Posted on 04/10/2002 12:36:26 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
I believe this accounts for the Arab immigration.
Between the end of WWI, and the beginning of WWII, there was an influx of approx 400,000 Jews, and approx. 500,000 arabs.
"As interest in the Middle East meltdown has crested, so too have calls to my radio program from the opinionated on all sides of the debate. Too often these voices make up in volume what they lack in basic historical understanding. The long road to April 2002 cannot be condensed into one, two or 50 columns, but I think there are some obvious facts that every would-be participant in the argument needs to absorb. Here are some of the many facts that ought not to be in dispute...Thanks for the history lesson, Professors Hewitt and Johnson!...British historian Paul Johnson's A History of the Jews is the best account of these events in detail, and my facts are drawn from his book.
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"Zionism drew its impetus from the vision of Theodor Herzl, who watched the trial, conviction and public degradation of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus in late 1894 and early 1895.
Dreyfus was a victim of a French anti-Semitism stoked by the arrival of tens of thousands of Russian Jews fleeing pogroms in the East..." - Hugh Hewitt
From http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Herzl.html:
Theodor (Binyamin Ze’ev) Herzl
(1860-1904)
“In Basle I founded the Jewish state . . . Maybe in five years, certainly in fifty,
everyone will realize it.”
Theodor (Binyamin Ze’ev) Herzl, the visionary of Zionism, was born in Budapest in 1860. He was educated in the spirit of the GermanJewish Enlightenment of the period, learning to appreciate secular culture. In 1878 the family moved to Vienna, and in 1884 Herzl was awarded a doctorate of law from the University of Vienna. He became a writer, a playwright and a journalist. The Paris correspondent of the influential liberal Vienna newspaper Neue Freie Presse was none other than Theodor Herzl.
Herzl first encountered the anti-Semitism that would shape his life and the fate of the Jews in the twentieth century while studying at the University of Vienna (1882). Later, during his stay in Paris as a journalist, he was brought face-to-face with the problem. At the time, he regarded the Jewish problem as a social issue and wrote a drama, The Ghetto (1894), in which assimilation and conversion are rejected as solutions. He hoped that The Ghetto would lead to debate and ultimately to a solution, based on mutual tolerance and respect between Christians and Jews.
The Dreyfus Affair
In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was unjustly accused of treason, mainly because of the prevailing anti-Semitic atmosphere. Herzl witnessed mobs shouting “Death to the Jews” in France, the home of the French Revolution, and resolved that there was only one solution: the mass immigration of Jews to a land that they could call their own. Thus, the Dreyfus Case became one of the determinants in the genesis of Political Zionism.
Herzl concluded that anti-Semitism was a stable and immutable factor in human society, which assimilation did not solve. He mulled over the idea of Jewish sovereignty, and, despite ridicule from Jewish leaders, published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State, 1896). Herzl argued that the essence of the Jewish problem was not individual but national. He declared that the Jews could gain acceptance in the world only if they ceased being a national anomaly. The Jews are one people, he said, and their plight could be transformed into a positive force by the establishment of a Jewish state with the consent of the great powers. He saw the Jewish question as an international political question to be dealt with in the arena of international politics.
Herzl proposed a practical program for collecting funds from Jews around the world by a company to be owned by stockholders, which would work toward the practical realization of this goal. (This organization, when it was eventually formed, was called the Zionist Organization.) He saw the future state as a model social state, basing his ideas on the European model of the time, of a modern enlightened society. It would be neutral and peace-seeking, and of a secular nature.
In his Zionist novel, Altneuland (Old New Land, 1902), Herzl pictured the future Jewish state as a socialist utopia. He envisioned a new society that was to rise in the Land of Israel on a cooperative basis utilizing science and technology in the development of the Land.
He included detailed ideas about how he saw the future state's political structure, immigration, fundraising, diplomatic relations, social laws and relations between religion and the state. In Altneuland, the Jewish state was foreseen as a pluralist, advanced society, a “light unto the nations.” This book had a great impact on the Jews of the time and became a symbol of the Zionist vision in the Land of Israel.
Hats off to the State of Israel,its goals and aspirations.
Its citizens differ in the administration of it just as citizens in the USA do..
Quite unlike some nations of Africa, South America,island nations in the Carribean, desert nations in the middle,near and far east, and those that straddle it, that are not led by direct or shadow military governments.
Members of free republic should know that the contributions to society as a whole by any citizen of a free country far excel those than that of citizens of an oppressed nation, where that expression is suppressed by prejudice ,whether stifled and/or instigated by religion or outright dictatorship...
God Bless America.
More when I get home from work.
I am recovering also! It was really a thrill to get both teams in the Final Four. BTW, our Men's Gymnastics team won the NCAA Gymnastics Championship last weekend so we claimed another title! My son went to the Spring Football scrimmage last Friday and he said the defense looks better and faster than last year!
Been a pretty good year for the Sooners and all of their fans! Have a good one and thanks for the link!
Bump.
In case you (and other lurkers) don't know it, Hewitt's show can be caught live via the Web at www.smarttalk870.com.It still works.
(And I think all the programming from 870AM goes out live on the web via Windows Media player, although I haven't tried it in a while.)
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