ISRAEL vs. PALESTINE Jerusalem vs. Jerusalem (the ‘capital’ of Palestine) vs

Land Literature  Borders the Mediterranean sea, Lebanon and Egypt  Area total: 20770sq km  Land: sq km  Water: 440 sq km  Not landlocked, coastline: 273 km

Geographical Generalization  Borders the Mediterranean sea, Egypt, Jordan, Israel  Area total: 6220sq km  Land: 6000 sq km  Water: 220 sq km  Not landlocked, coastline: 40 km

Religion & Ethnicity

Looks, Colors, and Races

Literacy, Poverty & Life span  GPI of 150 / 158  Adult literacy rate: 97.1  Primary school enrolment: 96.9  Secondary school enrolment: 87.5  Unemployment 5.8  Official language: Hebrew  Life expectancy 81.6  Male:  Female:  Infant mortality rate 3.6  Maternal mortality 7/100000

Reading, Money & Days ‘til they die  GPI: Not included  Adult literacy rate: 94.6  Unemployment 32%  Official language: Arabic  Life expectancy 72.8  Infant mortality rate 30/1000

Israel’s atmosphere? Hot & Dry Palestine’s surroundings? Hot & Dry & Barren

Rulers & Administrators  Form of G. – Democratic  Head of G. – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  Independency of G. – Depends on the US  Prefer the Jews more than others  Current ruling party: Kadima Party  Evolve from the Ottoman Empire  Colonized by: Canaanites  Official Independence: 14 May 1948 after WWII

The People of the Throne  Form of G. – Democratic  Head of G. – Prime Minister Salam Fayyad  Independency of G. – Depends on Arab countries  Prefer Arabs  Current ruling party: Fatah/Hamas  Evolve from the Ottoman Empire  Colonized by: Israelites  Official Independence: 15 November 1988

Prepare the World without COAL & OIL! Import: tin, lead, silver, copper, iron, grain, gold and timber Export: farm products, olive oil, wine, grains  Minerals  wood and metal  Soils  natural gas  crude oil Natural Resources

Sadness of imports Import: Food, Consumer goods, construction materials, chemicals petroleum Export: Everything they produce; look up  Fruits  Vegetables  Natural gas  Limestone  Stone  Carnations Natural Resources

Rates & Crises! Unemployment Rate: 5.8% GNP per Capita: Nominal gross per domestic product (US$) per capita Poverty: $7.30 per day, 23.6% of the population No need for Palestine We’re not ‘recognized’

Human Development Index

Homo Sapien Development Index

DEFENSE  Israel is highly support by the United States  Allies: United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey, India and other smaller supporters are Canada, China and Czech Republic  Size of weapon arsenal: Nuclear weapon for war, they wanted to be the first in the MIDDLE EAST  Danger!! Trying to go against Iran’s nuclear program, Palestine conflict of trying to get back the homeland

FAILED DEFENSE  Palestine is only supported by India only for the UN  Allies: Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Syria,  Size of weapon arsenal: Not found  Palestine conflict of trying to get back the homeland

Military & War  Israel defense forces  Israel naval forces  Israel air forces  All men 18 years old and above have to work in the military  Palestinian defense forces are pathetic  Controlled by Israel

Enemy >>The Title Says It All

GREEN? Energy Consumptions  The total amount of energy consumption in Israel is 0.64 quadrillion Non renewable energy  They are trying to use wind and solar energy to deal with the environmental crises  Israel tested out a new technology by storing a tile like generator installed under the roads and the highway to convert the weight and the motion of the passing vehicle into electricity. Pollution  Water and Air pollution is the biggest problem  Most of the streams and Rivers in Israel are polluted

Let’s go Green? Rules for green?  With the environmental issue, it is taken care of by the Environment Ministry of Israel and has a strict law relating environmental issues  Israel is as well working with organizations such as Friends of the earth, Israel Union for environmental defense, Society for the protection of nature in Israel and much more organizations to improve Recycle  Israel recycled over 50% of the country’s plastic bottles  It was the most successful recycling city in 2011  Exceeded the government’s target of 73% in recycling

Brown? Energy Consumptions  The total amount of energy consumption in Palestine 550million kWh Non renewable energy  Oil being used  Nothing being done for recycling  Organizations help Pollution  Air, water,  Boring country

INFLUENCE? May 11, 1949 – Joined the UN ECOSOC was biased to Israel and didn’t want them to join but was replaced in 2005 by the Human Rights Council Main Allies Opposition State: Jewish Orthodox

Working with Society Israel is: a member of the United Nations world trade organization World Health organizations UNESCO International Monetary Fund organization All in all, they worked with 49 organizations worldwide

INFLUENCE? Never joined the UN Never part of ECOSOC Main Allies Opposition State: Hamas/Fatah They’re broken

Issues and Problems …

Significant Problems  Israel’s main problem is with the Palestinian issues  Outside of Israel, the Palestinian have caused violent act against Israeli  Israel border protection  Palestine’s main problem is with the Israeli issues  Israel causing violence in Palestine  Palestine border shrinking

Issues and Challenges Politics  Arab Israeli conflict  The relationships between Jewish movements  The nature state of Israel (Jewish state and Region of Israel)  Less water resources Social  Long term challenges is the growth of Ultra Orthodox  Short term challenges is the inability to duplicate the success in telecommunication industry

Issues and Challenges Environmental  Air and Water pollution in Israel  Polluted stream  Running out of natural resources Economic  Israel’s economy depends on agriculture  Natural resources are running out which may be a problem to the import and exports

Palestinian Issues and Challenges Politics  Palestine-Israeli Conflict  Fatah-Hamas Wars  Water problem Social  Religious problems with Israel -.-  We hate you guys too :p Environment  Water Crisis  Arable Land Economic  Israel declaration  Unknown country

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