What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
When studying world history, we know that as early as the 11th century BC — that is, the founding of the Zhou Dynasty — the United Kingdom of Israel appeared on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and then split into the Kingdom of Israel in the north and the Kingdom of Judah in the south.
In fact, two hundred years before that, the region was conquered by the Roman Empire, and israel's ancestors were already in exile in Europe.
The two countries each existed for hundreds of years, were destroyed by the Assyrians and Babylonians, and the people were moved to the Two Rivers Valley...
For more than a thousand years, the region was ruled by Persia, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, Umayyad, Abbasids, Khwarazm, and the Mongol Empire, with Jews wandering the world and Arabs dominating the world.
(Old photos of Jewish weddings)
Other peoples have long been integrated into other peoples, but the Jews have adhered to their doctrines and way of life, which can be regarded as a legend in the history of world civilization.
Beginning in the 19th century, many Jews moved back to Palestine, buying land, setting up farms, and living for a long time.
Inevitably, there was conflict with the locals.
However, the conflict was not too fierce at first, and more and more Jews joined the Zion organization, the Zionist Movement, and returned to the eastern shores of the Mediterranean.
They called a congress, announced a program, attracted the sympathy and support of the Jews of all countries, and the greatest achievement, after the British conquest of Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, Foreign Minister Belfort issued a declaration named after him, the main content of which was only a few words -
His Majesty's Government favours the establishment of a national house for the Jews in Palestine and will do its utmost to facilitate the achievement of this goal. To be clear, however, the civil and religious rights of the non-Jewish people already existing in Palestine, as well as the rights and political status of Jews in other countries, must not be undermined.
Although, this statement is paradoxical – the arrival of new immigrants means the loss of the natives.
But for the Jews, having been guaranteed the founding of a world power, the ideal of a thousand years is about to be realized.
After that, there were many conflicts between Israelis and Arabs, but the trend of statehood was difficult to reverse, and Britain, which found things not so easy, imposed restrictions on immigration, but more and more people migrated here.
But --
After World War II, there were only 600,000 Jews here, just one-tenth of the Jews who were systematically slaughtered by the Nazis.
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That is to say, in Europe, when the Nazis raised their butcher knives, most Jews did not want to move back to their ancestral lands.
In "The Age of Extinction", it is described like this -
After the persecution, the Jews of Eastern Europe fled to Western Europe.
But the differences between the Jews in Eastern and Western Europe are obvious, and there are actually strong contradictions within the same race.
The Jews of Eastern Europe, feeling that the West lacked Judism, were assimilated;
Western Europeans felt that the brothers and sisters from the east were too backward, too primitive, too stubborn, and it was precisely because of this that the anti-Semitic movement was constantly rising.
However, internal contradictions are internal, and they have a common feature.
The book reads:
Most Jews have completely misjudged the support they can expect from their own governments and local authorities, who are facing their enemies together.
This is a bit of a detour, in fact, they think that the country they live in at the moment has the ability to protect them.
But in fact, from the Czech Republic to Poland to France to the western Soviet Union, those countries could not even save themselves, could they save the Jews?
Moreover, although these places do not exterminate them, there is already a strong anti-Semitism.
By the time they truly woke up, the best chance to escape had been lost.