Questions tagged [israel]
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a parliamentary democracy in the Middle East, on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea to the south. In its Basic Laws Israel defines itself as a Jewish and Democratic State.
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Does Hamas prevent construction material from reaching Palestinians?
Recently, with the situation in Gaza worsening again and many buildings being destroyed, the lack of construction material to aid in rebuilding has been brought up again.
The IDF claims, on their ...
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Are Indians immune to Israeli stink bombs?
Russian Television network, RT report that:
An Israeli crowd control stink bomb known as the Skunk, which smells like raw sewage and rotting bodies, destined for employment in the restive region of ...
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Are Pathans the lost tribe of the Israel?
The Pathan people (also known as the Pasthun) is an ethnic group of around 50 million living scattered across the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and also Iran and India.
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Does mixing genders in an army lead to a lower incidence of sexual abuse by male soldiers?
The Israeli Knesset member Merav Michaeli has uploaded a video to her Facebook page where she claims:
אני רוצה לדבר על זה שאילו מתחילת הקריירה הצבאית שלו היו ליד אופק בוכריס חיילות לוחמות, וקצינות ...
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Is Israel's Air Defense System, Iron Dome, 90% successful?
According to New York Times, March 20 about Israel's Air Defense System, Iron Dome:
Israeli officials initially claimed success rates of up to 90 percent.
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Were some of the hostages taken by Hamas killed in cross-fire by Israeli forces?
In this widely watched interview with Middle East Eye, Yasmin Porat describes being kidnapped from a kibbutz by Hamas (translation provided by Middle East Eye):
Yasmin Porat: We shouted at that point ...
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Did Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar state he aims to remove all people from Israel?
German tagesschau quotes Israeli journalist Ehud Yaari about Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza:
Das erklärte Ziel Sinwars sei es, alle Menschen in Israel entweder zu töten oder zu vertreiben.
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Did Russian instructors help Hamas in the 2023 attacks against Israel?
Gulag.net, a Russian anti-establishment website, posted a video "Прикрывайте!Прикрывайте!" Среди нападавших на Израиль были русскоговорящие инструкторы. ЧВК Вагнер?, which translates to '&...
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Did Downer claim Israel told him to spy on Papadopoulos?
Former Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos just tweeted this:
Alexander Downer has made a bizarre, and unfounded, claim and perpetuated a conspiracy theory that the Israelis ...
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Did Israel replace a puppy with burned babies in a photo?
This is a more direct claim than what's been asked in another Q about "murdered babies".
A (Singaporean, I think) website called "Defense Politics Asia" claims (also on their ...
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Does Israel have a contracted minimum quota of people they must inject with Pfizer vaccines?
From Outcry to the world, from Israel!!! (NL+ENG subtitles) (transcript from The Current Situation in Israel as Told by Ilana Rachel Daniel)
“There is a contract. There is an actual physical contract ...
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Was the Israeli interception of a missile (from Yemen) recently "the first combat ever to take place in space", 62 miles high?
Claim in The Telegraph on Nov 5:
Israel this week used its Arrow missile-defence system to shoot down a ballistic missile outside of Earth’s atmosphere, in what is believed to be the first combat ...
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Did China receive blue prints of the IAI Lavi jet from Israel?
On the Internet, it is frequently found that the Chinese J-10 fighter jet evolved from the Israeli IAI Lavi project in that either China obtained the blueprints or received direct technical assistance ...
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Did Theodor Herzl adhere to Spinozism?
The following are found among a list of Theodor Herzl quotes on the Web site of the World Zionist Organisation:
When I say God I do not mean to offend the freethinkers. For my part
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Does a study claim that there is a lack of organized rape by the Israeli Defence Forces for political motives?
A December 2007 article in Israel National News claims:
A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers' committee prize finds that the lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to ...
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