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American Jewish Support And Assistance Of The Founding Of Israel

Posted on:2012-01-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y J YinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205330335971385Subject:World History
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American Jews made an important contribution to the establishment of the State of Israel. After the World WarⅡ, by force of his strength, the American Jews provides a timely and strong support and assistance on political, economic and military for the Zionist. Without the support of American Jews, whether the Jews can achieve the Partition Plan of Palestine, weather on schedule in accordance with the founding of the partition plan, and weather the nascent State of Israel in the First Middle East War can survive is unknown.This Paper is divided into three sections:SectionⅠdiscusses the political and economic strength of the American Jews, the aim is to clarify American Jews support a solid foundation for the founding of Israel. After the development nearly of 300 years, before World WarⅡ, American Jews have become a Jewish community which have the world's largest, most powerful economic strength and the largest political influence. With its own strength, American Jews support Israel enough to assume the important task of the nation-building of Israel.SectionⅡdiscusses the ideological foundation of American Jews for the founding of Israel. The attitude for the Zionism of American Jews evolved from opposition to support. Initially Zionism in the United States developed very slowly, but because of the impact of Holocaust rapid development and expansion during World WarⅡ. American Jews changed the attitude of opposition and apathy, abandoned faction disputes in favor of firm support for the Zionism. The goal of the nation-building of the Jews was agreed, they unite to fight for the Jewish state in Palestine. Meanwhile, the Jews have the concept of charity since ancient times, which have the ideological foundation of Israel nation-building.SectionⅢis the focus of this article, which discuss American Jews of Israel nation-building contribution from three aspects:politic, economic and military. Politically, the American Jewish organizations a series of public campaigns to attempt to mislead; American Zionist leaders and some of the elite to lobby the U.S. government; at the same time, the American Jews made pressure by votes to Truman, so that the United States policies swing to the Zionist; the economically, American Jews provide a huge amount of financial assistance for the founding of Israel, and provide a huge amount of financial assistance for the Jews defeated the attacking Arab countries;militarily, American Jews provides a lot of ordnance for the Israeli, for the Jews to win the First Middle East War laid the foundation.
Keywords/Search Tags:American Jews, American Zionism, Israel, American Zionist Emergency Council, the Sonneborn
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