Friday, January 2, 2009

Day3: History opened - Jews

History is opened...and it big...really BIG!!

For the past few days, I have been thinking about why how countries formed and how religions are formed. Not so surprising Israel -Gaza fights cover my attention, and made me realise that I need to open my History books to understand its association with actions of today.

So my first chapter of history belongs to Israel.

Israel is the world's ONLY Jewish State.

I never ever gave a thought to the word "Holocaust" before.

I still remember the impact of movie Schindler's List had on my taste for movies.

Steven Spielberg's nicely made this true story of Oscar Schindler, a German businessman who saved 1000's of Polish Jews during Holocaust by employing them in his factories.

Such ghastly atrocities on any ethnoreligious group!

Ever after World War II relocation of Jews has created history of its kind.

To create a national home of Jewish, soon after World War I, under British mandate of Palestine, 

UN approved Palestine partition into 2 states, one Jewish, one Arab.

And it followed by a war.....a series of war...from that day to this day.

Partitions are always accompanied by conflicts b/w neighbours. Again, History has proven this with its burgeoning database....its goes on and on.

Israel and Bordering States

We’ll open the chapter again.

Time for AB's day254.

~~GudNite~~



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