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The beloved holy land for Muslims, Jews, and Christians and the home to one of the world's leading entrepreneurs, is yours truly, Israel. As a solo nation in the southern part of Asia, Israel is a shelter to over eight million people with most of them being immigrants. Attracted by its great economics and politics. Israel's people are what make its economics recognized as "high-technology" and its known production of such things like raw materials and military equipment.
Physical and Human Geography of Israel:
Israel, an independent nation in southwest Asia, is located in the Middle East between the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea along with being bordered by Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. This nation holds many religious
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Its important landforms include the Syrian Desert, the Jordan Rift Valley, the Negev Desert, and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. In between Syria and Lebanon, the Anti- Lebanon mountain is bordered up with a low population density due to having unusable soil for agriculture. Towards the east of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains is the Syrian Desert covering parts of Iraq all the way to Saudi Arabia. This desert is in fact made up of gravel and not sand as many assume. To the south of the Syria Desert are its boiling lava plains. As the Syrian Desert takes up most of Jordan's total territory, the Jordan Rift Valley is placed on the western border of the country. The separation of the tectonic plates is what causes a rift valley. Earth's land surface is the Jordan Rift Valley with its lowest point of 1,312 feel below sea level near the coast of the Dead …show more content…
The Diamond Exchange District is where most of its "high-technology" is located at, polishing and cutting diamonds. Israel relies on imports of vehicles, wheat, raw materials, and petroleum for the country's total energy imports. Home to one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and industry giant, Israel has an amazing track record for creating profit driven technologies. With over three million foreign visitors, this nation is considered and a main tourist attraction. Even Trump was attracted by the economic dynamism of Israel and heavily inspired to bring the investments back to our nation, the United
Desert Storm was a part of the Gulf War, Desert Storm was a codenamed Operation to get Iraq soldiers out of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. This was the first foreign crisis that the U.S. got involved in since the Cold war. It was because of saddam Hussein. Saddam ordered his Iraqi army to cross the border to Kuwait. This wasn’t some random attack by Iraq. but instead Iraq had been preparing for this for years, they knew what they were doing and were heavily equipped with weapons.
Jordan is an Arab Kingdom in Western Asia. The kingdom bordered by Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Climate and terrain in Jordan depends on what region of the country you are in, as Jordan is generally divided into three separate regions. These regions are known as the Jordan Valley, the Mountain Heights, and the Badia Region. Western Jordan is comprised of the Jordan Valley and Mountain Heights, while the eastern
The story of the state of Israel began with a man named Abraham, and a promise that God made to him. God told him to leave his homeland, promising Abraham and his descendants a new home in the land of Canaan, known as present day Israel(Rich, 1). Abraham was a firm believer in God, and decided to carry out his commands, since he knew God would be able to fulfill His promise to him. It was here, that God gave Abraham a unique homeland for his descendents to form a model nation. In the Torah, The Land of Israel was claimed to be the only place on the earth where the Jewish people could create the model nation(Spiro, 1). Jews desired to fulfill God’s plan to create the model nation, forming a strong connection between the land and the people for all eternity. Nonetheless, the Jews have not always been in political control of Israel; foreign nations had always been attacking the land...
Israel was a very hard place to live when it first was established. We often found sickness, which caused many families to start over again. Because of this, there were many authors who expressed their feelings during this time. This can be seen this in the story Dr. Schmidt. In this story, it is clear that there are a lot of old and new Jews, topics relating to Zionism, and a gap between Ashkenazi Jews and Yemenite Jews. These topics have helped readers relate to these stories, and motivate them to live a better life. This is why the state of Israel has been so successful in its short life. The drive to succeed has shaped the State of Israel for the better.
Since the inception of an Israeli nation-state in 1948, violence and conflict has played a major role in Israel’s brief history. In the Sixty-One year’s Israel has been a recognized nation-state, they have fought in 6 interstate wars, 2 civil wars, and over 144 dyadic militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) with some display of military force against other states (Maoz 5). Israel has been involved in constant conflict throughout the past half century. Israel’s tension against other states within the Middle East has spurred vast economic, social, and political unity that has fostered a sense of nationalism and unity in Israel not seen in most other states. Over the next several pages I will try and dissect the reasons for why the nation state of Israel has been emerged in constant conflict and how this conflict has helped foster national unity and identity among the people of Israel.
In the religious history of the Jews, Muslims, and Christians Jerusalem is the holy land. For Muslims around the world, Jerusalem has holy importance; they have specific instructions mentioned in the hadith that "saddles should be prepared only for three mosques: Al-Masjed Al-Haram (in Mecca), Al-Masjed A-Aqsa (in Jeruslem), and my mosque (in Medina)." This indicates the great importance Muslims place on Jerusalem. The Jews believe the birthplace of Jewish people is the land of Israel (Eretz Israel). According to the bible; Jerusalem, its cultural, religious, and national identity was formed there; its physical presence has been maintained there through the centuries, even after the majority was forced into exile. The Arab Muslims accuse the West to be pro Israel because Christians have also been instructed by the Bible that the Jews should live in the ...
Palestine (and Israel) is a small area in the Middle East that is on the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea and borders the nations of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. On May 14, 1948, the state of Israel was declared by the Jewish Peoples council. Following this act, the Arab people of the surrounding countries attacked the new Israeli state. However Israel prevailed, and took almost all of the land previously designated to be ...
Some of the highest producing diamond mines are countries in Africa. Countries that had some of the highest rate of conflict were Angola, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. The ...
The principal geographical feature of Jordan is an arid plateau that thrusts abruptly upward on the eastern shores of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, reaching a height of about 610 to 915 m (about 2,000 to 3,000 ft), then sloping gently downward toward the Syrian Desert in the extreme east of the country. The Jordan Valley is in the deep depression of the Great Rift Valley, which is 209 m (686 ft) below sea level in the area of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias) and 408 m (1,340 ft) below sea level at the Dead Sea, the world's lowest point. Deep canyons and mountainous outcroppings with elevations of approximately 1,500 m (approximately 4,900 ft) and more characterize the Arabian Plateau in the southern portion of the country. The Jordan River, forming the country's border with Israel and the West Bank, is the heart of the country's drainage system.
Hebrews, now known as Jews, believe Palestine is their rightful "homeland" in accordance to their Holy Book, the Torah and their covenant with their God. This is where the conflict lies because Muslims believe that Palestine is their rightful land as is said in their Holy Book, the Qur'aan. Thus being part of the reason of the never-ending aggression between these two religious denominations and uprise of violence at the proposed declaration by Arabs.
Most if not all Israelis believe the land of Israel should be under their control. The first reason being that after WWII the British had decided that Israel would be the national home and
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The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest desert area. The word Sahara comes from the Arabic word sahra’, meaning desert. It extends from the Africa’s Atlantic Ocean side to the Red Sea and consists of the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan. It is about 5,200 miles long. Overall, the Sahara Desert covers 3,500,000 square miles. The geography of the desert is varied. In the west, the Sahara is rocky with varied elevation. It does contain underground rivers, which sometime penetrate the surface, resulting in oases. The central region of the Sahara has more elevation than the other areas, with peaks such as Emi Koussi and Tahat. Even though the area lacks rainfall, these peaks are snowcapped during the winter. The Eastern part of the Sahara, the Libyan Desert, is dry with very few oases.