Zionism: Jewish Sovereignty In The Land Of Israel

Zionism is a complex but simple movement. In its simplest form it calls for a re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, in gathering of the exiles, and liberation of Jews from the anti-Semitic discrimination and persecution that occurred in their Diaspora. In a sense of Jews with their own nation taking care of their own for their own cause. The waters were muddied and the movement took on many ideologies, and had evolved in a dialogue among a plethora of ideologies: General Zionism, Religious Zionism, Labor Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, Green Zionism sides two distinct sides were the root both political and a religious ideologies being the driving force. From a secular political ideological aspect Zionism is shown to have resulted in the creation of Israel after the atrocities of World War I as well as World War II, a combination of Kibbutz, secular against religious Jews. …show more content…
He argued, if Jews were forced by external pressure to form a nation, they could lead a normal existence only through concentration in one territory. Upon the outbreak of World War I, political Zionism reasserted itself, and its leadership passed to Russian Jews living in England. Two such Zionists, Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow, were instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration from Great Britain, which promised British support for the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine. The declaration was included in Britain’s League of Nations mandate over