Episode-2: What is Zionism?

Md. Guljar Hussain-Writer and Columnist 

Welcome to my blog. Hope you are well. The present world is now watching the instability, unrest situations and occupancy by the supper power with it's big gun especially in the Arab countries of the Middle East. It is said that the instabilities and unrest that we see in the Middle east are resulted from the from Israel-Palestine crisis. one sided policies and continuously ignoring the situation by the super powers are diminishing the Palestinians from their land where they had been living for a long time. In my stylus I have tried my best to discover the principles of why the the Israelis and Palestinian are stick to their demand. Why they are going hard lines to snatching away each other's rights. I hope it will quench your thrust of knowledge somewhat. I hope to continue in episode forms if you inspire me in this matter commenting bellow...

Zionism is the national ideology of Israel. The Zionists believe that Judaism is both a nationality and a religion, and that Jews deserve their own status in their ancestral homeland of Israel, just as the French should earn France or the Chinese people should have China. It is what brought the Jews first and foremost to Israel, and also in the heart of what concerns Arabs and Palestinians about the State of Israel.

Jews often draw their nationality to the biblical kingdoms of David and Solomon around 950 BC. Back. Modern Zionism, based on the long-standing Jewish yearning for a "return to Zion", began in the 19th century, just as nationalism grew in Europe. A secular Austro-Jewish journalist, Theodor Herzl, was the first to turn the rumors of Jewish nationalism around 1896 into an international movement.

Herzl experienced the brutal European Antisemitism first-hand and was convinced that the Jewish people outside his own country could never survive. He wrote essays and organized meetings that promoted massive Jewish emigration from Europe to today's Israel / Palestine. Before Herzl there lived about 20,000 Jews; When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, the number was eight times greater.

Although all Zionists believe that Israel should exist, they have long disagreed on what their government should be like. In general, the Zionist left, which dominated the country's policies until the late 1970s, tends to market Israeli-controlled land for peace with Arab nations, wants more government intervention in the economy, and favors a secular government over a religious one. Zionist rights, which currently hold leading positions in the Israeli government and public opinion, tend to be more skeptical of "land for peace" agreements, more libertarian in the economy, and more comfortable between religion and politics.

Arabs and Palestinians are generally against Zionism, since the explicitly Jewish character of the Israeli state means that Jews have privileges that others do not have. For example, every Jew anywhere in the world can become an Israeli citizen, a right that does not extend to any other class of people. Arabs often see Zionism as a kind of colonialism and racism that aims to take over Palestinian land and systematically rob the Palestinians who still have their rights. The Arab states actually pushed for a UN General Assembly resolution that called Zionism "a form of racism and racial discrimination" in 1975, although it was overturned 16 years later.

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