As you can see, Arabs and Jews alike were lied to and seriously screwed by the Sykes-Picot Agreement. The Jews didn’t get Israel, the Arabs didn’t get anything, and the whole region became a complete disaster—a disaster caused by colonial forces meeting a desert land occupied by villages, little towns, bigger towns, and many camel-riding,

In the years since, the Charedi community has grown faster by percentage than the secular community, and they’ve joined the Israeli political game to establish their own political parties. Israel is a parliamentary democracy, with 120 seats in the Knesset.

if you want to create a future, you have to know where you’re at, otherwise you’ll just keep doing the same thing, over and over again.

From the get-go, Ben-Gurion relentlessly tried to reach a peace deal between the Arabs and the Jews.

Palestine was a rough area, dry and unfertile, and throughout history, people who tried to live there suffered from various diseases, like the black plague, typhus, cholera, and malaria.

Through delegitimizing Israel, BDS was able to put a wedge between the Jewish community and these extremely crucial social justice movements, intentionally confusing every American who supports democracy and human rights, Republican or Democrat, and is also a supporter of Israel, into thinking that these two aren’t aligned.

This, my friends, is the origin of Zionism. The necessity for Jewish safety and self-determination in their ancestral home, a movement of Jewish liberation. Not that complicated.

One of the main forces behind Israeli aid is the NGO IsraAID.

By 1890, that number had nearly doubled, to 532,000.