Judaism Essay -- Religion, Jewish People, Palestine

Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad. Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One. This is the Shema, perhaps the most of the essence(p) prayer in Judaism, in which God tells the Jewish people to take in Him into their hearts. It is important to know this, as this idea of Israelites and Israel as a saintly place to Judaism becomes religious justification for Jewish occlusion in Palestine. How something akin a simple prayer become so complicated? How does a religion become a nation, a race? What is justified in the name of religion is it war, terror, colonization? In the Israeli novel Khirbet Khizeh, by S. Yizhar, the issues of Zionism and colonization are discussed through the raw description of a platoons care to remove Palestinians from their village. It is an emotional and poetic novel describing what seems at first to be simple making sure that Palestinian settlements are evacuated, but it becomes so much more complicated as human faces and feelings are added to the narrators conscience. By retelling of the Palestinian expulsion during the Arab-Israeli War, Yizhar expresses the human pain and ceaseless consequences of creating a settlement on anothers land in the name of nationalism. Yizhar shows the Zionist rhetoric through the combat soldiers, but through this recognition of Zionist reasoning, he questions the rights of the Zionists to takeover Arab villages-and for that matter, all of Palestine-to create a Jewish nation. advanced(a) Zionism has roots from 1850 until the present day, and the ideals of Zionism emerged as secular nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Europe, in particular Eastern Europe, increased. The principles of Zionism differ from one Zionist constitutional to another, but the main uniting fac... ...us times in previous history. Palestinians were go forth without a home, and with the dispersion, the Palestinian question became one of the refugees, to be handled by the Arab states (Smith 205) as a resu lt of Jewish nationalism. The Arab-Israeli War was a war which outside thousands from their homes to create room for a new nation, and the consequences are very unfeigned in Palestinian, Israeli, and Arab lives today. The issues surrounding it remain major points of debate and contention in politics today, as any observer could see from a glance at a news station or newspaper. There were some accounts of the creation of the state, and Yitzir attempts to create a more complex picture of the Palestinian expulsion. The Jewish state was created on May 14, 1948, whether people believed in the states right to exist-or not-and it is a powerful force.