explain why Israel is depected as burning?
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Because of the fight with palestinians.
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Israel has its modern history in becoming a state in 1948, the same year the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.  Ever since that time, people have been trying to eradicate the country and the people, much like Hitler's efforts during WW II.  Historically, it is a great shame for the human race that very few people cared a whit about the Jews, barring Poland and Russia on some occasions, until the effects of the holocaust were seen.  Today some even maintain it didn't happen.  Even Christians, so-called, have a bad record at mistreating the Jews.  Maybe we ought to blame that on Augustine, but following things blindly is one's own responsibility.  \nIsrael's early history goes back to the time of Abraham, some 2000 years before the birth of you-know-who. Abraham received the covenant for Israel from God. Israel was named after Jacob, son of Isaac.\nMoses came along around 500 years later and took them out of Egypt, but not from Ramses as the movie says, through 40 years in the desert and up to the Promised Land, although Moses himself was not allowed to go into it.  God left that to Joshua.  \nThe combined kingdom of Israel had three kings.  Its borders were the greatest under Solomon (970-931 BC), son of David (1010-970 BC), the Goliath slayer of fame. Oddly enough, the borders even under Solomon never seem to be as large as what God had promised them.\nAfter Solomon, Israel was split into north and south, the north being called Israel, because it had the majority of the tribes, or Samaria.  Samaria fell in 722 BC because it thought that God wasn't important any more.\nThe southern kingdom, aka, Judah, named by its largest tribe (Benjamin being much smaller) struggled until 586 BC where the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and tore down the temple.  They thought they could get along without God also. Isaiah talks about that.\nJeremiah talks about what happened when the Babylonians came.  Daniel talks about the time in Babylon and what God will do in the end of times.  It's all very exciting, unless, of course you don't believe in God, in which case Israel really doesn't have any rights to the land at all.  Fortunately, God believes in them and, as you might guess, doesn't break covenants. The temple was rebuilt when they returned from Babylon, but many stayed and, over the centuries, moved elsewhere.\nIsrael was almost most effectively destroyed due to the culture wars after Alexander the Great. The people were encouraged to try new things and give up their old ways and embrace new learning and the Hellenistic way of life.  It reminds one a lot of today.  Judas Maccabeus was a big hero around 161 BC.  The temple was desecrated and Hanukah was born, so to speak.  It's a great story and you should read it in detail to understand God.  After all, without Hanukah, we wouldn't have Christmas, but then you-know-who is out of fashion, I guess.\nYou-know-who predicted the second temple being torn down by the Romans and so it was in 70 AD.  AD means "anno domini" which means "in the year of our Lord."  The Romans in their hatred of the Jews, renamed the land Palestine, which comes from Philistine, which is kind of funny because the Philistines didn't live there ever. That land should always be called Israel because that's what God wanted it to be.\nSome 600 years later the Dome of the Rock was built in Jerusalem.  You can read about the Crusades and the Mamluks elsewhere. The Ottoman Turks controlled the area from the early 1500's until WW I, after which the British got control and didn't know what to do with it.  They gave it back in 1948, mostly because the Jews were a thorn in their side. It was a good move, except to Islam, whose ancestor is also Abraham. The conflict between Ishmael, later to find fame in a Melville novel, and and Isaac as well as Esau and Jacob created the whole thing.  Isn't that amazing?You have to wonder if the Bible has any clues t
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When Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt to the promised land. They were commanded to kill all the homosexual idol worshiping inhabitants before them.  They were instructed to not show mercy or spare anyone. Or in the latter days they would come back to hurt them.\n\nSo Israel went to Canna did not kill the homosexual worshipers of Baal and as you can see it has turned to their hurt.\n\n\nGo big Re Go
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Ahh- you are going to be facedf with the normal anti-Israel diatries.  The fact that there has never been an independent country called Palestine, that the Romans called the province Philistina to punish the Jews, the fact that even in ROman times not all the Jews were expelled, the fact that there has been a continuous Jewish presence in the area for the last 3500 years, the fact that until the mid 1800s the Palestinians were a largely migratory group, and even then ended up spread across most of the middle-east, including Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.  All of these facts slip the anti-Israel lobby by in their virulent hatred.
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The conflict in the Middle East goes back to the 1920s, when the first major influx of Russian and European Jews occurred.  Eventually, by the time Israel was officially founded, a great  deal of animosity already existed between the Palestinian Arabs and the Zionists.  In 1948 alone, Jews destroyed over 400 Arab villages and towns, killing the inhabitants or driving them away and either demolishing the towns or taking them over for Jewish settlements.  The eviction of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes was the beginning of the Palestinian refugee camps. This is what I believe is the root cause of the present terror.  The Jews brought it upon themselves by their genocidal acts against the Palestinian people.  Even today the Jews make it a regular practice to destroy the Palestinian infrastructure, bulldozing olive groves, cutting Palestinian places in two with their walls and barriers, and destroying residences.  By any normal definition it is genocide, but for the rest of the world it is not proper to say much bad against the Jews, a practice that has to stop.  \n\nThe Jewish lobby in the US is causing billions of US taxpayer dollars to be diverted to Israel so the Israelis can buy tanks, helicopters and missiles to use against the Palestinians.\n\nIsrael will be destroyed not by suicide bombers but by a declining birth rate. The Arabs will overtake them and wipe them out, not by war, but by sheer numbers.
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israel and israel lite?
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First of all, Israel is a multi-racial country made up of Jews from every corner of the world. Jews come in every color.\n\nAnd yes, Israel putting too much trust in non-Jewish world leaders could be dangerous.
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All I can see is from the Old Testament, Israel fell in and out of God's favor for hundreds of years, when they were bad, they suffered, and when they were righteous they prospered....and from the looks of it, they don't seem to be prospering right now, so what does that tell you?\nI don't know why Christians today can see Israel as doing no wrong, as if they're immune to evil decisions, funny they never were before and suffered plenty for it.\n\nIf we saddle up with Israel we are also guilty of it's evil, they've already rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah, and that's a biggie.
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land is taken away from palestinians to create Israel. Palestinians are angry and want their land back. Simple. all endorsed by the U.N.
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Sharon is (was) a war criminal. Modern terrorism (blowing up innocent people to get what you want) was invented by the Israelis. In 1946, while Palestine was being administered by Great Britain, Menachem Begin authorized the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing around 100 people, including many British soldiers who were staying there.\n\nIt is true that many in the Middle East want the destruction of Israel. However, it is equally true that Israel wants to kill every Palestinian on the planet. Israel cares only about itself and is certainly no friend of the United States. \n\nInterestingly, the only country on earth that stood to benefit from the US invasion of Iraq is Israel. Political instability in the region is to there advantage – not that they need an advantage, since Israel can simultaneously defeat the combined militaries of every country in the region. Israel is no victim and is as responsible as anyone for the continuing problems in the region.
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I'm not sure on your facts, but I do believe Israel is just as mush to blame as Palestine over the violence taking place there. Israel should have never been formed without consent from the people who were living in the region already. If the Ottoman Empire had kept up with western Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, there never would have been such a strong European presence in the region, the Zionists could have never pressured European leaders into forming the Israeli state, and there would be one less problem in the world.
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Don't quote me on this. But I think it's something to do with Geographical risk....\ni.e. Don't build a hotel in Israel, don't open a bar in Iran etc, etc..
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for one soldier, yes, israel is retarded, fatah and hamas were just considered recognizing israel as a nation, then israel starts bombing the shit out of gaza, and not every one who lives in gaza is a terroist, their pissed at the israelis for stealing their land then locking them up in the most densely populated patch of earth on the planet. funny how the israelis are never called terroist when they murder innocent palestinian children
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Unfortunately, you are not educated about the situation.  Israel should be criticized, just as any other country, for any wrongdoing.  However, what is antisemitic is when Israel is criticized for an action that is very small at the same time other countries are commiting crimes that are ignored.  Does that make any sense?  Of course not.  \n\nYou really need to find facts on Israel, as well.  Jews have ALWAYS lived in the land of Israel -- always.  The Jews were happy to share the land with Muslims.  But the Muslims couldn't stand to have any non-Muslims in the world, so they rejected the two-state solution.\n\nAre you aware that Arab nations made refugees out of anywhere from 600,00 to 800,000 Jews after WWII?  Those numbers are many times over the Muslim refugees from Israel.\n\nThe fact is that Muslims have explicitly stated that they want world domination.  Open your eyes and look at all the filth that they spew not only upon Jews but upon ALL of the western world.  You've been gullible and bought the Muslim "victim" card they love to play so well.\n \nDo some serious research from credible sources - not Muslim sources, which are not only biased, but they contain actual lies (that may be misproven time and time again).\n\nPlease, don't become another dumb American who doesn't know how to find out the truth!
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Israel is a nation because it is the will of Allah.\n\nIsrael has nukes because Allah wanted the Jews to have nukes.\n\nNothing in this world happens without the blessings of Allah.
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The best way to learn about "Israel" is to check the following website "http://www.intifada.com/"\n\nYou will be introduced to how "Israel" occupies an entire Arab country called Palestine and how it likes to treat the people it occupies. \n\nYou be the judge.\n\nP.S. To the person who responded after me. It seams you've been indoctrinated by Zionist ideology, to say that Arabs occupied Gaza and the West bank is like saying the Jews Killed Hitler, that's such a racist remark i can't believe you said it. Ofcourse the Palestinians have been there for thousands of years Even Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister is Polish and not Israeli, he came as an immigrant from polland and so did many other Israeli Prime Ministers and leaders. It's not a religious war, Muslims and Christians are both fighting the Jewish Fundamentalist Terrorists for thier country's Independence, the Independence of Palestine, Two days ago, a Jewish Terrorist and His Terrorist wife tried to blow up a Church in Nazareth, don't try to hide that away from us, we get the news. Ever heard of www.pacifica.org ? Well check out it, you will thank me for showing you the light of truth for once in this short decietful life. Shame on you for defaming the Palestinians like that, it's a true shame that you would deny a people from thier country and give it to some people who think they were "Chosen" and given a "Promised Land" I mean, for God's sake, that's blasphemy. God would never promise a land to people who go around bombing the original inhabitants. God is just and full of light, he is not a Zionist god, He is the All-Just Creator of the Earth and Heavens, the King, the Owner, The Lord, The Just, the All Capable, and the Mericful, the God of All Creation.
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Because Israel is a Jewish. Jews are allowed to do anything they like. They are the chosen people and Palestine is their promised land..!\nBecause the Jews control American Media, Governments and Banks.\nAgain, dare you ever ask again this question, yes you will be anti Semitic and your email box will be flooded with threatening letters with ( I know what sites you open, we have a long list ) and wipe off your sites replacing them with porn sites. Dare you ask about Jihads, Muslims or even Palestine. \nGot the message?