3. J Jerusalem
Israel is in the Middle East, on the south-eastern shore of
the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in
the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and
the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba in
the Red Sea to the south.
It contains geographically diverse features within its small area.
In its Basic Laws Israel defines itself as a Jewish and
Democratic State; it is the world's only Jewish-majority state.
5. Palestine is a geographic region in Western Asia between
the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various
adjoining lands .
The region is also known as the Land of Israel the Holy Land,
the Southern Levant, Cisjordaan, and historically has been
known by other names including Canaan, Southern Syria and
Jerusalem.
The boundaries of the region have changed throughout
history.
6. Boundaries of
Roman Syria Palaestina,
where dashed green line
shows the boundary
between
Byzantine Palaestina
Prima and Palaestina
Secunda as well
as Palaestina Salutaris
Borders
of Mandatory Palestine
Borders of
the Palestinian
territories (West
Bank and Gaza Strip
7. .
From 1517-1917 Turkey's
Ottoman Empire controlled a
vast Arab empire(Lebanon,
Syria, and Palestine.)
In 1916 control of the southern
portion of their Ottoman Empire
was "mandated" to France and
Britain under the Sykes-Picot
Agreement, which divided the
Arab region into zones. Lebanon
and Syria were assigned
(mandated) to France... and
"Palestine" (today's Jordan, Israel
and "West Bank") was mandated to
Great Britain.
8. In 1923, the British divided the "Palestine" portion of the Ottoman
Empire into two administrative districts.
This portion of Palestine was
renamed Trans-Jordan. Trans-
Jordan would again be renamed
"Jordan" in 1946.
9. The Palestinian Jews were forced to
form an organized defense against the
Arabs Palestinians
The 1947 U.N. Resolution 181
partition plan was to divide the
remaining 25% of Palestine into a
Jewish Palestinian State and a
SECOND Arab Palestinian State
based upon population
concentrations.
The Jewish Palestinians accepted...
the Arab Palestinians rejected. The
Arabs still wanted ALL of
Palestine... both east AND west of
the Jordan River.
10. On May 14, 1948 the "Palestinian Jews" finally declared their
own State of Israel and became "Israelis."
The end result of the 1948-49 Israeli War of
Independence was the creation of a Jewish
State slightly larger than that which was
proposed by the 1947 United Nations
Resolution 181.
From 1949-67 when all of Judea-Samaria
[West Bank & Jerusalem] and Gaza ... were
100% under Arab [Jordanian & Egyptian]
control, no effort was EVER made to create
a second Palestinian State for the Arabs
living there.
11. the Egyptians, Jordanians and Syrians
lost Gaza, the West Bank and Golan
Heights (respectively) by participating in
a failed attempt at genocide against the
Children of Israel.
the Israelis are still willing to allow the
Arab-Palestinians to have a state on
much of the West Bank and Gaza if only
they will stop sending their
suicide/homicide bombers into the heart
of Israel!
12. Israeldefeated all three Arab armies
along three separate fronts, capturing the
entire Sinai Desert from Egypt, the
Syrian Golan Heights and the "West
Bank" (including East Jerusalem and its Old
City) from Jordan.
13. no one on the planet would expect the
winner to give back anything!
In 1982 Egypt regained their Sinai and
Israel lost a massive buffer against any
future Egyptian aggression! Thus far, Egypt
has not aggressed against Israel militarily.
15. In September 2011, Mahmoud Abbas,
(president of the Palestinian Authority
(PA) and chairman of the PLO) seek
member-state status at the UN based on
pre-1967 frontiers. But the Security Council
members said they had been unable to
“make a unanimous recommendation”. Mr
Abbas then submitted a downgraded
request to the General Assembly for
admission to the UN as a non-member
observer state
The U.N. General Assembly voted to
accept Palestine as a “nonmember observer
state” on 30th November, by a vote of 138-
9. Only Canada, the Czech Republic, the
Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru,
Panama, and Palau joined the United
States and Israel in opposing
16. 1. What is Non permanent observer status?
Non-member observer states are free to submit a petition to join as a full
member at their discretion. The petition is then evaluated by the United
Nations Security Council and the General Assembly. The change allows the
Palestinians to participate in General Assembly debates. It also improves the
Palestinians’ chances of joining UN agencies and the International Criminal
Court (ICC), although the process would be neither automatic nor guaranteed.
2. How is it beneficial to Palestine?
Palestine can now be called a state.
It also improves the Palestinians’ chances of joining UN agencies and the
International Criminal Court (ICC), If they are allowed to sign the ICC’s
founding treaty, the Rome Statute, the Palestinians hope prosecutors would
investigate alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Their longstanding demand for permanent membership in UN is within an
ambit of reality.
17. 3. What is it for Israel?
It is a counter-productive move to Israel
It can no longer involve in Gaza and West bank.
Now Palestine is considered as a state.
Any crime of Israel against Palestine will be taken to ICC.
It’s a blow to Israel’s unilateral actions and pride.
4. Future
Palestine has to look forward for the unification of Gaza and West bank, which
is controlled by Hamas and Fatah respectively. Israel has to annul plans to
build 3,000 new settler homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem which is
going to interfere in Palestine’s. Israel has to open itself for negotiations.
5. Recent updates
The Israeli Cabinet has decided to withhold more than $100 million in taxes
and other funds collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinians. The Israeli
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz told in Jerusalem that the Government would
use the money to pay down their debt to the Israel Electric Corporation and
other Israeli bodies.
18. therelations Between India and Israel, there has been increasd
cooperation in military and intelligence ventures.
relations established in March 1980. In return, India opened a
Representative Office in Gaza on June 25, 1996.
Indo-Israeli relations refers to the bilateral ties between
the Republic of India and the State of Israel. The two countries
enjoy an extensive economic, military and strategic relationship.
19. India is the largest customer of Israeli military equipment and
Israel is the second-largest military partner of India after the
Russian Federation. As of 2009, the military business between the
two nations is worth around US$9 billion. Military and strategic
ties between the two nations extend to joint military training and
space technology. India is Israel's largest defense market,
accounting for almost fifty percent of Israeli sales.
India is also the second-largest Asian economic partner of
Israel.
India is building closer ties with Israel in the area of
nanotechnology, information technology, water technology and
biotechnology.
20. The Middle East war never was a conflict between
Israelis/Jews on the one hand and Palestinians on the other.
The Middle East Conflict was always a war by Arabs against
Jews, not a conflict between Israelis and "Palestinians." The war
was present as a conflict between Jews and Palestinians as a
public relations attract by the Arab. These regimes had never
had any interest in "Palestinians," in creating a "Palestinian"
state, or in "Palestinian nationalism" before 1967. That is
because Palestinian nationalism did not and DOES NOT exist.
The Palestinians were a regional group of Arabs having
virtually no cultural nor national distinctive traits separating
them from Syrians, Lebanese, and Jordanians. They are all
basically Arabs!.
The Middle East war continues because it is really an Arab-
Israeli war, not an Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is also in large
part a war between barbarism and civilization. In many ways an
Islamic religious jihad against the Jews.