Creation of Israel

Zionism is the establishment of a Jewish state which gave the belief that Jews have a national privilege on Palestine, and the State of Israel has a right to discriminate against non-Jews (or against Jews) in order to maintain the Jewish nature of Israel.

Since most Arabs had rejected the U.N. partition because they wanted to keep their land as their own this then led to the acceptance of the Jews. On May 14, 1948, Israel was declared as an independent state. President Truman alongside the Soviet Union seemed to have supported this declaration but not all seemed to take this new change so lightly.

The Palestinians found it humiliating that the Jews had just come and taken their land. They found it wrong how they had been forced out of their homes. The Palestinians showed their disapproval with a vengeance.

The day after their independence was declared, Israel was ambushed by the Arab states and Palestinians. After this brutal ambush came a major Middle Eastern war that existed between the Jews and the Palestinians. The Jews stood alone in their fight against the many for the Holy Land. Upon hearing the news of imperialism, others began to join forces against the Jews. There was Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Europe.

After the 1948 war, Israel had increased to about 8,000 square miles of Palestine which decreased the Arab lands that had been in the 1947 U.N. partition by about 50 percent. Jerusalem was divided, with Arabs on the east side of the Green Line and the Jews on the west.