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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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Why did the Jews choose Palestine?
Answer 1
Because they had nowhere else to go. Europe gave them a home in Palestine as a way of saying sorry but what the fault of the Palestinian people who are being forced to leave their homes. they were in no part involved in the killing of the Jews. Europe is trying to amend one of their sins by committing another. Why didn't they give them a home in Europe? They just wanted to show that they were sorry.
Answer 2
There are two operative parts to that question. There is the implicit question as to whether a Jewish State is something that should exist. There is the explicit question as to whether the geographical location chosen for this Jewish State is proper for its mission.
1) Why a Jewish State: Herzl 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. After the Holocaust, the strongest proof that the Jew and the European Nation-State were irreconcilable, this view persists. In Europe, it is now directed at the Muslims since the Jews are not large enough of a threat to the European System. Unlike Muslims, though, which can return to their countries of origin if the discrimination becomes intolerable, the Jews did not have such a place. This is why the Jewish State is necessary. Since it came into existence it has accepted Jewish political refugees from over 50 nations and flown missions at its own expense to rescue Jews from at least 10 nations.
2) Why Palestine: Ahad Ha'am explains that the Jewish Soul is intrinsically connected to his history and in the same way that a German-American can never be as properly German as a German in Germany, the People of Israel can never be as properly Jewish if they are not in the Land of Israel. The relics in that land speak to a Jewish sensibility and character. There are also religious reasons as expounded by Rav Avraham Kook which posit that the development of a Jewish State in Israel hastens the arrival of the Messiah. There are additional political reasons why Palestine and not Europe. As explained above, the European Culture is strongly anti-Other and making a Jewish State there would have fostered much more contempt and alienation (ironically).
Note on Answer 1
In contrast to Answer 1, Israel was not created in the Middle East as a way to hurt Palestinians and Zionism was not founded as a reaction to the Holocaust. (Herzl, Ahad Ha'am, and Rav Kook were all Zionists long before the Nazis even gained power in Germany, among others.) Additionally, Jews in the Middle East did suffer prior to the advent of Zionism. There were blood libels (which still circulate in the Arab World) about Jews killing Christian Monks or of Jews killing Muslim children to drink their blood. Both are patently false, but the riots they caused killed untold numbers. There was legal discrimination against Jews in nearly every Muslim-majority country in the first half of the twentieth century. (After the first half, most no longer had Jews.) Currently, all of the former Palestinian Jewish population is part of Israel and actively prevented from "returning" to Jordan or the Gaza Strip.
Did the Arab states accept Israel as an independent state?
No. Generally they never recognized the State of Israel as a sovereign and independent entity although it certainly is. Of course it all has to do with politics - so the only two nations that reached peace with the Israelis - Jordan and Egypt - only they recognize Israel as a legitimate country. The rest of the middle east will only recognize a Palestinian state (if there will ever be one) and they see Israel as a foreign invasive entity. But of course practically almost all Arab countries have secret touches with the Israelis and you could actually say there is cooperation between them in some manner - especially since both the Arabs and the Israelis are very threatened by the current Iranian regime and as they say "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" - they hate Iran much more than they hate Israel. Actually the Iranian nuclear saga is the best thing that happened to Israel in terms of relations with it's Arab neighbors. Never in history were these people so close as before united against the Iranian regime.
Why is palestine important to Jews?
Zionism is the philosophy that the Jews should have their own independent state in the Middle East. Therefore, anything related to Israel traces back to Zionism. Of course, Israel is not the only source of conflict in the Middle East, but one of many.
What country was Israel before it became a state?
A lot of empires controlled in Israel during the history
Independence - 1000 - 597 BCE
The Babylonian Empire - 597-586 BCE
The Persian Empire - 539-333 BCE
The Hellenistic Empires ( The Seleucid Empire , The Ptolemaic Empire and Alexander's Empire) - 333-167 BCE
The Hasmonean Kingdom (Independence) - 167-37 BCE
The Roman Empire - 37 BCE - 324 CE
The Bayzantine Empire - 324-638 CE
The Islamic Empire - 638-1099 CE
The Cursades Period - 1099-1260
The Mamluks Period - 1260-1517
The Ottoman Empire - 1517-1917
The British Mandate - 1917-1948
Israel - 1948-Today
Who was the Israeli President during the Yom Kippur War?
Ephraim Katzir was President of Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
However, the Israeli President is a largely ceremonial position. The leader of Israel was Prime Minister Golda Meir.
What was the second country that signed a peace treaty with israel?
Concerning a peace treaty, most nations around the world recognized Israel without a formal treaty and started relations almost immediately. Turkey and Iran are perfect examples of this, both recognizing Israel in 1949 and opening up embassies in Tel Aviv. (Iran withdrew its embassy after the Islamic Revolution.) Israel's first peace treaty with an Arab State was the Camp David Accords of 1979 between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. This was extremely unpopular in Egypt, where the citizens wanted a perpetual conflict with Israel, and would eventually result in Sadat's assassination in 1981.
How did Jews take over Palestine?
There are three operative parts of this question which must be discussed before any viable answer can be given.
1) Who are Israelis? Israel was a combination of a number of ethnic groups of which Jews were the largest and most central. Jews worked in concert with other minorities in the land such as the Bedouins who openly supported the Kibbutz movement, the Druze whose holy places (like the Tomb of Shuayb-Jethro) the Jews helped to protect from Muslim vandalism, and the Circassians, a Russian Muslim ethnicity that had its lifestyle under siege from the Ottoman Turks and Palestinian Arabs. These groups worked in concert with the Jews to establish what would be a Jewish State with equal rights for non-Jews.
Additionally, there were numerous Arab Palestinians who joined with Jews in a passive way since they were committed to the enterprise of creating a nation of Israel. The Arab community of Abu Ghosh is prime example of just such a Zionist-sympathizing Muslim-Arab community. The combination of the above minorities and some of the Arab majority should dispel the myth that "it's just Jews". Israel is a state with a wide variety of citizens and has a larger minority percentage of its population than any Middle Eastern State except Turkey (which refused to recognize its Kurdish minority until the 1990s).
2) What is Palestine? Palestine, prior to 1949, was never used in the context of describing an actual nation or state. It was a regional term that came from the Roman Province Syria-Palaestina. From the 1500s-1919, Palestine was part of several different Ottoman governates like the Vilayet of Beirut, the Vilayet of Damascus and the Mutasaffirat of Jerusalem. The British Mandate of Palestine was the way that the British merely decided to redraw the lines. While there is certainly a legitimate Arab nationalist aspiration to create a Palestinian Arab state, there never was such a state in the past.
3) What does "take over" mean? Take over in this context traditionally means to forcibly assume control of something that was previously controlled by someone else. Since the British, a foreign power, were in control of Palestine, not the indigenous Arabs, the Israelis could not take over Palestine from the Arabs. This is similar to how the United States annexing Texas is not construed as taking over Mexican land. Texas and the United States were states separate from the Mexican population of Texas even though the majority of Texans at the time of annexation were Mexicans. Israelis (not just Jews, as explained above) fought the British for the control of a region of land. That land just happened to be called Palestine because of the way the map was drawn.
Result:
As this explains, Israel did acquire the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine as the result of a war that was declared against it. However, this does not mean that Israel took over Palestine if we hold to the definitions that we have already reasonably established. It bears mentioning that from its inception, Israel has sought to establish peaceful relations with everyone else. Unfortunately, it has had the need to defend its civilians almost constantly, all the while maintaining the strongest efforts to mitigate collateral harm.
Why was the war in 1973 called the yom kippur war?
It was called the yom kippur war because the Arabs attacked on the Jewish Holiday called yom kippur
How did the Arabs view the recognition of Israel as a country?
Most Arabs and most Arab countries are opposed to the recognition of the State of Israel and have actively tried to persuade other countries to stop (or never begin) recognizing the State of Israel. They see recognizing Israel as legitimizing the existence of that country and most Arabs and Arab countries would immensely prefer that Israel is not in existence. Rather than make peace, have mutual recognition and increase trade in their countries, Arab leaders would rather harbor a belligerent attitude because it prevents their citizens from rising up against them.
What is the difference between anti-semitism and anti-zionism?
Anti-Semitism is a hatred, revulsion, or denigration of Jewish people and a belief that those people are somehow (by dint of their genetics) more violent, conniving, mischievous, and dastardly than other people. In some cases, like the Nazis or Extremist Muslims, they are considered a "sub-human" race, on par with monkeys. Almost all Anti-Semites are not Jews for the simple reason that no person would willingly consider himself a putrid thing.
Anti-Zionism is a rejection of Zionism. Zionism is merely Jewish Nationalism, the belief that Jews have a right to have their own country where they can determine their own future. Zionists can be both Jews and non-Jews and Anti-Zionists can be both Jews and non-Jews, because the question of whether the Jews have a right to a state is a political question. Since the Jews were able to create such a country, Israel, Anti-Zionism is usually seen as Anti-Israel sentiment.
It is important to note that there are those who wish to argue that Anti-Semitism does not apply exclusively to Jews (since there are non-Jewish Semites), but the term Anti-Semite has never been used to describe anything but Jew-hatred. Additionally, people like to claim that Zionism is a code word for an international cabal of evil Jews trying to control the world. Aside from the fact that such a cabal does not exist, such a thing would fall under Anti-Semitism, not Zionism or Anti-Zionism since this cabal would not be concerned with Jewish Nationalism.
What are Israel and Palestine fighting about?
Israeli Demands of Palestinians and other Arabs:
1) Hallowed Land: The Jews consider the Land of Israel (which is not necessarily all in the borders of the State of Israel) to be a holy piece of land in that God promised it to the Jewish people as an eternal inheritance. Thus, some Jews, especially Religious Zionists see resettlement of the Land of Israel by Jews to be part of God's plan and mandate and therefore do everything in their power to settle it. In addition, it contains specific religious and historical sites such as the Western Wall and the Old City of Jerusalem, the Cave of Machpelah, the Old City of Jaffa, and the Sanctuary of Shiloh among others. Jews want to ensure maintenance and access to the sites which they feel have been limited by the other. Jews claim that Jordanians used the Western Wall as a landfill.
2) Zionism: A number of Jews in Europe began to feel that they were being permanently and deliberately excluded from parts of European society because of the prevalent racial and pseudo-scientific forms of Anti-Semitism. They believed that there was no possible equality between European nationals and their Jewish residents and were disinterested in the Andalucian Solution because they did not want to be second-class citizens. They believed that the Jewish people needed to form a political apparatus (an Independent State) to defend themselves and their civil rights. Zionism originally had purely secular connotations, but with the advent of Religious Zionism, the powerful secular cause of Zionism joined with the Hallowed Land idea to provoke conflict. Jews want the Palestinians to accept the result of Zionism: a Jewish State. Many Arabs, like those behind the Arab Peace Initiative of 2007 and Qaddafi's "Isratine" are willing to accept an Israel that is democratic and majority Arab. This would defeat the purpose of a Jewish State, because that State would not have a Jewish character.
3) Security: This is paramount for most Israelis. They want to be able to go asleep every night and worry more about whether they bought the right baby formula than whether their baby is going to live another day. Israel has been attacked unceasingly since its declaration of independence and is extremely skeptical of armistices and other treaties for security guarantees. Israelis are thus hesitant to withdraw from a number of positions until it can be made clear that Israel will not have lost a strategic advantage in protecting itself for naught.
Palestinian and Arab Demands of Israelis:
1) Hallowed Land: Palestinian Muslims consider Jerusalem holy because of Mohammed ascending to Heaven on the Buraq over Jerusalem's Temple Mount. The Arabs want to ensure maintenance and access to the sites which they feel have been limited by the Israelis who arbitrarily close off access to Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. The City of the Jerusalem is considered by many Palestinians to be their city and representative of their historical identity.
2) End of the Palestinian Exodus & UNRWA:This is probably the most thorny issue between Israel and Palestine. During the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9 (in which Palestinian militias also participated), many Palestinians were forced out of their homes by Israeli soldiers due to brutal atrocities. In addition, many left because they feared similar outcomes. Also Arab leaders encouraged the exodus, because they believed that they could destroy Israel and safely return all of the Palestinians after the conflict. However, this did not happen and a large number of Palestinians (some estimate four million) are in UNRWA Refugee Camps and there is a large Palestinian Diaspora. They have not forgiven Israel for not allowing them to return after the War and greatly desire the Right for Palestinians to return to what is now Israel.
3) End of the Occupation of the West Bank & Gaza: In 1967, Israel fought the Six-Day War against the Arab States and took over control of the West Bank and Gaza. These territories did not come under Israeli Civil Authority and have been instead militarily controlled. Palestinians who live in these territories have to contend with Israeli checkpoints, military provisions, and incoming settlers (from the Hallowed Land section). This occupation is perceived by Palestinians to be a repression of their Right to a State and their ability to lead normal productive lives. Settlers in the territories act in a very cavalier fashion (similar to cowboys in the Wild West) and steal property owned by Palestinian families for generations in the name of Religious Zionism. Zionist Squatters are a huge problem in cities like Hebron where these individuals have "liberated" over a quarter of the city from its Palestinian inhabitants and begun to drive a wedge into those communities.
4) End of the Blockade of Gaza & Dependence of the West Bank: Due to the militancy of Hamas, Israel has found it necessary for defense to form a blockade around Gaza and to only allow certain materials into the territory. This has resulted in a Human Relief Crisis in the Gaza where the average Palestinian caught in the struggle barely has enough food, heat, and light to adequately survive. On a different token, the West Bank (as controlled by the Palestine Authority) is a patchwork of separate unconnected jurisdictions. As a result, the West Bank leaders depend on Israel for defense coordination, tax collection, and assurances of safety from settlers. This creates a secondary occupation-dynamic where the Palestinian government is bound to the desires and wishes of the Israeli people in addition to its actual constituency. Palestinians in both cases want governments that are able to make their own decisions without an Israeli say-so to lift a finger.
What country started the Six Day War of 1967?
Israel launched the first attack of bombing Egypt's Airforce, but Egypt provided a prior causus belli by blocking the Straits of Tiran (an illegal act according to international law).
How did the Holocaust form modern Israel?
In the post-World War II era, the formation of the independent nation of Israel was partly dictated by the Holocaust in several ways. For one thing, it displaced nearly countless numbers of Jews from their European homes; at the same time, it put up both physical and moral barriers to any return to those homes by the Jews once the conflict had ended. For another thing, it created a generally sympathetic mind-set toward Jews by large portions of Western populations and leadership. In these ways, the formation of a home-land for the Jews was seen by many as a kind of moral necessity, along with various historical justifications that were also cited for it.
The problem with this question is that it assumes monolithic opinions on both sides. This is not the case. As a result, there are numerous views and perceptions that color all sides.
Typically, Israeli goals are seen to hold to the maintenance of a Jewish State where Jews control the policy and general direction of the country. Secondly, Israel wants to protect the Jewish rights to access and maintenance of Jewish Holy Sites in all areas of the former British Mandate of Palestine. Finally, Israel wants to have secure and peaceful borders.
Typically, Arab goals are seen to hold to the creation of an independent Arab State where Palestinians control the general policy and direction of the country. Arabs also wish, if not for the removal of Israel, for Palestinian refugees to have the Right to Return to Israel. Arabs want unrestricted access to Muslim Holy Sites in all areas of the former British Mandate of Palestine. Finally, the Arabs want East Jerusalem to be the capital of an independent Palestinian State.
Why do the Hezbollah want to eliminate Israel?
Hezbollah sees Israel as a modern colony in the Middle East that became as powerful as it did through land-grabs and violence. As a result, its membership believes that the only way to deal with Israel is through violent means.
Who won the arab-israeli war of 1948?
It is unclear what is meant by "ended".
In traditional warfare, the fighting stops due to the signing of an armistice. The victors and losers are often named in a treaty that is then written up and signed after the armistice is settled. In several modern conflicts, such as the Arab-Israeli Wars and the Korean War, there have been armistices, but no peace treaty was signed. In the case of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israel has made peace with Egypt and Jordan in 1979 and 1994 respectively. In those cases the leaders of those countries and the US President at the time (Sadat [EGYPT], Begin [ISRAEL], and Carter [USA]) and (Hussein [JORDAN], Rabin [ISRAEL], and Clinton [USA]) ended the conflict. Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas maintain armistices with the State of Israel, but have not signed comprehensive peace accords with Israel to the point of ending all conflict. Iraq has not even signed an armistice.
In terms of the armistices ending the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, which were all signed in 1949, they were all coordinated by the United Nations at the behest of both parties signing any particular armistice. The most famous such coordinator was the African-American Ralph Bunche who helped negotiate and draft the Egyptian-Israeli Armistice Agreement of 1949.
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In 1947, the United Nations, not the United States, adopted a plan calling for the division of the British Mandate of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab States. The United States supported this Resolution but did not "adopt" it.
When did the Jews leave the land of Israel?
1) Around 2600 years ago, the Assyrians forcibly exiled the Ten Israelite tribes to points unknown. A small percentage of each of these tribes is still among us, but most of them were exiled.
2) Around 2500 years ago, the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple and forcibly exiled the remainder of Israel's population to Babylonia.
While the Jews were permitted to return to Israel (Judea) seventy years later, and thousands did so (and rebuilt the Temple), most of them remained in Babylonia, while others began to settle in North Africa, southern Europe, the Crimea, throughout the Near East and elsewhere.
3) In 68 CE, the Romans destroyed the Second Temple. The Romans did not force the Jews out of Judea in a single expulsion. Rather, the Romans expelled them from Jerusalem only; and the rest of Judea lost its Jews slowly, over a period of centuries, as conditions in Judea became too harsh. Even then, we have records of Jewish communities who lived in Judea (Palestine) during the entire period of the last two millenia.
Those Jews who left Judea went to southern Europe, North Africa, Arabia, the Near East, and (slowly) further afield (especially throughout Europe).
How many troops did Israel send to Vietnam War?
None, although Israeli General Moshe Dayan went along on a patrol with the US Army's 1st Air Cavalry Division (in South Vietnam) in either 1966 or 1967.
Who would win in a war between Egypt and Israel?
Unknown, but it is an unlikely scenario as Egypt and Israel buried the hatchet long ago. Previously, Egypt and Israel fought several wars, most notably the Yom Kippur War of 1973 when Egypt carried out a brilliant surprise attack on the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula. Israel eventually drove Egypt back but at a very heavy cost. After Egypt and Israel made peace, the Sinai was ceded back to Egypt and the two countries have not fought since.
The main cause of the Arab-Israeli conflicts from 1948-1973 was the clash between who?
arab nationalism and jewish nationalism
Definition
First, we should have an accurate understanding of what Zionism is. Zionism is the belief that Jews should have political self-sovereignty and is the patriotic sentiment behind the Establishment of the State of Israel. It is worth noting that many Anti-Semites claim that Zionism is a code word for some unclear international cabal of evil Jews trying to control the world (or actively doing so). Such a cabal does not exist and insinuations without evidence or with evidence that has proven to be a hoax that it does exist are Anti-Semitic. Aside from this, since such a cabal would not be concerned with Jewish Nationalism, it, therefore, could not be Zionism.
Others argue that Zionism exclusively refers to the current Israeli Right-Wing or Ultra-Nationalists who argue for Israeli annexation of the West Bank and possible expansion outside of territories currently controlled by Israel. Such people are more properly termed Greater Israel Zionism or Right-Wing Zionism. This is contrasted with Left-Wing Zionism, of which Yitzhak Rabin was a major leader and advocate.
Discussion
Equipped with a definition that is actually useful for what Zionism is, we can have a discussion.
Zionism is a nationalist movement, so if wanting a homeland to be free to self-govern is an evil thing, as several post-nationalists believe, then so is Zionism. However, such a person who holds this view should also condemn the modern states of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Germany, Pakistan, Algeria, Armenia, and numerous other nation-states that were built on such ideals. A unique condemnation of Zionism on the question of nationalism is a mask for modern Anti-Semitism. However, in each of these cases, the creation of a national homeland provided a place where the people could determine their own national cultures, identities, languages, foods, and ideals free from the influence of neighboring countries which had conquered or colonized them or expressed strong intentions of doing the same. It allowed them to be free from persecution. A person who believes that every group of people, especially ones as maligned through history as the Jews, deserve the right to govern their own affairs and be responsible for their own defense, must hold that Zionism is part of genuinely good historic of nation-building and global development.
Some people see Zionism as wicked because the Jews took a land where they did not have a significant presence for many years. However, Jews lived in the Land of Israel from at least 1100 B.C.E. until the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. 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." The Return of the Jews to Israel would be no different than if the Native American Tribes or the Aboriginal Australians demanded some of the land stolen from them by White Settlers. They were evicted from their home and are demanding a correction to this historical injustice.
Some believe Zionism is evil because of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. What these people neglect to see is that the conflict has nothing to do with Zionism per se and has much more to do with Arab Muslim beliefs about their own right to discriminate from a position of apartheid. Most early Zionists, even Right-Wing Zionists like Jabotinsky actively wanted to integrate Arabs into a Binational Jewish and Arab State. However, it was the Palestinian Arabs (using the term retroactively) who were led by Nazi-Sympathizer and collaborator on the Armenian Genocide Haj Amin al-Husseini who decided that a Judenrein Arab World was desirable. He was responsible for instigating the Nebi Musa Riots of 1920, the Hebron Massacre of 1929, and the Palestinian Civil War of 1937-1939. It was him and his supporters who made it clear that freedom and equality for Jews could only occur in a Jewish State where Arabs would not be able to violently threaten Jewish lives. The Jews were successful in protecting themselves and their children from the violence of the Palestinians and have prevented large-scale persecution (compare this to the promises of the Arabs in 1947 and 1948 that Palestine would be ethnically cleansed of all Jews). This is another benefit which Zionism has conferred.
Zionism has also resulted in a democratic, Western-aligned country in the Middle East. No other movement for self-determination in the Middle East, other than maybe Turkey or Cyprus can boast the same. The provision of human rights in Israel far outstrips any other Middle Eastern country on almost every metric.
However, it is very questionable whether Right-Wing Zionism, which has a more expansionist view, is good since it agitates and provokes more conflict with the Palestinians than may be necessary.
What issues must be resolved for there to be a lasting peace between the Israelis and Palestinians?
A number of things would have to take place before a long-standing peace (as opposed to a mere cessation of hostilities) could take place. There are other requisites, but there are the most important.
1) Mutual Recognition: Israel would need to recognize a completely independent and sovereign Palestinian Government that would fully control a certain amount of the former British Mandate of Palestine (most likely Gaza and the West Bank). Israel would also have to confer on this state the unambiguous nature of being correct and necessary for Israel. Conversely, Palestine would have to recognize the Right for Israel to Exist as a Jewish State occupying the remaining amount of the British Mandate of Palestine (most likely 1949-Israel). Both sides would have to recognize the historical and emotional value that the land also has to the other.
2) Regional/International Recognition: States that have adopted attitudes strongly favoring one side at the expense of the other, such as the Arab States would need to recognize the legitimacy of both Israel and Palestine.
3) Israeli Reparation Payments: Israel dispossessed many Palestinians of their property, either by malicious activities that took place during the Arab-Israeli Wars or by Ben-Gurion refusing to let Palestinians who left return after the 1948-9 War. Israel needs to pay the Palestinian government reparations for the land that was taken in this way.
4) Israeli Withdrawal from the Settlements: Israel must withdraw from the Settlements to provide Palestine with a viable infrastructure and complete sovereignty. The Settlers must return to Israeli territory. The buildings, however, should be left as partial payment of the above-mentioned reparations.
5) Palestinians Must Concede Right of Return: Recognizing the State of Israel as a Jewish State is meaningless if Palestinians en masse are allowed to Return to Israel. Therefore, Palestinians (and their backers) must abandon the notion that they can ever return to Israeli territory. Palestinians should leave the refugee camps and become proper citizens in this new country of Palestine.
6) Jerusalem Must Be Shared or Internationalized:Palestine and Israel both want Jerusalem and the only way to solve this is either divide the city East/West respectively and divide the Old City or Internationalize the City or some combination of Internationalization and division. Neither side will rest until it can assure its followers that its holy sites will be protected.
7) Liberal Thought: Just in general, people have to be willing to compromise and live with that compromise.
What effect did the Balfour Declaration have on the middle East?
The effects of the report included the recognition of the equal status of legislation passed by Dominion parliaments with British legislation and that the British Parliament would only enact laws applying to a Dominion with the consent of that Dominion's government.
