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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 receive the modern state of Israel?
It is important to note that Jews did not "receive" Israel as if it were some sort of pre-wrapped gift. Israel was created in 1948 by its own leaders and citizens. What the United Nations and the International Community did provide was the legal legitimacy for the Jews to declare a State. There are several reasons why they felt this way.
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.
Can Arabs serve in the Israeli armed serves?
Yes, Israeli Arabs can served in the Israeli armed services. However, they are not required to do so, it's on a voluntary basis.
Israeli Arab minorities like the Druze and the Circassians do have mandatory male service in the Israeli army. The Bedouins serve voluntarily, but have a relatively high service rate. It is ethnic Palestinians, especially ethnic Muslim Palestinians, who often do not serve in the Israeli Army. Many of them, especially in the older generation, see service in the Israeli Army as a betrayal of their ethnic Palestinian nature.
What is the use of the Israel retractor?
Israel retractors are used to retract thick soft tissue during surgical procedures.
Can biafra be recorganize and when?
It is still possible to have Biafra, because the ills that brought about the proclamation of the state of Biafra from Nigeria are still very much alive and being sustained by who created the problems. There is also growing awarness on the side of the entire people that made up what was call Eastern Nigeria that the Biafran state would have prvided for them better than Nigeria does. Biafra will emerge but in a different way other than civil war. This time around it is more likely to be through the ballot box.
When did israel possessed land bordering the Suez canal?
The year is 1956 with the help of their allies: Great Britain, and the United States.
Does Israel have a peace treaty with Egypt?
NO. Syria and Israel had been negotiating prior to the Arab Spring of 2011 to have a peace treaty. The particular thorn in the negotiations was not really the Golan Heights, as Israel was willing to concede that, but the 5 square kilometer area that was part of the British Mandate of Palestine in 1947 and was Syrian-Occupied in 1949. This small piece of land gave Syria direct access to the Sea of Galilee, something Israel wants to prevent Syria from accessing.
Which direction is Israel from Winter Park Florida?
For the the absolutely-shortest straight route from the intersection of Brewer Ave
and Aloma Ave to Jerusalem, you would head out from Winter Park on a bearing
of 49.7° true ... very close to northeast ... and keep going straight. That's the
"great circle" route, and in that direction, the trip would be 6,540 miles. Starting
out in any other direction, it would be a longer distance.
How does david king look like?
King David was a handsome man. He had a ruddy complexion and had beautiful eyes (1 Samuel 16:12). He was not a tall man. Some say that he had red hair.
What country shares much of Israel's eastern border?
Israel shares most of its eastern border with JORDAN.
Where do most present-day Israelis originally come from?
It depends what you mean by "occupying".
If you mean "living", then the answer is that Israelis are ethnically from almost every country imaginable, but with around 55% from the Arab World (including the non-Jews), 20% from Russia and Eastern Europe, and another 25% from Germany, Western Europe, and the Americas.
If you mean "forcibly controlling someone else's territory", the question is incomplete. It could be read that you are asking where the "Israelis who are occupying the land" come from or "Who are the people who are occupying what should be Israeli land?" Then you run into the politics of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict where people on both sides say that the other is occupying something else.
Is Eilat a territory of Israel?
Eilat is a city in southern Israel, and has been a part of Israel since the nation's 1948 founding.
Eilat is a port on the Gulf of Aqaba, and a popular tourist destination.
Why is israel the greatest nation on earth?
Israel is one of the greatest nations on Earth because it has risen above adverse situations many times.
The number of native Palestinians, both Muslims and Christians, who were subjected to ethnic expulsion after the creation of Israel in 1948 is not known exactly but it is in hundreds of thousands. Many towns and villages were abandoned and people fled to neighboring countries. At the same time, roughly the same number of Jews, natives of the neighboring countries, were subjected to ethnic expulsion, abandoned their homes, and fled to Israel.
Now, over 60 years later, the Israeli government includes a number of democratically elected Arab representatives, the refugees were integrated into society, and there are no refugee camps. The neighboring countries include few democratically elected representative government bodies, and the refugees are still in refugee camps.
The Arab League has passed resolutions banning Arab countries from naturalizing Palestinian refugees in their own countries because that will make it near impossible for them to return to their occupied lands in Gaza and West Bank. In a bizarre twist of illogic, much of worldwide public opinion holds Israel responsible for the failure of Arab countries to integrate Arab refugees into their normative societies and economies.
Numerical estimates of the amount of Palestinians who fled in 1947-1949 range from 500,000 to 800,000 with most historians choosing a number in the low 700,000s like 720,000. They primarily fled to Jordan, but a large number also fled to Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. With the partial exception of Jordan, none of these countries has provided citizenship or acceptance for Palestinian refugees.
Numerical estimates of Jews who fled Arab countries from 1947-1952 are between 600,000 and 1,000,000 with most historians choosing a number in the mid 800,000s like 850,000. Of these emigrants, 500,000 settled in Israel and the remaining ones went to France, the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom. All of these former refugees have become citizens in either Israel or the other countries to which they fled.
Rehoboam was the Son of Solomon (by Naamah, his Ammorite wife), and he took over the throne after his father died in 997 BCE at age 41, reigning for 17 years. (1Kings 14:21; 1Chronicles 3:10; 2Chronicles 9:31)
King Solomon had turned away from God in his last days, and become a harsh king, putting heavy burdens on his people. After he died, Rehoboam had the opportunity to reach out to the people and help them, but he was a young and foolish man, and chose the wrong course.
A group of his people, lead by Jeroboam , came to him to beg that he remove the oppression that Solomon had put on them. Though he thought about it, and talked it over with his older advisers(who suggested that the wise course would be to LISTEN to the people and lighten their burdens), he chose to reject this mature advice. Instead, he listened to his pals, the young men he'd grown up with, who foolishly told him to increase the burdens on the people, even beating and whipping them with scourges. (1Kings 12:2-15; 2Chronicles 10:3-15; 13:6, 7).
Though the tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained, this pompus and arrogant attitude understandably turned the majority of the people away, giving Jereboam a platform on which to take over the ten tribes(1Kings 12:16, 17; 2Chronicles 10:16, 17), as had been prophesied(1Kings 11:29-31).
What is the time difference between The Holy Land and England?
The Holy Land is 2 hours ahead of England.
