After the Holocaust massacre why did the victims migrate to the Palestine?

Question

Why did the victims (jews, polish, etc.) migrate to the middle east when it occured in germany?

Answer 1

Check the Balfour Agreement. It set up Israel as a Jewish homeland.-

Answer 2

The reason why Palestine was chosen was because it was seen to be the old Israel, the home of the Jews before the diaspora. There were suggestions that they should settle elsewhere, somewhere basically uninhabited, but that did not meet with much support because of the emotional pull back to Palestine/Israel. This view was shared by some Gentile politicians as well. What would the world be like now had they gone elsewhere to found a new Jewish homeland?

Answer 3

There existed prior to world war two a movement to bring the Jews back to Palestine and recreate Israel. This movement was called Zionism. Zionists began conspiring to turn Palestine into a Jewish state in the early twentieth century. However, many Jews remained lukewarm about leaving their countries and starting over in Palestine. As you can imagine World War 2 and the Holocaust produced many Zionist converts especially since most lost their homes and businesses. Europe was largely ruined from end to end so the European Jews did not have much to lose by emigrating to Palestine.
They bad news was that their were millions of Moslem and Christian Palestinians living there that would object to the idea of a Jews state.

Answer 4

After the holocaust the people of Jewish decent returned to their biblical promised land. The name Palestine was imposed by the British in about 1920 after the Allies won WWI and dismantled the Ottoman Empire. Almost half people living in what became Syria, Jordan, Palestine, and the rest of the Arabic peninsula are Arabs (Arab is defined as one who speaks Arabic as native tongue. Nothing racial about it.)
The rest are a mix of Jewish people {those who remained after the Roman empire dispersed the Jewish race after the 79AD uprising against the Roman Empire}, and Orthodox Christians, plus a mixture of other religious beliefs. Ignoring all racial backgrounds and the local history the Allies drew up countries and said this is your nationality. This is the cause of much of the unrest in this area of the world. Several major groups got ignored, in example the Kurds, the Druse, the Orthodox Christian, The Coptic(ancient Egyptian racial group) and the Jews. This laid the ground work for today's conflict. The Holocaust broke the bonds holding people to a geographic location for generations and they turned to their religion which gave them a homeland to go to. So they went if someone did not like it! What could they do to the Jews that was worse than what they had just been through?

Answer 5

There were already Jews in the Middle East, and not just Israel. Zionists had been moving to Palestine for decades. Also, many had lived in Arabic countries and were refugees to Israel. Check out this article, originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/The_Middle_Easts_Forgotten_Refugees.asp
There is more information about this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_lands
Some of the statistics are staggering.

Answer 6

Not all Holocaust survivors migrated to Israel. But I think it is understandable that not many of the Holocaust survivors wanted to live in Germany or generally Europe after the Holocaust.

Answer 7

combine reden and screaming's answers and you've got it......let me add :
for about 2,000 years there had been Jewish communities all thru Europe; and for about 2,000 years, periodically some ruler would get into his head "Let's kill the Jews"........happened in France, what is now Germany, Austria, Russia, Poland.....Hitler was the last and most efficient ruler with an ancient idea.........

the lure of having their own country....for the first time in millennia....where their lives would not be forfeit to some ruler's whims...where there would be a Jewish army protecting Jews .......was irresistible. Can't say I blame them.

Answer 8

The same reason they came back after Hammarabi took them back to Babylon...back in the day....

Answer 9

Because the beaches are nicer...