| What you state is not correct. In fact, effect of the holocaust had a tremendous amount to do with the creation of the Jewish State. Zionism from its inception in the late 19th as proposed by Herzl was NOT embraced by the majority of Western or Eastern Jewry. It was a minority of Jews who sought to make aliyah. Only after the destruction of the majority of Eastern & much of Western European Jewry did a homeland for Jews become a priority to the Jewish people. In fact the reform movement especially in the u.s. prior to WW II did not embrace Zionism until the post-war years. Had Jews remained as they had been for centuries, it is doubtful Zionism would have gained the momentum it has, as it was seen as a refuge. The allies post-WW 2 began carving up the world anyway, colonialism was on the wane & independence of small nations & whole peoples was the new cry. Zionism certainly benefited in that sense. |
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