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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 did the people of Israel believe the Messiah would come to do?
Judaism teaches that a Man should do everything in his power to achieve Divakut, a perfect cleaving to God and the Divine Will. The Messiah brings the Kingdom of God to the Earthly plane making this cleavage far easier and far more natural. The strictures of the Jewish religion will no longer be necessary in the Messianic Age because the connection to God that they are intended to foster will occur without them. Therefore, the people of Israel were awaiting the Messiah. In addition, during the Roman Period, the Jews were being persecuted by the Romans for their beliefs and wished for the safety and security that the Messianic Age would bring.
As for the Christian answer, there is a gross misinterpretation of the original, and continuing, Jewish premise for the Messiah as explained in the first paragraph here. The Messiah was not going to Unite the World by conquest. He was going to Unite the World by merely existing and building the Kingdom of God. Everyone would recognize who he was and what his purpose was. It the failure to do this (among other Messianic requirements such as making lions and lambs exist peacefully, ending all conflict, ending disease, and ending the night) that prevented and still prevents Jews from accepting Jesus as their Savior. Jews fundamentally reject the notion that he could be the LORD for a variety of different, but similar reasons.
Answer 1
Jewish people had been migrating around for thousands of years without a homeland. Also, many people did not like the Jews being in their country (the most famous example being Hitler's Holocaust). Anti-Semitism was also very high during that time.
Answer 2
People felt pity on the Jews after the Holocaust.
Additionally, the Zionist movement lead by Theodor Herzl was able to establish a Jewish homeland, Israel.
Answer 3
Short Answer:
The hatred for the Jews kept them from living decent lives in Christian Europe and the Islamic world (Ottoman Empire then) with thousands being killed for their religion throughout the Middle Ages in Europe. Antisemitism has come to a peak with The Holocaust, an ongoing mass genocide committed by Nazi Germany on the Jews of all Europe, with 6 million of them being murdered.It was clear that the solution is the Jews having their own state, and as a big community of Jews has grown in Israel those days, the U.N decided to allow the Jews a home in a portion of this country. (It was the only logical place for a Jewish nation to be founded as a Jewish community was in the place, it is the homeland of the Jews and the majority of the place wasn't populated.)
Long Answer:
The idea of Israel and the founding of a country for the Jewish people is said to have been the idea of Theodor Herzl, as an answer to the problems of the Jews living in foreign lands, in Europe and in the ottoman empire. The Jews were not granted equal citizen rights in these foreign lands, and in christian Europe, were often persecuted for their religion and their ancestors' connection with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Antisemitism saw a significant rise in Europe in the late 19th century and on, coming to a peak in Nazi Germany and The Holocaust, in which about 6 million Jews were killed in an ongoing mass genocide committed by the Germans and partly by ally countries. After these horrific events, Jews were living in refugee camps in Europe, in terrible conditions, and even then, were killed by the hundreds for being Jewish in eastern Europe.
It was then, that the world has understood that the Jews must have their own state, protected by their own army, safe from persecution and having full citizen rights.
At the time, Jews that has left Europe in the early 20th century to follow the idea of Zionism (A modern state for the Jews) has established a flourishing community in Israel, alongside the Arabs in the place. Seeing Israel, and this community, as the only realistic place for the founding of this new state, the U.N. has decided Israel (or Palestine then) was to be divided between the Arabs and the Jews. The Arabs did not accept the decision and went to war for the land, but The Jews won the war, and declared an Independent Jewish Nation State - Israel.
Who were knights protecting the holy land from?
they were protecting the land from terrorists and rapists who were trying to make people rapists and terrorists
What was the land that eventually became israel?
That specific tract of land in the southwest Levant has had a number of names throughout history, but the four most commonly used are: Canaan, Land of Israel, the Holy Land, and Mandatory Palestine.
Israel has only two real seasons: the dry season and the wet season. The dry season (roughly: May-October) is the summer, and the wet season (roughly: November or December-March) is the winter. Snow is relatively rare.
Instead of Spring or Autumn, Israel has a "transition season," in March-May and in October-November, during which there are alternating waves of warmness or heat, and cooler weather or cold (with or without rain). This transition may last anywhere from over three months (typically March-May), to nothing at all. In 1992, for example, a heavy winter gave way, on February 23, directly into warmer weather, with no further precipitation whatsoever, for the entire summer. And in 2010, the summer and warm, dry weather lasted, unbroken, through till December 6.
What was the cycle that israel went into once they were in the promised land?
when you read the books of Moses you see the Israelites began to conquer the land of Canaan with Joshua leading them after Moses dies. The Israelites where commanded by GOD to kill all the inhabitants of Canaan but the Israelites did not do what GOD commanded them as staet in Judges 2:1-5.So GOD told them that the heathens in Canaan would be a thorn in there side.After Joshua dies the Israelites set up Judges which where kinda like governors. Israel then began to worship the gods of the heathen that where in Canaan.GOD being mad with Israel puts them in slavery under a wicked king in Mesopotamia, and the moabites. Then God sends them a person to save them out of slavery. this process of repenting and worshiping other gods goes on until Israel set up their first second king "King David".
Why do Evangelical Christians support Israel?
Christians believe that our religion was brought to us by the Lord Jesus Christ who was a Jew, and the first Christians were all Jews. The Jews were the apple of God's eye and are still very precious to Him.
Why did Prophet Mohammed hate Israel?
As far as I am aware, Mohammed said little on the subject of a Jewish homeland or Jewish control of what was then termed Palaestina and is now Israel/Palestine. When he died Islam had not yet conquered the Levant and it would have to wait until the Caliphate of Omar for the territory to come under Muslim control. With the exception of a few Jewish tribes that ended up opposite of Mohammed during his wars in Arabia, most Jews received Islam well and thought kindly of their conquerors (since they were less barbaric than their former masters).
Since there was no aspiration of Jewish Nationalism since the failure of the Bar Kochba Revolts nearly 500 years earlier, the idea of a Jewish Nationaist Revolt that could upset Islamic expansion was also unrealistic and did not need addressing. However, several Qur'anic verses recall the Promise made by God to the Jewish people concerning Israel such as Qur'an 5:20-21 and it would stand to reason that Mohammed may even have endorsed an autonomous Jewish territory within the future Islamic Caliphate in accordance with God's will. (Of course, it may also have been that his fury with Banu Qurayza may have left him unwilling to concede power to Jews again, but this is all guesswork.)
The name "Israel" originally comes from Jacob (which was added to his first name)
The country, and the Jews (Jacobs descendants) are therfore called Israel, and Israel's sons.
What was the country that helped in creating Israel?
Most of the legwork in creating the State of Israel was done by Jews who would later become the "Founding Fathers of Israel", such as Weizmann, Ben Gurion, Sharett, Eban, Ben Yehuda, and Begin.
In terms of international support, the Soviet Union was probably the largest early contributor the creation of the State of Israel. The Soviet Union persuaded many nations, including the Eastern bloc to Support the United Nations Resolution 181. Also the majority of arms used in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9 by Israeli Soldiers were Soviet weapons funneled through Czechoslovakia. Britain and the United States, Israel's current major allies, both placed a weapons embargo on the overall region. The Soviet Union withdrew support for Israel in 1953 and began supporting the Arab countries after that point, but without Soviet assistance from 1947-1953, Israel may not have had the necessary votes at the United Nations and sufficient weaponry to defend itself.
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Zionism has only at its root the idea that that Jews should have self-sovereignty in their own country: Israel. Every other aspect of Zionism is at the whim of the individual who can has a number of auxiliary beliefs about how best to achieve the goal of Zionism, such as:
- Whether or not a Palestinian State helps or hinders the existence of a Jewish State?
- What is the best way to realize such a state if it is in Israel's benefit?
- What rights and privileges should Jews have in this state and should they be more, less, or equal to non-Jews?
- What should the welfare system of this country be like?
- How should the government be structured?
- What should immigration policy look like?
- How should the economy be organized and what economic activities should be incentivized?
- Many other questions.
The core tenet of Zionism cannot be changed (or else the person is no longer a Zionist) but the other pieces of a person's Zionist beliefs are completely at his discretion. Convince someone, and perhaps he'll believe like you do.
How far is it from Tel Aviv to Safed - Tzfat Israel?
About 175 km road distance. And Zefat is the official spelling, which you'll see on road signs.
What would have happened if Israel had lost the Six Day War?
If Israel had lost any of the wars she faced there would have been a genocide.
On the eve of the 1967 war, President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser said:
"We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood".
"The battle has come in which we shall destroy Israel." - Cairo Radio (Egyptian state radio) broadcast
"Arab masses, this is your day. Rush to the battlefield...Let them know that we shall hang the last imperialist soldier with the entrails of the last Zionist." - Damascus Radio (Syrian state radio) broadcast.
What happened to ziva in Israel?
At the end of season 6 ziva stayed in israel and stayed with her father and became hassad full time again. Then she was sent on a mission to the terrorist camp in north africa.
For having places that are special for Jews, Muslims, and Christians.
Israel is famous for housing the Messiah and many other " Great Ones " in
the religion of Christianity .
it also is the homeland of the Jews and is the basis of the Jewish Bibel (called the Torah) which was before the christians.
Is the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict about land?
This question is divisive and so you may get conflicting answers.
Answer 1
No. It is a conflict between ideologies. The land-issue is just a diversion from the actual goal, which is to remove Jews and their State from the Middle East.
Answer 2
Partially. In order to resolve whether a conflict is over is exclusively over a certain piece of land, you can ask the question: if one side got all of the land that they wanted would there be peace. In the Morocco-Algeria Sands War of 1981-1982, there would be (as each just wanted control of a small piece of land). In the case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, there would still be sectarian conflicts, even if the land was returned. However, having access to the land and control over it is certainly among the aims of both sides.
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is primarily a nationalistic conflict, between two camps of peoples: Israelis (Jews, Israeli Arabs, Bedouins, Druze, Circassians, and others on the one side) and Palestinians (Palestinian Muslims, Palestinian Christians, and others on this side) who identify with specific national governments and governing ideologies. This is similar to other conflicts between nations, such as between India and Pakistan where Indians and Pakistanis identify by loyalty to their countries and those countries' governing ideologies. Part of nationalistic identity is a view of where their borders are and in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the Israelis and Palestinians do not agree on where the borders should be between the two countries (or even whether there should be two countries).
What did the Palestinians do so that the Jews would want their own homeland?
Many of the Jews were taken as slaves by the Romans in ancient times and
transported to Europe. In fact, Jews were a major force in the building of the
Coliseum. Other conquerors did the same thing. Over the centuries, Jews kept their
traditions and religion while living in Europe. After the holocaust, many went to
Jerusalem and surrounding areas, having a need for safety and being in a land
that was meaningful to them.
The Palestinians were people who had remained over time. Their actions had
nothing to do with the fact that the Israelis wanted to build a country. Continuing
actions are not something most of us understand--territorial, racism, jealousy??
But, there is nothing in the Koran that says they should not be able to live peacefully.
There has been a continuous Jewish presence in that place for thousands of
years. That means that Jews have lived there continuously. But oppression and
war forced most of them to move and give up their homes. It has been an area of
conflict since records have been kept, But Israel is now the only real force for
peace in the Middle East.
Why is the Jordan river important to Israel and their Arab neighbors?
I think it is important becase the river is important for trade
What is the best currency to take to Israel?
If you can't get Shekels Dollars is the best but it's best to convert it to Shekels right away. Alternatively you could use a foreign ATM card to withdraw Shekels.
What three things the children of Israel complained about?
They complained about:
Being led out of Egypt: Exodus 14:11,12,13,14
The food God provided: Numbers 11
The 'giants' in the promised land:Numbers 14:2
