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1948: state from a test tube
Of the events of 1948, 10 out of 15 experts and readers chose the creation of the state of Israel. The Jewish state in Palestine was restored on May 14, 1948. Prior to this, Jews lived in exile for almost two thousand years. From the Declaration of the English Government of November 2, 1917: "The Government of His Majesty is favorable to restore the national center of the Jewish people in Palestine and will make every effort to facilitate the achievement of this goal." From the article by the leader of the Zionist movement of Vladimir Zabotinsky (October 1937): "Palestine must belong to Jews. The creation of a Jewish state requires the use of the most decisive means ... It is necessary to put the Arabs before the fait there." From the preaching of the mufti of Jerusalem Amin al -Husyini (April 1946): "The duty of a Muslim is to wash their hands with the blood of the wicked with the blood of Jerusalem." From the declaration of independence of Israel dated May 14, 1948: "The Jewish people arose in the country of Israel ... forcibly expelled from his homeland, he did not cease to hope and rely on the return ... The disaster, whose victims became the need to restore the Jewish state ... From now on, the state of Israel will be open to the return of Jews from all countries. It will adhere Jewish prophets of the commandments of freedom, justice and peace ... We urge the sons of the Arab people to observe the world and participate in the construction of Israel - even these days of bloody aggression unleashed against us. " The day after the proclamation of the independence of Israel throughout the country, there was already a war. The armies of five Arab states invaded Palestine. However, Israel resisted. Arab armies were thrown back. 538 thousand Arabs left Palestine, the descendants of which still live in tent camps. At the same time, all Jewish refugees - 567 thousand people - received housing and work in Israel. Arab countries did not recognize the Jewish state. And the Middle East for many decades has become a smoldering focus of war. Unlike most states that arose in vivo, “in life”, that is, naturally historically, spontaneously, the modern Jewish state appeared in vitro, “in a test tube”, that is, through conscious, cabinet design, which was engaged in the leaders of world Zionism, as a result of a political decision adopted by the United Nations. Of course, behind this “construct” - centuries of life and dreams (“Next year - in Jerusalem!”) Of the Jewish diaspora and the decade of the struggle of the Zionist movement for the creation of a Jewish “national hearth” in Palestine. And yet there were drawings in the beginning ... The discussion at the UN was stormy. The Soviet Union energetically advocated the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. The United States supported this idea. Great Britain Julil. Arab and Muslim countries desperately resisted. After the hot discussions, Palestine was divided (33 - for, 13 - against, 10 - abstained) into the Jewish and Arab parts, and Jerusalem received a "special international regime". Five and a half months later, the independence of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv. The next day, May 15, the League of the Arab countries declared war on the "Jews of Palestine." It will be a “extermination war,” the Jews frightened and encouraged the Arabs by the General Secretary of the League to the Azzam Paha. “This will be a grandiose beating, which will be discussed in the same way as they say about the invasion of the Mongols and the Crusades.” The position of the Soviet Union was formulated in the advanced "Pravda" of May 25: "With all its sympathy for the national liberation movement of the Arab peoples, the Soviet public cannot but condemn the aggression of the Arab states, directed against the state of Israel and against the right of the Jewish people to create their state in accordance with the decision of the General Assembly of the UN." The position of Moscow had not only a platonic character. With the consent of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia supplied Israel weapons. In Czechoslovakia, Jewish pilots and tankers were trained. Such were the times ... the troops of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transiordania and Iraq, surpassing the Israelis in all respects except the fighting spirit, were defeated. The decisive role was probably played by the price of the defeat. For the Jews - a disaster, destruction, destruction of a newly acquired hearth. For Arabs - "just" losing another war. Having rejected the UN decision, refusing to create an Arab state in Palestine, heading to destroy Israel, the Arabs dragged the Middle East into a long confrontation. The Soviet Union was also drawn into this confrontation. But with a change of political signs. From the defender of the Israeli of the USSR turned into its main enemy. What happened? Apparently, the change of course was due to the fact that Israel did not justify Stalin's hopes. He hoped to use Israel for massive penetration into the Middle East. Stalin knew, of course, that the “founding fathers” of Israel were usually immigrants from Russia associated with the social democratic movement. This made it possible to hope that the socialist roots of Israeli leaders would give pro -Soviet sprouts. In other words, Stalin wanted, using sympathy for socialism, attachment to Russia, to "tame" Israel. It must be assumed that Stalin was sure that the "iron curtain", which fenced Soviet people from the corruption of the West, even more so protect Soviet Jews from the influence of Israel. In Moscow, most likely, they hoped to combine good relations with Israel with the usual anti -Semitism within the country. But the "ice and flame" was impossible to combine. The emergence of an independent Jewish state, his victory in the war for independence caused fermentation among Soviet Jews, especially among the Jewish intelligentsia. This became obvious after the arrival of the first ambassador of Israel Golda Meir, which Moscow Jewry had an enthusiastic reception. And Stalin, without hesitation, burns bridges that he himself tried to build ... Six times I happened to meet the Independence Day of Israel in Jerusalem with the Israelis. There are no parades. A modest reception with the president. The ambassadors are in line to congratulate the head of state. It is already very warm, therefore, taking a glass of champagne, you can walk around the grass. Israeli newspapers these days return to the history of Israel again and again, compare the past with the present, look into the future. There is something to think about. In the end, the Zionist utopia, and Israel is its embodiment, is the only utopia that has survived in the whirlpools of the twentieth century. I am more interested in not so much the history of Israel as the history of our own mistakes and errors that were generated by the attitude to fight the Zionist enemy. We ourselves poisoned ourselves with the poison of anti -Semitism. Now we are recovering. I hope that we will recover ... by choosing one from the listed events of each year, you can name it by phone 915-34-65 or send an answer by mail marked "one hundred days of one century." Read about the events that have gained the largest number of votes in the nearest rooms. 1950: - the war in Korea - the capture of Tibet by China - the death of Bernard Show - "Leningradskoye" in the USSR 1951: - McCartism rampant in the USA - the beginning of the economic integration of Europe - the signing of a peace treaty of 48 countries with Japan - the creation of the first Russian computers in the USSR
Of the events of 1948, 10 out of 15 experts and readers chose the creation of the state of Israel. The Jewish state in Palestine was restored on May 14, 1948. Prior to this, Jews lived in exile for almost two thousand years.
From the declaration of the English government of November 2, 1917:
"The Government of His Majesty is favorable to the restoration of the national center of the Jewish people in Palestine and will make every effort to facilitate the achievement of this goal."
From the article by the leader of the Zionist movement of Vladimir Zabotinsky (October 1937):
"Palestine should belong to the Jews. The creation of a Jewish state requires the use of the most decisive means ... It is necessary to put the Arabs before the failed fact."
From the sermon of the mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husyini (April 1946):
"The duty of a Muslim is to wash their hands with the blood of the wicked, encroaching on the shrines of Jerusalem."
From the Declaration of Independence of Israel of May 14, 1948:
"The Jewish people arose in the country of Israel ... forcibly expelled from his homeland, he did not cease to hope and rely on the return ... A catastrophe, whose victims were the millions of Jews, proved the need to restore the Jewish state ... From now on, the state of Israel will be open to the return of Jews from all countries. It will adhere to the commandments of freedom, justice and the world ... We urge the sons of the Arab people to observe the world and participate in the construction of Israel - even these days the bloody aggression unleashed against us. "
The day after the proclamation of the independence of Israel throughout the country, there was already a war. The armies of five Arab states invaded Palestine. However, Israel resisted. Arab armies were thrown back. 538 thousand Arabs left Palestine, the descendants of which still live in tent camps. At the same time, all Jewish refugees - 567 thousand people - received housing and work in Israel. Arab countries did not recognize the Jewish state. And the Middle East for many decades has become a smoldering focus of war.
Unlike most states that arose in vivo, “in life”, that is, naturally historically, spontaneously, the modern Jewish state appeared in vitro, “in a test tube”, that is, through conscious, cabinet design, which was engaged in the leaders of world Zionism, as a result of a political decision adopted by the United Nations. Of course, behind this “construct” - centuries of life and dreams (“Next year - in Jerusalem!”) Of the Jewish diaspora and the decade of the struggle of the Zionist movement for the creation of a Jewish “national hearth” in Palestine. And yet there were drawings in the beginning ...
The discussion at the UN was stormy. The Soviet Union energetically advocated the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. The United States supported this idea. Great Britain Julil. Arab and Muslim countries desperately resisted. After the hot discussions, Palestine was divided (33 - for, 13 - against, 10 - abstained) into the Jewish and Arab parts, and Jerusalem received a "special international regime". Five and a half months later, the independence of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv.
The next day, May 15, the League of the Arab countries declared war on the "Jews of Palestine." It will be a “extermination war,” the Jews frightened and encouraged the Arabs by the General Secretary of the League to the Azzam Paha. “This will be a grandiose beating, which will be discussed in the same way as they say about the invasion of the Mongols and the Crusades.”
The position of the Soviet Union was formulated in the advanced "Pravda" of May 25: "With all its sympathy for the national liberation movement of the Arab peoples, the Soviet public cannot but condemn the aggression of the Arab states, directed against the state of Israel and against the right of the Jewish people to create their state in accordance with the decision of the General Assembly of the UN." The position of Moscow had not only a platonic character. With the consent of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia supplied Israel weapons. In Czechoslovakia, Jewish pilots and tankers were trained. There were times ...
The troops of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transiordania and Iraq, surpassing the Israelites in all respects except the fighting spirit, were defeated. The decisive role was probably played by the price of the defeat. For the Jews - a disaster, destruction, destruction of a newly acquired hearth. For Arabs - "just" losing another war.
Having rejected the UN decision, refusing to create an Arab state in Palestine, heading to destroy Israel, the Arabs dragged the Middle East into a long confrontation. The Soviet Union was also drawn into this confrontation. But with a change of political signs. From the defender of the Israeli of the USSR turned into its main enemy. What happened?
Apparently, the change of course was due to the fact that Israel did not justify Stalin's hopes. He hoped to use Israel for massive penetration into the Middle East. Stalin knew, of course, that the “founding fathers” of Israel were usually immigrants from Russia associated with the social democratic movement. This made it possible to hope that the socialist roots of Israeli leaders would give pro -Soviet sprouts. In other words, Stalin wanted, using sympathy for socialism, attachment to Russia, to "tame" Israel. It must be assumed that Stalin was sure that the "iron curtain", which fenced Soviet people from the corruption of the West, even more so protect Soviet Jews from the influence of Israel. In Moscow, most likely, they hoped to combine good relations with Israel with the usual anti -Semitism within the country.
But the "ice and flame" was impossible to combine. The emergence of an independent Jewish state, his victory in the war for independence caused fermentation among Soviet Jews, especially among the Jewish intelligentsia. This became obvious after the arrival of the first ambassador of Israel Golda Meir, which Moscow Jewry had an enthusiastic reception. And Stalin without hesitation burns bridges that he himself tried to build ...
Six times I happened to meet the Independence Day of Israel in Jerusalem with the Israelis. There are no parades. A modest reception with the president. The ambassadors are in line to congratulate the head of state. It is already very warm, therefore, taking a glass of champagne, you can walk around the grass.
Israeli newspapers these days return to the history of Israel again and again, compare the past with the present, look into the future. There is something to think about. In the end, the Zionist utopia, and Israel is its embodiment, is the only utopia that has survived in the whirlpools of the twentieth century. I am more interested in not so much the history of Israel as the history of our own mistakes and errors that were generated by the attitude to fight the Zionist enemy. We ourselves poisoned ourselves with the poison of anti -Semitism. Now we are recovering. I hope that we will recover ...
Having chosen one thing from the listed events of each year, you can name it by phone 915-34-65 or send an answer by mail with a note "One hundred days of one century." Read about the events that have gained the largest number of votes in the nearest rooms.
1950:
- War in Korea
- Tibetan capture China
- Death of Bernard show
- "Leningrad" in the USSR
1951:
- McCartism rampant in the USA
- The beginning of the economic integration of Europe
- signing a peace treaty of 48 countries with Japan
- creation in the USSR the first domestic computers