Israel is the birthplace of the world's major religions, Judaism, Islam and Christianity. The distant ancestors of the Jews were the Hebrews, a branch of the ancient Semitics. It originated in Mesopotamia about 4,000 years ago. Israel was originally a national name that originally meant "the wrestler of God." However, in the following thousands of years, this land has experienced the rule of ancient countries such as Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium, and the Jews in this area have gradually declined and been expelled, scattered all over the world, and even Kaifeng in China has the remains of synagogues. The two most important books of Judaism, the Mishnah and the Talmud, were also written during this period.
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The Jews became a stateless people, but the Jews were very intelligent and achieved great success in business or political activities in various countries around the world. Although the Jews have no state, they still have an important voice in the international community. In the 18th century, the Zionist movement began to rise. The Jews began to look for their own place to build a country, and even the Jews once considered establishing a country in this northeast, but in the end it did not work.
Jews began a massive and organized return to their original place, which the Jews considered to be God's Promised Land. In 1940 Jews already made up 30 percent of the total population in Palestine, and then the Outbreak of Jewish extermination in Europe led to more people coming to Palestine. Between 1944 and 1948, more than 200,000 Jews entered Palestine by various means. By the end of World War II, the region was already home to more than 600,000 Jews.
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The massive influx of Jews into Palestine, while the Judah massacres in Europe led to international sympathy for the Jews. Moreover, American Jews have a great say in American politics, and they are constantly pushing for Zionism.
In 1947, the unity between Arabs and Jews in Palestine became more and more acute. The British wanted to withdraw from the area, so the Arabs and Jews divided the area under the arrangements of the United Nations. Dividing the Palestinian area into two States, Jews and Arabs owning about 55 per cent and 45 per cent of the territory (Jewish and Arab) respectively, and Jerusalem was placed under the administration of the United Nations with a view to avoiding conflict. This arrangement was very irrational, 40% of the Jews occupied 55% of the land, 60% of the Arabs occupied 45% of the land, and the Jews occupied better arable land and water sources, while the Arabs occupied deserts and mountains.
Jerusalem, the spiritual nucleus of the two peoples, has not been properly disposed of, which has laid a huge hidden danger for the five subsequent Middle East wars.
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On May 14, 1948, Israel officially declared its statehood. The next day, May 15, a coalition of Arabs from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon declared war on Israel, beginning the first Middle East war. At the beginning of the war, the Israeli army had not yet been formed, and could only rely on militia resistance, and the Arab coalition army, with more troops and more advanced weapons, defeated Israel gradually. Israel had to seek the help of the United Nations, hoping that it would mediate. International powers do not want the Middle East to be monolithic, and only a turbulent Middle East is in their best interest. Beginning in June, the United Nations signed a one-month ceasefire, and the Israel Defense Forces were established during this period. The Arab coalition also lost its last chance to eliminate Israel.
Israel has received more advanced weapons from the West, using weapons and tactics to crush the Arab coalition. A large number of Arabs were forced to leave the place where they had lived for thousands of years, and 700,000 Arabs became refugees and began to flee into exile.
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After the First Middle East War, the Jews gained a foothold in this land, and Israel has always represented the interests of the United States in the Middle East, and is regarded as an iron nail inserted by the United States in the Middle East. And Israel had atomic bomb technology around 1965, and although it had never conducted a nuclear test, it was reported that Israel had about 300 nuclear bombs, an average of one for every 30,000 Israelis. However, because of the support of Europe and the United States, Israel, which is also an "illegal nuclear possession", has not been sanctioned like North Korea and Iran.
Israel's history of statehood is brutal and bloody, with large numbers of Palestinians forced to leave the land where they have lived for thousands of years and to flee into exile as Middle Eastern refugees.
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