Christian Zionism

the Zionists the territory they had been fighting for in order to create a Jewish homeland. Therefore showing the vital role Western intervention played in Israel’s establishment in 1948, where prior to, it was the main factor in the success of Zionism. However after 1948, Western intervention had less importance, as now the Zionists had enough stability to defend the state on their own. The third…

The First and Second Aliyah were two groups of Zionist immigrants, moving away from their own country for Palestine (which is now known as the Land of Israel), as they determined to bring all of the Jewish people together in one Jewish State. The First Aliyah was a major wave of Zionist immigrants, who immigrated from Eastern Europe and Yemen between the years 1882 to 1903. On the other hand, the Second Aliyah was a group of Jews who immigrated from Europe and Czarist Russia between the years…

Lior Bar-El Sinai Scholars Essay 4/10/16 The First Roman Jewish War The First Roman Jewish war was a conflict with great ramifications. It resulted in the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and started the transformation from a Judaism centered on temple sacrifices to a Judaism dominated by Rabbis and the interpretations of scripture. Militarily, this conflict was important as it saw diverse militaries fighting with contrasting tactics. The Jewish rebels fought with irregular tactics…

Through history, the Jewish nation has had several conflicts with countless empires, religions, and other groups of people who had opposing beliefs and practices. One of the largest and most powerful empires which the Jews had several conflicts with was the Roman empire. The Roman empire initially came in contact with the Jewish people when Pompey the Great laid siege to Judea and the temple, making the land of the Jews a client kingdom, or a native tribe who joins the Roman empire in order to…

Let’s Talk About Israel On an episode of “The Daily Show” this summer, Jon Stewart spoke about Israel. In this specific segment, Stewart informed his viewers how America was re-supplying Israel with ammunition to defend itself against Hamas. In response to this, he said, “We cannot be Israel’s rehab sponsor and it’s drug dealer. It’s not going to work.” Well, I am sure you can imagine the backlash Stewart received. To many, this was unjustified criticism of Israel. To others, it was spot on…

The main topic of the source presented is how strong religious beliefs can strike a sense of nation within a people; subsequently creating a nation state. This idea is evident within the source through the quotation stating “... We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.” This quotation demonstrates how strong religious nationalistic beliefs in addition to great perseverance can lead a people to gaining own nation state to call home. The speaker's perspective is that of the Arabic during…

Zionism is a complex but simple movement. In its simplest form it calls for a re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, in gathering of the exiles, and liberation of Jews from the anti-Semitic discrimination and persecution that occurred in their Diaspora. In a sense of Jews with their own nation taking care of their own for their own cause. The waters were muddied and the movement took on many ideologies, and had evolved in a dialogue among a plethora of ideologies: General…

would occur in tangential celebration of my brother’s thirteenth birthday. I say tangential because my family isn’t really Jewish and we certainly aren’t observant. My Dad is Jewish, he went to Hebrew school and had a bar mitzvah but my Mom is Christian, raised in a church-going household. Having two parents of different religions is quite common in modern times, and so I have never had any internal turmoil in trying to decide between two religions. Since we celebrate both Christmas and…

times. In Culture of the Jews: Mediterranean Origins Oded Irshai explores the changes that took place within Jewish culture and the factors that caused said changes in his article “Confronting a Christian Empire: Jewish Culture in the World of Byzantium.” In his article he looks at the increasingly Christian Roman Empire and its effect on Palestine while analyzing the causes and effects this change caused. With the societal and cultural changes that took place, Palestine slowly ceased to be a…

and disagreements with sharing the same state. Their biggest argument is over who should have full control of Israel, the Jews (Israelis) or the Arabs Muslims (Palestine). Israelis believe that they should have full control of Israel because of the Zionism, Israel should be there holy land and they should have a place to call their home (Beauchamp, 2015, para 2). The Palestine are mostly of Arab Muslims and were not so happy with the Israelis trying to take away their land just because of their…