What first comes to mind when considering the size of Israel?

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grammadebbie50

Tiny, is what comes to mind when I think of Israel's size. Even smaller when compared to the size of all the middle east. This small nation rouses huge passions. All anyone has to do is watch tiny Israel and the how the world interacts with her to gage the state of the world.

Israel is the pulse of the world.

Ultra N

How amazing that all those scholars, innovations, inventions great minds, and soldiers came from such a tiny, yet amazing place.

z k

The size of its enemies

Thank G-d that in this case size really didn't yet matter.

Michael J

I always think of the fact that on most maps, Israel is too small for its name to fit on the country. And on small maps, it's too small to even clearly see where it is.

Mr. X

actually, if you look at the map of palestine after ww1, you'll see that israel has done nothing but give up land since then, and since 1967.

paperback writer

I always think about the fact that Israel takes up something like 0.01 per cent of the Middle East, yet many people outside Israel view her as this vast, powerful nation. Many don't realise how tiny Israel is, and when they actually look at a map and compare her to her Arab neighbours, they are amazed.

Israel is tiny, yet resilient.

Just like the world's Jewish population.

diana

very very very small!!!
and ultra: well said!!

Mashtin Baqir

Think of a state the size of Delaware (= Israel) compared to the entire North and South American continents (= the Arab states).

funcused18

tiny, small and defenless surronded by bloodthirsty enemies

NYC Chutzpah

in relation to the other countries in the mideast Israel is just a very tiny sliver of land. Many times I have seen it compared as about the size of NJ.

joe the man

it's so small that in maps, it's name has to be written in the sea. that might have given its enemies the misconception that this is our place.
go figure.

brainless banana

Too many people already and not enough land. No room for Palestinian refugees in either Israel or Palestine, not that I have ever agreed with the Palestinian right of return. There are at least 330 people per square km in Israel and 500 per square km in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Practically impossible to implement. Where would they live? Would it introduce extremism? Wouldn't it destroy Israel as a country? Would it lead to civil war?

Let's consider that it is an illegal form of dumping that doesn't meet U.N. requirements of being a citizen of the country, being a direct refugee (they are distant descendants), may not meet the legal definition of refugee (getting past the views of the Hague and the UNRWA), agreeing to live in peace, etc. It also violates a country's right to self-determination and the need for an inclusive ethnic religious majority in a country that was founded as a homeland for Jews and not Arabs. Well, enough of that..

tearsofthemoon00

How small it is.

HopelessZ00

A very small man with a very big gun!

sanasaadeh

I look at the maps of Israel in the 1940s and the maps of Israel today and see that Israel has grown from all the land it has occupied and taken from the Palestinians... this is what I see.

Its nothing to brag about... thats for sure.

Muslim

It was ZERO as there was never an Israel.
Now its about 11,000 square miles.

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