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I am only 13 and need some basic explaining

How did the Golan heights, West Bank, and the Giza strip form?

Why is there a wall in isreal's capital?

what is the isreail palestinian?

Are the three places i said going to join isreal again?

I heared about a secrity wall in isreal to bock terroist what is that about?

do these three places have borders or can you walk right in?

If there have been an more impacting events in isreal please tell me?

Also don't just give me an answer give me details and things cool about these questions

Hope this is easy to answer for some one

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  1. It is rather ingenuous of you to ask us to do your homework for you.

    But I will give you some facts, and you will find the others by yourself.

    The Muslim "claim" to Jerusalem is allegedly based on what is written in the Quran, which although does not mention Jerusalem even once, nevertheless talks of the "furthest mosque" (in Sura 17:1): Glory be unto Allah who did take his servant for a journey at night from the sacred mosque to the furthest mosque.  But is there any foundation to the Muslim argument that this "furthest mosque" (al-masujidi al-aqsa) refers to what is today called the Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem? The answer is, NO!

    In the days of Muhammad, who died in 632 of the Common Era, Jerusalem was a Christian-occupied city within the Byzantine Empire.  Jerusalem was captured by caliph Omar only in 638 CE, six years after Muhammad's death.  Throughout all this time there were only churches in Jerusalem, and a church stood on the Temple Mount, called the Church of Saint Mary of Justinian, built in the Byzantine architectural style.  The Aqsa mosque was built 20 years after the Dome of the Rock, which was built in 691-692 by caliph Abd el-Malik.  The name "Omar mosque" is therefore false.  

    In or about 711, about 80 years after Muhammad died, Malik's son, Abd el-Wahd, who ruled in 705-715 reconstructed the Christian-Byzantine Church of St.  Mary and converted it into a mosque.  He left the structure as it was, a typical Byzantine "basilica" structure with a row of pillars on either side of the rectangular "ship" in the centre.  All he added was an onion-like dome on top of the building to make it look like a mosque.  He then named it El-Aqsa, so it would sound like the one mentioned in the Quran.

    Consequently, it is crystal clear that Muhammad could never have had this mosque in mind when he wrote the Quran (if he did so), since it did not exist for another three generations after his death.  Rather, as many scholars long ago established, it is logical that Muhammad intended the mosque in Mecca as the "sacred mosque," and the mosque in Medina as the "furthest mosque." So much for the Muslim claim based on the Aqsa mosque.  

    With this understood, it is no wonder that Muhammad issued a strict prohibition against facing Jerusalem in prayer, a practice that had been tolerated only for some months in order to lure Jews to convert to Islam.  When that effort failed, Muhammad put an abrupt stop to it on February 624.  

    Jerusalem simply never held any sanctity for the Muslims themselves, but only for the Jews in their domain.  

    The present Arabic name of Jerusalem is "Al-Quds..".  but "Al-Quds" is an abbreviation for "The Jewish Temple"!

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  2. there is so much to say on the history, i will give you the important details.A common misperception is that all the Jews were forced into the Diaspora by the Romans after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 C.E. and then, 1,800 years later, suddenly returned to Palestine demanding their country back. In reality, the Jewish people have maintained ties to their historic homeland for more than 3,700 years.

    with regards to the wall, Although critics have sought to portray the security fence as a kind of "Berlin Wall," it is nothing of the sort. First, unlike the Berlin Wall, the fence does not separate one people, Germans from Germans, and deny freedom to those on one side. Israel's security fence separates two peoples, Israelis and Palestinians, and offers freedom and security for both. Second, while Israelis are fully prepared to live with Palestinians, and 20 percent of the Israeli population is already Arab, it is the Palestinians who say they do not want to live with any Jews and call for the West Bank to be judenrein. Third, the fence is not being constructed to prevent the citizens of one state from escaping; it is designed solely to keep terrorists out of Israel. Finally, of the 458 miles scheduled to be constructed, only a tiny fraction of that (less than 3% or about 15 miles) is actually a 30 foot high concrete wall, and that is being built in three areas where it will prevent Palestinian snipers from around the terrorist hotbeds of Kalkilya and Tul Karm from shooting at cars as they have done for the last three years along the Trans-Israel Highway, one of the country's main roads. The wall also takes up less space than the other barriers, only about seven feet, so it did not have a great impact on the area where it was built.

    Most of the barrier will be a chain-link type fence similar to those used all over the United States combined with underground and long-range sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles, trenches, landmines and guard paths. Manned checkpoints will constitute the only way to travel back and forth through the fence. The barrier is altogether about 160 feet wide in most places.

    Israel did not want to build a fence, and resisted doing so for more than 35 years. If anyone is to blame for the construction, it is Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the other Palestinian terrorists. Perhaps the construction of the security fence may help stimulate the Palestinians to take action against the terrorists because the barrier has shown them there is a price to pay for sponsoring terrorism.

    The Jewish people base their claim to the Land of Israel on at least four premises: 1) the Jewish people settled and developed the land; 2) the international community granted political sovereignty in Palestine to the Jewish people; 3) the territory was captured in defensive wars and 4) God promised the land to the patriarch Abraham.

    Even after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and the beginning of the exile, Jewish life in the Land of Israel continued and often flourished. Large communities were reestablished in Jerusalem and Tiberias by the ninth century. In the 11th century, Jewish communities grew in Rafah, Gaza, Ashkelon, Jaffa and Caesarea.

    The Crusaders massacred many Jews during the 12th century, but the community rebounded in the next two centuries as large numbers of rabbis and Jewish pilgrims immigrated to Jerusalem and the Galilee. Prominent rabbis established communities in Safed, Jerusalem and elsewhere during the next 300 years. By the early 19th century — years before the birth of the modern Zionist movement — more than 10,000 Jews lived throughout what is today Israel.1 The 78 years of nation-building, beginning in 1870, culminated in the reestablishment of the Jewish State.

    Israel's international "birth certificate" was validated by the promise of the Bible; uninterrupted Jewish settlement from the time of Joshua onward; the Balfour Declaration of 1917; the League of Nations Mandate, which incorporated the Balfour Declaration; the United Nations partition resolution of 1947; Israel's admission to the UN in 1949; the recognition of Israel by most other states; and, most of all, the society created by Israel's people in decades of thriving, dynamic national existence.

    “Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.'

    Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement....

    There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.”

  3. well the others answered the question but the wall in the capitol is the western wall r wailing wall the last remaining wall of the Jewish temple or as it sometime called Herod's temple which was destroyed in 70 AD and that last wall God promised will never be destroyed

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