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    that they could be under their own sovereign rule, and many saw that place as Palestine (Morris 4). The beginnings of mass immigration to Palestine began when, according to Lesch and Tschirgi’s Origins and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Herzl created the World Zionist Organization (WZO) in 1897. Among other things, the WZO helped immigrants to Palestine with purchasing land with the express intent of establishing a homeland there (Lesch and Tschirgi 5). With this immigration, Israel’s

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    In origin, Zionism is the movement against anti-Semitism and is a national liberation movement founded by Theodor Herzl in 1896 (Habib, 2004). Herzl’s main goal was to return the Jews to Jerusalem and to the Holy Land of Israel. Another important proposal he offered through Zionism until 1948, was to re-establish Jewish sovereignty in Israel. Zionism promised the

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    The Israel-Palestine Conflict The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a part of the greater Arab-Israeli long-running conflict in the Middle East. The main point of this conflict is the existence of the state of Israel and its relations with Arab states and with the Palestinian population in the area. The idea and concept of Israel was born in the mid 19th century. Jews of Europe and America wanted a place for their homeland, where they could go and be

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    arguments. The Jews say that it is written in the Bible while the Palestinian Arabs say that they have ruled the land for thousand of years. The Palestinian Arabs are also the majority of the population in that region. In the late 19th century, Theodor Herzl founded a group of Jews called the Zionists. According the the Encyclopedia Britannica, Zionism is the Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine, the ancient homeland of

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    International Academy Okma Peer Edit 2: IB 1 History Internal Assessment What was the significance of Jewish immigration to Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s? Word Count: 1,945 words Table of Contents A: Plan of the Investigation 2 B: Summary of Evidence 3 C: Evaluation of Sources 5 D: Analysis 6 E: Conclusion 8 F: Work Cited 9 A: Plan of the Investigation 2 What was the significance of Jewish immigration

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    influence on Arab world. Genocide of the European Jews was at the horror point and led to the demand for the Jewish State. The process of the creation of Israel started with the Zionism movement that was happening in 1897 and ended in May of 1948. Theodor Herzl was the founder of political Zionism movement. He published a book called “The Jewish State” where he was describing modern society, in which Jewish people would be able to live in peace. Later on, Congress proposed the idea to establish home for

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    The Zollverein was a, “customs union that abolished tariffs between all of the German states with the exception of Austria.” The roots for such a union began in 1818 when a variety of smaller customs unions were created amongst the German states. These smaller customs ultimately led to the Zollverein treaties of 1833, which in turn led to the creation of the Zollverein on January 1, 1834. This union improved the economies of the member states by stimulating the trade of those involved, as well as

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    The colonization of Canada has left a legacy in many ways, but more specifically it left a negative impact on our Aboriginal peoples. The treatment of First Nations is still a controversial topic that is stemmed from the stigma against Aboriginals that Europeans had set due to their Eurocentric ideologies. Their belief of superiority amongst other cultures had led the Europeans to be ruthless dictators that exploited the land and the people for their own economic growth. Long before the Europeans

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    The late 19th century was the golden age of nationalism in Europe and no place was crazier than the Habsburg Hungarian Empire. 10 nations in this empire wanted their own state. In this very nationalistic empire lived a jewish generalist named Theodor Herzl who became convinced that the jewish people needed to leave Europe to settle in their own state. The concept of jewish nationalism became to be known as Zionism. It 's important to keep in mind that most zionist jews were secular jews. In 1917

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    Italian Literature Paper “It is not possible to sink lower than this; no human condition is more miserable than this, nor could it conceivably be so” (Levi 1238). This quote comes from Primo Levi’s story “On the Bottom”, where the audience gets a view of the vile and unspeakable event known today as the Holocaust. This event influenced Italian literature, taught people a great deal about the jewish culture, and showed people the true evil in history. To begin, the Jewish faith is one of the oldest

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