Den här tråden är för historieintresserade och handlar om myten om att Israel skapades p.g.a. Förintelsen. Idén är att västmakterna gav Palestina till judarna via Förenta Nationerna som "plåster på såren" för Förintelsen. Myten är alltigenom falsk och inga seriösa historiker håller fast vid den.
Evyatar Friesel på Yad Vashem (som knappast kan anklagas för att vara mot Israel) skriver:
Evyatar Friesel på Yad Vashem (som knappast kan anklagas för att vara mot Israel) skriver:
The Holocaust: Factor in the Birth of Israel?Redan 1941 innan Förintelsen påbörjats tänkte sig sionisternas ledare David Ben Gurion att Europas judar skulle förflyttas till Palestina:
It is widely believed that the catastrophe of European Jewry during World War II had a decisive influence on the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948. According to this thesis, for the Jews the Holocaust triggered a supreme effort toward statehood, based on the understanding that only a Jewish state might again avoid the horrors of the 1940s. [...]
The quest for a Jewish state had always been paramount in Zionist thought and action. For tactical reasons official Zionism was cautious in explaining its ultimate aims, especially when addressing general public opinion. Terms other than "state" were used in various political documents or official utterances by leading Zionist statesmen: Jewish home, Jewish National Home, commonwealth, Jewish commonwealth. But there is no reason to doubt that the ultimate aim of the Zionist mainstream was the creation of a state in Palestine.
https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/academic/holocaust-factor-birth.html
In the first half of 1941, Ben-Gurion presented before the Zionist institutions in Palestine plans for a huge and concentrated effort at the end of the war, "to execute the rapid transfer of millions of Jews [to Palestine] and their settlement as a self-governing people."Redan 1944 krävde Jewish Agency (sionisternas högsta beslutande organ) att hela Palestina skulle bli en judisk stat:
In October 1944, the Jewish Agency had stated that all of Palestine should be turned into a Jewish state. However, at the important meeting of its executive in Paris in August 1946, the Jewish Agency declared itself ready to consider a partition plan, provided the dimensions of Jewish Palestine were acceptable. Later, at the first postwar Zionist Congress, held in Basle in December 1946, the idea of partition was rejected, and a resolution calling for a Jewish state throughout Palestine was approved.Yehuda Bauer också Yad Vashem säger samma sak:
Prof. Yehuda Bauer, an academic advisor to Yad Vashem and one of the world's premier historians on the Holocaust, discusses the relationship between the Holocaust and the emergence of the State of Israel. Dealing with the widely held belief that the State of Israel came into existence because of the Holocaust, Prof. Bauer clearly demonstrates the falsity of this widespread claim.Den amerikansk-israeliske historikern Dov Waxman (inte någon antisionist precis) skriver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz8SiW4fnnU
Was Israel created because of the Holocaust?DecolonizePalestine:
The chronological proximity of the Holocaust and Israel’s establishment has led many people to assume that the two events are causally connected and that Israel was created because of the Holocaust. Contrary to this popular belief, however, a Jewish state would probably have emerged in Palestine, sooner or later, with or without the Holocaust. [...]
Though it has generated popular support for Israel’s existence, particularly in some Western countries, it was not the cause of Israel’s establishment.
https://medium.com/history-uncut/was-israel-created-because-holocaust-12f4f5ffc4b9
Myth: Israel was created as a penance for the HolocaustFler källor: https://red-spark.org/2023/02/09/israel-was-not-created-because-of-the-holocaust/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13537120802127721
The Holocaust was undoubtedly one of the greatest tragedies of modern history, where millions of innocents were murdered in an unspeakably cruel and industrialized manner. Also true is that this was not the reason for the creation of Israel, which had its colonial seeds planted nearly a century prior. It was not remorse that motivated the colonial powers to support Israel, powers which were actively committing genocide against multiple colonized populations. Framing the creation of Israel as repentance for the Holocaust is not only historically inaccurate, but deliberately paints the legitimate rejection of its creation at the expense of the Palestinians as complicity with Nazi genocide. It transfers Europe’s guilt onto Palestinians, where they become the embodiment of everything the grandchildren of fascists claim to despise in their grand quest for (empty, symbolic) redemption.
https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-penance-for-holocaust/