LESSONS TO BE LEARNED ON: A History of Zionism and the Creation of Israel

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This information is about how a people was able to keep intact a national identity inspite of their having been driven out of their land and scattered around the world for 2000 years, and came back to recover the original land of the birth of their nation.

It was the Determinant of National Attributes or DNA of the israelis that has been driving them towards becoming a nation with the kind of defense, economy, and agriculture system that they have today.  This Israeli DNA is the belief that they are a people set apart thru historical development, organic to them.  This historical development of their having been set apart as a people became the definition of their nation which they have kept it as their own.  Having conquered and been driven out from Palestine thru historical development several times for thousands of years, Zionism movement developed as a response.

The value of Zionism as a movement to us filipinos, is in our struggle to be free of the degenerative disease of Alienation Impotency Dependency Syndrome.  At present, we filipinos are divided into classes, sectors, profession and individuals with conflicting interests.  Each of our classes, sectors, profession and individuals are dependent on the americans for protection, and economic sustenance, as well as intellectual, cultural and social prestige.  The  left, are clamoring for the dismantling of american militarization of our country.  It is only the militarization and not the United States north americanization of the different areas of our country that they are objecting. The more subtle but deeper invasion which is the control of our economy, education, culture, and the whole of our developmental code which is the control of our destiny is being overlooked.

We filipinos, who have been driven out of our inherited identity, our own origins of our nation, our inherited constitution, our inherited defense institution, our inherited national culture, and the whole of our national developmental code of excellence, and our loyalty to our nation was scattered for decades, and need to recover them, can learn a lesson.

Zionism Movement is explained thru clicking on the following paragraphs:

Introduction - What is Zionism?

Zionism is the Jewish national movement. "Zionism" derives its name from "Zion," (pronounced "Tzyion" in Hebrew) a hill in Jerusalem. The word means "marker" or commemoration. "Shivath Tzion" is one of the traditional terms for the return of Jewish exiles.  "Zionism" is not a monolithic ideological movement. It includes, for example, socialist Zionists such as Ber Borochov, religious Zionists such as rabbi Kook, extreme nationalists such as Jabotinski and cultural Zionists exemplified by Asher Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'am). Zionist ideas evolved over time and were influenced by circumstances as well as by social and cultural movements popular in Europe at different times, including socialism, nationalism and colonialism, and assumed different "flavors" depending on the country of origin of the thinkers and prevalent contemporary intellectual currents.  Accordingly, no single person, publication, quote or pronouncement should be taken as embodying "official"  Zionist ideology.

Background - When did Zionism Begin? Love of Zion in Jewish History

Zionism did notspring full blown from a void with the creation of the Zionist movement in1897. Jews had maintained a connection with Palestine, both actual andspiritual. This continued even after the Bar Kochba revolt in 135, when largenumbers of Jews were exiled from  Roman Palestine, the remains of theirancient national home. The Jewish community in Palestine revived. Under Muslimrule, is estimated to have numbered as many as 300,000 prior to the Crusades,about 1000 AD. The Crusaders killed most of the Jewish population of Palestineor forced them into exile, so that only about 1,000 families remained after thereconquest of Palestine by Saladin. The Jewish community in Palestine waxed andwaned with the vicissitudes of conquest and economic hardship. A trickle ofJews came because of love of Israel, and were sometimes...