Israel In 1948

Guilt over the Holocaust, as well as strong Jewish lobbyists in the US prompted the US to extend extensive loans to aid new immigrants settling in the state of Israel, according to Ben-Gurion’s “Law of Return”. Sixty-five million US dollars was lent to the fledgling state to strengthen Israeli infrastructure. When these funds were used to construct homes for Jewish settlers, where thousands of displaced Palestinians

For ages the Jewish population did not have a place to call home. They had been wandering around deserts, were once slaves in Egypt, but didn’t have any land to their name. Following the Holocaust, after many Jews had been persecuted by Hitler and the Nazis, a good portion of the overall amount of Jews in the world let alone Europe had been exterminated. As a result, Harry Truman and the UN suggested Israel, a homeland for the Jews. Tensions had been growing throughout the beginning of the 20th Century regarding the Palestinian area in the Middle East. This area was off to the side of Asia, near Africa. When the Jews and Arabs were offered part of this land, war broke out and still continues today. Even though a war happened as a result

David Ben-Gurion (the head of the world Zionist Organization) made Israel a nation-state, in may of 1948. The jews had a goal to create a homeland in the Palestine area for many years, this goal grew after WW2. The violence towards the Jewish in WW2, the united nations decided what the jews had control of. They decided that Palestine was going to be split into sections, one for the jews, one for the Arabs, and another for the jerusalem and bethlehem. A vote was taken, and soon everyone signed it. The Arab-Israeli war of 1948 was resulted in Israel's independence. The war was between the Arabs and israel. There was tension between the jews and the muslim Arab for control of “their” land. The dividing of Palestine caused the tension to end and civil war erupted. This caused many palestine Arabs to flee and become refugees and 700 000 jews flee to Israel, because they were expelled from their country. Israel's independence caused tension to form and created more problems for the

I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” God makes an extensive covenant to Abram, declaring that he will become a great nation. Little does Abram know, this is the dawn of the nation of Israel, God’s chosen

Religious connection, Zionism, the holocaust and anti-Semitism were all reasons that Israel was created in 1948. Today Israel is hated by many Middle Easterns. They had to defend their country the first day they were established. They have a strong relationship with

The creation of Israel meant that the Israeli’s were able to fulfil their long term aspiration of creating their own state, which had been fuelled by

In 1948, the nation of Israel was created as a homeland for the Jews, a population without a place to call their own. Right off the bat, this raises some questions. Why didn't the Jews have a home? And why would they want Israel? The answer to these questions takes us back literally thousands of years to an ancient kingdom named Judah. Judah, located in roughly what is now Israel, was home to a certain Semitic-speaking ethnic group. Any guesses which one? Judah…Jews…see how that works? The Jewish people's claim to Israel is based in this ancient heritage. To really understand this, however, we

Since biblical times Jewish communities lived in Arab lands, in Persia, India, East and North Africa and indeed in Palestine. However more modern times have seen them as a nomadic people, living in various countries but never truly finding a land to call there own. In the late 19th and early 20th century an idea began to gain solidarity and momentum, that of Zionism. The idea of Zionism, to create a Jewish state, is arguably one of modern society’s most polarizing and influential movements. Zionism has influenced political, religious, and social groups in a variety of ways that culminated in the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.(Cohen, week 10)

There are three major world religions Christianity, Judaism and Muslim that claim the religious ownership of the land of Jerusalem. Why do all these people claim ownership to the land? Throughout time and the world, the most highly wanted land by people generally contained fresh water for shipping and drinking, large quantities of oil or other precious resources; yet Jerusalem has relatively none of this. However, even without a giant port or great natural resources it is still sought by millions. The purpose of this paper is to prove that the Jewish people are the rightful owners of the land of Jerusalem and to falsities of some of the major claims denying the Jewish people’s right to the land.

Israel faces a unique problem over land. After the Holocaust (A mass genocide of those of

After their first exile by the Babylonians, the Jews had been dispersed throughout Europe without a state of their own. After the exile, their goal was to get their homeland back as a safe haven in which all Jews could live. The British eventually gained control of Palestine and had to deal with the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews over the land of Israel. After World War II, there was massive immigration of Jews into Israel. The British finally brought the problem before the United Nations, and the UN declared Israel a state for the Jews after a failure to partition the land. The Jews had a right to the land of Israel and needed a home for their people. World War II provided a perfect example as to why the Jewish people needed a state:

The state of Israel will be open for Jewish immigration and for the ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants, it will be based on freedom, justice, and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel, it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race, or sex, it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education, and culture, it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions, and it will be faithful to the principle of the Charter of the United Nations (Declaration 3).

The nationalist movement of Zionism emerged out of the Jewish people’s need for a national state of their own. This idea harkens back to the establishment of the Kingdom of Israel after the Exodus. The Holy Land and all of its historic prestige persisted in Jewish culture as they spread throughout the Diaspora for 2000 years.

In 1948, when David Ben-Gurion declared the nation of Israel, many Israelis believed that the Jewish populace in the Diaspora would relocate themselves somewhere into Israel's grounds. As they refused, this introduced a dispute with the Israel-Diaspora

Israel has such a unique history when it comes to its inception and the identity that has evolved around this history has left a lasting impression on all citizens of this nation. Israel was founded in 1948, for a long time people, Jews in particular, advocated for its establishment. The story begins