to the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, the Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War and the War of Attrition, the Arab-Israeli War of 1973, the Israeli involvement in the Lebanese Civil War, the First Intifada, the Second Intifada, the War with Hezbollah, and Operation Cast Lead.

Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995) was the 5th prime minister of Israel, from 1974 to 1977, and again from 1992 to 1995. He was the second Israeli prime minister to die in office, and the only one to die by assassination. He was killed on November 4, 1995.

Israel doesn't have "states" like the United States does, it does have less powerful adminstrative districts called mehozot, of which there are 6 or 7, depending on your political view. Tel Aviv District, Jerusalem District, Haifa District, North District, Central District, Southern District, and the 7th being Judea and Samaria, better known as the West Bank, which is up for interpretation.

HOWEVER, these are far from states, and should not be considered states at all. Nobody says that they are from a certain district, like people say they are from a certain state in the U.S. Note: Israel is about the size of Massachusetts.