Israel-Palestine

In comparison with other global regions, (except North America, South America and Western Europe), the Middle East is not severely affected by a lack of funds. Like many countries, the Gulf States rely on their main export commodity, oil in their cases. Relatively speaking (assuming that peace and harmony reign in Israel, Palestine, Iran and Iraq), the market is stable and medical care is well funded. 

The Middle East is comprised of 14 independent countries located on the Arabian peninsula Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and Turkey. The peninsula is bound by three bodies of water the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Red Sea to the west and the Arabian Sea to the east and south. 

Contested Property Claims Israel/Palestine, post apartheid South Africa, post USSR (in Russia and East Europe former European colonies... 

Bose, S. (2010) Contested Lands Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus and Sri Lanka. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press. 

Three major international conferences titled Frontiers of Chemical Science Research and Education in the Middle East have been held, with the fourth scheduled for 2009. The p irticipating scientists came from 14 Middle East nations (Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates) to discuss issues of scientific cooperation and collaboration. 

A research grant was received for participants from Bethlehem University (Palestine), from Bar Ilan University (Israel), and from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) to work together on a joint water purification research project. This project is ongoing. 

Samples of TiO, in different dimensions prepared in Bar Ilan University (Israel) are being used in Bethlehem University (Palestine) for the joint research between these universities. 

Numerous ongoing collaborations are occurring between scientists in Palestine, Israel, Kuwait, Iran, Jordan, and Egypt, especially in producing a database for water purification. 

In the past five years, world olive oil production was approximately 2.5 million tonnes (see Chapter 1). The main producing countries are Spain, Italy, Greece, Tunisia, Turkey, Syria, Morocco, Algeria, Portugal and Jordan. There is a smaller amount of production in Argentina, Croatia, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine and France, and even smaller in Cyprus, Mexico, and the US. 

One of the few who have achieved success in two disparate fields, chemist and statesman Chaim Weizmann was bom on November 17, 1874, in the small town of Motol, Russia—part of what was known as the Pale of Settlement, an area where Jewish famihes were allowed to live. Beginning at age four he attended a religious school in which classes were conducted in Yiddish. (He did not learn Russian until he was eleven.) In 1885 he migrated to Pinsk to attend a Russian high school, where he studied chemistry and devoted much of his spare time to Zionist activities. He later became president of the World Zionist Organization (from 1921), president of the Hebrew University in Palestine (from 1932), and the first president, a largely ceremonial position, of the new State of Israel (from its establishment in 1948 until his death). 

On May fifteenth, said David Ben Gurion, now Prime Minister of Israel, in an interview he gave me later during my visit to Tel Aviv, Ve shall set up our state. It will be an established fact. It can be destroyed only by force of arms, and we do not believe that the Arabs possess sufficient force for the purpose neither the Arabs of Palestine nor the combined states of the Arab League. ... 

At the porter s desk I saw James G. McDonald, later to become the first U.S. minister to Israel, and for years an ardent supporter of Zionism. He told me he was en route to South Africa to speak before audiences of South African Jews on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal. I dined with him and his wife, and told them of what I had seen in Palestine. 

King Shoshenq Ts Palestine campaign also conveniently aligns with the break-up of David s empire. However, the lost empire was not Israel. It was the Delta of Egypt and all the lands in Tuthmose Ts kingdom that stretched to the Euphrates. The forlorn Israelites were anxious to regain their domain ... 

However, they never returned to Israel. In the late first eentury AD, Josephus noted that the ten tribes had not returned to Palestine ... 

Most of the Northern African and Middle East countries at the Mediterranean Sea are in Climatic Zone II (Koppen Group Csa) some of them exclusively, namely Morocco, Israel and Palestine ... 

See Palestinian Weapons Deployed Against Israel During Operation Cast Lead (2009) Journal of Palestine Studies XXXVIII (3) 193-197. 

Phoenicia (ancient Canaan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Israel) Egypt... 

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