Features of US government
One thing the US doesn't have, which makes decision-making faster
What is many major political parties?
Ministries and ministers
What are still called ministries and ministers?
ISR
What was founded on May 14, 1948 (and thus May 14 is ISR's independence day), with 5 Arab states attacking less than 5 hrs later?
The Oslo Accords
What were "interim agreements":people intended for to figure out a permanent solution, but avoided mentioning whether there would be a 2 state solution or not, and had the first one in 1993, in which the two sides formally recognized each other and set timetable for ISR to withdraw and Palestinians would get more autonomy, and had the second one in 1995, in which the West Bank was carved into 3 separate areas, 1 Palestinian Authority (PA), 1 ISR, 1 shared by both PA and ISR, with PA in control of the part that was majority Palestinian?
US courts' greater power than that of those in Europe
What is the thing that comes about because of judicial/constitutional review?
Filling the cabinet with at least one person from the other party (though usually a more insignificant post)
The key difference between the US and the UK!!!!
What is the difference in the relationship between the chief executive and the legislature?
When the Jews started emigrating in large numbers back to ISR
What is the 1880s?
The results of ISR's War for Independence
What were ISR took most of the land that the UN had originally set aside for Palestine and EGY took Gaza and Jordan took the West Bank?
Justices' life tenure
What is a check not only on other branches but the past's check on the current times, since justices from older presidents often stay on when new presidents come?
Overrepresentation of small states
What is least in the Senate, then in the Electoral College, then in the House?
The Prime Minister
Who has much more power w/in his own political government system than the US president?
Party list voting
What IS used in ISR, being the system in which each party has a list of its membership, roughly about 2-300?
When the PLO formed
When was 1964 and they did it to consolidate the many terrorist groups and explicitly stating in its charter the "liberty" of Canaan "from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, meaning a total end to the Jewish state"?
Cabinet meetings
What involves the dif. secretaries coordinating with each other what to do if a law will involve multiple departments needing to work together?
President more likely to represent minority
What is because the system gives more power to the smaller than the larger states, thus increasing the likelihood that the president will represent the minority but the House and possibly the Senate the majority?
The US
Who inherited a lot of their political institutions from the UK (e.g. having a chief executive and two houses of the legislature, one directly elected and one not)?
Why there was the ISR War for Independence
What was the Arab states the UN's partition plan that ISR had agreed to that the UN had approved on Nov 29, 1947, w/ the consequence that the Arabs attacked the Jewish communities in starting the war?
Six Day War
What was 1967?
Winner-take-all
What is whoever wins the presidency can (theoretically) fill all his cabinet picks with the people of the same party as him?
A reflection of the majority party in Parliament
What is the PM?
Original Arab League
What included EGY, LEB, JOR, IRQ, SYR, YEM, and Saudi Arabia?
The First Infitada
What was in 1987 and was violent terrorist attacks by the PLO, resulting in the beginning of Hamas, whose goals were simple, eliminating ISR completely?