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To What Extent was the Zionist Movement the Main Factor in the Foundation of the State of Israel?
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To What Extent was the Zionist Movement the Main Factor in the Foundation of the State of Israel? The State of Israel was inaugurated on 14th May 1948 by David Ben-Gurion in what is now Independence Hall in Tel-Aviv. Since then Israel has had a turbulent history, the situation today maintaining this violent trend. The issue that arises from an examination of this creation of the State of Israel, occurring when it did, is whether the establishment in 1948 came as a result of the recent events surrounding the Second World War and the Holocaust or whether it was inevitable, as a result of the sustained pressure from the Zionist movement in the political scene or of the foundations laid in preparation for statehood during the early 20th century by 'practical Zionists'1 who organised immigration and built up the land. The issue simply therefore, is whether the long term factors...
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