The Effects on the World After the Creation of Isreal

Ben Shutts, Cameron Kyle

Pre AP World History

07 April 2016

The Effects on the World After the Creation of Israel

Picture this, you and your family have been struggling for for twelve years now. You have been cruelly mistreated from people that you once thought were your friends. Now you have nowhere to go. Everywhere that you go there are riots that break out because they don’t want people of your kind in their country. All of the stress that you are going through makes you feel like you could explode. Then you see a light at the end of the tunnel. A new country that is made especially for you and your people has been created. Now that you are in this new country, you and your family can live with peace of mind. This was how life was for the Jewish people after WWII. The country that was formed is what we know as Israel. That is what we are going to talk about in this essay. The United Nations agreed to create a “homeland” for the Jewish people after what they had been through. They did this by taking land from a British-controlled area in the Middle East, which was known as Palestine. Of course, this brought up conflict with the Palestinians. The establishment of Israel may have been a positive thing for the Jewish people at first, but eventually this brought conflict with the Palestinian people which eventually caused a war to go on between the Palestinian people and the Jewish people.

The Holocaust lasted from 1933 to 1945, which was the Nazi’s conquest to exterminate all Jewish people in Europe, and anyone else that they believed to be inferior to the Aryan race. Nearly six million Jewish people were killed in the Nazi concentration and death camps (ushmm.org). When the rest of the world found out about what the Nazis were doing to these people, they were likely horrified by the fact that someone would do terrible things to a certain religious group. World leaders were sympathetic for the Jews, who needed a place to go after what...