“People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually, the failure to make decisions is one of life’s biggest mistakes.” These words were said by Rabbi Noah Weinberg, and basically sum up the Jewish course throughout history. For centuries, the Jewish communities have been judged and attacked throughout the world. This conflict began when the Jews were being oppressed, forced to live in deprived places (doc. 4), with their rights taken away. They were criticized and sometimes punished for their efforts to remain a separate social and religious group. This act stimulated anti-Semitism. Because of the immense threat, the Jews were pushed into to find a safe home, Israel, their homeland. Jews began buying land in Palestine,
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To start off, we ought to support that it has a right to the land, because God promised the presently debated land from the time of Abraham onward. In Genesis 13:14-17, the Bible says: "The Lord said to Abram, 'Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, southward, eastward and westward: for all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your seed forever... Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee." - the land stated is the West Bank. Secondly, the Jewish homeland was also promised by the United Kingdom . The famous declaration was published in the press in November 7 of 1917 (Wikipedia) and cites: "His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country" (doc. c). This shows that the United Nations supports fully the concept of getting the unfortunate Jews a home, and protect them from any upheavals. Not only was Israel promised by many, it also got full support from others. Finally, United States fully collaborates …show more content…
We know there was an Israel up until the time of the Roman Empire, when the destruction of Judea by Emperor Hadrian forced the jews to go into diaspora or slavery. Its inhabitants were driven from the land in two dispersions: One in 70 A.D. and the other in 135 A.D. From that point on, Israel had no place to stay. Subsequently, 1800 years later, they started buying land and migrated back to their homeland . When the jews began to migrate to Palestine in large numbers in 1882, fewer than 250,000 Palestinians lived there (doc. 6). In fact, Palestine did not even exist as a specific entity within the empire (doc. 1) (3). No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine (The Jerusalem Post). The representative of the Arab Higher Committee submitted a statement which said: "Palestine was part of the Province of Syria," and that "politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity." Later, Ahmed Shuqeiri, the chairman of the PLO, told the Security Council: "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." Thus, the jews simply reclaimed their homeland, which did not belong to any empire. Israel was and will always be the Jewish people's
To start off, we ought to support that it has a right to the land, because God promised the presently debated land from the time of Abraham onward. In Genesis 13:14-17, the Bible says: "The Lord said to Abram, 'Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, southward, eastward and westward: for all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your seed forever... Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee." - the land stated is the West Bank. Secondly, the Jewish homeland was also promised by the United Kingdom . The famous declaration was published in the press in November 7 of 1917 (Wikipedia) and cites: "His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country" (doc. c). This shows that the United Nations supports fully the concept of getting the unfortunate Jews a home, and protect them from any upheavals. Not only was Israel promised by many, it also got full support from others. Finally, United States fully collaborates …show more content…
We know there was an Israel up until the time of the Roman Empire, when the destruction of Judea by Emperor Hadrian forced the jews to go into diaspora or slavery. Its inhabitants were driven from the land in two dispersions: One in 70 A.D. and the other in 135 A.D. From that point on, Israel had no place to stay. Subsequently, 1800 years later, they started buying land and migrated back to their homeland . When the jews began to migrate to Palestine in large numbers in 1882, fewer than 250,000 Palestinians lived there (doc. 6). In fact, Palestine did not even exist as a specific entity within the empire (doc. 1) (3). No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine (The Jerusalem Post). The representative of the Arab Higher Committee submitted a statement which said: "Palestine was part of the Province of Syria," and that "politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity." Later, Ahmed Shuqeiri, the chairman of the PLO, told the Security Council: "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." Thus, the jews simply reclaimed their homeland, which did not belong to any empire. Israel was and will always be the Jewish people's