Zionist impact on Jews?
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Does this help?\n\n"Zionism is a political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel..."
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After WW2, the UN proposed a seperate state for the Jews in Palestine. The Allied powers effectively drawed up various Arab states that were previously ruled by western colonial powers. Israel was meant for the Jews, and yes there was a seperate Palestinian state proposed. The Arabs had mixed feelings about a Jewish state, but most of the local Arabs in Palestine welcomed it. But what happened was that some of the Jewish militias started to sieze the already drawn up Palestinian lands and worst of all terrorizing and killing the local Arabs. Those militias had some powerful backup from abroad, especially in the US. Many of those backup organizations are non government organizations and many well known businesses. The militias fought for more land and resources and of course killing people, inlcuding children. Israel's first prime minister Ben Gurion once said   “We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.” That's what the Israelis did and still do so more efficiently. There are many powerful organizations in the US that observe every inch of content as to what is presented in the US media to the American public, so no one knows exactly what really goes on in the occupied territories in Palestine. So, my friend, it is Israel that occupies Palestine with full fledged US support and not the other way around. That is the truth and the whole truth. Peace be upon you.
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:}\nThe Jews were God's chosen people. That makes Satan unhappy. He has used Christians, Muslims and pagans to bring hardship on them but God will insure their survival\nTheir existence in spite of their rebellion to him is a testimony to the existence of an all powerful loving God
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Some Jews are Anti-Zionism, some others are Israeli and the most of Israelis are Zionist (Zionists are killing innocent unarmed Palestinians, Occupying Palestinians land, Kidnapping Palestinians, Torturing them, etc.).\nZionists claiming Anti-Zionism's Jews are disgusting, because Zionists thinking all of Jews should be Israel's followers and supporting it, otherwise they are traitors.\n\nAnyway, Among Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, etc are some extremists.\nThe main problem occurs while these kind of people ridding a country like Israel.
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Complex problems usually don't have simple answers (like 'they tried to throw the Palestinians out).\n\nFor over 3,000 years, Jews have held the Land of Israel to be their homeland, both as a Holy Land and as a Promised Land. The Land of Israel holds a special place in Jewish religious obligations, encompassing Judaism's most important sites — including the remains of the First and Second Temple, as well as the rites concerning those temples. [2] Starting around 1200 BCE, a series of Jewish kingdoms and states existed intermittently in the region for over a millennium. Recent archeological evidence suggests that the kingdoms of King David and King Solomon may have existed. [3]\n\nUnder Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and (briefly) Sassanian rule, Jewish presence in the province dwindled due to mass expulsions. In particular, the failure of the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Roman Empire resulted in widescale expulsion of Jews. It was during this time that the Romans gave the name Syria Palaestina to the geographic area, in an attempt to erase Jewish ties to the land. The Mishnah and Jerusalem Talmud, two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were composed in the region during this period. The Arabs conquered the land from the Eastern Roman Empire in 638 CE. The area was ruled by various Arab states (interrupted by the rule of the Crusaders) before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517.\n\nThroughout the centuries, the size of the Jewish population in the land fluctuated widely. Circa 1881, in the region approximating present-day Israel, the Jewish population numbered approximately 20–25,000 of a total population of 470,000.[citation needed] Since 1844, in Jerusalem the Jews have constituted the largest of several ethno-religious groups.[citation needed] By 1896, they were an absolute majority of the population\n\n\nThe rise of Nazism in 1933 led to a fifth wave of Aliyah. The Jews in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by 1940. The subsequent Holocaust in Europe led to additional immigration from other parts of Europe. By the end of World War II, the number of Jews in Palestine was approximately 600,000.\n\nIn 1939, the British abandoned the idea of a Jewish national home, and abandoned partition and negotiations in favour of the White Paper of 1939, which limited Jewish immigration and restricted purchase of land by Jews. Its other stated policy was to establish a system under which both Jews and Arabs were to share one government. The plan was never fully implemented because of a combination of resistance from the Jews and Arabs and Britain's pre-occupation with Europe and World War II. However, the White Paper guided British policy until the end of the term of their Mandate. As a result, many Jews fleeing to Palestine to avoid Nazi persecution and the holocaust were intercepted and returned to Europe. Two specific examples of this policy involved the ships Struma and Exodus[4]. These attempts by Jews to circumvent the blockade and flee Europe became known as Aliya Beth.\n\nIn 1947, following increasing levels of violence by militant groups together with unsuccessful efforts to reconcile the Jewish and Arab populations, the British government decided to withdraw from the Palestine Mandate. The UN General Assembly approved the 1947 UN Partition Plan dividing the territory into two states, Jewish and Arab, giving about half the land area to each state. Jerusalem was planned to be an international region administered by the UN to avoid conflict over its status.\n\n\nImmediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the UN General Assembly (on November 29, 1947), the Arab leadership rejected the plan and launched a guerilla war that included attacks on Jewish civilians. The Irgun Tsvai Leumi retaliated with attacks on Arabs, including Arab civilians.\n\nOn May 14, 1948, before the expiry of the British Mandate of Palestine at midnight of May 15, 1948,
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First of all, Israel is a multi-racial country made up of Jews from every corner of the world. Jews come in every color.\n\nAnd yes, Israel putting too much trust in non-Jewish world leaders could be dangerous.
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hellooo - the Jews do not "occupy" Israel - another myth.  A Zionist is someone who believes that just like EVERY OTHER person on the planet, they deserve a homeland where they can fell free and safe.
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i support zionism.  everybody deserves a home, but where can the jewish people go?  now they have Isreal, so they should keep it.  but that land was arab land, taken from other people.  who has the right to decide who gets what land? well, mabey superpowers :).  i am truely happy for the jewish people that they finally got a place to call home after thousands of years of hardship and opression.  i hope Isreal lives a long and prosperous life as on of the only civilized countries in the Middle East region.
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The answer is partly religious and partly economic.\n\nThe Jews are historically one of the tribes of Israel and the popular belief amongst Christians is that it was the Jews who decided that Jesus (who was himself a Jew) should be put to death by crucifixion. This lead to centuries of dislike of jews by European christians.\n\nAlso from biblical times onwards Jews became prolific traders and merchants throughout Europe and the new worlds, displaying a talent for business, but a reputation for being mean and penny pinching. This is a consequence of any immigrant population becoming succesful in front of the indigineous people. It breeds jealousy.\n\nTherefore as the years rolled on, and jews became more distributed around the world, but simultaenously very succesful in business and politics resentment also built up and they became figures of hate and ridicule in most european countries.\n\nClearly that came very much to a head follwoing the German surrender in the first world war, where many Germans believed that they had been betrayed by Jewish German industrialists, when the German Army hadnt actually been defeated.\n\nThis led to the rise of the Nazi's and the systematic murder of 6 million german jews. Not as often reported but just as horrific was a similar campaign against Jews in Communist Russia. \n\nAfter WW2 the world community decided to give the Jews a homeland, back where they originally came from in a British adminstered area of North Africa called Palestine.\n\nSome of the other Arab tribes, who have now defined themselves as Palestinians took exception to this and have waged a 40 year war against the jews (Israelis). They have been helped in this by just about every other Arab country, but the Israelis have prevailed.\n\nThe sad thing is that Jews and Arabs both have a right to occupy that land as hiostorically thats where they both originated from.
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I'm not a real scholar on this but I'll give it a shot.  Jews have always been discriminated against.  I think in some european countries they were barred from holding land, so over time they became involved in finances and banking.  When people in Germany were getting their homes forclosed during the depressions there, they blamed the banks, and therefore the Jews.  Political leaders were able to stir up this hatred pretty easily and from there I don't know what the heck happened.  It's like everyone suddenly lost their morality!  \n\nI welcome corrections from anyone, I just repeating what I think I read.
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No, world domination has never been and is not a Jewish legacy nor destiny. You will note Jews never waged aggressive war on any enemy outside their borders once Israel was established initially and have not taken land that was not part of the original kingdom since, although Egypt argues the Sinai was an encroachment.
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Start your study with this "crash course in Jewish history"\nhttp://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/
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Meshuggah has been done.\nWhat about the Kosher Kids?  Kosher Killers?  Yeshivah Yah-Yah?  the Dreidel Spinners?  Bar Mitzvah Boys?  Bar Mitzvah Badasses?  Rabbi Rangers?  Rabbinical Radicals?  Rabbis Rock?  The Schmoikels?  Oy Vey!
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I suggest you go to www.asktherabbi.org\nThey have a team of wonderful Rabbis.
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the british wanted nothing to do with the zionist movement, and if you haven't noticed, europe was decidedly more hostile to the Jews far before the Arab world decided to start blowing them up. remember the holocaust? you should also remember that the british fought against the zionist movement that became the state of Israel, but simply didn't have the political will to defeat it. another thing that you should think about: if you were the Jews, and had been mass murdered in one continent, none of the other continents let you take refuge there either, and had a historical homeland close-by, wouldn't you flee there too?
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Christian Zionists believe that the presence of a Jewish state in the Middle East is a pre-requisite for the 2nd coming of Christ.  if you're curious, read the link.
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To get this straight you need to disregard the Jewish version of history that has bombarded us for years. They portray themselves as innocent victims of Arab hostility and terror, when the truth is more nearly the exact opposite. In the early 1900s there were very few Jews in the area of Canaan, or Palestine, with perhaps 100 orthodox Jewish rabbis in Jerusalem and scattered numbers of Jews elsewhere in the region.  But to go to the very beginning one must look to Russia in the early 1880s during the time of the Pogroms in which mobs attacked Jews and Jewish businesses.  Out of all this persecution was born the idea of a return to the Jewish homeland, personified in the writings of Theodor Herzl and others.  Eventually came the Balfour Declaration out of England, which finally sponsored the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine (places like Ethiopia and Argentina had been considered by the British as possible sites for a new Jewish homeland).  Through the 1920s waves of Jewish immigrants began flocking to the region, and at some point the new arrivals, who initially began buying land from the indigenous Arabs, abandoned that practice and began resorting to outright theft. By the end of the Second World War the seeds of the conflict had been sown.  In the year 1948 alone, Zionists destroyed well over 400 Arab villages, driving away or killing the inhabitants and creating the first groups of Arab refugees.  This taking of Arab land and the massacres that took place was an act of genocide by the Jews directed against the Arab population, yet it is something that Jewish historians seem to have forgotten.  But it was this taking of land and the massacres of entire Arab villages by the Zionists that is the real basis for the conflict in the Middle East.  The Jews, who seem to have wiped their collective memory clean, claim to be themselves innocent victims of Arab attacks.  So today, when you see a suicide bomber blowing up in a Jewish city, it is a revenge for Jewish atrocities from 60 or 70 years ago, and NOT an unprovoked attack as the Jews claim.\n\nI have a complete list of the Arab towns and villages destroyed by the Jews in 1948, and it makes pretty harrowing reading.  These Jews are no innocent people.