Israel - but the idea that it was created 'in response to the holocaust' needs very careful scrutiny.
My Grandmother and Grandfather moved there after the Holocaust. They were Holocaust survivors.Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel, the US pressured Britain to allow 100,000 Jews held up in Cyprus to Palestine. The overwhelming majority were Holocaust Survivors. Additionally, according to Israeli Statistics, between 1948-1952, Israel absorbed 373,852 Holocaust Survivors.
it is not, it was created before the modern state of Israel and looks remarkably similar.
It was Israel in 1948
Israel's stability was not contingent on the Holocaust. Israel's stability came about as a result of the Armistice of 1949 with the Arab States in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9.
Israel - but the idea that it was created 'in response to the holocaust' needs very careful scrutiny.
At this time there was no state called 'Israel', but it refered to the people. The Holocaust changed the world view in that there was more sympathy for there to be a state for the people of Israel.
yes, in a sense. The modern state of Israel did not exist at the time of the Holocaust, Israel then only had one meaning: the Jewish people. Ie. all Jews were part of Israel.
NO, Israel was the name for the Jewish people. According to Judaism, when the Messiah comes, he will create a state which will be called Israel, it will be roughly where mortal gentiles thought that they had the right to call their state 'Israel', but this happened after the Holocaust.
Israel, and Germany paid reparations.
My Grandmother and Grandfather moved there after the Holocaust. They were Holocaust survivors.Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel, the US pressured Britain to allow 100,000 Jews held up in Cyprus to Palestine. The overwhelming majority were Holocaust Survivors. Additionally, according to Israeli Statistics, between 1948-1952, Israel absorbed 373,852 Holocaust Survivors.
It was the State of Israel
The incredible barbarity of the Holocaust made the presence and lethality of Anti-Semitism painfully apparent to everyone in the world which allowed for Zionists and their supporters to more successfully advocate for a Jewish State in Israel.
The relationship between the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel is more complex than is often suggested. The Holocaust was one significant factor. Another was the British Mandate to rule the area was due to expire anyway in 1948 and the United Nations had to make a decision about its future.
He recognized the State of Israel.
Israel is not a Jewish holocaust. No one in Israel has been systemically rounded up and put in to gas chambers.
it is not, it was created before the modern state of Israel and looks remarkably similar.