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Past and Present of the Palestinian Nakba
The origins of the Nakba and the state of Israel: Zionism
Putting the Israeli-Palestinian in historical perspective is a fundamental step to understand the underlying issues. It is not possible to fully understand the events of the Nakba or the current policies of the state of Israel without understanding the ideological architecture of Zionism that sustains them. In this sense, Zionist historian Paul Giniewski put forward an emblematic explanation: “Only the Zionist current amidst the Jewish people has generate a Jewish response to Auschwitz: the state of Israel.”
Without Zionism there’s no state of Israel. This is the fundamental equation.
What is Zionism? What are its origins, features and principles? How did it manage to take hold as the dominant ideology capable of producing the political repercussions that led to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948?
Zionism became a national political movement, understood and organized on a global scale, which defended the right of the “Jewish people”1 over their (supposed) homeland, “Eretz Israel” (the land of Israel). This movement defined itself, and still does so, as the flag-bearer for the entire “Jewish people” and their aspirations, defending the right to establish a Jewish home through an overtly colonial project in a land long known as Palestine, then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
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https://utopix.cc/content/past-and-present-of-the-palestinian-nakba/