History In 1948, Great Britain recognized the rights of the Jewish people to establish a national Jewish homeland in Palestine. This made Palestinians very angry because they believe that it is their God-given land. Palestine was split into Jordan and Israel. The Declaration of Independence of the ...
After the holocaust of World War II, many Jews fled to the land of Palestine which was better known as Israel by the Jewish people even before its official declaration of independency. The first political attempt at creating peace between the disputing sides was made by Britain, the controllers of the Palestine land up until Israel's independence. ... Zionism is the belief that Jews should have their own homeland, and in 1917 the British decided to back Zionism with The Balfour Declaration (Jewish Voice for Peace). After the Balfour Declaration the Jewish people started massive immigrati...
This letter was known as the Balfour Declaration. But since the two sides couldn"t live with each other, the Balfour Declaration was unworkable. ... The Palestinians demand and fight for independence and the Israelis still want to negotiate peace. ...
Britain main order of business was to implement the Balfour Declaration, which simply declared a national home for the Jewish people. ... In 1946, Britain partitioned Palestine and gave the TransJordan, the east side of the Jordan River, it's independence. ...
A Different Kind of Faith In the story "The Conversion of the Jews" by Philip Roth the character Oscar "Ozzie" Freedman is a thirteen year old boy who constantly questions the Jewish faith. He attends school at the Jewish Synagogue and his teacher is Rabbi Binder. Ozzie i...
The Declaration of Independence of the United States states " We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain enaliable rights, that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." ...
Few women have had the opportunity to affect real change in the world in which they live. Golda Meir not only took that opportunity, but she helped to change the world for Jewish people forever. Golda Meir spent her life working towards the betterment of Jewish life through her dedication to the foundation of a Jewish homeland. Golda Mabovitch was born in Kiev, Russia in 1896. Her Jewish family went through so many years of torment that they decided to immigrate to America. ...
