HIS389H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 46 pages long!)
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What drove jews to settle in palestine were economic pressures and political discrimination in europe and the arab world. There is a connection between the hardness of jewish life in the diaspora and the relationship between arabs and israelis. The con ict in palestine intensi ed and reached its peaks in the wake of the destruction of the jews in europe. Even early encounters between arabs and jews in the ottoman world could be viewed from this prism. We could thus argue that the origins of the con ict are to be found, not in the. It is misleading however to explain zionism only though the prism of the treatment of. From the jewish perspective, zionism is deeply connected to the jewish people"s deep connection to israel, with its origin being in ancient jewish history, viz. that the jewish people emerged in the land of israel. The jews pray everyday for the restoration of the holy land.
