Chapters one and two look at the nations surrounding Israel and then Israel itself through an ethical lens.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

The introduction to Deuteronomy recalled how Yahweh had given the land to the Israelites but then withdrew the gift when Israel showed fear and only Joshua and Caleb had trusted in God.

David is then anointed King of all Israel.

His " people " were Abraham, the people of Israel, then the faithful remnant of Israel, and finally the promised Messiah ( Ps 2 ).

The Children of Israel mourned for 40 days, then got on with their lives.

While traditionally accepted as the genuine words of Moses delivered on the eve of the occupation of Canaan, a broad consensus of modern scholars now see its origins in traditions from Israel ( the northern kingdom ) brought south to the Kingdom of Judah in the wake of the Assyrian destruction of Samaria ( 8th century BCE ) and then adapted to a program of nationalist reform in the time of King Josiah ( late 7th century ), with the final form of the modern book emerging in the milieu of the return from the Babylonian exile during the late 6th century.

After the Bible's translation into Greek, the word Diaspora then was used to refer to the population of Jews exiled from Israel in 587 BCE by the Babylonians, and from Judea in 70 CE by the Roman Empire.

He tore his garments in despair and confessed the sins of Israel before God, then braved the opposition of some of his own countrymen to purify the community by enforcing the dissolution of the sinful marriages.

Elijah then berates both the people of Israel and Ahab for their acquiescence in Baal worship.

God then sends him out again, this time to Damascus to anoint Hazael as king of Syria, Jehu as king of Israel, and Elisha as his replacement.

Osama bin Laden issued two fatwās — in 1996 and then again in 1998 — that Muslims should kill civilians and military personnel from the United States and allied countries until they withdraw support for Israel and withdraw military forces from Islamic countries.

The River Jordan begins here and flows southward through Lake Hula into the Sea of Galilee in Israel, then continues south through the Jordan Rift Valley into the Dead Sea on the Israeli-Jordanian border.

Since then both Israel and Hezbollah have asserted that the organization has gained in military strength.

Israel Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has, however, said that Hezbollah abducted the soldiers and then killed them.

Hezbollah then launched more rockets into northern Israel and engaged the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) in guerrilla warfare from hardened positions.

By then Israel had retained its independence and increased its land area by almost 50 % compared to the 1947 UN Partition Plan.

It was planned that Israel would ship weapons to Iran, and then the U. S. would resupply Israel and receive the Israeli payment.

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership launched at the 1995 Barcelona Conference between the European Union and its originally 12 Mediterranean Partners: Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and the Palestinian Authority.

* On July 25, 1993, following Hezbollah's killing of seven Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, Israel launched Operation Accountability ( known in Lebanon as the Seven Day War ), during which the IDF carried out their heaviest artillery and air attacks on targets in southern Lebanon since 1982.

On 14 March 2006, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Bringing Home the Goods, raiding a Jericho prison to capture PFLP general secretary, Ahmad Sa ' adat and five other prisoners charged with assassinating Israeli tourist minister Rehavam Zeevi who were about to be released.

On November 21, 2005 Hezbollah launched an attack along the entire border with Israel, the heaviest in the five and a half years since Israel's withdrawal.

On 9 April 1973, Israel launched Operation Spring of Youth, a joint Mossad-IDF operation in Beirut.

The main plank of Saudi policy on the issue remains the Arab Peace Initiative, first launched by King Abdullah, as the then Crown Prince, in 2002: Arab governments would offer " normal relations and the security of Israel in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands, recognition of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of Palestinian refugees.

During the Yom Kippur War of 1973 the Syrian Army launched an invasion of Israel that was only narrowly repulsed.

Following the Israeli conquest of Sinai, Egypt launched the War of Attrition aimed at forcing Israel to withdraw from Egyptian territory.

On 13 November 1966, Israel launched a major raid against the Jordanian administered West Bank town of as-Samu, in response to a Fatah-implemented roadside bomb attack which had killed three members of the Israeli security forces near the southern Green Line border.

The Six-Day war began when Israel launched air strikes against Egypt's air force on 5 June 1967.

In response, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield, a major military offensive into major West Bank cities.

** Yom Kippur War ( 1973 )-the war was launched by Egypt against Israel in October 1973 to recover the international standing Egypt had lost in the 1967 conflict.

*** 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict – the frequent Hamas Qassam rocket and mortar fire launched from within civilian population centers in Gaza towards the Israeli southern civilian communities led to an Israeli military operation in Gaza, which had the stated aim of reducing the Hamas rocket attacks and stopping the arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip.

During the al-Aqsa Intifada, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield with the stated aim of dismantling terrorist infrastructure so as to curb suicide bombings and other militant activities.

According to Israel, about 9, 000 attacks were launched from 1949 to 1956, resulting in hundreds of Israeli civilian casualties.

* 2009-- Earth-Success-RISAT-2 developed by Israel Aerospace Industries, launched by ISRO, India

Only seven other countries have successfully launched orbital missions using their own vehicles: USA ( 1958 ), France ( 1965 ), Japan ( 1970 ), China ( 1970 ), the United Kingdom ( 1971 ), India ( 1981 ), Israel ( 1988 ).

February 28: Operation Hot Winter is launched in response to rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

Operation Cast Lead launched near the end of the previous year by Israel, continued until January 18.

In 1999, Orange brand is launched in Austria, Belgium and Switzerland ; and licenses the brand to various operators in Hong Kong, Australia, Israel and India.

In 2007, China launched a countrywide Festival of Culture in Israel to mark 15 years of relations.

Since Israel's 2005 Gaza Disengagement, over 2, 000 Qassam rockets have been launched from Khan Yunis into Israel, mostly to the Southern Israeli city of Sderot.