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What statement best defines the term Zionism?
Zionism is a movement that supports the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the region of historic Palestine. It emphasizes the right of Jewish people to self-determination and a secure state in the land of Israel.
What are the Jewish people against?
A free Palestine to start..............
What is the significance of Palestine to judaism and Hebrew people?
"Palestine" is the name the Romans gave to Israel after they expelled the Jews in 70 CE. Israel was and still is the Jewish homeland.The Romans chose the name "Palestine" after an enemy of the Jewish people, called the Philistines.
Why do Jews believe they have a right to Palestine?
It's the historic Jewish homeland.It's the equivalent of asking why there are Poles in Poland or Greeks in Greece. Additionally, the Jewish State of Israel is there, which incentivizes Jews to return to the territory.
Who were the people who favored the Jewish national homeland in Palestine?
Zionists
Prior to the Partition of Palestine what percentage of the population was Jewish?
In 1946 roughly 1/3 of the population of Mandatory Palestine was Jewish, roughly 600,000 people of a total population of 1.85 million people.
Why is the land so important to the Arab-Israeli Conflict?
For the Israelis, Israel is both the historic Jewish Homeland and the land the God had promised to the Jewish people. For the Arabs, Palestine is their ancestral home and the place that was hallowed through Mohammed's ascension to heaven at Al-Aqsa.
Why do some people call the land Israel by the name Palestine?
The modern country of Israel was formed in 1948 within the borders of what had been the historic region of Palestine. The term had existed for two thousand years, ever since the Romans named it Syria-Palaestina as punishment for the Jewish Revolts.
Why do Jews regard Palestine as their rightful home?
It is their historic homeland. Ahad Ha'am explains that the Jewish Soul is intrinsically connected to his history and in the same way that a German-American can never be as properly German as a German in Germany, the People of Israel can never be as properly Jewish if they are not in the Land of Israel. The relics in that land speak to a Jewish sensibility and character.
What was decided about Palestine as a home for the Jews?
The League of Nations approved the British Mandate for Palestine as a national home for the Jewish People as early as 1919.
The Jewish people called their new home Israel but to the Muslims the area was part of what?
Palestine
What was the declaration in 1917 for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people?
Balfour Declaration of 1917.
