Month: October 2017

After Israel was made a Jewish State in 1948 there was militant resistance from the Arab population living there. Many of these Arabs would be displaced as the British and Jewish forces began moving into their cities and towns. It would decades before some of these Arabs had the chance to return and visit their …

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Palestine past World War II is a tricky subject. Those who lived their all of a sudden had to deal with other groups of displaced Jews coming into their land and taking it for themselves because other governments claimed it was their right. When people started to move into that area it was not a […]

In 1948, Israel declared itself a free and independent nation following the conclusion of the British Mandate for Palestine. This immediately led to a bloody war between Israel, Palestinians within the former mandate, and the surrounding Arab countries. The British made no effort to maintain peace and hastily withdrew the small amount of British forces …

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“His blue American passport allowed him to sit on the beach where he swam as a boy with dolphins and turtles, the beach his mother could see from her window as she drank her coffee. It was his unthreatening white hair and turtleneck shirts that allowed him to pass as a foreigner, not a dangerous […]

Post World War II, many Holocaust survivors and displaced Jews in Europe were without homes and felt as if they could never escape anti-Semitism. These Jews were enticed by the already-existing Zionist movement, a movement that believed that Judaism was not only a religion but a nationality that deserved a state, so Zionists were working […]

  The Middle East was a turbulent place following the end of World War with the formation of new states in the area.  The most controversial of the states created was that of Israel because it took land form the Arab state of Palestine.  Israel took more land from Palestine through an attack after the […]

As the British made their exit out of the lands that would be Israel, many Arabs had to deal with a new colonial power through the Jews. The Jews began to take the land that the British had given them out from underneath Palestinians who had called this place home. This week’s readings gave a …

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After World War II, the Holocaust and the war itself had left millions of Jews without places to call home. Of course, the real place they called home, Israel, was already taken by the Palestinians. Many people focus on the efforts made by the Jews and international organizations to create the state of Israel, and …

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The end of World War II marked the end of an era in many ways but one of those ways was that this was effectively the end of large empires and distant colonies. One of the most famous examples of…

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“NATURAL AND HISTORIC RIGHT”  Tel Aviv, May 14. 1948 “In a subued atmosphere caused by Jewish military reverses in the last 48 hours, Mr. David Ben-Gurion, Premier of the new provisonal Government, to-day read the proclamation of independence and creation of the Jewish State of Israel” – Manchester Guardian 1948 Throughout the Western World papers … Continue reading →