The justification of the State of Israel to many is that the Jews are returning to their homeland. Now that is not the real reason for the State of Israel. The real reason is for most of Israelis is Prosecution and the face of being murdered by anti semites. The fact of the matter Theodore Hertzel first suggested that Jews who were being persecuted should move to Africa. That there would be a safe haven in what is now Uganda . This for some reason didn’t prove practical.( I in my infinite wisdom do not know why). Now my knowledge ( though may not be exact) the Ottoman census and letters from travelers in Palestine ( I-call the land Palestine because that is what I believe it was called in 1900.) the land was scarcely populated.
In the beginning of the movement there was only a trickle of Jews giving to Palestine, the Jews would much rather move to places such as the United States.
Then came the Great Depression and places such as the United States decreased the immigration and at that time was the rise of Nazi Germany and major antisemitism around the globe. Many Jews saw Israel as a safe haven.Of cause the British who had a mandate to control Palestine limited immigration causing many a Jew to lose their life. ( Perhaps the British didn’t want to anger the Arab population who had a vast majority of Palestine .)
After WWII Immigration to the rest of the world was limited so Jews left for Palestine many of which were smuggled in.
By 1948 Jewish Palestine had a large population and the United Nations decided to recognize Jewish Palestine now called Israel.
Now in my learned opinion the Arabs States persecuted and threw out almost all and in some cases all their Jewish populations. Now where were they supposed to go? Israel was the their only hope, so 800 thousand Jewish Arabs immigrated to Israel. ( Perhaps if the Arab nation didn’t act in an anti Jewish matter Israel would be a much weaker nation).
Now there is a push for ( the lack of a better term) a religious fever bringing Jews to Israel.
To sum up the first part of the blog Israel was created not so much as a Jewish State but as a refugee State for Jews such as Liberia was set up as an African State for free slaves of America.
The second part of this blog, what about the 35 to 65 thousands of Palestinians who died in Gaza this past year and a half. Who’s really to blame.
Is it the Jews who are defending themselves?
Is it the religious fanatics (Muslim) who can’t stand other religions?
Is it the college students who by their protesting Zionism encourage the Palestinians to attack Israel there by forcing Israel to retaliate?
Is it the Muslim who believes that suicide bombings of what they consider infidels will send them to paradise forcing the Israelis to defend themselves by any means possible?
Is it the Muslim refugee who immigrated to other countries just as Jews immigrated to Israel and demand that Jews get out of Palestine?
Is it the immigrants that who fled for their lives just as the Jews did and are complaining about Jews in what the call Palestine?
Is it the commentator who ( may or may not be Antisemitic) who complains about Israel retaliating against the Palestinians thus encouraging attacks against Israel that Israel had to defend itself by any means necessary?
Is it the Palestinians who refuse to sit down with the Israelis and discuss peace?
What is never discussed is in discussing Palestine is that countries all over the world change hands all the time, even Saudi Arabia was ruled by the Jordanian
