Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

Similar to other religions, Charedi tradition often justifies the repression of women as respect for women. The

Throughout the years to come, Arab countries continued to put financial and political pressure on countries in Africa and around the world while simultaneously working to exclude Israel from key groups in the UN.

After the Six Day War, Israel, having been under attack for forever, realized that this was an opportunity to once and for all create defensible borders. In other words, it decided to add strategic padding by building on the land it had recently acquired from Jordan and Egypt.

What Israel got in exchange for unilateral disengagement was not a thriving Palestine in the making but an Islamist, radical, oppressive, and violent regime that promptly started launching rockets and mortar shells into towns and villages in the south of the country and as far as they could reach, sometimes all the way to Tel Aviv. The results of I

Since there was nothing of worth in the region,

But in 2005, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the hawkish right-wing general, decided that Israel should get out of Gaza, and he pulled out unilaterally. The plan was supported by about 60 percent of the Israeli population at the time, me among them. In the Gaza disengagement, Israeli soldiers dismantled settlers’ homes and uprooted their livelihoods i

The Palestinian cause is full of pain; however the Nakba is a branded term, used to attribute victimhood and heroism to a loss in a war that was initiated by that same losing side. If the Arabs had agreed to the United Nations Partition Plan, no war would have happened, no Nakba would have happened, and maybe we would have been living in peace ever

In addition to instating Sharia law, the movement was created with the specific goal of establishing an Islamist theocracy in place of what is now Israel, and to do it by bloodshed. Hamas sees Israel as an Islamic wakf, a holy land, that needs to be cleaned out. They announced war on the PLO for not being religious enough, and they wrote a charter,

77.4 percent of Arab Israeli citizens living in Israel said they do not wish to move to a Palestinian state should one be formed,7 which should tell you that trying to brand Israel an apartheid state is an exercise in mental gymnastics. Or worse.