from: History; In:
Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971,
vol. 8
presented by Michael Palomino (2007)
[1948: Arab attacks under British
leadership]
<ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF
ISRAEL
[[The Jews come from one war (in Europe) to the next one (against the
Arabs), as it was written in the Herzl book "The Jewish State". And the
British don't want to loose their oil connections with the Arabs and
want to preserve their Empire. So the British support the Arabs...]]
When war broke out on May 15, 1948, with the proclamation of the
establishment of the State of *Israel, the armies of seven Arab states
invaded the territory intended for the Jewish state. In a series of
battles, during which they had to organize and improvise under fire,
the Jews repelled these armies. They proved in the process the value of
their underground organizations and of the approximately 25,000 trained
men who had fought in one way or another in World War II, as well as
the valor of thousands of volunteers who flocked from many Diaspora
countries to fight for their nation.
The *War of Independence, in its two phases (interrupted by a
short-lived cease-fire), not only enabled the State of Israel to exist;
its course also changed the map of the proposed Jewish state in the
latter's favor. The borders of the Rhodes *armistice of 1949 were much
more viable than those of the U.N. resolution of 1947. The war took a
toll of thousands of lives. In besieged Jerusalem alone about 1,600
civilians were killed by the shellings of the Jordanian Arab Legion,
then commanded by British officers.
[Arabs proclaim jihad - boycott of
Israel - and more Jews from Asia and Africa feel attracted by warrior
Zionism with technique of 20th century]
Since then the State of Israel has been surrounded by the hostility of
the Arab world, which considers itself at war with Israel and likes to
think of Israel as being in a state of siege to be ended with Arab
victory. The Arabs not only proclaim a
*jihad against Israel but also
organize systematically, as a matter of declared policy, an anti-Israel
economic boycott (see Arab Anti-Israel *Boycott). The attitude of the
Arabs was to see the State of Israel as a "non-state", destined
ultimately for obliteration.
This Arab hostility brought about the consummation of the process of
the "Ingathering of the Exiles" from the Muslim countries, which had
already begun well before World War I. The enthusiasm of Yemen Jews for
aliyah had been manifested
from ancient times, and began to be realized with the stimulus given by
the mission of Shemuel *Yavnieli.
After the War of Independence almost all went to Israel: for many of
them their air flight was an abrupt (col. 770)
transition from conditions of tenth-century Muslim technology and life
to the 20th-century society of Israel. Their adjustment was
miraculously rapid and successful. Yemen Jewry has enriched Israel
culture with its traditions in song and dance, colorful dress and
customs.
The Jews of Syria and Iraq remained in continuous contact with Erez
Israel. They made up a not inconsiderable part of the "illegal
immigration" during the mandatory period - often undergoing danger and
persecution in the countries of departure. After the establishment of
the state they left for Israel "illegally", having to organize
self-defense and underground movement in circumstances of mob hostility
and brutal persecution by the state. Most of them had to abandon all
their possessions to go to Israel (see also *Asia, *Iraq, "*Illegal"
Immigration; *Syria). A large number of the Jews in Iran also left the
country, though they did not face state enmity there. (col. 771)
With the increase of hostility in North Africa many - though by no
means all - of the Jews there went to Israel. This ingathering has
created, for the first time since the dispersion of the Jews, a meeting
of the diverse varieties of Jewish culture and social life that have
crystallized over a period of at least 2,000 years in widely differing
environments and circumstances. A vast, almost unprecedented, process
of reacquaintance, and mutual acculturation has thus begun, and is, it
seems, successfully under way. The Hebrew language, the educational
system, and army service, serve as accelerating and cementing factors,
though there remains still much tension and misunderstanding between
the various elements.
[The fantasy of a "human" Israel]
To Jews everywhere the creation of the State of Israel was not only a
reassertion of their humanity, but a fulfillment and obligation to
strive for further human and (col. 772)
Jewish perfection and service. This has been stated as follows:
To sum up: the political rebirth of
Israel is the very essence of Jewish history. She has absorbed into
herself the experiences and activities of generations, the covenant of
generations. She has renewed the covenant with the land out of a
longing, through the creation of a new community, to develop the
Covenant of Man into an Eternal Covenant (B.Z. Dinur: Israel and the
Diaspora (1969), 186)
[[The glorification of "humanity" in Zionist Free Mason Herzl Israel is
a big lie: Israel is not at all a state of "humanity", and is not
fulfilling any obligation concerning "humanity". The Jewish army is
putting the Palestinians into ghettos, is violating Palestinian women,
is putting Palestinians into desert concentration camps, is acting with
the CIA of the "USA" with the modernest weapons etc. Israel is
converted into an experiment territory for the "US" military
department, which is always prepared for any further war for expansion
for a "Greater Israel". At the end the atomic bomb is headed against
the Arabs, and the Arabs are with the Soviet Union's atomic bombs which
are headed against Israel. And every Jew has to pass 3 years military
service, men and women. So, this is not "humanity" at all, and the
middle course with Human Rights is never discussed and never found
though the Human Rights are working in Europe since 1948...]]
In this period the State of Israel victoriously stood up to two wars
(in 1956, in the *Sinai Campaign; in 1967 in the *Six-Day War). It
carried the burden of terror tactics and guerrilla warfare almost
continuously. At the same time it gathered in hundreds of thousands of
Jews from the Arab states, and as the behavior of the population has
shown during the Six-Day War of 1967, it succeeded within this short
span in imbuing most of them with its ethos and with serviceable
acquaintance of European technology and scientific methods in the
conduct of affairs.
[[The German money for the Jewish victims 1941-1945 was used for the
purchase of modern military equipment with the aim of a "Greater
Israel". But international propaganda did not want a "Greater Israel"
and in 1976 Sinai was rendered to Egypt]].
This state has up to the present proved democratic in the full sense of
the term, in its conduct of the political process and the freedom of
press and discussion. Hebrew culture is continuously developing. In the
*Law of Return (1950) the state asserted its basic Jewishness in
proclaiming that every Jew has the right to go there and become its
citizen. The State of Israel is not only far from being besieged to all
practical intents and purposes but has become one of the important
advisers to developing countries in Africa and Asia
Basically secular, it does much toward maintaining links to Jewish law
and tradition, though the extent of this application is at the center
of heated public discussion.> (col. 773)
[[Israel Zionists were acting with Ethiopia against Eritrea. And
Herzl's book with aim to drive all Arabs away is never prohibited, and
the frontier of the Euphrates in First Mose chapter 15 phrase 18 is not
omitted until now. A middle course with Human Rights without a
partition of the land is never discussed until today, and this is
really very sad... (2007)]].
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Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971: Historia, vol. 8, col. 769-770
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Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971: Historia, vol. 8, col. 771-772
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