impact of WWII on Arab-Israeli relations
The Arab- Israeli conflict is still an unresolved issue with many negotiations, riots and victims and still no permanent solutions along with a tense climate. But what is the reason behind this hostility and what was the short term impact of the Second World War amongst so many other factors on the political relationships between the Arabs, Israel and foreign powers will be the subject of our enquiry.
The Second World War left its stigma on many countries and amongst those where the Arab countries. The rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany and his strong anti-Semitic views lead to the mass persecution of Jews around Europe and their massacre which is widely known as the holocaust. The Holocaust caused the death of around 6 million Jews while many others fled from Europe and a big number of them found refuge in Palestine. But why Palestine and what effect would this have on the Arab world? Jews felt that they needed a homeland or in other words their own state. This state was commonly referred to as being the land of Palestine as it is the land of Jews as described in the bible. A portion of Jews the Zionists looked forward to returning to their rightful land where the Jewish state would be born. Source 5 is an extract from the book “The Iron Wall” by Avi Shlaim a professor of international relations at St Antony’s College Oxford. The book was published in 2001 which might implicate that further research has been made therefore Avi could take advantage of vast amounts of new documents and statistics making the evidence given by the source reliable to a large extent. Avi is a revisionist historian adding on to the weight of the evidence in the source as this means that he doesn’t have the complete biased view that other Israeli of origin historians had at the time praising their nation. We can therefore say with certainty that the evidence in the source carries a large weight. It refers to the Jews having a right to a homeland after “the trauma” they had went
The Second World War left its stigma on many countries and amongst those where the Arab countries. The rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany and his strong anti-Semitic views lead to the mass persecution of Jews around Europe and their massacre which is widely known as the holocaust. The Holocaust caused the death of around 6 million Jews while many others fled from Europe and a big number of them found refuge in Palestine. But why Palestine and what effect would this have on the Arab world? Jews felt that they needed a homeland or in other words their own state. This state was commonly referred to as being the land of Palestine as it is the land of Jews as described in the bible. A portion of Jews the Zionists looked forward to returning to their rightful land where the Jewish state would be born. Source 5 is an extract from the book “The Iron Wall” by Avi Shlaim a professor of international relations at St Antony’s College Oxford. The book was published in 2001 which might implicate that further research has been made therefore Avi could take advantage of vast amounts of new documents and statistics making the evidence given by the source reliable to a large extent. Avi is a revisionist historian adding on to the weight of the evidence in the source as this means that he doesn’t have the complete biased view that other Israeli of origin historians had at the time praising their nation. We can therefore say with certainty that the evidence in the source carries a large weight. It refers to the Jews having a right to a homeland after “the trauma” they had went