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Given the current state of affairs in the Middle East, how is this question truly answered.
. Did the Holocaust Play a Role in the Establishment of the State of Israel?
Link 01: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/Research/Proseminar/tomerkleinman.htm
Link 02: http://www.jewishagency.org/meanings/content/24009
"The British, who held a colonial mandate for Palestine until May 1948, opposed both the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state in Palestine as well as unlimited immigration of Jewish refugees to the region."
"Although the United States supported the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which favored the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had assured the Arabs in 1945 that the United States would not intervene without consulting both the Jews and the Arabs in that region."
"But the State of Israel did NOT come about because of the Holocaust! 2,000 years of yearning and prayer and 50 years of intensive Zionist activities preceded it and was essential to the State becoming a reality."
"If anything the Holocaust almost destroyed the natural hinterland of the Zionist movement and nearly <solved the Jewish problem> in a lethal fashion. Had the Nazis fulfilled their intentions and all of the Jews of Europe and the Middle East had been murdered in the Death Camps would anyone have argued for the pressing need of an Independent Jewish State for the Jews of America?"
"It would be nice to say that the Zionist organization and the desire of the Jewish people were enough to create Israel, but realistically, Israel needed outside help. The Holocaust provided resources for Israel, which helped Israel survive for over half a century. A lot of the success is due to the reparations given by West Germany to Israel and the continuation of trade between the two countries."
@JbModest, @abiG
Given the current state of affairs in the Middle East, how is this question truly answered.
. Did the Holocaust Play a Role in the Establishment of the State of Israel?
Link 01: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/Research/Proseminar/tomerkleinman.htm
Link 02: http://www.jewishagency.org/meanings/content/24009
"The British, who held a colonial mandate for Palestine until May 1948, opposed both the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state in Palestine as well as unlimited immigration of Jewish refugees to the region."
"Although the United States supported the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which favored the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had assured the Arabs in 1945 that the United States would not intervene without consulting both the Jews and the Arabs in that region."
"But the State of Israel did NOT come about because of the Holocaust! 2,000 years of yearning and prayer and 50 years of intensive Zionist activities preceded it and was essential to the State becoming a reality."
"If anything the Holocaust almost destroyed the natural hinterland of the Zionist movement and nearly <solved the Jewish problem> in a lethal fashion. Had the Nazis fulfilled their intentions and all of the Jews of Europe and the Middle East had been murdered in the Death Camps would anyone have argued for the pressing need of an Independent Jewish State for the Jews of America?"
"It would be nice to say that the Zionist organization and the desire of the Jewish people were enough to create Israel, but realistically, Israel needed outside help. The Holocaust provided resources for Israel, which helped Israel survive for over half a century. A lot of the success is due to the reparations given by West Germany to Israel and the continuation of trade between the two countries."
@JbModest, @abiG
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