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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 was the holy land to the crusaders?
a nice little place were they could rub heat laxer on there balls
It depends on where this "Palestinian State" would be.
However, assuming that the "Palestinian State" refers to a Palestinian State made according to the 1967 borders with acceptable landswaps, the benefits to Israelis and Palestinians become rather simple. The benefit that accrues to Israelis is that Israel can remain a Jewish-majority state and therefore fulfill the mission for which it was created: to be a Jewish and Democratic State. The benefit that accrues to the Palestinians is that they finally have a state in which to determine their own future as opposed to the way that Israel and the other Arab States have treated them.
The disadvantages are rather different. In the case of Israel, Israelis fear that an independent Palestinian State will allow for the development of terrorist Anti-Zionist groups that will target Israeli civilians. Israeli Settlers will most likely be ordered to leave the Palestinian State and those areas will become essentially Judenrein. Finally, Jews will likely lose access to the innumerable Jewish Holy Sites in the West Bank (such as Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, the Tomb of Rachel, etc.) In the case of Palestine, Palestinians will lose the complete Right of Return and will have to accept that some of them will never be able to live in the house that their grandparents or great-grandparents lived in. Palestine most likely will be a demilitarized region, which means that Palestinians would require faith in their allies and protectors to maintain a proper defense.
What are some reasons for conflict in Arab countries?
Answer 1
1. The Israeli occupation of Palestine.
2. The invasion of Iraq by the US.
These are the main two conflicts in the Arab world, but you're all welcome to add to them.
Answer 2
Easier
man vs. man
man vs. nature
man vs. self
Answer 3
The above conflicts do not discuss the Conflicts within Arab States and non-violent conflicts (such as political, social, and demographic conflicts.) The Middle East is prone to violent tempers and bellicose words, which makes conflicts ever more common.
- Iraqi Civil War: Shiite Tribes loyal to one Sheikh/Elder/Cleric vs. Shiite Tribes loyal to a different Sheikh/Elder/Cleric
- Iraqi Civil War: Shiites
- Iraqi Civil War: Shia vs. Kurd
- Iraqi Civil War: Sunni vs. Kurd
- Egyptian Societal Conflict: Liberals vs. Nationalists vs. Islamists vs. Socialists
- Libyan Tribal Conflict: (Always rotating, but typically) Cyrenacian Tribes and Fezzan Tribes vs. Tripolitanian Tribes
- Algerian Internal Repression: Military Junta vs. Population
- Western Saharan Secession: Moroccan Army vs. Polisario Nationalist Front
- Moroccan Government: Secularizing King vs. Islamist Parliament
- Lebanese Domestic Control: Unified Lebanese Army vs. Hezbollah
- Lebanese Palestinian Refugee Management: Lebanese Militias vs. Palestinian Refugees
- Syria-Lebanon Interference: Syrian Spies and Hezbollah vs. Lebanese Politicians
- Syrian Internal Repression: Resistance Arab Spring Fighters vs. Government forces of Bashar al-Assad --> Syrian Civil War
- Dispute of Hatay Province: Turkish Government vs. Syrian Government
- Eastern Turkey: Turkish Army vs. PKK and Kurdish Rebels
- Gazan Conflict: Israeli Army vs. Hamas and Islamic Jihad
- Occupation of the West Bank: Israeli Army vs. Palestinian Civilians
- Intifada: Palestinian Terror Organizations vs. Israeli Civilians
- Golan Heights Occupation: Israeli Government vs. Syrian Government
- Saudi Political Repression: King of Saudi Arabia vs. Population (especially Women and Minorities)
- Saudi Religious Repression: Wahhabi Clerics vs. Population (especially Women and Minorities)
- Yemeni Civil War: Arab Spring Fighters vs. Presidential Regime
- Omani Rebellion: Arab Spring Protesters vs. Sultan of Oman
- Kuwait National Struggle: Kuwaiti Immigrants vs. Emir and Parliament of Kuwait
- Iranian Intervention in Iraq: Iranian Al-Kuds Forces vs. Iraqi Politicians and Civilians
- Iranian Political Repressions: Mullahs and the Iranian Army vs. Protesters
- Iranian Ethnic Repressions: Iranian Central Government vs. Turks, Turkmen, Balochs, Azeris, Kurds, and many other minorities.
What is international Zionism?
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. A Zionist is anyone who supports that belief and therefore the Existence of Israel. There are numerous Zionists, typically called "left-wing Zionists", who are more than willing to negotiate with Palestinians and give up a portion of Mandatory Palestine for an Arab State. There are also numerous Zionists, typically called "right-wing Zionists" or "Greater Israel Zionists", who believe that all of Israel is Jewish land and united Jerusalem is its capital and that the the Jewish Temple to God will be rebuilt someday, most likely on top of the Temple Mount.
Answer 1
yes she clearly is one.
she danced in madina the holy place for muslims.
her music conveys satanic messages.
in one of her songs she shape shifts into a dog
research and watch documentaries then you'll be able to points these things out.
Update: She portrayed herself as the queen at the halftime show on Superbowl 46 and did a Zionist ritual as she welcomed a new initiate in a white robe.
Answer 2
And now for something that is not comic relief...
Madonna has never expressed an exact opinion on the State of Israel, but considering that she has performed concerts there, it stands to reason that she supports the State of Israel's Right to Exist. So, she is likely a Zionist according to the definition of Zionism: a belief that the Jews should have political self-sovereignty and is the patriotic sentiment behind the Establishment of the State of Israel.
Unfortunately, many people use the term "Zionism" to refer to a non-existent cabal of Jews who "control the world". As such a cabal does not actually exist, Madonna cannot be a part of it.
What are the wars in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
Since there are a number of different Israeli-Palestinian Wars and there are different belligerents in each of them. The Arab countries most often involved have been Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. See the Table Below for more information.
Note: Every Arab-Israeli War involves Israel, although in the Persian Gulf War of 1991 Israel did not retaliate when attacked.
Note 2: Palestine can refer to Palestinian Militias, the PLO/Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority.
Note 3: The Six Day War of 1967 is not listed below because it did not actively involve Palestinian Combatants. However, this war was a watershed in Palestinian History since it brought the entire former British Mandate for Palestine under Israeli control.
This list is not exhaustive.
Years of WarIsraeli NameArab NameEgyptIraqJordanLebanonPalestineSaudi ArabiaSyria1947-1949War of IndependenceAn-Nakba (Catastrophe)YESYESYESYESYESYESYES1956Suez Crisis / Sinai CampaignTripartite War of AggressionYESNONONOYESNONO1967Six-Day WarSix-Day War / An-Naksa (Setback)YESYESYESNONONOYES1980-1982Lebanon WarLebanese Civil WarNONONOYESYESNOYES2008-2009Operation Cast LeadInvasion of GazaNONONONOYES (Gaza Only)NONO2012Operation Pillar of DefenseOperation Blue SkyNONONONOYES (Gaza Only)NONO
Does it cost money to go to school in Israel?
There are free public schools and there are private schools (such as Yeshivot) for which one pays.
Typical cost for one month of religious private school, with food and dorm, is the equivalent of roughly $200 U.S. dollars.
Why did the Jews migrate to Israel after World War 2?
Jews migrated to Israel after WWII as it was their ancestral homeland, and the events of WWII had shown that Jews were not welcome in Europe. Jews had been migrating to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine (after WWI) for years before WWII, however, and "Palestine" had always had Jews living there.
How did the Palestinian Arabs feel about the creation of the State of Israel?
Answer 1
The Palestinians were greatly saddened by the creation of the State of Israel, because they believed that the land that had physically belonged to their parents and grandparents should have been theirs for inheritance. In their minds, it did not make sense that a group of German, Polish, French, English, and Russian speaking people should claim land that their ancestors had not even visited for centuries. Even by the time of Israel's Declaration of Statehood, less than half of the land within the UN proscribed borders of Resolution 181 was owned by Jews. Therefore, the idea of Jewish State being even more physically expansive than the land already taken was alarming.
Answer 2
Many of them felt consternation. However, within a couple of decades it became clear that the Jewish state greatly raised the standard of living of all its inhabitants; that it allowed everyone to vote; and that it enabled freedom of religion in a part of the world in which totalitarianism is all too familiar.
Those non-Jewish inhabitants who have decided to live peacefully have found that Israel can be a pleasant and prosperous place. There are many thousands of Arab citizens in Israeli universities, and they are providing the country with very many well-trained doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc.
Ancient Israel did have slavery and it is presumed that such slavery occurred more or less at the verses in the Pentateuch describe it.
Modern Israel has never had nor intends to have slavery.
In what year was Israel first established?
Modern Israel was established on May 14th, 1948. If you are thinking of ancient Israel then there are a number of possible dates. The Exodus began around 1441 BC (based on 1 Kings 6:1) so that is an important event as far as the existence of Israel as a nation. They entered the land of Canaan around 1401 BC. It all depends on when you decide the ancient nation of Israel was first established as a separate nation. If it was in the period of the monarchy then you are looking at around the year 1000 BC.
What language do Zionist Jews speak?
Most Jews are Zionist, and they speak the languages of the countries they are from.
Note: Zionism just means supporting the idea of a Jewish homeland.
When was the State of Israel formed out of Palestine?
Israel was declared an independent Jewish State on May 14, 1948.
However, the phrasing of the question makes implicit assumptions that must be dealt with.
It would seem from the way that the question is written that Palestine was a country and then one day, and was renamed Israel the next day. This is not the case. Palestine was a territorial name in the same way that the Riviera in southwestern Europe is a territorial name. It just happens that some of the Riviera is in France and some in Italy. Israel was a state that declared independence in that territory, which was a British Mandate at the time. There were still areas of Palestine that did not become part of Israel. Most of the Arab Palestinians did not consider Israel to be their state and would later identify with the Palestinian State declared in absentia in 1988 and recognized in the Oslo Accords of 1993.
Did Palestine ever exist in the past as an Arab country?
Palestine sits in the confusing ambiguous space between being a country and being a non-country. It has partial provisional sovereignty and incomplete recognition. Read more below.
This is a difficult question to properly answer. There was never a historic country of Palestine, and prior to the creation of the British Mandate of Palestine in 1922 (with the current known borders), the southwestern Levant was politically arranged quite differently. Prior to 1988, there was international consensus in most major organizations (such as the United Nations, European Union, NATO, etc.) that Palestine was not a country since Israel was the only legitimate post-Palestinian State and that the Gaza Strip and West Bank were territories that should be devolved to Egypt and Jordan respectively. The only organizations that dissented from this view were the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Conference, which have a vested interest in not recognizing Israel.
In 1988, Yasser Arafat declared the Palestinian State in exile. In 1993, the Oslo Accords secured international recognition (including Israel) of the Palestinian Authority as a political entity in charge of securing a future for the Palestinian people. There was a partial devolution of territory and security to several Palestinian areas. In 2005, the withdrawal of Israeli settlements and soldiers from Gaza resulted in the first fully independent Palestinian State in the Gaza Strip. However, Hamas led an insurrection leading to their illegitimate takeover of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority still rules a number of bantustans in the West Bank and exercises limited sovereignty over even those regions. Recently, Palestine gained recognition in the United Nations and had its declaration of independence vindicated by the International Court of Justice.
How did modern Israel come into being?
The political movement to reestablish a Jewish state in Palestine, a province of the Ottoman Empire, began with the Zionist movement led by Theodor Herzl in 1897. Britain gained control of the Palestine Mandate following World War 1. In 1917 British Foreign Secretary Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration, calling for the establishment of a Jewish home in Palestine. Jewish immigration which began in 1882 continued although it was restricted by the British in the 1930s. Jewish immigration to Palestine resumed in large numbers after the Holocaust in 1945.
In 1947, the British gave control of 78% of the Palestine Mandate to the Arab Hashemite tribe. The UN issued a partition plan for the remaining 22% to be divided into Jewish and Arab states. The Jews accepted the plan, but it was rejected by Arab leaders. Israel declared independence in 1948. It was attacked by Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, but prevailed in 1949. Between 1948 - 1950, 800,000 to a million Jews were expelled or forced from their homes by Arab governments and anti-Jewish riots. Most of them were resettled in Israel.
Who lived in Palestine before it became Israel?
Answer 1
there are many different veiws on who lived there first, i say that the Jews lived in israel first...... Palestine was never a country before the Palestinians and for Saudi Arabia i have no idea
The Hurrians, a people related to the Georgians of the Caucasus, lived in Israel (or Palestine) and Syria long before any Semite came near the area; they built the world's first dolmens in 10,000 BC; they are the Horites and Rephaim of the Bible (like Og and Goliath). In 9000 BC they built the world's first city in southern Turkey. They spoke a Kartvelian language. Northern Arabia was most likely inhabited by Hurrian relatives (around 10,000 BC) and southern Arabia was entirely Nilotic African. In 10,000 BC, an African tribe called the Nostratic people invaded southern Arabia from Ethiopia and eventually ended up on the southern shore of the Black Sea in Turkey. They were the ancestors of the Semites, Hamites, Indo-Europeans, Uralics, Altaics, and others. They brought the Adam story with them from Africa, and were the people involved in the Flood in 7300 BC.
Answer 2
Israel/Palestine: This area (prior to the Muslim conquest in 634-638 CE) was a Byzantine Imperial province. The majority of the population was likely Orthodox Christian with a substantial Jewish minority. The Christians would likely have identified as ethnically Byzantine, Phoenician, Canaanite, Samaritan, etc. The Jews would have identified only as Jews.
Saudi Arabia: The dominant population in Saudi Arabia since time immemorial was the Arabs. Prior to Islam, most Arabs were henotheists, which means that they believed in multiple gods but believed that one of those gods was superior to all of the others. Minorities of Arabs were Christians (mostly of heretical sects) and there were also a minority of Jewish Arabs.
How was the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict resolved?
It has not yet been resolved.
Israel and Palestine were closest to a long-lasting solution at the Taba Summit in Egypt in 2000 when Ehud Barak conceded on nearly all of the Palestinian requests, but was denied by Yassir Arafat who knew that the remaining concessions that Barak did not make would make the solution untenable for the Palestinians. (The primary issue was that there was no Right of Return for Palestinians to what is now Israel, which is a non-starter with Israel, but most Palestinians will not let go.) Since that time, international focus groups and thinktanks have come up with solutions, but there are too many people who are too unwilling to compromise to implement them.
Why did Jews want a homeland in israel?
Herzl, the founder of Zionism, explained quite well that the European concept of a nation-state was dependent on the idea that all of the people in any particular nation were of the same ethnic stock and heritage. Jews were branded by this system to be "the Other" and were regarded at best as possible equals and at worse as traitors, spies, thieves, and fifth columns. When the Dreyfus Affair turned out marches in Paris that said "Death to the Jews" on account of a kangaroo court against a particular guiltless Jew, it became clear that the Jew could not be integrated into Europe.
What Arab countries invaded Israel after the nation declared its existence in May of 1948?
While it is correct in that hostilities between Arab militias like the Arab Liberation Army and Holy War Army and Jewish militias like the Haganah and Palmach began before Israel declared Statehood, the remaining Arab nations on the list in the first answer declared war only after Israel declared Statehood. Therefore, by International Law, when their military vehicles crossed unwarranted into the territory accorded Israel by UN Resolution 181, it would be considered an invasion. The Seven Countries listed below were part of this invasion.
Egypt
Syria
Transjordan
Lebanon
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Holy War Army
Arab Liberation Army
Why has Jerusalem been a stumbling block in peace negotiations between Arabs and Israelis?
Yes as both the Jews and Muslims consider Jerusalem as a holy city., and Israel want it as their capital one day.
How did the Israeli-Palestinian conflict evolve?
The conflict over Palestine predates the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The modern conflict is generally dated from the early 20th century, when Jewish immigration to Palestine increased significantly as a consequence of Zionism.
Is Israel right in killing Palestine?
It is unclear what "killing Palestine" means. Palestine is landmass and cannot be killed in any current understanding of that term.
If "killing Palestine" is meant to mean "killing Palestinians", then no, Israel has no right to arbitrarily kill Palestinians. However, Israel currently finds itself in a situation where Palestinians Militants are attacking Israeli civilians and attempting to penetrate Israeli borders. These violent acts invoke Israel's right to self-defense, which Israel has just like every other nation has. In those cases, Israel has the right to defend itself up to and including the elimination of the threat.
What was a person life like 2000 years ago in israel?
it was probably a age of discovery because that was when christianity was discovered.
Why didn't Jews and Palestinians get along with Israel?
Reasons for Palestinian Opposition to the Zionists/Israelis
The Palestinian Arabs were actually quite adamant about not giving the Jews any land or space as soon as it became clear in the late 1920s that the Jews intended and would soon realize their own state apparatus. They attacked the Jewish settlement in Hebron in 1929, scalping and beating many Jewish inhabitants. They organized militias to attack other Jewish settlements, they petitioned the British government to prevent Jewish immigration (resulting in the White Papers of 1939 which banned Jewish immigration during the entire Holocaust when a place of refuge was most necessary), and consistently fought against Jewish Militias who were targeting the British colonizers instead of uniting to overthrow the British before trying to decide a resolution. The Palestinian Arabs did not support a two-state solution prior to 1967 and did not accede to the idea of a two-state solution until the Oslo Accords of 1993. Still to this day, the idea of a two-state solution (as a final solution) is relatively unpopular in Palestinian circles. The reason that Israel exists as a country is because of UN Resolution 181 and the Zionist Jews who used that resolution as the basis upon which to declare a country and defend it from military onslaught.
Other Arabs Supporting the Zionists/Israelis
Unlike the Palestinians, there were several non-Jewish populations in Mandatory Palestine that made moves after World War II to indicate their support of the Yishuv (Zionist community) and the formation of a Jewish State. The Bedouins (especially in the Galilee Region) had strong ties with the early settlements and quickly developed a rapport. Some Bedouins even learned Yiddish to familiarize themselves with these returning Jews and numerous Bedouins and Jews would farm together. This friendship turned into a natural alliance in the late 1940s, with Bedouins organizing under the Star of David against the Sedentary Palestinians who had historically maligned them. The Druze also supported the Yishuv because of the way that Jews defended Druze access to Nabi Shu'ayb (the Tomb of Jethro). The Druze fought alongside the Yishuv during the Jewish-Arab Engagement (1947-1949). There were also some Palestinians, like the citizens of Abu Ghosh who passively assisted the Yishuv during the Jewish-Arab Engagement. All three of these groups were incorporated into the State of Israel without prejudice. So, while the Yishuv certainly used these groups to their advantage, it was well-rewarded with full-scale Israeli citizenship. With the partial exception of Jordan, no Arab country has treated the Palestinians in this way at all.
