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Israel's Declaration of Independence on Dipity.

Money, Society and the Government

QUESTION: 
1) What social, political, and economic events (internal & external) shaped the activities of the government?
2) How did the governments address problems within the state itself? Show evidence.




THESIS: Most of the events that shaped the provisional government's activities came from the unstable establishment of independence for Israel, they solve their problems working with resources they own. 


        After Israel was allowed to stand on its' own, a Provisional government was assigned to take care of problems that was occurring or may occur within the nation. Now these are some events that led the government to their activities


  SOCIAL: The most obvious situation would be the division of Israel and Palestine. Once ownership of Israel was announced, problems between Israeli and Palestinian started. Because they simply just cannot live together peacefully, Palestinians whom coincidentally live in the area are not so lucky. Provisional government kicked them out of their houses and they became internal refugees. 

POLITICAL: It started since the declaration of independence in Israel and it continues until now. In 1948, the provisional government had to make sure the state stays strong and undefeated since they have no desire of becoming a colony again. This also led to the Arab-Israeli war, when Palestinian Arabs immediately attacked Israel, on the next day of their establishment. As a respond, Israel fought back on full strength. Using their air forces, they destroyed almost all of the Palestinians airplanes. 

ECONOMIC: The economic condition for a new state such as Israel was good for a small while, until the huge growth of Jewish migration from around into Israel. Most immigrants tagged along many children and they are totally dependent on the state for shelter, jobs, food and more. Israel had little natural resources and attracted little foreign investments. With this kind of situation, Israel got low interest loans to help when import needs and the reparation agreement provisional government signed with west Germany also provided Israel's economy with foreign money. 

How effective was the Provisional Government?

QUESTION: Judge the effectiveness of this particular government in regard to its actions and agendas.


THESIS: Once Israel became independent they handled immediate attacks from Palestine victoriously, and they end up leaving 20,000 Palestinians who lived in their area internal refugees. 

Regarding things that happened after the declaration of the independence of Israel, I would conclude that the effectiveness of the Provisional Government was high. On May 14, 1948, being a newly independent state it was unfortunate. One day after the declaration the Palestinian Arabs immediately attacked Israel. Arab armies along with Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan all aimed to destroy the new nation. In the early 1949, Israel was able to defeat the armies and took over half of the land assigned originally for the Arab state. This fighting is also known as the Arab-Israeli War, it started in 1948 and lasted until 1949.

The good thing was, Israel wanted to sign a peace treaty among the countries to stop conflicts and wars, Arabs rejected to accept the existence of Israel even though other countries did not object. In the end no formal treaties were signed.

AND THAT WAS EVEN BEFORE THE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT!! Meaning that even though the Provisional Government was quite new it was certainly not vulnerable. 

War continued after, Palestinian Arabs once again raided Israel and in return Israel raided back. Egypt blocked Israel from the Suez Canal, so Israel invaded Egypt.

The attacks grew until the UnitedNations had to send in peacekeeping force to stop the never ending conflict.

BUT that is still not the end, after a few years the UN removed their forces. Once the peacekeeping force went Egypt blocked the Strait of Tiran to prevent Israeli ships to pass. In a response, Israel launched an air force strike and in only one day, Arabs’ air forces were almost completely destroyed. This was also known as the Six DayWar.

All of these examples have shown just how strong and stable the State of Israel is.

***This may defeat the purpose of studying the Provisional government of 1948, but then I believe that since the Provisional government itself was effective, it led to an even more strong official government. One factor was probably from the involvement of Weizmann as well, since he helped operate in birth the Provisional and official government of Israel. 

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I have only been writing about how Jewish people and the nation of Israel have faced so many hardships, without mentioning negative effects they've created on others. That would make my blogs incredibly biased so here we go.


The birth of State of Israel created a land where Jewish people could migrate to after having been exiled for such a long period of time. As we all know, Israel is made from the division of Palestine, meaning that Palestinian live scattered all around many areas, there were also some that lived in a now-Israeli-nation. Once Israel was established, the Provisional government immediately kicked all Palestinians out of their land. 


They even used Palestinian land, possessions and dwelling on their increasing amount of Jewish population. They expelled Palestinians from their homes and replaced 150,000 Jews, they gave houses with of good conditions to government officials. 


To my surprise, they still didn't stop there. 

The provisional government even seized houses from inside the armistice line. People there became internal refugees, trying to find places to stay. Because of this act, the Provisional government left 20,000 Palestinians internal refugee. 

From that we can basically say that Israel are both bullied and a bully themselves.

Such Courageous Hard Working People

QUESTION: What particular individuals played key roles?


THESIS: Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion and Theodor Herzl are three major indivuals that contributed in making Israel an independent nation. 

Now, let’s talk about important people that made contributions to the buildup of the state of Israel. In my opinion there are three major individuals that I would like to mention

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This first person, David Ben-Gurion, I would explain him as the official founder of Israel; he had fought hard for the independence of this State and had succeeded as a result.  Ben-Gurion was the major Zionist leader and also the executive head of World Zionist Organization which supported the return and protection of Jewish people into Israel. He was the man who pushed and encouraged people into supporting Zionism and helping Israel onto its’ feet. When Israel became an independent state, he became the leader of the Provisional Government then Prime minister of the official government elected in 1949 and helped in building the state’s institution, over looked national projects and he also led the development of Israel.

**Below is a video of his speech**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJObtrw_E6g

The second person that became the first president of Israel is Chaim Weizmann. This was in the year 1949 through election and served until 1952 when he died. Weizmann was another leader of the Zionist Organization. He was associated with Britain, since during World War I, Weizmann became really close with the British leader and encouraged him to issue the Balfour Declaration which says:

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour


**http://history1900s.about.com/cs/holocaust/p/balfourdeclare.htm**

The Balfour Declaration was to convince the British troops to support Jewish immigrants, migrating back into Israel. He also assumed that the Arabs would be happy to join the Jewish Commonwealth. Weizmann was indeed a man with determinations; he devoted a humongous portion of his life to enable Jewish people return to their homes and to make Israel an independent state.

One last person that cannot be ignored(at least I think he shouldn't be) is Theodor Herzl, he is known as the founder of Zionism. Without Herzl, there would be no one daring enough to fight for Jewish people. He made Zionism become officially a political movement and an international force. He taught his followers to realize that they are capable of fighting back and bring Jewish people back to their home land. He indeed became the first stepping stone for Ben-Gurion and Weizmann. He pointed out the direction for Israel toward independence. 

These three courageous and respectable men are the founder and builder of the independent State of Israel that we all see today. They gave up their lives to fight for their home and protection to all Jewish people, no matter how people may view them as rationally or irrationally. 

HOW IT ALL STARTED (START HERE)

QUESTION:

1) How did the government emerge and what conditions led to its implementation?

THESIS: The provisional government was created due to the lack of any official government and protection from neighboring countries constantly launching attacks on the newly declared State of Israel.


Have you ever wondered about how the State of Israel came about as an independent nation? Well the story of struggle starts even before 1948, I would now trace the steps back to the time after World War 1. Right after World War 1, the British issued the Balfour Declaration claiming to be helping the Palestine to become a national home for Jewish people who were exiled. They established the British Mandate and ruled over Palestine. 

That was not it, the people living in Palestine itself unfortunately was not able to live together cooperatively due to the problem of land division. The Jewish people called Palestine, Israel. They are religiously connected to their home land and claimed that God gave it to them. Whereas, the Arabs and Palestinians also believe that the land was theirs. Because the British Mandate provides that it support the Jewish immigration, more and more Jews migrated back into Palestine both legally and illegally which increase the number of population in Palestine. However, the Arabs opposed the idea of Jewish immigration and started to attack the Jews. The British recommended partition of the country and once again the Jewish people agreed while Arabs rejected.

Another factor that led Israel to what it is today, one very tragic event World War II and the Holocaust. Now you may wonder about their contribution that affected Jewish people other than the slaughtering that happened, because on the brighter side it gave Theodore Herzl the determination to start his movement of Zionism. 

Zionism is basically the movement for the return of Jewish population to return to the Holy Land or Israel (which since the time of World War I, the number of Jewish immigrations still climbed). Herzl had came to a realization that Jewish will only be oppressed if nothing is done. After the Holocaust faded away, the British decided to leave Palestine and turned their issue over to the United Nation and terminated the British Mandate.

After consideration the United Nation recognized the state of Jewish people being able to stand alone and on May 14, 1948 declare independence to the State of Israel and partition from Palestine. Sadly, the Arabs in Palestine immediately launched attack on the newly declared state but Israel stood strong and coped with the challenges. The conflict between Arabs and Israel continues with more raiding and wars after wards. As for the government in Israel, Provisional Government started to take over the state temporarily until the official set of government gets elected.

                Basically, the Provisional government was formed to deal with the governing situation in Israel at that moment under the leadership of David Ben-Gurion

HERE ARE AN INFORMATIVE VIDEO ON THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY-e7mxQdfw