Zionism is a nationalist movement advocating for regaining residence of the Jewish state within the territories of Palestine, Canaan, and the Holy Land of Jewish through connection and attachment to the land. Zionism pushed on the agenda of establishing a state that could make the Jews liberated from discrimination, humiliations, antisemitism, and persecutions. They faced this already while in a foreign land, so they ingathered these exiles to be one of the heartlands belonging to the Jews. The movement continued to threaten sustained security in ancient Israel; since its establishment in 1948, it has continuously received support from Zionism.
The Jews view the state of Israel as a nation that adheres to the practices of Judaism. They support the decisions of the Jews to return to the nation of Israel to increase their numbers in their ancestral land and prevent the Jews from being assimilated into different cultures. Generally, Zionism and its advocates perceive the move to push for reinstatement of the persecuted individuals living in other nations as minorities. Conversely, People who oppose and criticize Zionism perceive the movement to be exceptionalist, racist, and colonialist ideology that made its advocates cause violence that initiated the exodus of Palestinians.
The Palestine land was retrieved from Ottoman after the British had fabricated some inconsistent assurances to the Palestinian Jewish and Arab people during WW1. The British inaugurated the Peel of Commission in 1937 after the six months of the Arab General Strike. The Peel of Commission divided Palestine into two states, the Arab nation, and the Jewish state, claiming that the mandate had ceased working, but the Palestinians refused this decision. The British limited the number of immigrants to Palestine when WWII broke out in 1939.
President Truman allowed a hundred thousand Holocaust survivors into Palestine in August 1945 after WWII. Still, the limited number of Jewish immigrants was maintained, leading to another request to partition Palestine. The United Nations was handed the Palestine Mandate by the British in 1947, and it established a non-binding approval for sovereign Jewish and Arab states. The Palestinians refused this offer once more, leading to civil war.
The Jewish state is the term that describes the nation-state of Israel as the homeland for the Jews, with some debating its religious versus secular usage. On May 14th, 1948, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Transjordan’s armies launched the 1948 Arab-Israel War a day later, and this resumed for a year until the cease-fire. The term gained traction by David-Ben-Gurion, and it has since been used interchangeably with Israel.
The Palestinian Exodus of 1948 occurred after the war between Israel and Arab escalated and pushed them to run away from their land. Some historians have described this expulsion of the Palestinians as ethnic cleansing. The Palestinian refugee camps in the Arab world accommodated the Palestinian Arabs, most of which went to other nations. The Jordanians gave them citizenship while other Arab countries denied them the offer. Today, over 2 million registered Palestinian refugees reside in Jordan.
Such issues created an antagonistic stance. An example is the 1956 crisis of Suez and Palestinian refugees toward Israel. There was a heightened tension of the same by June 1967. Israel attacked Egyptians to mobilize their army on the Peninsula border. This move destroyed almost all dispatched Egyptian air force members. Jordan and Syria were deceptively recruited into the war by Egypt but still resulted in Israel’s victory. One week after the end of the war, Israel was able to gain control over Syria, the Gaza Strip, the eastern part of Jerusalem, and other regions. The outcomes of the war significantly increased Israel’s morale and international prestige.