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Zionism
What is it?
Zionism is Israel's national ideology. Zionists believe Judaism is both a nationality and a religion, and also that Jews deserve their own state in their ancestral homeland, Israel.
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Origin
In the concept of an organized movement it started in the year of 1897, generally considered to have been founded by Theodor Herzl, The exact date is related to the beginnings of Jewish history and Judaism.
Political Aspects
Political Zionism is linked to the name of Theodor Herzl, who considered the Jewish problem a political one that should be solved by overt action in the international arena.
Political Zionism stressed the importance of political action and deemed the attainment of political rights in Palestine a prerequisite for the fulfillment of the Zionist enterprise.
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Quite the opposite, the Arab population of Palestine grew at a tremendous rate between 1922 and 1948.
In 1922, at the start of the British Mandate there were some 589,000 Muslim Arabs and 71,000 Christian Arabs in Palestine, a number that is probably an overestimate.
By 1945, there were well over 1.2 million Arabs in Palestine and perhaps over 1.3 million by 1948.
Zionism Nowadays
Currently, Zionism has unleashed a series of events that have destabilized the Middle East region thanks to the bad treatment that Palestinians constantly receive. Zionism in the eyes of many people has lost its original values and has become an ideology of colonialism and ultra-right thanks to these events.
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