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2006-09-20 01:57:54 · 5 answers · asked by kaspead 1 in Politics & Government Government

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Dear Kaspead,

The modern state of Israel was created in 1948. The idea of a Jewish state had existed since the 19th century and this cause was championed by a group of influential Jews called the Zionists. Zionists put forth their proposals several times to world leaders during the 20th century, but no one wanted to hear of them. It is only after the horrors of World War II, when Jews were systematically targeted and massacred by the Nazis, that Zionists found sufficient moral backing to at last establish a state of their own.

Still, the Zionists faced many more hurdles. Britain, who at the time administered the area which would become the state of Israel, was against the idea of a Jewish state because of the enormous turmoil this would cause, since the entire territory had been settled by Muslims for centuries. The US would not get involved with it either, fearing that the inevitable conflict between Muslims and Jews would make fertile ground for an expansion of Soviet influence.

It was only when one of the foremost representatives of Zionism, Chaim Weizmann, managed to get a private audience with President Truman (Truman refused to see him and only changed his mind at the last minute) that the US finally threw its weight behind the plan for a Jewish state and used its powers to bring the issue into the United Nations.

The reason behind the state of Israel, of course, was to finally offer all the Jews of the world a safe haven against persecution, which had been going in the Western world for centuries - interestingly, during much of the Middle Ages the Muslim Ottoman Empire actually became a refuge for a great number of Jews, because Muslim leaders were much more tolerant of them than Christian ones.

Hope this helped,

2006-09-20 02:36:11 · answer #1 · answered by Weishide 2 · 2 1

The project to creat a Jewish national home in Palestine got underway in the mid 1800s.

The purpose was for Jews to have their own state, and not be continious victims of the murderous hatred Jews suffered for centuries in Christian and Muslim lands.

2006-09-21 15:03:07 · answer #2 · answered by mo mosh 6 · 0 0

i'm no longer an expert in this,yet I learn someplace that a huge form of the impetus have been given right here from collapsing empires, alongside with the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman Empires. transforming into area of a transforming into empire is undesirable subsequently of actuality it in many circumstances ability getting conquered by using way of the empire. in spite of the actuality that, conquered peoples ultimately replace into voters (in spite of the shown fact that it would desire to take dissimilar technologies). At that ingredient they no longer think of of of themselves as voters of their grandparents' u . s . a . that have been given conquered an prolonged time in the previous, yet are proud to be voters of a powerful empire. Then on the same time as empires start to advance previous and susceptible, and look like they are approximately to break down, people rediscover their previous ethnic and national identities. This became happening in the above-reported empires commencing off in the mid-1800s. a extensive area of it extremely is ethnic cleansing in aspects the area 2 or greater desirable nationalities or ethnic communities overlap. meanwhile, the Jews had no piece of land to call their very own. on the same time as they have been given caught in the midst of persons's ethnic conflicts, all they might do is flee to someplace safer, like Western Europe. Then they began getting persecuted there, maybe subsequently of actuality too many Jewish refugees have been arriving all of surprising. it is somewhat no longer the entire tale, yet this could be a extensive area of the history. you may additionally desire to envision out the link below. it is the Wikipedia article on history of Israel, zoomed in to 1948. replace: What I actual have written above isn't based on the link below, yet on dozens of books I actual have learn on the placement. it is notably approximately activities in Europe optimal suitable as plenty because of the fact the advent of the admired Zionist bypass. The link is unquestionably meant to fill in the blanks on themes i did no longer have time to show.

2016-12-12 11:37:21 · answer #3 · answered by Erika 4 · 0 0

it was created when god gave moses the land of milk and honey however moses was not allowed in

then it was recreated at the end of wwll in 1945 i believe but it is easy to find the first is in the bible and the 2nd in history books look it up

2006-09-20 02:07:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

What is this... your homework from world history?

2006-09-20 02:00:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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