Formation of Israel?

Question

We have to write a report on how we interpret the formation of Israel between the years of 1945-1948. Our teacher didn't really say anything else about what we're supposed to write about but I looked it up and looked at a lot of different websites and I don't really get what it's saying. Can you please explain it to me?

Answer 1

Princess summed it up pretty well. The Holocaust moved the world's conscience to do what the British had promised (and time and again refused to do) as early as 1917, with the Balfour Declaration. Namely, to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Of course, they shrank Palestine to the size of a dime by severing Trans-Jordan, and even then, wouldn't give the beleaguered Jews any help in defending it, to the point of allowing invading Arab armies to swallow up parts of the "rump-state" when the battle for Israeli independence was finally settled. We're still paying the price for their political prostitution and procrastination in the form of the instability of the Middle East today.

Answer 2

The origins of the modern State of Israel go back to (at least) the mid 1800s and the start of the modern Zionist movement. Land purchases by Moses Montefiore, etc.
http://palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_zionists_land.php

After the horrors of the Holocaust became known around the world, there was enough sympathy for the Jews that the UN General Assembly gave their approval for the formation of a Jewish state (in just a tiny part of the area originally slated for the Jewish state)
http://palestinefacts.org/pf_independence_recognition_us.php

Answer 3

Not a criticism of yourself but of your teacher. Is that was passes for history courses these days? He (she?) wants you to INTERPRET it? What about teaching what actually happened?

To tell you the truth, in order to understand the formation of Israel in 1945-48 you must understand what went on there BEFORE 1945. It is a primary fallacy to say that Israel's raison d'etre was defined by the Holocaust, though that was certainly a factor (one of many).
If I were you, I'd read up about Zionism in general, the Jewish immigration since the 19th century and on, and the various issues that went on there, especially during the 1920s and 1930s.

Answer 4

No. no person believes that Israel become shaped on the Bible. It become shaped as a native land, a shelter for all Jewish human beings. in actuality, there are people who have faith that the subject concerns interior the area stem from attempting to hurry the Biblical prophecies at a time while Gd had no longer yet ordained.

Answer 5

The formation of isreal is due to the mindset of the Allied forces after WWII. Nobody particulary wanted to take in the Jewish disenfranchised, so they decided to help them create a "place of their own" to assuage (pacify) their disgusted consciences. The lack of virtue apparent in nobody taking care of these people and noone doing anything about the horrors that befell this race - nobody wanted to look at them because they reminded them of what moral failures they were.