In the late 1800s Jews n Europe faced hardship and death because of discrimination against their religion and what many in Europe believed being Jewish was part of a race..Out of this fear of programs and physical abuse that had been going on for centuries Zionism was born… There was a proposal that the Jews would have to find their own country…Even if that country was in Africa or some other continent ..As the looking for a country that the Jews could settle into and create a lace to call their own there was a discussion that the ottoman area called Palestine was sparsely populated ( Ottoman census and and Europeon and American visitors such as Mark Twain claimed it so) The start of the 20th century a small trickle of European Jews started to arrive along with a much larger contingent of Arabs. Now it’s my understanding that the European Jews bought up land from the Turks who owned much of the land..After World War 1 Great Britain was given the land as a protective..They had promised both the Jews and the Arabs the same land ( simplified by my part). There was great animosity on both the Arab and the Jews part..Even though there was a small population of both Jews and Arabs that lived in this land together even before the Romans conquered the land, and hadn’t left when the Romans left….There were riots in 1920 and 1929 for fear of Jewish ( Zionist) immigration (?) …..During the 20s and the 30s the Jewish population grew 6 times…There was attacks on Jews during this time as there was attacks on Arabs by Jews ( ?) …After WW II the immigration from Europe by Jews increased 10 fold even as he British tried to hold down the immigration, but the Jews from Europe were desperate….Israel with the blessing of the United Nations became a nation in 1948… By all appearances the Arab nations didn’t want ( giving them the benefit of doubt) didn’t want what they proceeded as a European nation in there mist..
****Israel has changed in the 75 Years since it has become a nation…Many of the European Jews looked down on the Jews who were there. That has changed…Israel has opened its land to Ethiopian Jews though many of the European Israelis didn’t want them and even some called into question if the Ethiopian Jews were real Jews…that question has become mute..Even though there is still some discrimination against the Ethiopian Jews they are excepted…Israel was a a socialist state when it first came into existence but that changed with the great influx of Russians ( who might have been welcomed to bolster the non Arab population)…Jews from Arab nations flocked to Israel to run from the anti-Jewish Arab states… They just as their early European brethren needed an escape from injustice and murder…The Mizarchi Jews are more suspicious of the Palestinians the original ashkenazi ….
Israel is no longer a European dominated socialist state but a capitalist mixed ethnic state ( though majority Jewish religion) … One of the biggest problems with Israel is the orthodox sect that will not go to the army and is living on the states dime and there is a resentment.
*****This blog is a shorten version of my thoughts…And it’s something that I don’t hear or read about, though I believe it’s the most honest about the state of Israel.
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