Talk:Anakhronismos (Map Game)/@comment-33928881-20190727041408

State of Israel

 * Government: Parliamentary Republic (elections currently suspended).
 * Background: Prior to the event, incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had faced a very strong challenge from the opposition in both the April and September parliamentary elections as a result of government fatigue and corruption allegations. Netanyahu ended up securing a narrow government majority after allying with multiple right-wing and jewish orthodox parties. Not much happened in the following months, with the corruption accusations remaining unproven.
 * Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud)
 * President: Reuven Rivlin (Likud)
 * Capital: Jerusalem (disputed [by who?])
 * Economy: The Event caused the collapse of the Israeli economy as contact with the outside world was lost and dozens of trade ships and planes suddenly dissapeared. The government quickly confirmed that Palestine was still there, but could not establish any sort of contact with anyone else. Within the first days, looting, riots and massive suicides are reported across the country, with some people thinking it was the end of the world. The military and the police would later intervene to control the situation. Once things had more or less settled down, Netanyahu announced the findings of the scouting drones sent outside the border (see Events section for more details) and said that the country was ready to face this crisis, encouraging citizens to report sightings of "ancient-looking, muslim warriors". This was far from calming for the few investors and companies that had survived, but it was at least known that there was still a world beyond the border.
 * Saving Resources: After this, Netanyahu implemented a series of measures to attempt to guarantee the survival of the Israeli people. First, the maintenance of the agricultural sector (which is huge thanks to technological advances despite the small amount of arable land - 20%) would become the top priority for the government, encouraging the private sector to work on the same goal: keeping a stable food supply. This would allow food shortage to be less severe at the expense of other things. The use of water (which already had issues to begin with) for agriculture would force the government to implement a second measure which is rationing water. Running water is only supplied at certain times of the day (with varying success), urging citizens to acquire water tanks or cisterns to store the vital fluid and only use it when it is absolutely neccessary. Fuel shortage would also become an issue soon. With the government being unable to implement a proper solution due to the lack of a stable oil supply, people are simply being encouraged to reduce their car use as much as possible. Resupplying of fuel, if any, is prioritzed for essential services such as ambulances, fire trucks and police.
 * Military: The Israel Defence Forces are responsible for maintaining peace and order. Due to the constant conflicts with its neighboors, Israel had built a formidable military, spending over 5% of its GDP on it. This should allow us to have some advantage compared to other exiled nations, however, there is one major issue: the lack of oil. This is why the tasks of vehicles that required large amounts of fuel are reduced for now, saving them for future operations instead. The Navy is currently stationed in our ports and it hasn't ventured into the now unknown waters yet. A lot of the reserves are quickly mobilized into the active forces.
 * Israeli Army:
 * 215,000 active personnel
 * 300,000 reserve personnel
 * 2,760 combat tanks
 * 6,541 armore fighting vehicles
 * 650 self-propelled artillery
 * 300 towed artillery
 * 150 rocket projectors
 * Israeli Air Force:
 * 30,000 active personnel
 * 55,000 reserve personnel
 * 253 fighters
 * 18 transports
 * 153 trainers
 * 96 helicopters
 * 48 attack helicopeters
 * Israeli Navy:
 * 9,500 active personnel
 * 10,000 reserve personnel
 * 3 corvettes (Sa'ar 5 class)
 * 8 missile boats (Sa'ar 4.5 class)
 * 5 submarines (Dolphin class)
 * 45 patrol boats
 * 2 support ships
 * Events: 
 * Initial reaction:  One of the first actions of Netanyahu's government was declaring a state of emergency until further advice. The emergency also includes the suspension of new elections, an action criticized by the opposition. However, the Knesset (the legislative body of Israel) is still working normally and excercising its usual powers. Netanyahu made it clear that the government will try to end the state of emergency by the next scheduled national elections. Huge portions of the military reserves were moved into the active forces and dispatched across the cities in order to maintain control. Foreign citizens stuck in the country are granted temporary asylum until contact is made with their home countries, something now considered highly unlikely. Foreign troops are given the option to participate in military operations if they wish to do so. People are also encouraged to use the radio to keep themselves informed and to communicate between them.
 * Scouting the area: As there is an urgent need to know the reason behind The Event, a scouting operation is launched to explore the world outside our borders. The mission is exclusively performed by drones since hostile environment was expected, and to not use vehicles that require fuel. The drones find almost nothing near the borders. Nevethtless, they are able to take pictures of a strange-looking group of men walking in the desert. A drone would reach what was suppossed to be the Egyptian city of Al-Arish later on, only to find archaic structure and people. It is worth mentioning that at least half of drones (~20) in this operation were lost due to battery or malfunctioning issues, although a few of them dissapeared without an apparent reason. The revelation of these images only increased the confusion anong the executive and military commands, deciding to call the nation's most prestigious historians and academics after discarding multiple theories. The team of historians concludes that both the city and the group of men belong to an old middle eastern islamic state. This fires the government's alarms, prompting the creation of a war plan.
 * Trump Heights incident: The first contact with the ancient strangers is made after a group of them clashed with Israeli military forces in the recently-named Trump Heights (located in the Golan Heights). The strangers wore an armor and did not have any firearms. Instead, they had Mameluke swords. They were quickly gunned down, although 1 of our soldiers was injuried. The clothes and the weapons wore by the strangers would finally allow historians to identify them as Mamluks.
 * War preparations: As the drones so far indicate that we are completely surrounded by what appear to be mamluks, multiple defence protocols are activated. Troops are placed on the border along with our best intepreters of old arabic (if not, just regular arab speakers). Although they are told to attempt communication, it is expected that the Mamluks will turn hostile, so the military is told to prepare to fire if they do antything weird. Artillery is also placed near the borders. The Air Force keeps its involvement to a minimum to avoid wasting fuel. Aircraft shall only be used if absolutely necessary.  The borders with Palestine are also being heavely monitorized.
 * Diplomacy: 
 * Satellites: We attempt to scan for possible satellites one more time, hoping to find something. Other than interactions with Palestine and this, no diplomatic actions are performed, with the government focusing ob defending against the strangers instead. Ambassadors were told to contact their home countries during the first days of the incident, but all attempts to do so have been futile so far.
 * Palestine: We ask for a temporal truce for our conflict since since continuing it would only cause further destabilization for both of us given the current circumstances. However, we make it clear that we will retaliate if they perform any sort of attack.