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History of the Middle East
Located at the juncture of Asia, Africa and Europe, the Middle East has been one of the centers of ancient civilization. Today it continues its historic significance as it provides much of the world's energy through its oil resources.
5,104 Questions
What is the distance between Jordan and Syria?
The distance between the closest two points of Egypt to Syria is 69,696.9 miles apart.
How did the Arab Israeli Palestinian problem come into existence?
it came into existence when hitler started killing the jews so the jews started fleeing into palestine from the mediternean sea from the late 1800's , and in 1948 the jews wanted to make themselves a state in palestine
A group from southwest Asia that invaded Egypt around 1750 BC and ruled for 200 years?
The government officials invaded and took over Egypt for 200 years because they were jealous of the power the pharaohs had. This also brought 200 years of confusion to Egypt.
Who was the first president of Turkey?
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the first leader of the newly established Republic of Turkey in 1923.
World War I led to the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. During most of the 1920s and the 1930s, Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938), a military hero, served as Turkey's first president.
What year did israel fight egypt?
Answer 1
1948, 1967, and 1973.
Answer 2
Egypt invaded Israel on several occasions, but the caveats have to be noted on some of those invasions.
1948 - Egypt crossed militarily into territory that was supposed to be Israeli according UNGA Resolution 181 (II). -- No caveat here, this was an invasion of Israeli territory.
1967 - Israel invaded Egyptian territory here in retaliation for cutting off Israeli access to the Red Sea and for amassing troops on the Israeli border. Even though Egypt did not invade Israel, the intent to do so was clear.
1967-1970 - During the War of Attrition, Egypt sent missiles and small tactical groups into Israeli-Occupied Sinai Peninsula. Israel had the legal right to control the Sinai pending a formal peace treaty due to UNSC Resolution 242. However, these attacks were not in sovereign Israeli territory, but in occupied Egyptian territory.
1973 - Similar to the War of Attrition, Egypt actively invaded the Israeli-Occupied Sinai Peninsula, to which Israel still had a legal right. However, Egyptian forces did not advance more than a quarter of the way into the Sinai Peninsula and did not enter sovereign Israeli territory.
Since 1979, Egypt and Israel have been at peace.
What is the issue between Jews and Palestinians?
It is unclear what "all this hostility" refers to. Contrary to what many Arab and Muslim commentators may say, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict really only affects the Israelis and Palestinians and had marginal to reasonably important effects on the Arab countries directly bordering Israel or Palestine. However, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict does not cause the majority of problems or conflicts in the Middle East and is actually quite insignificant. (Such conflicts include the Turko-Cypriot War, the current Syrian Civil War, Saudi Repression of Women and Minorities, the Iran-Iraq War, the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991, the Iraq War and the Insurgency, the Anfal Campaign and other Genocides in Iraq prior to Saddam Hussein's overthrow, the Iranian-Israeli Proxy Wars, the Cultural and Political Repression of the Kurds, South Sudanese, Darfurians, Amazigh, Pied Noirs, Jews and Christians, and numerous other conflicts).
As for the issues between Israelis and Palestinians currently, most of them have to do with the current Israeli and Palestinian governments not being interested in pursuing bilateral negotiations because of mutual distrust. Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, is angered by Hamas' bellicose nature along the Israeli border and does not believe that Mahmoud Abbas is truly interested in a negotiated solution since he went to the UN to acquire statehood without a formal peace agreement. Abbas, the Palestinian Authority Chairman, is bothered by increased Israeli settlement construction and a failure on the Israeli government's part to reward his positive management of the West Bank with increased autonomy and land-area.
As for the general issues, please see the Related Questions below.
What are the 3 major rivers in north Africa and southwest Asia?
The Nile, the Tigris and the Euphrates river.
What is the difference between the persians arabs and kurds?
Kurds, Arabs, and Persians are ethnic groups that are primarily focused in the Middle East.
Kurds are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims, but there are minorities of Shiite Kurds (especially in Iran), Alevi Kurds, Yezidi Kurds, Yarsan Kurds, and other religious minorities. There are some Jewish Kurds who predominantly live in Israel.
Arabs are predominantly Sunni Muslims, but there are large minorities of Shiite Muslim Arabs, especially in Iraq, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. There are also Ibadi Muslim Arabs, Alawite Arabs, numerous Christian Arabs, Druze Arabs, Baha'i Arabs, and other minority religions.
Persians are overwhelmingly Shiite Muslims, but there are minorities of Sunni Persians, Jewish Persians, and several other minority religions.
What are two stateless people in southwest Asia?
The likely answer you are looking for is KURDS and PALESTINIANS, but there are numerous other stateless peoples in the Middle East like the Assyrians, Laz, Circassians, Druze, Shabakis, Marsh Arabs, and Turkmen/Turcoman.
What are some similarities and differences of south Asia and Southwest Asia?
Google part of Asia is in the south and the other part is in southwest.
What critical move was made in the Middle East in May 1948?
Israel declared independence and the Arab Nations declared war on it.
A minority of Jews, a majority of Arabs, and small numbers of other peoples. See also:
Is Israel still protected by God?
What document was issued by Britain favoring a Jewish State in Palestine?
It is the Balfour Declaration, named for the British politician Arthur Balfour who proposed the establishment of a Jewish state in the British Protectorate of Palestine.
Balfour Declaration
What is the IBAN number for Arab national bank Saudi Arabia?
SA65
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0108054011730013
According to flowing web site of arab national bank
Israel won all of its wars with the Arabs. However, the Arab-Israeli Conflict is ongoing and has serious diplomatic implications for non-involved countries.
The War of Independence (1947-49)
In 1949, Israel signed separate armistices with Egypt on 24 February, Lebanon on 23 March, Jordan on 3 April, and Syria on 20 July. The Armistice Demarcation Lines, as set by the agreements, saw the territory under Israeli control encompassing approximately three-quarters of Mandate Palestine. This was about one-third more than was allocated to the Jewish State under the UN partition proposal.
The Sinai Campaign of 1956
In October 1956 Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. In five days the Israeli army captured Gaza, Rafaḥ, and Al-ʿArīsh-taking thousands of prisoners-and occupied most of the peninsula east of the Suez Canal. After the armistice was signed, Eisenhower pressed Israel to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, which it did in March of 1957.
The Six-Day War (June 1967)
Within the brief span of six days, the IDF overran the whole Sinai peninsula, up to the Suez Canal; took the entire West Bank of the River Jordan; and in the last days, without the benefit of surprise, captured a great part of the Golan Heights, including the dominant Mount Hermon - from then on "the eyes and ears of Israel". The culminating event was the capture of the Old City of Jerusalem and the re-encounter with the place most revered by Jews, the Western (Wailing) Wall. The blowing of the shofar at the Western Wall reverberated throughout the world.
The Yom Kippur War (October 1973)
The war was so called because it started on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, the Day of Atonement (October 6, 1973). It came almost as a complete surprise and warning notice was given too late for an orderly call-up of the reserves before zero hour. Within a few days the IDF was on the west bank of the Suez Canal, at a distance of 100 kms from the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and within artillery range of the airfields around the Syrian capital, Damascus. Egypt, which at first had refused a cease-fire, now accepted it avidly, as did Syria.
Largest Arab Country Saudi Arabia Or Sudan?
* India is the Largest Having an Area of 3,287,590 sq Kilometers. * Saudi Arabia has an area of 2,149,690 sq Kilometers.
Is Korea the capital of southwest Asia?
Since North and South Korea are both independent countries, then no. There isn't just a plain Korea, either.
What resource do the countries of Southwest Asia have a shortage of?
Freedom, Peace, Justice, perhaps?
In terms of things actually considered to be resources, the Middle East lacks any substantial quantity of Arable Land.
Who adopted a plan to divide Palestine into Arab and Jewish states?
The question seems to be looking for the answer "the United Nations General Assembly", but that is actually not quite correct.
In November of 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted UN Resolution 181 which specified that Mandatory Palestine would be divide into an Arab State and a Jewish State. However, the plan was only actualized in May of 1948 when the State of Israel declared independence according to the terms prescribed by UN Resolution 181. So, the plan was adopted in 1947, but realized in 1948.
How many people have been killed during the Israel palestine war?
Between the various wars and Intifadas, around 16,000 to 19,000 Arabs identifying as Palestinians have died either as a result of Israeli military action, Israeli civilian action, or from blowing themselves up in Suicide Bombings during the Intifadas.
The number decreases to 6,000-7,000 if the Palestinian Suicide Bombers in the Intifadas are removed from the calculation.
In terms of other countries that have also killed Palestinians.
Jordan: 10,000-20,000
Lebanon: 4,000-7,000
Syria: 500-1,000
Egypt: 500-1,000
What happened in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973?
Answer 1
The Yom Kippur War began when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel with the backing of other Arab nations. Forces from the two nations crossed the cease-fire lines at the Golan Heights and Sinai with another front opened by Egypt when it began attacking Israel across the Suez Canal, gaining the upper hand for the first four days of the war.
Answer 2
The Yom Kippur War began when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel with the backing of other Arab nations and of the Soviets. The attack took place on Yom Kippur in 1973, when most Israelis were in synagogues praying. Forces from Egypt and Syria crossed the cease-fire lines at the Golan Heights and Sinai. Egypt attacked Israel across the Suez Canal, gaining the upper hand for the first four days of the war. Israel was in serious peril, and 3,000 Israelis were killed in the fighting; but by the end of a couple of weeks, the Israelis had improved their positions considerably and completed their encirclement of Egypt's Third Army and the city of Suez, advancing to within 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Damascus and 101 kilometres (63 mi) from Cairo.
Egypt, Jordan and Syria all decided to launch a surprise attack agents Israel at the same time. Israeli forces not only managed to stop the advance but actually managed to take enemy ground, mainly because God was on there side.
