Sharing The Promised Land
In order to fully explain the history of a Jewish Israeli state one must date back almost sixty years prior to the Declaration and recognition of Israel to 1881, a date in history, which marks the mass migration of East European Jews. The next 50 years will explain where the animosity towards Jewish Israel has stemmed from and then the following fifty years will explain why the animosity has remained and only grown. In addition to this, after May 1948 the ideas and anger between the Arabic nations and Israel have not diminished. Israeli-Arabic conflict may not have decreased throughout the years but the reasons and politics behind the disagreements have. The causes of and the effects of religious conflicts between nations are both social and political.
In 1181, 2.5 million Jews are believed to have moved west and another 2 million had moved to the United States by the beginning of the First World War. These mass migrations are later explained at the Dreyfus Affair in France. A legal trial that lasted over ten years uncovers a deep anti-Semitic feeling in Eastern Europe. Theodore Herzl is a reporter at these trials and as a result of what is discovered during the Dreyfus affair in 1896 writes The Jewish State. A short document that calls for the recreation of a Jewish nation. Herzl is immediately propelled into Jewish stardom and in response to this document the political movement known as Zionism is created. Herzl later is considered the father of the political revolution.
A year later in 1897 the First Zionist Congress is created in Basle, Switzerland. This Congress is brought together under the pretences that it is going to organize the faith and give Judaism one voice. Prior to this first Congress the religion is governed by the actions of many and the future of the religion is not certain. In addition to accomplishing this task, the Congress declares that Palestine is the Jewish homeland. This is the first time...
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