Israel

Answer 1

If the "religious" claim of the Zionists is true that they were to be led to the promised land by their messiah, and Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfilment of that prophesy: where is their messiah whom their prophets said would get the credit for leading them there? It was Ralph Bunche who "negotiated" the Zionists into possession of Occupied Palestine! Is Ralph Bunche the messiah of Zionism? If Ralph Bunche is not their messiah, and their messiah has not yet come, then what are they doing in Palestine ahead of their messiah?

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Answer 2

It depends on how low you set the bar for being a Zionist. Most people do not consider Ralph Bunche a Zionist since he did not advocate for the creation, maintenance, or desirability of a Jewish State. There are those who say that mere recognition of the State of Israel makes someone a Zionist, which would make every non-Islamic government (and some Islamic ones like Egypt and Jordan) de facto Zionists for recognizing Israel and would make the term "Zionist" useless.

The one major pro-Israeli action that he took was negotiating a ceasefire between the Egyptian and Israeli forces in 1949 at Egypt's request. He received the Nobel Prize specifically for the way he held that negotiation. Bunche did this in his general capacity as a part of the US State Department and not to protect either Israel or Egypt. Bunche had nothing to do with UN Resolution 181 (II) which created the UN Partition Plan nor did he have anything to do with US President Truman's endorsement of Israel.

To respond to the nonsense in answer 1, the entire point of modern Zionism was that secular Jews were tired of waiting for the Messiah and therefore chose to realize their own return to the Land of Israel without waiting. The religious Zionists (which was a movement that came over 50 years later) say that the current secular country of Israel is merely the forerunner of a religious state whose establishment would bring the Messiah. It took the extra fifty years because of the exact problem of supporting a return to Israel without the Messiah in religious Judaism.

Answer 1

Israel was "set up" to give the Jewish people a homeland, a nation after the Holocaust of WW2. If you remember during the war the Jews had nowhere to flee, being persecuted in the countries they had lived for generations. Some could not leave these countries. They could not get out and had no place to go from the persecution. Other European countries would not take them, some did flee to the USA in time. Because of the Holocaust and the horrendous things done to the Jewish people, after the war, through British mandate Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948. Never again will they be a people without a nation with nowhere to flee. It is His will, according to the scriptures, the word of God..

Answer 2

Jews wanted their own country. So they went to Palestine, killed a lot of people, forced out a lot more people, and took the land. They changed the name from Palestine to Israel. Now the Jews have a country but the Palestinians don't. Some people call this theft; some people call it God swill.

Answer 3

Who set up Israel? - Jewish Zionists, non-Jewish Zionists, and collaborators acting in personal, national, or strategic interest.

How was Israel set up? - Israel came into being through a very interesting historical trajectory. Britain created the Mandate of Palestine with the initial intention that it would be a future Jewish state as discussed in the Balfour Declaration. In 1939, Britain issued the White Papers, limiting Jewish immigration to the land and ostensibly going back on their word. After World War II, when the colonial empires were shrinking, Britain continued to deny the Jews a right to a State. This resulted in Jewish violence in the territory. (There was already Arab violence and independence movements in the territory.) Britain ceded the question to the United Nations whose general assembly approved the binding UN Resolution 181 providing for the Declaration of a Jewish State and an Arab State in the Mandate of Palestine. The Arabs rejected this Resolution and argued that they would not consider it (even though it was International Law). The Jews, at the discretion and right given them by the UN Resolution, declared an independent Jewish State.

Why was the Jewish State set up? - To protect the Jewish people from the non-Jewish world which has consistently historically attacked them, murdered them, forcibly converted them, and made their lives a living hell in some cases. The Holocaust proved that even modern Western countries could be prone to such malicious Anti-Semitic Activities.

Answer 1

Yes, because they had to lose land, and now they want to take over Israel.

Answer 2

Yes. However, there was also fighting in the Middle East long before Israel became a state. In fact, the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict go back to the first settlements of Zionist Jews in Ottoman Palestine who were rejected and attacked by the Muslim Palestinians.

It is also worth noting that the Arab-Israeli Conflict, while garnering a lot of news, is nowhere near the biggest conflict in the Middle East. The Iran-Iraq War alone killed more people than have died in all of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Wars put together and more Syrians have died in this current Syrian Civil War than Palestinians have died in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Arab-Palestinian Conflict put together. Israel's existence did not create war in what had been a peaceful place, but just created some new wars where there were quite a number of extant conflicts already.

Answer 1

Because unfortunately the ongoing conflict in the middle east is fueled not only by the warring factions but also the military industrial complex.The M.I.C relies upon conflict for its existence so will not allow any action that may end that conflict.This is why there is continual war.For the foreseeable future Israeli-Palestinian Conflict will continue.

Answer 2

It's not an issue concerning the Military Industrial Complex. In order to "give up" or "concede", you have to give the other side whatever it wants. Israeli and Palestinian extremists think that they are in the right and will fight to defend themselves without question. Moderates on both sides also recognize that this conflict, if not given a balanced solution will result in an existential crisis for one or both of the parties. This would be untenable.

The poor often ate coarse bread made from barley. Grain was ground to flour by women using millstones. They liked eating fruit.

In modern day Israel I doubt there are really 'poor' people as such,so I think that they would generally eat an average Kosher diet if they were Jewish.

Judaism teaches that a Man should do everything in his power to achieve Divakut, a perfect cleaving to God and the Divine Will. The Messiah brings the Kingdom of God to the Earthly plane making this cleavage far easier and far more natural. The strictures of the Jewish religion will no longer be necessary in the Messianic Age because the connection to God that they are intended to foster will occur without them. Therefore, the people of Israel were awaiting the Messiah. In addition, during the Roman Period, the Jews were being persecuted by the Romans for their beliefs and wished for the safety and security that the Messianic Age would bring.

As for the Christian answer, there is a gross misinterpretation of the original, and continuing, Jewish premise for the Messiah as explained in the first paragraph here. The Messiah was not going to Unite the World by conquest. He was going to Unite the World by merely existing and building the Kingdom of God. Everyone would recognize who he was and what his purpose was. It the failure to do this (among other Messianic requirements such as making lions and lambs exist peacefully, ending all conflict, ending disease, and ending the night) that prevented and still prevents Jews from accepting Jesus as their Savior. Jews fundamentally reject the notion that he could be the LORD for a variety of different, but similar reasons.

Answer 1

Jewish people had been migrating around for thousands of years without a homeland. Also, many people did not like the Jews being in their country (the most famous example being Hitler's Holocaust). Anti-Semitism was also very high during that time.

Answer 2

People felt pity on the Jews after the Holocaust.

Additionally, the Zionist movement lead by Theodor Herzl was able to establish a Jewish homeland, Israel.

Answer 3

Short Answer:

The hatred for the Jews kept them from living decent lives in Christian Europe and the Islamic world (Ottoman Empire then) with thousands being killed for their religion throughout the Middle Ages in Europe. Antisemitism has come to a peak with The Holocaust, an ongoing mass genocide committed by Nazi Germany on the Jews of all Europe, with 6 million of them being murdered.It was clear that the solution is the Jews having their own state, and as a big community of Jews has grown in Israel those days, the U.N decided to allow the Jews a home in a portion of this country. (It was the only logical place for a Jewish nation to be founded as a Jewish community was in the place, it is the homeland of the Jews and the majority of the place wasn't populated.)

Long Answer:

The idea of Israel and the founding of a country for the Jewish people is said to have been the idea of Theodor Herzl, as an answer to the problems of the Jews living in foreign lands, in Europe and in the ottoman empire. The Jews were not granted equal citizen rights in these foreign lands, and in christian Europe, were often persecuted for their religion and their ancestors' connection with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Antisemitism saw a significant rise in Europe in the late 19th century and on, coming to a peak in Nazi Germany and The Holocaust, in which about 6 million Jews were killed in an ongoing mass genocide committed by the Germans and partly by ally countries. After these horrific events, Jews were living in refugee camps in Europe, in terrible conditions, and even then, were killed by the hundreds for being Jewish in eastern Europe.

It was then, that the world has understood that the Jews must have their own state, protected by their own army, safe from persecution and having full citizen rights.

At the time, Jews that has left Europe in the early 20th century to follow the idea of Zionism (A modern state for the Jews) has established a flourishing community in Israel, alongside the Arabs in the place. Seeing Israel, and this community, as the only realistic place for the founding of this new state, the U.N. has decided Israel (or Palestine then) was to be divided between the Arabs and the Jews. The Arabs did not accept the decision and went to war for the land, but The Jews won the war, and declared an Independent Jewish Nation State - Israel.