Creation of the State of Israel 'The Jewish state' - A forced creation by the anti Semitic world politics or a conspiracy by the Zionists?

 BASIC TERMINOLOGIES :

Palestine- A patch of land between Israel and Jordan.

Jerusalem-City located within the Palestine region, it is the sacred place for Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel, (although not recognized by some countries).

Tel Aviv-Second largest city after Jerusalem.

Knesset-Name of Israel’s parliament.

Mossad-Spy agency of Israel. Just like the CIA of the USA.

What is imperialism?

• When a country establishes its economic and political dominance over other nations- it is known as imperialism.
• There are many ways to achieve imperialism: one of them is colonialism- that is what Britishers did in India and Africa. Colonialism means the practice of acquiring colonies by conquest (war) or purchase or any other thuggery and making them dependent on your home country (UK).
• After the end of the Second World War, most of the colonies achieved independence. But nowadays the powerful nations such as the US and China, colonize poor countries via providing financial aids, weapons to kill opposing sects/tribes, installing puppet regime etc. this is known as Neo-Colonialism.

Why imperialism and colonialism?

1. For getting free laborers to work cotton gins. (slave trade)
2. To establish monopoly of trade over with given country (e.g. India’s silk and spices)
3. The Industrial Revolution led to factories, mass production but still, you needed raw material. Colonies supplied that raw material (cotton, coal, iron ore, and other minerals).
4. Colonies also gave new customers for your finished factory-made products. (because local handicraft artisan get destroyed due to heavy taxation, so junta has no option other than buying your machine and products.)

Rise of Germany

• Between 1800 and 1900, the majority of Asia and Africa had been colonized. Britain and France were the main players here.
• Earlier, Germany was made up of small princely states. It was Otto von Bismarck, who unified them and created the modern German empire. Our Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is often called “Bismarck of India” for this reason.
• But the challenges that Sardar Patel faced, were tougher, both in size and complexity than of Bismarck’s.
• Anyways, after the unification, Germany transformed into an economic powerhouse.
• By 1914, Germany’s iron ore, steel production =higher than France + Germany. Germany had entered the shipping trade in a big way. Similarly, Italy too was rising.
• France and Britain didn’t like it- not one bit.
• For them, Germany = A serious economic threat to their status and their colonies.
• USA had not yet become supercop, superpower of the world. On July 4, 1776, it declared independence from Britain. But the Northern and Southern States of USA had opposing ideas about the abolition of black slavery. That led to their internal Civil War from 1861 to 1865. So, the USA was busy with its domestic troubles.

First World War and Palestine

• The superficial reason for First World War (1914-1918) = Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, but actually, it was this rivalry between nations for economic reasons and control over colonies. The world was divided into two gangs

Allied power (won)

Central Powers (lost)

• Prior to the First World war, Jerusalem and the surrounding Palestine region was under the control of the Ottoman Turks.
• But as you can see from the above table, they had sided with Central Powers (Germany) in the First World War.
• During the course of the First world war, the British army captured Jerusalem and put this Palestine region under military administration.
• This created resentment among the Native Arabs residing in Palestine. Especially after the Jewish people started immigrating here, due to the oppression by Hitler.

The Treaty of Versailles (1919)

After the war, the Allied nations held a conference in Versailles, near Paris in France.

The Allied nations (US, UK, France) forced Germany to sign this treaty else face another military invasion. So Germany had to sign this humiliating treaty under which

1. The coal mines of Germany were transferred to France
2. Germany cannot maintain an army bigger than one lakh troops.
3. Germany cannot build airforce or submarines.
4. Colonies of Germany were taken over and distributed among the Allied nations.
5. Germany had to pay $65 crore as war-reparation to these Allied Nations. (Compensation for injury).

Hyperinflation

• The German economy had already collapsed due to the heavy loss of man and material during World War I.
• The treaty of Versailles only added insult to this injury.
• During this time, the German government resorted to “printing more currency”. (Name of German currency=Mark)
• That led to hyper-inflation (because truckload of paper-cash on one side but not a truckload of potatoes on the other side).
• So paper currency lost its value. Check this photo: A German woman burns currency because its paper was cheaper fuel than coal!

Result of Hyper-inflation

1. A loaf of bread that costs 20,000 marks in the morning would cost 5,000,000 marks by nightfall.
2. Restaurant prices went up while customers were eating.
3. It took 4.2 trillion German marks to buy a single American dollar!
4. A lifetime of savings would no longer buy even a railway ticket!
5. Pensions planned for a lifetime were wiped out completely.

Rise of Hitler

• During these hard times, Hitler used to attract German crowds with his charismatic and fierce speeches.
• He wanted Germany to withdraw from the Treaty of Versailles.
• He identified Jew as the enemy responsible for all of Germany’s ills.
• His argument: Jews own big business, big banks, big department stores, and big labor. And Jews have been profiteering during the First World War, during the Treaty of Versailles, during this hyperinflation. So, they’re leading a happy life at our expense. Jews are basically responsible for anything and everything that is bad in Germany.
• German public and war veterans were already distressed by the hyperinflation and unemployment- So many of them started worshiping Hitler as their savior.
• 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Within a week, He dismissed all Jews from civil services.

Nazism

• Now in power, Hitler started the economic reconstruction of Germany on one hand and simultaneously the “racial purification” on the other hand.

His main policies/beliefs were following

1. One-party rule: all the opposition leaders killed, jailed, or expelled from Germany.
2. Complete ban on Communist activities, Trade unions, and Labour strikes. This was done to increase industrial output and make Germany war-ready.
3. He openly defied the treaty of Versailles, by increasing troops in the army, construction of submarines, aircraft, etc.
4. He made friendship pacts with unhappy nations from the Allied gang: Italy and Russia.
5. He decided to unify all German-speaking areas of Europe.

Eugenics, Jews

• Eugenics means selective breeding of humans.
• Hitler’s opinion: The world is divided into Aryan (pureblood/Germans) and Non-Aryans (including Jews, Gypsies, and other minorities in Germany).
• The Non-Aryan are polluting the human race with their inferior quality genes and bloodline. So, under Hitler’s rule, the following laws/policies/rules were created:

1. Forced sterilization (vasectomy) of Jews, people suffering from disability, diseases etc.
2. To increase the birth rate of “pure” Germans, newly married couples were given loans. And these loans would be forgiven with the birth of each child.
3. Marriage or sexual relations between Jews and Germans were prohibited.
4. Jews given a lower class of citizenship. They were ineligible to apply for most Government jobs, college admissions.
5. Only “racial” Germans were entitled to civil and political rights.

When Indian Parents try to find a “bride with fair white skin” for their son, it is also one (stupid) idea indirectly related to Eugenics. That’s why Skin whitening creams make huge business in India. Eugenics is now making re-entry, indirectly through the research related to “designer babies.” Anyways back to the topic:

Ghettos

• Under Hitler’s laws, Jews could reside in only some specific areas, known as “Ghettos”.
• Ghettos were enclosed with walls and gates and kept locked at night.
• Outside the ghetto, Jews had to wear a yellow-colored identifying badge.
• More recently, the term ghetto has come to apply to any urban area exclusively settled by a minority group. In the United States, Mexicans and blacks have been compelled to live in ghettos, by economic and social pressures.

Holocaust

• In 1942, Hitler decide to get a “final solution to the Jewish problem.”
• All the Jews were rounded up by Secret Police (Gestapo).
• The physically fit Jewish men were sent to work in labor camps (to aid German war production during the Second World war),
• While pregnant women, young children, the elderly, handicapped, and sick were killed in gas chambers.
• Holocaust is the term used to describe this mass murder of 60 lakh Jews under the Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945.
• In many nations of Europe, it is a criminal offense to say that “Holocaust did not happen.” Some poets, authors, fashion designers, and other self-proclaimed intellectuals cum drug addicts have denied the holocaust and run into legal trouble.
• Iranian President Ahmedinejad also ‘denied Holocaust’, led to a big uproar.

What is Anti-Semitism?

• Term used to describe the harassment done to Jewish people.
• What Hitler did, was one example of Anti-Semitism, but the same things were also happening in Russia, Austria as well.

What is Zionism?

• What is Zion?=Name of the hill on which the Temple of Jerusalem was located.
• Zionism is the term used to describe the Jewish political movement of the late 19th century.
• Their Objective= to unite the Jewish diaspora all over the world and settle them in Palestine.
• They started taking donations from wealthy Jews, helped the Holocaust survivors to migrate to Palestine and surrounding regions.
• This movement led to the establishment of Israel in 1948.

World War II and Zionism

• Recall that after the First World War, the Palestine region was under British Administration.
• Official policy of the British = Prevent Jews from settling in the Palestine region because it was leading to riots between Jews and native Arabs.
• But during the course of World war II, the US army discovered Nazi extermination camps. This created deep sympathy for Jewish people in the USA. The Senators and Congressmen of the USA, started lobbying for the Zionist cause.
• Therefore U.S. President Truman requested the British Government to immediately admit 1 lakh Jewish Holocaust survivors into Palestine and unrestricted Jewish immigration in Palestine in the future.

Arab Nations

• As the second world war came to an end (1945), the neighboring Arab countries began to take a more direct interest in Palestine.
• They held a conference in Egypt and made an official statement. The gist of their position was

1. We’ve sympathies for the European Jews who suffered under Hitler’s dictatorship.
2. But the issue of European Jewish survivors ought not to be confused with Zionism.
3. If you (Allied champions: US, UK) allow Jews to settle in Palestine, it’ll cause great injustice to the Native Arabs and therefore we will oppose it.

End of World War II, 1945

• The Jews that survived the holocaust and extermination camps, had no home of their own- everything was destroyed in the war. The Zionists helped them immigrate and settle in Palestine.
• But the Palestinian Arabs decided that no more Jews should arrive and that Palestine should achieve independence as an Arab state. (in 1946 there were 12 lakh Arabs and 7 lakh Jews in Palestine). There was rioting and violence everywhere, from both sides.
• The area was still under British administration. But during this time, Britain lacked the money, political will, and military force to maintain hard control over its colonies.
• In Feb 1947, Britishers were busy negotiating independence of India. They were also eager to decrease costly military presence in Palestine.
• So the British Government decided to handover the Palestine question to the United Nations.

UN resolution on Palestine

• In late 1947, The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution: This Palestine region be partitioned into an Arab State and a Jewish state, and Jerusalem will become an International center. (something like Chandigarh between Punjab and Haryana in India). Check the map:

• Arab nations opposed this resolution.
• The Zionists welcomed the partition proposal because it recognized a Jewish state and because it allotted more than half of (west-of-Jordan) Palestine to them.
• Soon after the UN resolution, rioting and civil war broke out in Palestine, between the native Arab and Jews. You can imagine the hardship of people- similar to the partition of India-Pakistan.

Birth of Israel, 1948

• As the civil war, rioting, murder, loot, plunder, assassinations spread, on 14th May 1948, the last British high commissioner left Palestine.
• Immediately, the Zionist leaders declared Israel a free Nation. Within a few hours, the USA also recognized Israel as a nation.
• In the upcoming days, the Arab nations: Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt sent their armies but were defeated by Israeli forces. (this is known as First Israel-Arab War)

West Bank

• Recall that UN General Assembly had favored the partition of the Palestine region into an Arab State and a Jewish state.
• While Jewish State (Israel) came into existence, but there was no Palestine Arab State because Palestinian Arabs were not organized, unlike Zionists, they lacked the money and gun power of their own. They relied on the armies sent by Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt, to fight for their cause.
• The problem was: What to do with Jerusalem city?
• After The First Israel-Arab war, the Jerusalem city and surrounding was divided between Israel (West) and Jordan (East).
• West Bank is the region on the west side of Jordan River.
• From 1950 to 1967 it was ruled by Jordan.
• But Israel captured it in the 1967’s war (also known as 6 Days war, or Third Israel-Arab war).

Conclusion:

The answer to the question "Was the creation of the Jewish state of Israel a forced creation of the anti semitic world politics or a conspiracy by the Zionist?" lies in the perspective of the readers. I would request the readers to comment their answer to this question in the comments section.