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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.
6,421 Questions
What American president helped with negotiations between Egypt and Israel?
Jimmy Carter worked with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on the Camp David Accords, a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
Carter
How did Zionism and Israel affect Jews in Arab Countries?
Jewish immigration incensed Arabs because they knew that this immigration could eventually result in some of the territory being given over to a Jewish State and they could not abide such an outcome. They began to violently attack Jewish Settlers and petition British governors to limit or ban Jewish immigration. The British finally conceded in 1939 by issuing the White Papers.
What countries were in the Arab-Israeli War of 1956?
The main parties in the Arab-Israeli War of 1956 (also called the Suez Crisis or the War of Tripartite Aggression) were the UK, France, and Israel on one side and Egypt on the other. The US led the UN in creating ceasefire and armistice conditions.
Why did other countries support a Jewish homeland in 1948?
Answer 1
Actually, many people opposed that idea, before ww2 a fight between Arabs and Jews broke out because Arabs opposed the Jews from allowing Palestine to be Jewish homeland.
Answer 2
There are several reasons why non-Jews around the world supported the creation of a Jewish Homeland in Israel. For the Jewish arguments see the Related Question below.
1) Be Gone & Good Riddance: (written by someone else) Many nations looked on with favor and relief, assuming that all Jews would eventually migrate there, and the nations would finally be rid of them. But even that fond hope was not enough for most Muslim nations, who bitterly opposed the creation of Israel, and after 64 years, still do.
2) Holocaust Pity: The Holocaust 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.
3) Middle East Control: Although it seems odd to say it today, both the United States and the Soviet Union believed that Israel could be converted to "their side" in the Cold War. Given that any Jewish State in the Arab World would be isolated, it would be natural for such a state to create a strategic relationship with one of the major powers. Additionally, a Jewish State might be able to influence neighboring Arab states and make them more pliant as concerns oil shipments. Both the USA and USSR supported the Creation of the State of Israel for these strategic reasons.
4) Solidarity with the Oppressed: Many nations in Latin America supported Israel because they sympathized with the oppressed Jewish people and saw the Independence of Israel as akin to their wars against Spain/Portugal and the internal fights for more indigenous equality.
5) Because It's the Right Thing to Do: There was certainly support for a Jewish State because some just saw it as the proper thing to return Palestine to the Jews. Churchill, who was no longer Prime Minister, held many pro-Zionist views out of respect for the Jews and their contribution to that region of the world.
6) Diplomatic Pressure: Both the United States and Soviet Union pressured their allies and third world countries to support the United Nations Resolution. This does not make the vote any less valid, but is worth noting.
What is the Gaza Strip conflict about?
Palestinian Answer
Zionists invaded Palestine and changed the name to "Israel". Many Palestinians were forced from their homes into concentration camps, such as Gaza.
Israeli Answer
Hamas, the ruling power in Gaza, has presented no terms an no way to negotiate for a two-state solution. Naturally, Israel, as any state would, is trying to make sure that Hamas does not ever have the capability to destroy the State of Israel. Israel is doing this on multiple levels, including blockading the region, using targeted airstrikes to remove the Hamas leadership, and on occasion, invading the region militarily. For people like the above Palestinian, the notion that the Zionists may have some rights to a State is completely out of the question, therefore it is impossible for them to arrive at a peaceful negotiated solution. If you note the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, while it is certainly not peaceful, those Palestinians have much more ability to be productive and develop internal infrastructure because they have not rejected Israel so vehemently.
The Zionist movement originally began in 63 BC when the Israelis (Jews) were forced out of Israel by the Romans. Those who stayed were killed. This scattered the Jews around to Europe, Asia, and Africa. Recently, they have been discriminated against, like in the Holocaust, and returned to Israel. They immediately claimed the land and all the Palestinians in it were forced into areas such as the Golan Heights, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. This is what has now caused the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In 1948 Jews set up Israel in part of what country?
Answer 1
In 1948 The Jewish Areas of Palestine and the Arab Areas of Palestine split into
two countries; however the Palestinians didn't accept this split.
Answer 2
The British mandate of Palestine, an overseas possession of the British Empire (and therefore not a country), was created after World War I after the defeat of the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
The intention was to create a "national home of the Jews" within the area of Palestine without compromising the status of the existing majority Arab population. Quite how this was expected to happen is one of the great mysteries of British foreign policy.
By the time the British Mandate ran out, various schemes had been proposed to divide the land between the Jewish and Arab population but both sides rejected every idea. Once the British left, the issue was decided by force of arms after the unilateral declaration of a Jewish State. The Jews eventually gained control of the majority of Palestine, with the exception of the West Bank territory and the Gaza Strip. This area was recognized by the UN security council as the State of Israel.
The remainder of Palestine was annexed by Jordan (West Bank) and Egypt (Gaza), leaving the Palestinian people in a stateless limbo, which was further complicated by the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
Answer 3
While agreeing with much of what Answer 2 brings up, the following issues are worth clarifying.
When discussing how Israel arose after the British departure, and saying that the issue was decided by force of arms, it is worth pointing out that there was a simultaneous invasion of Israel by the massed armies of ALL the surrounding countries plus Iraq, followed by unexpected Israeli victory and survival after the unilateral declaration of a Jewish State. In addition to the recognition of the State of Israel afforded by the UN security council, the UN General Assembly recognized Israel as a nation and admitted it as a full UN member less than a year later.
The stateless limbo that the Palestinians found themselves in is not only due to Israeli action. All of the Arab countries that Palestinians fled to also declined to grant them citizenship and continue to decline them citizenship. The issue of Palestinian citizenship and a political future was complicated by the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by Israel, and by the Hamas split with the Palestinian Authority and armed takeover of Gaza following the 2006 Israeli withdrawal.
The Gaza Strip is populated exclusively by Palestinian Arabs. It is ruled by Hamas, which is a fundamentalist Islamist Paramilitary/Terrorist Organization. It is currently blockaded by Israel.
Who was fighting with israel in the 1973 war?
It is quite clear that the Syrian front in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 was an Israeli victory. The Syrians made only minor gains in the early days of the war, but Israelis turned those around and a ceasefire was signed with Israeli tanks in sight of Damascus.
There is some debate on whether the Egyptian front was an Israeli or Egyptian victory, but this debate does not carry to the Syrian front.
Answer 1
Zionists believe that Israel is Jewish land, and they want the Jews to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem that was destroyed by the Romans in 70.
A majority of Jews are Zionist, many Christians are Zionist, and 5% of Muslims are Zionist.
Answer 2
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 who are more than willing to negotiate with Palestinians and give up a portion of Mandatory Palestine for an Arab State.
This member of a, Pentecostal, prayer based, Zionist group believes and has ALWAYS believed, since my earliest memories, that Jews, The Children of Abraham, are the rightful owners of the land that G_D promised and gave them.
We believe that Israel, their G_d given home and Jerusalem, where G_d wrote His name, with His own finger, should be their capital.
We believe that Jerusalem, the footstool of YHWH is the most holy place on Earth.
Who was the first African American to win a nobel peace prize- for mediating the Arab-Israeli truce?
Dr. Ralph Bunche (1903-1971) received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the 1949 Armistice Agreements (especially between Egypt and Israel).
How many Palestinian forced to leave Israel?
The creation of Israel directly resulted in the Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949 which resulted in 720,000 Palestinians becoming refugees. This event is commemorated by Palestinians are the Nakba or Great Catastrophe.
Who are the Israelis and Palestinians?
Palestinian people today is one of the terms referring mainly to Arab people with family origins in Palestine. The religion of Palestinians is primarily Islam, but there are others who consider themselves Palestinian, including Christians, Druze, and Jews.
In British Mandate Palestine, all those granted citizenship by the Mandatory authorities were granted "Palestinian citizenship," including the newly arriving Jewish immigrants. The term "Palestinian" as used by the Mandatory authorities referred to all people residing there, regardless of religion. Following the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people, the use and application of "Palestine" and "Palestinian" by and to non-Arab Palestinians dropped from use; and its use was again taken up by its Arabs after the establishment of the PLO in 1964. The English-language newspaper The Palestine Post for example, primarily served the Jewish community in British Mandate Palestine; after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the newspaper's name was changed to The Jerusalem Post. Today, Palestinian Jews generally identify as "Israelis". The more precise terminology Palestinian Arab which was in use until the 1960s is often contracted/abbreviated - at the expense of some linguistic clarity or for political purposes - to the now commonly used Palestinian. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, it is common for Arab citizens of Israel to identify themselves as both "Israeli" and "Palestinian" and/or "Palestinian Arab" or "Israeli Arab" in most cases.
The Palestinian National Charter, as amended by the Palestine National Congress in July 1968, states that "The Palestinians are those Arab nationals who, until 1947, normally resided in Palestine regardless of whether they were evicted from it or stayed there. Anyone born, after that date, of a Palestinian father-whether in Palestine or outside it-is also a Palestinian." The Charter also allows that "The Jews who had normally resided in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion are considered Palestinians."
The most recent draft of the Palestinian constitution expands the definition of Palestinian to state that: "Palestinian citizenship shall be organized by law without prejudicing the right of anyone who acquired it before 15 May 1948 in accordance with the law or the right of the Palestinian who was resident in Palestine before that date. This right is transmitted from fathers and mothers to their children. The right endures unless it is given up voluntarily.
The Palestinians are Arabs that moved into Palestine a century ago. Many of them came from Jordan and Syria.
The Palestinians are an Arab-speaking people with family origins in Palestine, an area now known as Israel along with Israeli territories, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
What was the first Arab country not to sign the treaty with Israel?
After Egypt lost the Yom Kippur war of 1973, Egyptian President Anvar Saddat faced a problem of how to get Sinai back. After the defeat in the Yom Kippur war it was evident that to achieve this goal with military means was impossible, and Saddat badly needed something to improve his shattered after the lost war political image. He had no other options than to search for peace, and in 1979, with America as a broker, the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed. Egypt got Sinai back in exchange for peace and official recognition of the Jewish State.
What is the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine known as?
Zionism was (and is) the movement to establish and preserve a Jewish homeland (this has been realized in the establishment of the Jewish State of Israel).
It is the ideology that Jewish people should have their own state. The Land of Israel was promised to the Jewish people by God, according to the Bible. Jews lived in the Land of Israel from the time of Joshua until the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Almost all Jews were exiled to other countries, known to Jews as the Diaspora. For centuries, Jews prayed for a return to Zion. In the nineteenth century, the Zionist movement, led by Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann, encouraged Jews to turn the dream into reality, and lobbied the international community to understand that a "Jewish national home" was the only solution to anti-Semitism and the "Jewish problem."
In 1947, the dream was realized when the UN voted to partition Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs. The Arabs immediately attacked the Jews and in the middle of the war, on May 14, 1948, the State of Israel declared its independence. Today, about half of the world's Jewry lives in Israel. Most Jews living in and out of Israel are supporters of Israel and the Zionist ideology, although a small percent believe only divine intervention should bring about a Jewish state.
The African nations were fighting for political freedom from colonial forces, but Israel and Palestine have been fighting for control of the same land.
What is a major reason for conflict between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors?
Israel has fought with Lebanon on several occasions including: Israel's entrée into the Lebanese Civil War in 1982, the Occupation of South Lebanon from 1982-2000, or the recent Israeli-Hezbollah War in 2006. All three stem from different causes. The primary ones for each are listed below.
1) The Lebanese Civil War had a number of causes separate to Israel and Israel only entered the War midway through. The causes of the Lebanese Civil War included, but were not limited to:
- The rising percentage of Shiite Muslims and sinking percentage of Maronite Christians and the Shiites wanting more power.
- The arrival of Palestinian Militant Organizations like the PLO fleeing Jordan after King Hussein's Black September who brought unrest and chaos with them.
- The languishing, horrible conditions of the vast numbers of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon.
- The increasing militancy and radicalization of the Maronite Christian minority.
- The increasing Syrian support of Shiite Paramilitary Groups
Israel entered the Lebanese Civil War on account of the following two reasons:
- Palestinian Paramilitary Organizations began to rain rockets down on Northern Israel in an attempt to goad Israel to enter the Lebanese Civil War. The PLO believed that such an entry would unite the Shiites and Sunnis behind one banner to repel the Israelis. The Union did not form, but Israel did retaliate by crossing the border and hunting down the PLO.
- Christian Falangists, with whom Israel quickly allied, promised Israel a longer term ceasefire and more amicable relations in the future. Israel wanted a chance at peace with Lebanon and therefore supported those who would advocate for this.
2) The Occupation of Southern Lebanon was a result of the Lebanese Civil War. Israeli troops were already in Lebanon and just retreated to positions south of the Litani River, but north of the Israeli-Lebanese border. Hezbollah and other paramilitary groups harassed the Israeli occupying force, leading to minor skirmishes in the area. In 2000, as a sign of restraint, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak withdrew the Israelis to the 1980 borders to the satisfaction of the United Nations, but not to Hezbollah which considers parts of the Israeli-occupied Golan to be Lebanese territory.
3) The Israeli-Hezbollah War began from Hezbollah's gross misinterpretation of how strongly Israel would respond to its illicit activities. The War had a number of causes that included, but were not limited to:
- Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border: Regev and Goldwasser, violating the strong Israeli sense that no soldier can be ever left behind. This prompted an Israeli incursion into Lebanon to retrieve the soldiers.
- Hezbollah, upon seeing the Israeli soldiers, launched Soviet Katyusha Missiles into Israel, causing the Israelis to amp up their incursion to a proper invasion and airstrike.
Egypt made a number of overt threats to the peace and security of Israel. They closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli Shipping which cut off Israel from Iran (who at that time was ruled by the Shah and in Alliance with Israel) and other South Asian Nations. This severely diminished Israel's ability to procure petroleum. Also the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan mobilized their troops to surround Israel and kicked out the UN observers who had been maintaining the Armistice.
Between the fear of a slow death (because of the lack of petroleum) and the fear of a quick death (because of the mobilized armies on its borders) Israel decided that a surprise attack was the best way to deal with these threats. Israel never expected the attack to be the overwhelming success that it was.
Area: 260 sq km (slightly more than twice the size of Washington, DC)
Coastline: 40 km
Land boundaries: Egypt 11 km, Israel 51 km
How many Arabs died in the 1967 six day war?
What kind of independence you speaking about? when the British forces left Palestine, Zionists who lived under the British mandate took arms and claimed they wanted to create a country for them
Where does the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict take place?
Answer 1
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict takes place in a small portion of the Southern Levant in the Middle East along the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea in territory termed "the former British Mandate of Palestine". This physical territory comprises the nation of Israel, and portions of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. A very real dimension of the conflict also takes place in the world's broadcast and print media, and in national and international political and diplomatic bodies.
Answer 2
In the area between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean. However, people around the world have gotten involved, showing their support for different sides. There are spots where more activity is occurring than others, for example Gaza.
Mostly in the Gaza Strip area and surrounding borders.
Did the crusades succeeded in freeing the holy land?
Initially, yes. They were able to sweep in, defeat the Muslims they found, and set up "Crusader states". They were not able to hold on to these lands, however, and within 200 years they were all defeated.
The Jewish people originate from Abraham who was born in Mesopotamia. If you look in the book of Genesis (from ch.11) you will see the history of the beginnings of the Jews. You will see that Abraham settled in what is now Israel and bought pieces of land that would later become the land of Israel for the Jewish people. The answer is really a large one as there are so many details to put in.
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Why have people disagreed with the Jews?
Jews have a lot of opinions and a lot of perspectives within their small 14-million large population. It would be absurd if everyone outside of this group magically agreed with everything the Jews put out if the Jews cannot even agree amongst themselves.
