The Arab Israeli Conflict by Chris Gates https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol Does the argument that the Jewish people should be compensated for the Holocaust justify the creation of the State of Israel? en-us 2016-08-30 02:14:50 UTC 2023-04-25 01:11:24 UTC hello@padlet.com scislaghilanza https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120462714 Oh no my lemon tree

]]> 2016-08-30 02:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120462714 eculph https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120462822 2016-08-30 02:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120462822 cedwards13 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120462836 2016-08-30 02:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120462836 rbradford3 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463153 2016-08-30 02:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463153 eculph https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463203 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.
]]> 2016-08-30 02:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463203 mbrown70 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463247 2016-08-30 02:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463247 npignatelli https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463314 2016-08-30 02:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463314 rcripps https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463327 2016-08-30 02:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463327 IN SUPPORT eculph https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463339 2016-08-30 02:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463339 NOT IN SUPPORT eculph https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463357 2016-08-30 02:30:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463357 cedwards13 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463568 2016-08-30 02:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463568 eculph https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463576 "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."]]> 2016-08-30 02:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463576 llomas https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463582 2016-08-30 02:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463582 rbradford3 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463594 2016-08-30 02:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463594 rcripps https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463616 2016-08-30 02:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463616 mbrown70 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463691 2016-08-30 02:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463691 eculph https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463885 "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."]]> 2016-08-30 02:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463885 llomas https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463921 2016-08-30 02:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463921 rbradford3 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463924 2016-08-30 02:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463924 mbrown70 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463961 “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
― Edward W. Said

]]> 2016-08-30 02:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463961 rcripps https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463982 2016-08-30 02:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120463982 npignatelli https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120464002 "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]]> 2016-08-30 02:36:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120464002 pbrown33 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120464107 2016-08-30 02:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120464107 rcripps https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120464125 2016-08-30 02:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120464125 cedwards13 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120464235 2016-08-30 02:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120464235 npignatelli https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120975440 2016-08-31 23:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120975440 rcripps https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120975491 “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.]]> 2016-08-31 23:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120975491 rcripps https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120975864 2016-08-31 23:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120975864 rbradford3 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120975872 2016-08-31 23:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120975872 rbradford3 https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976151 2016-08-31 23:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976151 llomas https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976180 2016-08-31 23:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976180 rcripps https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976351 "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]]> 2016-08-31 23:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976351 llomas https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976550 2016-08-31 23:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976550 rcripps https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976699 "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,"]]> 2016-08-31 23:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976699 llomas https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976882 2016-08-31 23:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mrgates/k6gyg7je9wol/wish/120976882