Comparing The Concepts Of Judaism, Zionism, And Israel

1. Zionism is a movement established by Jews and decedents of Jewish culture that seeks restitution in the form of a new Jewish homeland, specifically the modern day state of Palestine, which was once the sovereign Jewish land of Israel.

2. The three concepts of Judaism, Zionism, and Israel are different in many ways. To begin, the state of Israel was formed in 1948 by the United Nations as a result of the Partition Resolution, which was originally established in 1947. The Partition Resolution sought to divide Great Britain’s previous Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states and provide reconciliation to the Jews for the calamities of the Holocaust. This means that neither Jews nor Zionists (Jewish descendants) officially established the state of Israel in which Jew’s call home. Meanwhile, Jews and Zionists whom occupy the state of Israel are very different in themselves. Jews believe in one God who created the Torah and with whom they have a covenant. While Zionists reject the Creator, his revelation, reward and punishment. Zionism and its followers continue to persecute the Palestinian people with the belief that military aggression will end Jewish exile. All the while Torah Jews reject the Zionists movement and believe that they bring shame to the Jewish culture.

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The British were originally against the creation of an Arab state and a Jewish state located in Palestine. They were also opposed to the unrestricted settlement of Jewish refugees in the region. The British sought to retain good relations with the Arabs in hopes of protecting its economic and political interests in Palestine (Office of the Historian.) However, in 1920 with the creation of the British Mandate of Palestine, British actions displeased both Jewish and Arab people. As a result of the mandate, tensions between Jews, best classified as Zionists, and Arabs continued to grow and eventually led to the Arab-Israeli war of