Why does Israel want Gaza and Palestine so much if it’s primarily Muslim? We know this frm the end of the last chapter when I brought up those Wikipedia stats. We know that even from Biblical times the Jews, descendants of Isaac, and the Arabs, descendants of Ishmael, have never gotten along. In the 1940s it ramped up even more.
In that time Zionism was a big deal. What is Zionism?
Zionism[a] is an ethnocultural nationalist[b] movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine,[2] a region corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism[3] and central to Jewish history. Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.[4]
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They wanted to get “as much land as possible.” That’s the reason they are so fixated on the Gaza strip even though technically in Bible times it was Philistine territory. They wouldn’t be able to expand into other countries around them without causing an even bigger mess. It’s big enough as it is.
Fundamental to Zionism is the belief that Jews constitute a nation, and have a moral and historic right and need for self-determination in Palestine.[c] This belief developed out of the experiences of European Jewry, which the early Zionists believed demonstrated the danger inherent to their status as a minority. In contrast to the Zionist notion of nationhood, the Judaic sense of being a nation was rooted in religious beliefs of unique chosenness and divine providence, rather than in ethnicity. Specifically, prayers emphasized distinctiveness from other nations where a connection to Eretz Israel and the anticipation of restoration were based on messianic beliefs and religious practices, not modern nationalist conceptions.[26][27]
The Zionist claim to Palestine was based on the notion that Jews had a hereditary right to the land that outweighed the equivalent nationalist claims of the local Arabs.[28] After suffering as a minority in Europe and the Middle East, establishing a Jewish state, with a Jewish majority, became a focus of the Zionist movement. Zionist organizations encouraged immigration to Palestine, and antisemitism produced a strong push factor. [29]
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Do they not have a Jewish homeland in the rest of Israel already?
Jerusalem is not even in the picture in that area. That can’t be the reason. The only thing that sticks out is the aparrent “we need more land issue.
Jerusalem, ancient city of the Middle East that since 1967 has been wholly under the rule of the State of Israel.
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I used to think that Palastine was the whole region htere, not just one tiny corner. I’m already learning so much. What was Israel like between Bible times and say 1948 before it became a “world recognized” nation that is not at all similar to the nation of God’s special people in the Bible.
Clearly from their choice of flag, Islamic tri colours of red, green, black…and white, Palestine wants to be under the unbrella of Islam. How that would fit in a Jewish context is beyond me. I’m sitting here writing from a Christian context if anything.
This doesn’t make sense to me. From 1939-1945 Jews were subject to terrible things under Hitler and his goons just because they were Jews. Why would Israel go and do similar things to Palestinians that were happening to them in Europe. Wouldn’t they know better? I’ve been asking that question all the way through my commentary series. Even in the Bible they had trouble following The Lord, and this nation of Israel today is completely different from the original. The Biblical nation of Israel would have known that the area of Gaza was Philistine territory, and they only bothered them when the king of Israel felt like it. Left to their own devices, those folks would have left that area alone.