Early Israeli Terrorism

Was Israel founded by Terrorism?
Early Israeli Terrorism Before 1948
By Leila Daas

Today Israel exists as one of the most influential and powerful countries in the Middle East. With it’s over powering influence on the American government, Israel has managed to climb its way to the military top. The establishment of Israel in the Palestinian region has long been a subject of great controversy and detested throughout the Arab world. This is mainly due to the expulsion of the Palestinians and the loss of their beloved country.

Israel has remained in conflict status from the very days of its existence. “The conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews began around the turn of the 20th century. It is essentially a struggle over land. Until 1948, the area that both groups claimed was known internationally as Palestine.” (http://www.tucsonshowguide.com/stories/jul02/israel2.cfm). It seems that the state of Israel has developed itself over the years by means of terrorism. The record of Israeli terrorism goes back to the origins of the state - indeed, long before its actual establishment. Acts of terrorism perpetrated by advocates of Israel can be found dating back to the time of Zionism. Zionist terror groups inflicted terrorism in a mixture of disreputable attacks throughout the early 1900s, before establishment day. Zionism is one of the root causes for the continuing struggle, for it is credited with the re-establishment of the biblical state of Israel."If I were to sum up the Congress in a word – which I shall take care not to publish – it would be this: At Basle I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today I would be greeted by universal laughter. In five years perhaps, and certainly in fifty years, everyone will perceive it." This was the belief of Theodor Herzl;
founder of modern Zionism.

Theodor Herzl was an Austrian Jewish journalist who founded modern Zionism, a national revival movement that originally supported the creation of a Jewish national home and cultural centre in Palestine. “As a correspondent for Neue Freie Presse, Herzl followed the Dreyfus Affair, a notorious anti-Semitic incident in France in which a French Jewish army captain was falsely convicted of spying for Germany.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl#Zionist_leader). After the scandal, Theodor came to recognize the emptiness and futility of trying to ‘combat’ anti-Semitism. Prompted by the growing pressure on Jews in the central and eastern regions of Europe he began to reject his early ideas regarding Jewish emancipation and assimilation. In his book Der Judenstaat (The State of the Jews), published in 1896, he writes:

“The Jewish question persists wherever Jews live in appreciable numbers. Wherever it does not exist, it is brought in together with Jewish immigrants. We are naturally drawn into those places where we are not persecuted, and our appearance there gives rise to persecution. This is the case, and will inevitably be so, everywhere, even in highly civilized countries—see, for instance, France—so long as the Jewish question is not solved on the political level. The unfortunate Jews are now carrying the seeds of anti-Semitism into England; they have already introduced it into America.”

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