-- Israel has very little oil.
-- Israel has a viable market economy.
-- Israel has a thriving high tech industry.
-- Israel has a parliamentary government with members selected by popular election.
-- In Israel, both male and female citizens own businesses, drive cars, and vote.
-- Israel's laws prohibit gender discrimination.
-- Israel's laws prohibit religious discrimination.
-- Hebrew and Arabic are both official state languages in Israel.
-- In Israel, English is taught in all public schools.
-- Maps in Israeli elementary school textbooks show all the other countries in the region.
-- In Israel, the Christian church is growing.
-- There has been no coup d'etat, military takeover, or civil war in Israel in the past 65 years.
-- Virtually zero Israelis have ever launched rockets into civilian neighborhoods of other countries in the region.
-- In Israel, it's legal to sell land or a house to a Jew.
-- Israel has never called for the elimination of another country in the region.
The fundamental difference between Lebanon and Israel on the one hand and the rest of the Middle East is that Lebanon and Israel have substantial Non-Muslim communities. Israel is 75% Jewish and Lebanon is 44% Christian. Most other Middle Eastern countries are over 80% Muslim.
Israel is a regional power in the Middle East. It has a strong economy, powered by innovation and inventiveness. It also maintains a powerful military to defend itself against the rest of the region, which is generally antagonistic to it. Israel has strong relations with NATO and the West in general, especially the United States. Finally, the country is majority non-Arab and generally secular with some religious parties. It serves as a counterweight in the Middle East to Arab States and more Islamist States.
Israel is also a mostly secular democracy with human rights for all of its citizens. While it is still an imperfect system, like every country, it does much more in accordance with human rights than other countries in the region.
All of the surrounding countries in the middle east are prominently muslim.
It is a neo-colonial state created by the United Nations in the 50's. The surrounding native states have existed for aeons longer.
Israel is different than the us because Israel is small and the US is big. Israel people wear different clothes and have different customs.
Israel is small, the US is big ,Israel has different customs and religion.
The overwhelming majority of Jews in the Middle East live in ISRAEL, roughly 6 million Jews. The rest of the countries of the Middle East have less than 30,000 total Jews combined.
Since Israel is a true parliamentary democracy, this leads to a greater degree of freedom. This is in comparison to the rest of the Middle East, which is mostly made up of autocratic regimes. Autocracy is usually correlated with a lack of freedom of speech (usually to prevent speech against the autocrat and inspire rebellion).
The Zagros Mountains cut off Iran from the rest of the Middle East and the Taurus Mountains cut off Turkey from the rest of the Middle East.
Eretz Yisrael is the Jewish name for the Land of Israel, so "C" is the best answer. Jews also call Jerusalem (and by extension the rest of the country) Zion, but not "Zionland", which is why "D" is wrong. "A" and "B" refer to areas of the Middle East outside of the Land of Israel.
3-8%, the same as the rest of the world.
The so-called Middle East is really annexed North Africa. After Suez Canal created, this part of North Africa was called "Middle East." ======================================== Israel is considered part of Asia. A look at a map will reveal that this is quite reasonable. ======================================== As said above Israel is part of Asia (middle east being more of a cultural group of countries- islamist, than a continent). That said Israel is at the crossroads between Europe Asia and Africa. This means that while its geographical grouping is definitely Asia, it holds more in common culturally with the rest of europe (It is far less arabic in origin than the rest of the middle eastern countries) - and is treated as a member of europe in some minor ways (e.g. being included in Eurovision song contest). From a flora and fauna point of view Israel is shown to be the central country bordering all three continents, as historically animals from all three continents roamed here, though most of these are now locally extinct.
idont know about the rest of the middle east,but the results were announced in our own, Dubai
During the twentieth century, the MIddle East has become signigicant to the rest of the world due to its control of transportation routes like the Suez Canal. In addition, the high demand for oil has made the MIddle East a world power.
Turkey is a country that could be considered to be a part of Europe and a part of the Middle East. A small part of Turkey is in Europe, with the rest being in Asia and could be regarded as part of the Middle East.
It took place in Europe as one of the Crusades went to Constantinople, modern-day Istanbul. It took place in Africa as another one of the Crusades went to Tunisia to try and establish a foothold there. The rest of the Crusades were fought in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and the Middle-East. Make your own mind what continent Israel's on.
Because the Middle East has oil, and if war breaks out, the oil prices will rise, therefore making it more expensive for the United States and the rest of the world to get it. Additionally, because the people in the Middle East are humans too with hopes, dreams, and desires. Caring is altruistic.
East Asian civilization maintained their independence from the rest of the world which became Orthodox.