JustJacked said:
These are all mysteries. Its Bible stuff. In my opinion, and that of many others as well, they have their land restored because they saw an opertunity and acted upon it. The world was weak after WWII. People were tired. The Jews, who should have been the weakest remainded strong. They had been planing there return to Israel for some time now, even before the war. They had been secretly sending weapons and men to Israel. They duked it out with a couple British soldiers. A couple Brits were murdered, a couple Jews were murdered. And the Brits said fuck it, we just had a war dont need another, and left it for the Arabs to take care of. They basically agreed that the Jews had a right to the land.
So the Jews finnally got sick of it and took back there land. For over 2000 years they ran amongst the world humblly and wondered why they had no land. Wondered when God would give them back there land. They finally said fuck it, heres an opertunity to take back ours. The world is weak, the Brits dont want another war just to keep Israel, and the Arabs have no chance at all. So they did it. Some say its God who gave them the opertunity, some say its just 'chance'. Who knows. But I say they are some strong fucking people to take over a country and fight off 5 invading countries, while being out numbered 5-1, after almost being anihalated by the Germans in WWII.
you forgot the Russians
Pogroms against the Jews
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In Tsarist Russia
Massive violent attacks against Jews date back at least to the Crusades or earlier (see York Castle), but the term pogrom as a reference to large-scale, targeted, and repeated anti-Jewish rioting only saw use beginning in the 19th century. The first pogrom of this sort is often considered to be the 1821 anti-Jewish riots in Odessa after the death of the Greek Orthodox patriarch in Constantinople, in which 14 Jews were killed.[1] Other sources, such as the Jewish Encyclopedia say the first pogrom was the 1859 riots in Odessa. The term became common after a large-scale wave of anti-Jewish riots swept southern Imperial Russia (modern Poland, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova) in 1881-1884, after Jews were wrongly blamed for the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
The victims, mostly Jewish children, of a 1905 pogrom in Yekaterinoslav (today's Dnipropetrovsk).
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The victims, mostly Jewish children, of a 1905 pogrom in Yekaterinoslav (today's Dnipropetrovsk).
In the 1880s outbreak, thousands of Jewish homes were destroyed, many families reduced to extremes of poverty; women sexually assaulted, and large numbers of men, women, and children killed or injured in 166 Russian towns. The new Tsar Alexander III blamed the Jews for the riots and issued a series of harsh restrictions on Jews. The series of pogroms continued for more than three years with at least tacit inactivity and in some cases, support by the authorities.
An even bloodier wave of pogroms broke out in 1903-1906, leaving an estimated 2,000 Jews dead, and many more wounded. The New York Times described the First Kishinev pogrom of Easter, 1903:
"The anti-Jewish riots in Kishinev, Bessarabia, are worse than the censor will permit to publish. There was a well laid-out plan for the general massacre of Jews on the day following the Russian Easter. The mob was led by priests, and the general cry, "Kill the Jews," was taken up all over the city. The Jews were taken wholly unaware and were slaughtered like sheep. The dead number 120 [Note: the actual number of dead was 47-48] and the injured about 500. The scenes of horror attending this massacre are beyond description. Babes were literally torn to pieces by the frenzied and bloodthirsty mob. The local police made no attempt to check the reign of terror. At sunset the streets were piled with corpses and wounded. Those who could make their escape fled in terror, and the city is now practically deserted of Jews." [2]
At least some of the pogroms have been organized[3] or supported by the Tsarist Russian secret police, the Okhranka. Such facts as the indifference of Russian police and army were duly noted, e.g., during the three-day First Kishinev pogrom of 1903, as well as the preceding inciting anti-Jewish articles in newspapers, a hint that pogroms were in line with the internal policy of Imperial Russia. There is also evidence that the police knew in advance about some pogroms, and chose not to act. Members of the army also actively participated in pogroms in Bialystok (June 1906) and Siedlce (September 1906). The most violently anti-Semitic movement during this period was the Black Hundred, which actively participated in the pogroms.
Even outside of these main outbreaks, pogroms remained common — there were anti-Jewish riots in Odessa in 1859, 1871, 1881, 1886 and 1905 in which hundreds were killed in total.
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During the Russian Revolution
Many pogroms accompanied the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Russian Civil War, an estimated 70,000 to 250,000 civilian Jews were killed in the atrocities throughout the former Russian Empire; the number of Jewish orphans exceeded 300,000. In his book 200 Years Together, Alexander Solzhenitsyn provides the following numbers from Nahum Gergel's 1951 study of the pogroms in the Ukraine: out of estimated 887 mass pogroms, about 40% were perpetrated by the Ukrainian forces led by Symon Petliura, 25% by the Green Army and various nationalist and anarchist gangs, 17% by the White Army, especially forces of Anton Denikin, and 8.5% by the Red Army.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom