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It should be remembered that, in 1605, King James I had recently arrived from Scotland. In the reign of his predecessor, Elizabeth I (1533-1603) the Church of England had consolidated its break with Rome, but Catholicism retained many adherents in England. James must have been something of an unknown quantity, and among the Catholics there was great disappointment when it became apparent that, despite initial indications to the contrary, James was going to do nothing to reverse the religious status quo of the end of Elizabeth's reign, or to permit greater toleration.
The genesis of the plot is unclear. Generations of historians accepted it as a genuine last desperate attempt to re-establish the Catholic religion. Others have suspected it to be the work of a group of ‘agents-provocateurs’, anxious to set up as traitors a band of gullible men, to discredit the Jesuits. This would have reinforced the ascendancy of Protestantism, from the wave of popular revulsion, and hatred in James himself. Several commentators have postulated that the whole plot was conceived by Secretary of State Cecil, and suggested to Catesby, but there is little evidence to support this.
Whatever the truth of the origins of the plot, it must be accepted that most, if not all, of the conspirators felt that theirs was an honest attempt to root out heresy and re-establish the true religion. They would also have been spurred on by a number of executions of Catholics which had occurred in the autumn of 1604.
In any case, it is clear that five conspirators: Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright and Guy (or Guido, the Spanish form of the name) Fawkes, later joined by Robert Keyes, determined during 1604 to undertake the blowing up of the House of Lords. The detonation was to take place on State Opening day, when the King, Lords and Commons would all be present in the Lords Chamber. Guy fawkes failed and was dragged through London by a horse, then hung, drawn and quartered in public
So above is the House of commons version, the common knowledge version, but does it go deeper than just that...?
it was either a genuine plot by people who genuinely didn't like the government, it was a false flag to put fear into the people for hundreds of years, it could have secretly been the Spanish or French trying to take control of England, it could have been the christains revolting against the catholics or even a jesuit double bluff coz everyone blamed them for 300 years, many Jesuit priests were subsequently captured and executed for it forcing the Catholics into exile, but it has so many links to the 1666 fire of London (CASE 091), its a long list of twists and lies to me it sounds either like a failed Jesuit complete takeover or someone revolting against their control, but 2 new laws came out of it, but its in olde langlees english law.
The old one – promoted for a whole year after the event, written up in the Government’s Official Account (2006), and then by Andy Hayman, in his 2009 book “The Terrorist Hunters” - had become simply untenable.
The original narrative has them leaving Luton at 7.40, and then hopping into a CCTV frame at 8.26 at King’s Cross. The trouble was, the actual train times that day, shows that all the buses had massive delays (see the Table below) – the Four would have arrived at King’s Cross far too late to board the relevant trains.
Let us look at a few details relating to the train times from Luton that morning.
The ‘so-called’ bus bomber’, Hasib Hussain, appeared at King’s Cross station wandering about alone on the morning of 7/7. CCTV footage of this was shown to the Inquest on Wednesday October 13th. They showed almost continuous footage spanning 8.55am to 9.22 am, i.e. he started appearing on various King’s Cross CCTV cameras at five to nine. Watching this, I was convinced for the first time ever that Hasib Hussein had really and truly been in London on that morning. I suggest this indicates that he and his colleagues did not arrive at 8.23, as the police are trying to maintain – that would have Hasib hovering about invisibly for half an hour. This video footage in itself becomes strong evidence that the Four arrived in London too late to be present on the bombed carriages.
June 28th 2005 ‘Dry Run’ timings Three of the Four came to London ten days earlier on June 28th, and the Inquest was shown CCTV with timestamps of them entering Luton station (See ‘Bridget’, here). They took exactly five minutes from the lower-ground entrance door to go through the station, get their tickets and go onto the platform:
08.10.07 Enter Luton station (and buy tickets), 08.14.26 Go through barriers, 08.15.07 Enter platform
July 7th New ‘Official Narrative’ timings Then the court showed similar CCTV sequence of July 7th with the Four carrying (alleged deadly-bomb) rucksacks. Now they only took one and a half minutes to complete exactly the same movements:
07.21.54 Enter Luton, 07.22.43 Go through barriers, 07.23.27 On platform.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO THE NEW OFFICIAL NARRATIVE, FOR THE FOUR TO HAVE BEEN ON THE BOMBED TUBE TRAINS, THAT THEY CAUGHT THIS EARLIER TRAIN THAT LEFT LUTON AT 7.25 .
What we see here is a crucial and necessary new reworking of the timeline.
……BUT THESE NEW TIMINGS FOR THE FOUR ENTERING, BUYING TICKETS AND CATCHING THIS TRAIN ARE UNREASONABLE AND TRULY UNBELIEVABLE.
Remember that for a whole year all of the government sources and the media were singing from the same hymn-sheet, claiming that the Four had caught the 7.40 train from Luton.
If perchance we wanted to see the well-known Luton CCTV image as genuine, then would be easy to see how the government made its ‘mistake’ with the early train boarding time: it would not be a mistake at all, but rather it would be the only reasonable narrative for the train the Four actually could have caught: that which left at around 7:40.
We should also understand that the witnesses they have produced at this Inquest, swearing they saw the Four on that very Thameslink train (the 7:25) can not have presented their ‘evidence’ before 2006 – because, until 2006 the Government, the police, the BBC and national newspapers were all agreeing that the Four had caught either the 7.40 or the 7.48 train from Luton . These were the two options we were originally given. They could not have believed this had such ‘evidence’ already existed.
The anonymous authors of the original Official Account who told the government’s story in May 2006 alluded to witnesses who saw the Four on the 7:40 train.
Bearing in mind that the old ‘evidence’ has been scrapped, why should we believe any of the new evidence?
I suggest Andy Hayman is a fairly honest cop. His book more or less just reiterated the ‘Official Account’ story – unaltered. As head of the ‘Counter-Terror Command’ he had to. He did not want to get pulled into the murky quagmire of claiming the Four had caught the earlier train – as if all of the ‘witnesses’ and ‘evidence’ for the later train could just be erased: so he stuck to the non-existent 7.40! He has now moved on, and writes for Murdoch’s news empire, which seals him (to digress) into silence… It is likely that the Four more or less caught the train which they had been told to get, i.e. the 7.40. They caught the delayed 7.30 which left Luton station at 7.42. The actual CCTV of the Four in London could never be shown because, unfortunately for the planners, there were serious delays on the Luton/King’s Cross line on the morning of 7/7 so their train arrived too late for them to have participated in the terror-drill. The timing of the explosions had been preset (in the tunnels) and could not, like the ‘bombers’ themselves, be delayed. Even if new time-stamps were put on the thousands of minutes of CCTV footage that undoubtedly did exist, this footage would remain unusable because the Four would, at all times, have been surrounded by crowds of people all of whom presented an uncontrollable danger that they might come forward and testify against the accuracy of any such footage used by the state. This is why we have only ever been shown a few dodgy images of the Four alone … and the most crucial picture to the government narrative (at King’s Cross, 8.26 am) is dark and blurred, with a time/date- stamp right across its centre quite different from any other CCTV time/date stamp we have seen for the July 7th (or June 28th) pics. Has it been added on afterwards? Is a trace of the original timestamp visible on the right-hand side? Why could this image not be shown to the public for three years? These questions won’t go away.
Summarising, if you want to believe the Four entered Luton Thameslink at 7.22 – as the famous photoshopped picture shows – they would have then had no intention of catching the 7.24 (which left at 7.25). They would have proceeded at their leisure to catch the 7.40, as instructed. A glance at the pictures available shows that the Four looked, at all times, very relaxed indeed. They certainly do not look like men rushing boldly forward for a meeting with Allah.
Considering the evidence so far presented at the 7/7 Inquest it is ever clearer that the new official story does nothing to quell the doubts and anomalies raised by previous narratives and timelines. Rather the reverse.
Luton – King’s Cross Thameslink timetable for the morning of July 7th, 7-8 am
08.35 : The Eastbound Circle line train that exploded, leaves King’s Cross.
August 2008: the image of the Four at King’s Cross Thameslink, on July 7th, stamped with the time of 8.26, is for the first time released.
Agile Enterprise Architecture: Creating patsies for every type of false flag-nuclear-bio-cyber
Creating false flag - nuclear situations with agile software methodology enterprise architectures have preemptivley created patsies way ahead of time to serve as the cover for a full range of false flag terror attacks that the elite has at their disposal, to be used selectively at their discretion, based on what Agile (i.e. CAESAR) tells them has the highest probability of stupefying the sheep public into buying as the most likely believable propaganda. Its got a whole database with many scenarios
1st we have the circumstances all set to go for the false flag bioterror patsy angle:
Hunting Dangerous Genes
The building blocks for deadly bio-weapons are available by email or online to almost anyone who cares to place an order—and the world has begun to pay attention. "Current government oversight of the DNA-synthesis industry falls short of addressing this unfortunate reality," wrote a group of academics, industry executives, and security experts in a 2007 article, "DNA Synthesis and Biological Security," which appeared in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
Addressing that scary scenario head-on is a group of MITRE experimental and computational biologists developing a method for weeding out dangerous synthetic DNA orders from harmless ones. They call their fledgling process DOTS, short for DNA Order Tracking System. And with the success of an early prototype, they now have set their sights on making DOTS available outside of the laboratory.
Some background: Genetic materials made to order from the basic chemical components of DNA are now routinely manufactured by dozens of companies in the United States and abroad. Anyone can place an email order with these DNA synthesis companies for any combination of genetic base pairs A, T, G, and C and have the order delivered. (Please see "The ABCs of ATGC," on this page.) It's also cheap: costs for DNA synthesis have fallen from $30 per base pair in 1990 to roughly 55 cents per base pair today.
So far, one factor limiting easy abuse of factory-made genetic materials is that no manufacturer has yet been able to make a DNA sequence longer than 35,000 base pairs. Because a virus like Variola major, which causes smallpox, contains 190,000 base pairs of DNA, some feel comfortable that would-be bioterrorists can't readily order such dangerous pathogens.
In January 1344 Edward III held the 'The Round table Tournament' at Windsor, where the King and 19 Knights fought all comers for 3 days. Edward III announced the founding of a round table to number 300 Knights, with blue robes, St George as their Patron. The Scala Chronica and Froissart give the date of the founding of the order of the garter as 1344.
King Edward III of England founded the Order of the Garter in 1348.
At a feast on St Georges day 23rd April 1348 Edward III announced that the order would consist of a smaller and more select number of knights. The Order, consisting of the King and Prince Edward each leading a team of twelve knights, making twenty six in total, was intended by Edward III to be reserved as the highest reward for loyalty and for military merit. The number of knights in the order fitted the number of the round table constructed at Winchester, and was probably the number of Jousting teams of the time. New appointments to the Order of the Garter were made as knights died. The founder-knights had all served in the French campaigns of the time, including the battle of Crécy, three were foreigners who had previously sworn allegiance to the English king, four of the knights were under the age of 20 and few were much over the age of 30. In the stalls at St Georges chapel Windsor, they would pray with each other in teams as at the jousts. Later in the year of 1348, the Black Death was to reach Englands shores.
The annual Garter Procession of the Order at Windsor Castle.
The order today
The order still exists and is an important and powerful order of the sovereign military order of malta through the pillgrim societies, their home or HQ is the sovereign city state of London, St. Georges chapel, Windsor castle. The Prince and Grandmaster His Most Eminent Highness, Frà Andrew Bertie, The Grand Commander H.E Giacomo DALLA TORRE del TEMPIO di SANGUINETTO, and our very own queen head of the British order.
H.M. Queen Elizabeth II The Sovereign's mantle is decorated with the Star. All other companions have a shield of St. George surrounded by the garter embroidered on their mantles.
Cold Fusion' Moves Closer to Mainstream Acceptance
A potential new energy source so controversial that people once regarded it as junk science is moving closer to acceptance by the mainstream scientific community. That's the conclusion of the organizer of one of the largest scientific sessions on the topic "cold fusion" being held in the Moscone Center during the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2010)
Plasma electrolysis is comparable to cold fusion. The Japanese Hokkaido University Plasma electrolysis experiment has achieved mind boggling results. Their conclusions: current efficiency is 8000% compared to the input! Ask yourself why your local university isn't telling you about the following - Hydrogen Evolution by Plasma Electrolysis in Aqueous Solution by Tadahiko MIZUNO.
It has been proven that cold fusion it is not a fraud. The technology has since been replicated by many labs around the world, so why haven’t you heard about it?
Researchers at a US Navy laboratory have unveiled what they say is "significant" evidence of cold fusion, a potential energy source that has many skeptics in the scientific community.
The scientists on Monday described what they called the first clear visual evidence that low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR), or cold fusion devices can produce neutrons, subatomic particles that scientists say are indicative of nuclear reactions. "Our finding is very significant," said analytical chemist Pamela Mosier-Boss of the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego, California.
Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers - Will Suppression of this Science be Repeated?
Panacea France recently conducted an educational Cold Fusion conference. The popular conference was presented by Professor Jean Paul Biberian, Physics Dept., Luminy University of Aix-Marseille, one of the worldwide experts of this subject who are often unknown by the audience. The unexpected intervention of a group of 4 actors added an entertaining and interactive dimension during improvised scenes, sometimes playing the role of “elementary particles” in order to explain the “atoms hooked” reaction. The topics included: What is the nuclear fusion? – History of cold fusion – The prototype with palladium – The international network of researchers – The scientific results – The birth of a new physics – The potential applications – The positive impacts on the environment - Transmutations in a metal – Magnetic monopoles – Physics anomalies observed during important industrial accidents – Problem and track to develop the research on cold fusion – Nuclear waste disposal. Yet none of today’s faculties are aware of this science, and neither is the general public as a whole. Plasma and fusion technology is already well establshed in the Black Light Power company process. However there are still no energy applications in use, nor wide spread faculty awareness of the process.
Scientology is a philosophical religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard. A former writer of science fiction novels founded the first Church of Scientology of California 1954th in mind autopsychological method which has grown from his earlier thought of self-help system 'Dianetics'. It is important to point out that people are not attracted to Scientology by telling them an incredible SF story which seems to have fallen out of Sirius. But ... the story of Xenu is told only when followers of Scientology are already for long time brainwashed, so this story can be served to them. Because, hand on heart this story could be swallowed only by a small portion of the population as those no lifers, which are dressed in Jedi suits and believe in the force.
Theology (let's call it so) of the Church of Scientology, which comes to recruiting new followers in short that it could perhaps be described as Audi's slogan "Vorsprung durch Technik" or progress through technology. Scientology was initially established as a secular philosophy. Shortly after the founding of Scientology as a philosophy, Scientology is formed into a religion or applied religious philosophy.
Church of Scientology is not recognized as a religion anywhere, except in the U.S. where they established thanks to the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States where is the guarantee of religious freedom. Religion has become clear from pragmatism to get all the benefits Tax enjoyed by religious institutions. So what is Scientology? Scientology is essentially a way to derive a large amounts of money from followers or victims.
How? I mentioned above a monk who speaks about their psychological secrets. Scientology is namely using dangerous psychotherapy which essentially operates on the principle of brainwashing. So through psychotherapy they are weakening the mind of a follower so the mind becomes from rational to a irrational state. And still it is not difficult to manipulate the followers, not even to sell them a absurd story of Xenu. Unfortunately here we can not talk about any kind of religious freedom because there is no religion here! Scientology is thus a big scam of good living, great leaders of this "religion." In Germany, Scientology is under constant surveillance by German intelligence services, in Italy are many processes against the Scientology Church and the United States has launched many investigations of economic crimes, theft and even murder. Many leaders of this "religion" end up in jail. People who are drawn into Scientology brainwashing, and were able to back out have launched sort of war against Scientology on the Internet to alert people to the devastating consequences of entering into this "religion".
Famous scientologists
Tom Cruise, and famous Hollywood actor who is also a scientologist is John Travolta. Tom Cruise came into contact with Scientology through his first wife Mimi Rogers. There was the Scientology "self-help", or through psychotherapy Scientology Tom has beaten dyslexia. Since then he is a big follower and supporter of Scientology. Hollywood actors are advertising units through which Scientology operates. With great influence they are pushing the careers of these actors, and in turn they operate as the propaganda machinery of this great deception.
Absurdity of Scientology
One of the symbols of Scientology is called. "Scientology cross". The cross is a symbol of Christianity - the passion, death and resurrection of Christ. Scientology has nothing to do with Christianity, the only relationship with Christ is that it is a fake picture (remember the 3D cinema with thousands of billions of souls who see the days of confusing movie). Why a cross? Scientology cross has eight branches that show eight dynamics (?!). My opinion is that this crisis is one of the Scientology scams to be closer to the iconography of its religious side. The official web site of the Church of Scientology calls people to "Sunday service" and Sunday worship. But what is celebrated on that Worship? Xenu's captivity?
1. There is no written English constitution (i.e., there is no one single document called the constitution); "constitutional law" concerns issues such as the role of the state, the protection of individual rights
2. There is no official codification of English statutes.
3. Any statute passed by Parliament is by definition valid and not subject to review by the courts. Thus a statute’s "constitutionality" is not an issue a court can address; Parliament alone may act to change a law.
The chart above shows a simplified version of the English court system. The Appellate Committee of the House of Lords was the final court of appeal for civil and criminal cases from England and Wales until October 2009, when the Supreme Court replaced it as the highest court in the United Kingdom.
The Court of Appeal in both its civil and criminal divisions has only appellate jurisdiction, while the High Court of Justice and the Crown Court have both appellate and original jurisdiction. They will hear on original jurisdiction civil and criminal cases considered too serious to be heard by either the Magistrate's Courts (criminal) or the County Courts (civil). Terence Ingman, The English Legal Process (11th ed, 2006) (KD7111 .I53 2006) provides a detailed discussion of the organization and procedure of the courts.
III. Statutes English statutes have never been officially codified. There are, however, unofficial publications that organize by subject the statutes currently in force. These are discussed below.
Airports Authority Act, 1965 (Eng.) is typical statute cite. Until 1963, statutes were cited by regnal year rather than calendar year. Thus, you might see a citation such as 5 Eliz. 2, c.3, referring to the third act passed during the fifth year of Elizabeth II's reign. The English Legal History Research Guide (http://www.law.duke.edu/lib/researchguides/englishlegal.html) will help you find older statutes.
Since 1831 Her Majesty's Stationery Office (H.M.S.O., now the Office of Public Sector Information) has published the official version of the statutes as Public General Acts and Measures (KD 124 .P83). The law library began receiving these in 1952. These are the equivalent of our session laws. They are compiled every year; before that they are available in slip law form. Access is through the Index to the Statutes in Force. The Public General Statutes and The Public General Acts (KD 124 .P82), published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, contain acts passed between 1866 and 1951 (both sets are marked Law Reports: Statutes on the spine). Current Law (KD 296 .C821) also contains summaries of recent statutory developments, arranged by subject.
The official publication Statutes in Force (KD132.S72 and Microforms Room) contains all statutes in force from 1235, in subject order along with their amendments. Statutes in Force has not been updated since 1992, and while it should not be used to look for current statutes, it is still useful for historical research. There is an index for each subject as well as a general index. The previous edition, Statutes Revised (3d ed.) (KD 130 .S72), contained legislation in force as of 1948. The Statute Law Database (SLD) (http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk) is the official revised database of UK legislation; the text of legislation is derived from these two publications. The SLD contains legislation in force on February 1, 1991, and all Acts passed since then, in their latest revised form.
Index to the Statutes (KD142.4.I52), which covered the period 1235 to 1990 (when publication ceased), and Chronological Table of the Statutes (KD142.3.C47), which covers the years 1235-to the present, are meant to be used with Public General Acts and Measures and Statutes in Force. The Chronological Table of the Statutes indicates repeals and amendments.
There are also several commercial versions of the statutes that are organized by subject. The best of these is Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales (KD 135 .H3 4th), currently in its fourth edition. It contains the text of virtually all English statutes still in force. It is annotated with case decisions, and statutory instruments (similar to regulations), and includes references to Halsbury's Laws of England (see below under Encyclopedias). It is updated between editions. Halsbury’s Statute Citator (KD 135 .H3 4 th) and Current Law: Legislation Citators (KD296.C831) list repeals and amendments to statutes. Current Law includes citations to cases.
Public general acts currently in force are also on LexisNexis (ENGGEN;STAT) and Westlaw (UK-ST). The Westlaw database United Kingdom Legislation Locator (UK-LEGISLOC) provides links to citing cases and secondary sources.
There are two government statutory databases on the web. The Office of Public Sector Information (http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts.htm) contains unamended texts of primary and secondary legislation passed since 1988. The Statute Law Database (SLD) (http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk) is the official database of updated UK legislation in its latest revised form (i.e., with amendments to legislation within the text. The SLD contains the texts of all Acts that were in force on February 1, 1991, and all Acts passed since then.
A Guide to the UK Legal System provides advice on finding English legislation. Craies on Legislation: A Practitioners' Guide to the Nature, Process, Effect and Interpretation of Legislation (9th ed; formerly Craies on Statute Law) (KD691 .C73 2008) is a standard text on English statutes and statutory interpretation.
For the treatment of statutes in cases (beginning in 1947) check Current Law Statute Citator (KD 296 .C831) which also lists amendments to the statutes. To find related acts and cases citing a statute in Westlaw click on the "Links for" tab in the left frame and then choose "Analysis" (Lexis doesn’t have a comparable feature; search in the case law or statutory databases with the name of the statute to find cases and other statutes that refer to it).
IV. Statutory Instruments Parliament may delegate to another authority the power to make rules and regulations in an area where Parliamentary language is general. These rules have the force of law and are called statutory instruments. They may also be referred to as delegated or subordinate legislation. Statutory Instruments (KD 166 .A3) are published annually. The index to this set is the biennial Index to Government Orders (KD 170 .I52).
Halsbury's also publishes cumulations of selected statutory instruments of general application in Halsbury's Statutory Instruments (2d Re-issue) (KD 173 .H3). Recent statutory instruments are summarized in Current Law (KD 296 .C821). You can also find current general (not local) statutory instruments on LexisNexis (ENGGEN;SI) and Westlaw (UK-SI). They are available on the web beginning in 1987 at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/stat.htm and in the Statute Law Database (http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/).
Important laws to ponder over
www.statutelaw.gov.uk
Magna carter act 1297 Cestui que vies 1666 Union with England act 1707 Copyright Act 1976 Water floridation act 1985 Criminal justice act 2003 Terrorism act 2006
Stages of creating a new law
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Bills A Bill is a proposal for a new law, or a proposal to change an existing law that is presented for debate before Parliament.
Passage of a Bill How does a Bill become an Act? Find out the stages a Bill goes through before it becomes law.
Acts An Act of Parliament creates a new law or changes an existing law.
Better late than never, a very senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Yasser Abed Rabbo, found the right way to challenge Israel and the U.S. As reported by AFP on 13 October, he said, "We officially demand that the US administration and the Israeli government provide a map of the borders of the state of Israel which they want us to recognise."
That’s a completely logical and totally reasonable demand.
IF Israel was interested in peace on terms virtually all Palestinians and most other Arabs and Muslims everywhere could accept, the map provided would show Israel with borders as they were on the eve of the 1967 war. An accompanying note would say that, subject to agreement in final negotiations, Israel seeks minor border adjustments here and there. The note would also propose that Jerusalem should be an open, undivided city and the capital of two states.
If such a map with the note as above was presented, it would open the door to peace.' Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל, Yisrā'el; Arabic: إِسْرَائِيلُ, Isrā'īl), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל (help·info), Medīnat Yisrā'el; Arabic: دَوْلَةُ إِسْرَائِيلَ, Dawlat Isrā'īl), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and Gaza on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is the world's only predominantly Jewish state, and is defined as A Jewish and Democratic State by the Israeli government. Following the 1948 Israeli-Arab War, Israeli law was enacted within the Green Line, as defined in the 1949 Armistice Agreements. Following their internationally unrecognized annexation in 1980-81, Israeli law was extended to East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, although most Arabs in these areas have declined Israeli citizenship. Citizens of the State of Israel also live in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The population, defined by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics to include all citizens and permanent residents in within the Green Line, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and all Israeli settlements, was estimated in May 2010 to be 7,602,400 people, of whom 6,051,000 are Jews. Arab citizens of Israel form the country's second-largest ethnic group, which includes Muslims, Christians, Druze, and Samaritans. According to the May 2010 population estimate, including 300,000 non-citizen Arabs living in East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, this minority numbers 1,551,400. The modern State of Israel was declared in 1948, and traces its historical and religious roots to the Biblical Land of Israel, also known as Zion, a concept central to Judaism since ancient times. Political Zionism took shape in the late-19th century Europe under Theodor Herzl, and the Balfour Declaration of 1917 formalized British policy preferring the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people. Following World War I, the League of Nations granted Great Britain the Mandate for Palestine, which included responsibility for securing "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people". In November 1947, the United Nations voted in favor of the partition of Palestine, proposing the creation of a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a UN-administered Jerusalem. Partition was accepted by the Zionist leadership but rejected by Arab leaders, and a civil war began. Israel declared independence on 14 May 1948 and neighboring Arab states invaded the next day. Since then, Israel has fought a series of wars with neighboring Arab states, and has occupied territories, including the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, beyond those delineated in the 1949 Armistice Agreements. The border between Israel and the neighboring West Bank is not formally defined by the Israeli government, as a result of a complex and unresolved political situation. Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, but efforts by elements within both parties to diplomatically solve the problem have so far only met with limited success. Israel is a developed country and a representative democracy with a parliamentary system and universal suffrage. The Prime Minister serves as head of government and the Knesset serves as Israel's legislative body. The economy, based on the nominal gross domestic product, was the 41st-largest in the world in 2008. Israel ranks highest among Middle Eastern countries on the UN Human Development Index, and it has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. Jerusalem is the country's capital, although it is not recognized internationally as such.[a] Israel's main financial center is Tel Aviv, and its main industrial center is Haifa. In 2010, Israel joined the OECD
