The NEWER Official Discussion Thread for the creation of Israel, the UN and the British Mandate

[Sixties Fan]

• • · Giving 78% of the Jewish National Home to the Arabs in 1922
  • · Restricting Jewish immigration just before WW2, preventing the escape of millions of Jews from the Holocaust
  • · Imposing anti-Jewish “apartheid” laws restricting land purchase by Jews in most of Palestine
  • · Opposing the establishment of new Jewish settlements on Jewish-owned land.
  • · Britain backing the Arab Legion in 1948 leading to the illegal Jordanian occupation the Old City of Jerusalem and Judea & Samaria until 1967.
  • · Britain pushing other Arab states to invade Israel an attempt to annihilate her in 1948.
  • · British troops fighting against the Jews in the 1948 war.
• These British policies and actions went against their commitment to the League of Nations and against the Mandate for Palestine, i.e. against international law.
  The British have more reasons to apologize to the Jews than they do to the Arabs.

(full article online )

Britain Needs To Apologize To The Jews for What They Did During The Mandate, More Than To The Arabs (Tomer Ilan)

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[Sixties Fan]

Interesting question. Israel was lining up nicely with the Gulf States against the Iran Axis. With SA's fuck you to the US, how does that impact?

Being a Moderator, are you not off topic?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

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A Zionist Success 125 Years Later​

On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, it is time to take stock of what has unfolded so far. The ongoing Zionist revolution is one of the few from that era that have actually succeeded in effecting change in a radical way all the while constantly evolving to the emerging challenges.

It transformed the Jewish people and saved it from gradual dissolution into a group of Orthodox zealots and a fringe of assimilating Jews. It brought the Jewish people back into history as a nation that could stand on its own two feet and shape its future.

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The lay of the land at the outset had many obstacles that were seemingly insurmountable. After all, the vision included the establishment of national sovereignty for the Jews without meeting the pre-requisites: a functioning people, a national living language, and a concentration of Jews in the desired land. On top of that, there was active opposition to this effort by the locals.

A majority of the Jewish people were not an active part of this revolutionary vision. Only a small minority, including among its many supporters, were willing to step up to the plate and take action. The majority of rabbinical leaders opposed it and some of them even rejected the idea of returning to Zion, saying this was akin to blasphemy.

Most of the Jews who did gradually take up this cause were unwilling to have skin in the game. The Zionist accomplishment is unique not because it overcame external opposition from the Palestinians or the world, and not even because it managed to convince a small cadre of determined idealists. Its stellar success is rooted mainly in that it managed to convince Jews that had been attracted to it for non-Zionist reasons to convert their passions into real Zionist fervor that made pre-state Israel a reality that would eventually become a viable and strong national homeland.

An overwhelming majority of the Jews who live in Israel are those who arrived here because of necessity, not because of their Zionism. They could not stay in their home countries, and upon leaving, they could not reach the destinations they had sought. The ultimate test Israel faced ー its Zionist test ーwas to integrate them despite the many hardships they faced and to convince them and their descendants to stay here by choice and make it their home.

The challenges that lie ahead​

By far, the most important accomplishment of the Zionist movement was its success in making Israel the home to the largest amount of Jews (close to a majority of Jews live in Israel) and making it ー almost from scratch ー the place where the continuation of Jewish peoplehood is guaranteed. Thanks to this enterprise, the Jews returned to their historical homeland as a functioning people, their national language was revived and their historic sovereignty was applied.

The bridgehead established by a minority with a radical vision in the Land of Israel became the vibrant center of Jewish life. What began two generations ago as a third-world, poor, and weak country that had only 6% of the Jews, transformed thanks to the dedication and talent of later generations into a regional democratic power with a thriving economy and top-notch accomplishments.

More important than the successes of the past are ensuring gains down the road. It is almost inevitable that Israel will continue to be the focus of Jewish life at the expense of the second most important Jewish concentration ー North America. The widespread assimilation in younger generations, coupled with declining birth rates, compared with almost zero mixed-marriages in Israel and a very high birth rate ensures that Israel will be the epicenter of Jewish life.

A Zionist Success 125 Years Later

The Zionist movement's stellar success is rooted mainly in that it managed to convince the Jews that had been attracted to it for non-Zionist reasons to convert their passions into real fervor.

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Is it usually mentioned that Dr. Herzl also envisioned the Temple?

Dr. Theodor Herzl & Building the 3rd Temple

From the blog of Joshua Gerstein at The Times of Israel

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There's Nothing Wrong With Turning Back the Clock If It's Connected to a Time Bomb

That used to be the story of America, too.

 

[Sixties Fan]

How on earth is that off topic? If SA goes cold war with US, there will be repercussions for Israel yes?

This thread is about the creation of Israel, until about 1948 and 1949.

You are talking about what is happening now, and there are other thread which deal with more modern times. Thank you.

 

[rylah]

There's Nothing Wrong With Turning Back the Clock If It's Connected to a Time Bomb

That used to be the story of America, too.

Ok, direct me where that thought leads.

I have some understanding of the Hebrew background
of the US story, especially the universities at their core founding.

But there''s difference, Capitol is not Jerusalem, and while the US
was looking at sort of nostalgia of the Hebrew past,
Israelis are all about the future of Hebrews.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Scratch Palestinian history, reveal antisemitism

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The Balfour Declaration was the Nov. 2, 1917, statement of the British Government that it views “with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” Lord Arthur Balfour, the author of those words, toured Palestine in 1925 at the invitation of Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann. He attended the ceremonial opening of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and was welcomed throughout his tour with great honour and ceremony by the Jewish population—including at Tel Aviv’s Gymnasium Hebrew school, which is depicted in this postcard. But the Arab population greeted Balfour with strikes and protests; after Palestine, he traveled to Damascus where he was greeted by a hostile crowd of 6,000. A riot ensued. Fearing for his safety, Balfour ended his trip to Syria early, and returned home. (Watch original footage of this visit on YouTube.)

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Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German emperor, visited Jerusalem from Oct. 29 to Nov. 4, 1898, in what was the focal point of his tour of the Holyland. The arrangements for the visit were entrusted to the Thomas Cook travel agency, who set up a 230-tent camp for the Kaiser and his entourage. To ensure that Wilhelm II’s carriages could enter the Old City, a portion of the wall at the Jaffa Gate was removed—a gap that exists to this day. While in Jerusalem, he dedicated the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, donated funds for the purchase of the land on which the Bikur Holim Hospital was built, visited the German Colony (which is pictured in this postcard) and received a Zionist delegation led by Theodor Herzl. (An exhibit of artifacts from David’s collection of Herzl memorabilia is now on at Beth Tzedec Congregation, 1700 Bathurst St., Toronto. Admission is free.)

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Joseph Trumpeldor (1880-1920) was a Zionist national hero who died with seven others defending the Tel Hai village in the Upper Galilee. The town of Kiryat Shmona (“City of Eight”) is named after these eight heroes. Born in Russia, he lost his left arm in the Russo-Japanese war. After later moving to Palestine, he served in the Zion Mule Corps, an all-Jewish unit in the British Army in the First World War. “It is good to die for our country,” Trumpeldor reportedly said after being fatally shot defending Tel Hai—a quote that appears on this medal minted in 1970 for the Medallic History of the Jewish People. Betar—the Revisionist Zionist youth movement—is an acronym for Brith Yoseph Trumpeldor (“The covenant of Joseph Trumpeldor”). Betar was also the last Jewish fort to fall in the Bar Kokhba revolt of 136 C.E.

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The National Library of Israel was founded in 1892 in Jerusalem as the Midrash Abarbanel Library. It moved to the Mount Scopus campus of the just opened Hebrew University as the renamed “Jewish National and University Library” in 1925—the year the picture in this “magic lantern” slide was taken. When the campus was cut off from the rest of the city in 1948, the collection was smuggled into other areas of Jerusalem: 12 years later, it was reunited with the dedication of a new facility on the University’s Givat Ram campus. A new building near the Knesset will hold over 5 million books when it opens in 2023. The library will continue to fulfill its mission to collect and preserve the knowledge, heritage and culture of Israel and the Jewish people, and endow these treasures to this and future generations.

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The First Zionist Congress was held in Basel, Switzerland, from Aug. 29-31, 1897, with 208 delegates from 17 countries and 26 members of the press in attendance. Adopted there was the Basel Prgram, which set the goal of the newly established Zionist movement to be “to secure for the Jewish people a publicly recognized, legally assured homeland in Palestine.” Theodor Herzl convened it as a parliament of a state in creation: “In Basel, I created the Jewish State,” he proudly declared—and insisted all delegates wear tuxedos for the occasion, as depicted in this postcard. There were 22 Zionist Congresses across Europe prior to Israel’s independence, but they’ve been exclusively in Jerusalem since 1951. Find more from David Matlow at herzlcollection.com.

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New People on Ancient Soil by author Felix Salten is based on his visit to Palestine and is a tribute to the dream of a Jewish state of his friend Theodor Herzl, who Salten credits with inspiring him to embrace his own Jewishness. He is better known for the 1923 book Bambi: A Life in the Woods, the inspiration for Disney’s fifth animated feature, which premiered 80 years ago this week. An outdoorsman and naturalist—and, ironically, also a hunter—Salten wrote Bambi as a plea for greater care for and understanding of the world of nature, yet some commentators suggest it’s a parable about Jewish persecution. When the Nazis seized Austria he fled to Switzerland, where he died in 1945.

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Aryeh Shenkar (1877-1959) was one of the founders of the Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) movement in Ukraine. He moved from Russia to Palestine in 1924 and bought the Lodzia textile factory—whose workers originated in the Polish town of Lodz. It became profitable while he promoted the local textile industry and other manufacturers. For 29 years, he served as the president of the Industrialists’ Union in the Land of Israel (later the Manufacturers Association of Israel), and Ramat Gan’s Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art was named after him. This is his 1938 share certificate for 90 common shares of The Lodzia Textile Co. Ltd. The Lodzia business was acquired by Israeli public company Delta Galil in 2014.

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July 24, 1922 is the date when the League of Nations—predecessor to the United Nations—resolved to establish the British Mandate, which gave recognition “to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.” Great Britain became responsible for preparing conditions “as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home.” The resolution was unanimously approved by all 51 member nations (all League resolutions required unanimity). It implemented the agreement reached at the San Remo conference two years prior, commemorated on this 1920 Dutch-minted medal, which depicts a hammer-wielding modern pioneer meeting an ancestor from the time of the destruction of the Second Temple.

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“Land of Promise” was part of the Wild Man trading card series produced by the Bowman Gum Company in 1950. The set recorded the story of humanity from cavemen and Vikings to falconry and civil aviation. (One card and one piece of gum cost a penny.) A total of 72 cards were issued, including this one with this text on the back: “We live in an age of stirring events, one of which is the founding of the new nation of Israel. Thousands of Jewish people, many of whom suffered terrible persecution during World War II, are returning to Palestine, their ancestral home. By work of hands and brain, they are determined to build an Israel worthy of its glorious heritage.” Now this card is a keeper.

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The Western Wall is seen on this stereoscopic card with a picture (actually two pictures—you’re not seeing double) capturing how “the outer wall of Solomon’s Temple” appeared in Jerusalem in 1896. Produced by Underwood & Underwood, the largest publisher of stereoviews in the world—with an office in Toronto—it was designed to be placed in a viewing device called a stereoscope and appear as a three-dimensional image. The card’s reverse quotes Psalm 79 in English, French, German, Spanish, Norwegian and Russian: “How Long, Lord? Wilt Thou Be Angry Forever?” There are several hundred of these cards of Palestine, which enabled people to see the Holy Land at a time when a trip to the region was costly and difficult.

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The Romance of a People historical pageant was performed before 125,000 people at Chicago’s Soldier Field on Jewish Day at the 1933 World’s Fair. With its depiction of 4,000 years of Jewish history from Abraham to the pioneers in Israel, the event was a fundraiser to resettle German Jews in Palestine. To ensure a large audience, organizer Meyer Weisgal included schools and youth groups among the 6,000 performers—rightly concluding that parents and grandparents would attend. The show helped raise the profile of Zionism in Chicago and unified its Jewish community. After a four-day run at New York’s Polo Grounds was rained out, it ran for 20 performances at an indoor location instead and raised an additional $100,000 for German Jewry. (The equivalent of $2.1 million today.)

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Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundation Fund) was established in 1920 in London, England, to finance the Zionist movement’s work to bring about the return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. Leading figures from Chaim Weizmann to Ze’ev Jabotinsky were involved in its fundraising efforts. Keren Hayesod helped raise the seed money to establish the Hebrew University and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. It also helped develop the Haifa Bay suburbs to settle German Jewish refugees in the 1930s, and established dozens of communities to house the waves of immigrants after Israel’s creation. It continues to serve as a link between the people of Israel and Jewish communities around the world. This plaque recognizes a contribution made 100 years ago.

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Ein Harod is a kibbutz (communal farm) founded in 1921 by Russian pioneers in northern Israel. Four years later, it was the centre of the kibbutz movement. Its members continue to live the kibbutz way of life, sharing the burden of working in its fields, industry, dairy barn and stables. This “magic lantern” slide is one of a 1920s Palestine series made by Toronto’s Charles Potter company, which also sold optical equipment and mathematical instruments. It depicts the bringing of the first fruits (bikkurim), part of the celebration of the holiday of Shavuot, which in the days of the ancient Temple—and in this picture—consisted of the land’s seven species: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates.

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