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World War II(2) and the effects on Israel

It has came to my attention that not many people know this but israel was not a official country until the end of World War II. Many people belive the greater picture of the war was to make Israel a official country. --Jazz951 (talk) 05:37, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Israel did not exist, officially or unofficially, until 1948. While there were plans for its establishment from the end of the 19th century, and the Balfur declaration dates from 1917, the country itself was only created in 1948. You might say that international support for that was partly motivated by witnessing the horrors of the holocaust, realizing that Jews need their own country so nothing like that would happen again. okedem (talk) 06:07, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edits

GDP per capita on 2007 is:33,000$ (ppp)'and not 27000$ so someone must change it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.0.92.225 (talk) 16:52, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

spelling errors

capital is not capitol. someone want to fix these? i'm not going to create an account just for this. it's found at least twice in the first section. makes it hard to believe the article has won so many awards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.91.252.16 (talk) 01:54, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article does not contain the word "capitol" anywhere, only the correct spelling, "capital". I don't understand your complaint. okedem (talk) 19:02, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion discussion

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Israeli British. Badagnani (talk) 04:10, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Page Vandalized

I cannot isolate any code in the edit feature causing it, but on arrival at the page (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Israel) there is a broken page featuring a racist rant and citing Bob Brown and an address in Missouri. Obviously not to be tolerated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kcarlin (talk • contribs) 00:57, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could you be more explicit please? I'm not seeing that. Jayjg ^(talk) 01:28, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to have been addressed now. I suspect the offensive content was injected via an ad insertion mechanism, but all appears normal now from here. Kcarlin (talk) 21:07, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling error

"On December 1, 1947 the Arab Higher Committee proclaimed a 3-day strike, and Arab geurrilla attacks began against Jewish targets." in section "Independence and first years".

I think the word should be "guerrilla" and not "geurrilla". Sorry for the fuzz over a small thing but I am not yet autoconfirmed. --Kotu Kubin (talk) 23:09, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing this out. I have fixed it. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:41, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PROPAGANDA?

"The United Nations and most countries do not recognize Jerusalem as the capital^[1] and maintain their embassies in other cities such as Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Herzliya."

This information keeps being deleted by Okedem. I dont think it is trivia.--Abuk78 (talk) 12:28, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

^ Kellerman 1993, p. 140

[1] Kellerman 1993, p. 140

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