After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In Israel politics, four years is like 400 years in Europe.
The days that Israel was separated from Europe are gone.
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
The Israeli people are skeptical about the chances of a long-term peace, but if they saw it, they'd grab it. Any Israeli government that wants to be reelected should be interested in a lasting peace.
Israel, an embattled democracy, has been fighting terrorism for over 100 years.
Israeli Arabs don't have to go. But if they stay, they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state.
Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.
Israel has been absent for many years from entire regions in the world.
The people of Israel have lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America and will continue to live without it another 3,700 years.
The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
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