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"Zionism and its call for a Jewish national home and for the radical transformation of the Jew from passive victim to self-sufficient citizen residing in his own homeland became the only possible positive response to the Holocaust."
US Library of Congress Country Studies, in a 1988 entry on "Israel and the Holocaust,"

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"the Jewish holocaust during World War II, which Zionists used for propagandistic purposes to assert their 'right' to Palestine to which they had laid their suspect colonial claim half a century earlier. In appropriating the holocaust and its victims, Zionism and Israel asserted that any acknowledgement of Israel's 'right to exist,' and conversely that any attempt to deny Israel its alleged right to exist was perforce a denial of the holocaust."
Joseph Massad, PhD, Assistant Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University

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“Moving to Israel was very difficult.  We ate only pita and drank water, we worked long hours and we were constantly in fear of Arab attacks.”  Those were the words of Chaim Tsabag, an immigrant to Israel in 1947.  At the age of 23, Chaim witnessed the hardships that many Jews had to endure when arriving to Israel from Europe.

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"I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation."
- Letter from John Adams (US President) to Thomas Jefferson

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“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
― Edward W. Said

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"The Holocaust is no more a reason for Jews to have a state of their own than slavery is a reason for African-Americans to have a pure 'Black state' of their own."

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"The [Jewish] migration [to Palestine] gained urgency as Hitler came to power, promulgated anti-Jewish laws in Germany in the 1930s, then rounded up Jews in Germany and in the expanding sphere of German-occupied countries, restricted them to ghettos, shot them, deported them to concentration camps, and exterminated an estimated 6 million of them in the cause of racial purity. Out of this Holocaust grew the international compassion for the purpose of a new Israel as a sanctuary for the Jews."

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The 1948 Israeli Declaration of Statehood, included the following statement:

"The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people - the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe - was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the comity of nations.

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