Coincidence of circumstances: How did the mass resettlement of Jews to Palestine begin?
The current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which today attracts the attention of almost the whole world, is pushing many ordinary people to speculate about where, in fact, it all began. How is it that there are only two small pieces of land left of the Palestinian state today?
Apart from the writings about the confrontation between Jews and Arabs, which has lasted for thousands of years, the cause of the current conflict does not lie so deep.
The problem with Palestine losing its lands began at the end of the XNUMXth century, when mass resettlement of Jews began on a narrow piece of land sandwiched between the Dead and Mediterranean seas.
The first organizer of this process was the Odessa doctor Lev Semenovich Pinsker, who organized the Hovevei Zion society in 1880.
The organization set itself the goal of relocating all Russian Jews to their supposedly native land in the Jerusalem Mutasarrifat (a state in Palestine) of the Ottoman Empire. At that time, about 5 million Jews lived in the Russian Empire (about 62% of the Jewish population worldwide).
Meanwhile, no matter how members of the community persuaded their blood brothers to move to Palestine, more than two-thirds dreamed of moving to the United States, and not to lands poorly suitable for habitation.
However, already in 1881, events occurred that sharply increased the number of people wishing to move to the Jerusalem Mutasarrifat.
The thing is that on March 13, 1881, Emperor Alexander II was killed. Moreover, despite the fact that the customers of the crime were Russian Narodnaya Volya members, and the direct perpetrator was a Pole, persecution in the Russian Empire began specifically against Jews.
This coincidence of circumstances became the trigger for the mass relocation of Jews to Palestine, which only intensified after the outbreak of the First World War and the oppression of Jews in other countries.
Naturally, this could not please the Arabs who lived in those lands. Therefore, even before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, numerous clashes and massacres took place between these peoples.
After the formation of the state of Israel, seven Arab countries immediately declared war on the new country, which they “safely” lost.
Then there were the Suez Crisis, the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War, as a result of which only two small pieces remained of Palestine, in one of which (in the Gaza Strip) the IDF is now conducting an operation to destroy the Hamas group, which has already led to a huge number of civilian casualties residents.
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