Before World War Two, and before the devastation of the Holocaust, the British ruled the land of Palestine, and in 1933 The Haarava Agreement was signed between Palestine and Nazi Germany where a treaty was signed that allowed this land to be the National Jewish Home. Because of the war, and Britain’s hateful relationship with Germany, they lost their National Home. German Jews had rights in Palestine that even if they weren’t granted them in Germany, they still received them there. In the Prewar years, they had a good relationship and still remained trade partners. The Nazi’s began to punish the Jewish Germans for not leaving and going to Palestine while they still had the chance. (Segev, 18) The Yishuv began watching this treatment closely, realizing that Germany was now breaking it’s ties with Palestine.
In 1946, Zionists began to fight back. Thousands of young Jewish kibbutz members began moving; they where learning to plow the land that they hoped would soon be theirs once again. The Zionist youth survivors of the Holocaust had a goal, and that goal was to move back to Palestine and live in a world surrounded and protected by other Jewish people. These survivors, wanted their Holy Land to be given back to them, it was what they had been promised.
Even today, matters in Palestine are all over the place. Palestine is a historically religious place and it remains divided by many people. For a long time, Christians, Muslims and Jews have gone to war over whose sacred land Palestine really is. During the early 1900s, Palestine was a safety net for the Jews that was taken away from them by Nazi Germany.
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Segev, Tom. The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. Print.
