The Creation of Israel

The Creation of the State of Israel

I’m interested in exploring the concept that the increasing level of Jewish immigration into Palestine in the early to mid-20th century is one of the main reasons which lead to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The cause of the rise of Jewish immigration can fall under three forces. One force that aided in the rise of immigration and helped saw the population of Jews in Palestine to rise to 4% was Zionism. The second force is the British imperialism which following the Balfour Declaration allowed the Jewish population to rise to 11% during the war and to 17% in 1932. The third Force was the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis in the 1930’s and the Holocaust that followed which saw a rise in Jewish population in Palestine to become over 36% percent by 1948.

A key force which aided Jewish immigration leading to the creation of Israel was Zionism. Zionism is essentially Jewish Nationalism it is the belief that the Jewish are a people or nation, that they have a right to a homeland or state and that the location of that state by history or heritage is modern Israel. Some Zionists even see it as a divine right given by God to Moses and his descendants the Jews. Zionism caused the first Jewish immigration which increased the Jewish population in Palestine to 4%. The founder of Zionism is a man named Theodore Herzel in response to the rise in anti-Semitism and the recent Dreyfus case in France. One way in which Zionism influenced Jewish immigration was the world Zionist organizations creation of the Jewish national fund. This allowed Jews to purchase land in Palestine making way for immigration and settlement in the area. The Zionists then sponsored immigration and bought large amounts of...

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...inians they wanted to keep Israel so that another event like the Holocaust wouldn’t happen to them again.

In my opinion the creation of the State of Israel was caused by the increased population and immigration of Jewish people into Palestine, which in turn the rise of population was caused by three things, Zionism, or Jewish nationalism, British imperialism, and their attempts to conquer the Middle-east, and The Nazi persecution of the Jews along with the holocaust in World War two. The State of Israel was formed to create a place of safety for the Jews, a place for them to feel safe away from all of the anti-Semitists in the western world, and so that another event like the Holocaust wouldn’t happen to them, it also gave the Jews an identity, a homeland. So really the Creation of the State of Israel was caused by Jewish Nationalism, or the Jews wanting to unite.