US
Foreign Aid to Israel approximately $2.8 billion per year
US Vetoed
Israel in United Nations 43 times since 1972 |
In early 1950s, Egypt's Nasser
was in regular communication with Moshe Sharett, Ben-Gurion's foreign minister, and the
second Prime Minister of Israel. Therefore there was a real possibility of an
Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement back then. |
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| Cities |
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- Jerusalem
724,000
- Tel Aviv
382,500
- Haifa
267,000
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- Rishon Leion
232,300
- Ashdod
212,500
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IDF soldiers at Jerusalem's Western Wall shortly
after its capture at conclusion of 1967 War.
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| Demographics |
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- Population: 6,352,117
- Life Expectancy: 79.46 years
- Literacy: 95.4%
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- Median Age: 29.6 years
- Suffrage: 18 years - universal
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In fiscal year 1970,
Israel received military credits from the United States worth $30 million. But thanks to a
Jackson amendment, the next year the amount skyrocketed to $545 million. By 1974, it had
reached an extraordinary $2.2 billion, more than seventy times what it had been just four
years earlier. "We have a hero, and his name is Henry Jackson," gushed Mitchell
Wohlberg, a Washington D.C. rabbi. (A Pretext for War, p. 273) |
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| Geographics |
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- Land Size: slightly smaller than New Jersey
- Total: 20,770 sq km
- Water: 440 sq km
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60% of the new Israel was desert, but irrigation has changed the landscape |
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Israeli security fence
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Concrete barrier wall between Israel and Palestine has
prevented Palestinian sniper attacks |
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| History |
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- Sykes -
Picot Agreement (1916)
- King
David Hotel Bombing (1946)
- UN Resolution 181 Creates State of Israel Nov 29, 1947
- Deir Yassin
Massacre of Palestinians - April 9, 1948
- Moshe Dayan creates Unit 101 - 1953
- Capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina (May 23, 1960)
- Palestine Exploration Fund
- Suez War (Sinai War, Suez Crisis)
- Six Day War (June
5-10, 1967)
- USS Liberty
(June 8, 1967)
- Israel occupied Gaza 1967
- Israel lifts ban on private purchase of West Bank
land by Israelis - 1972
- Yom Kippur War (Oct
6-23, 1973)
- Ariel Sharon leaves military, elected to Knesset
- Israel Returns City of Quneitra to Syria, after it was captured in 1967
War. Controversy over whether Israel bulldozed the city, or it was destroyed in fighting
between Israel and Syria. UN says Israel destroyed the city. June 1974.
- Prime Minister Begin appoints Ariel Sharon as
Agriculture Minister - 1977
- Camp David
Peace Accords - November 1977
- Egypt acknowledges Israel's right to exit - 1977
- Israel's top court ruled individual Israelis may
purchase West Bank lands. Previously, land purchases could be made
only by the Israeli government (or through special exemptions) -
1979
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- Israel-Egypt
Peace Treaty - 1979
- Israeli Bombing of Iraq's
Osirak Nuclear Facility - 1981
- Massacre
of Lebanese in Shabra and Shatila - 1982
- Israel occupied Southern Lebanon 1982
- European Commission placed arms embargo on Israel sometime after 1982
invasion of Lebanon
- Hollinger Corporation purchases the Jerusalem
Post - April 1989
- Arafat acknowledges Israel's right to exist 1989
- Hollinger Corporation fires approximately 20 news
editors at Jerusalem Post - late 1989
- Labor Party victory, Yitzhak Rabin elected Prime
Minister - 1992
- Israel withdrew most of its military from the West Bank following Oslo
Peace Accords 1993
- Israeli Settlers attack Israel's Housing and Construction Minister
General Benyamin Ben Eliezer October 15, 1993
- Baruch Goldstein massacred Ramadan worshippers - 1994
- Operation Grapes of Wrath (Israel attacks Beirut in a land grab) - April
11, 1996
- Israel requests jailed spy Jonathan Pollard to be released by the United
States, April 2, 1998
- Israel withdraws military forces from Lebanon 2000
- Ariel Sharon visits Temple Mount - September 28, 2000
- Israel withdraws military forces from Gaza 2005
- Hezbollah-Israeli
War - 2006
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According to former CIA official Ray McGovern, the U.S.
has asked Israel to sign a formal treaty of alliance, but Israel refuses, because it would
have to define its borders. |
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Israel elected Irgun terrorist leader Menachim Begin
as Prime Minister in 1977, who plotted the bombing of the King David Hotel, and the Deir
Yassin Massacres |
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Israel has close strategic ties with Turkey |
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