When life gives you lemons what do you do with them? The obvious and cliche answer would be you make lemonade. But what happens when life gives you tasks or burdens that prove themselves to be nothing but a pain and a struggle? You fight them because that is your only chance of getting rid of them. Perhaps one of the best examples of this would be the partitioning of Israel in 1948. Before 1948 there was no country known as Israel, there was no state for Jews, there was no place that all followers of Judaism could call home. So when World War II concluded the United Nations declared that the Palestinians would have to abandon parts of their land so that the Jewish people could form their own country named Israel; consequently, the Palestinians as well as many surrounding Arab countries were absolutely furious.
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Some of the earliest movements back to the land that had once belonged to the Jewish people long ago began as early as 1904, forty-four years before the Jews were actually given their own country. In the 1920’s and 30’s the Jewish movement back to the Middle East truly began to ignite surrounding countries’ fury. According to Gale Student Resources “This population movement led to conflicts with the Arabs already inhabiting Palestine that the British could not settle. There were armed battles as Jews protected kibbutzim (agricultural settlements) from attacks by Arabs, beginning in the 1920s and continuing through the founding of Israel” (Birth of
Some of the earliest movements back to the land that had once belonged to the Jewish people long ago began as early as 1904, forty-four years before the Jews were actually given their own country. In the 1920’s and 30’s the Jewish movement back to the Middle East truly began to ignite surrounding countries’ fury. According to Gale Student Resources “This population movement led to conflicts with the Arabs already inhabiting Palestine that the British could not settle. There were armed battles as Jews protected kibbutzim (agricultural settlements) from attacks by Arabs, beginning in the 1920s and continuing through the founding of Israel” (Birth of