- Israel and the Jews, or the finding of  a Nation.-

 Luis Muñoz - February 9, 2006

 

The sacred land of Israel has  a long story, several cultures and religions have lived together and fought for it, from the Romans to the Ottomans, but one culture survived for 3, 300 years, the Jews, and theirs is the culture that the current land of Israel preaches.

The fight for Israel goes long back ago, as back in history, as the persecution and repression of the Jewish people. Israel was a place where cultures and religions crushed and killed each other for riches, land, or beliefs. The persecution of the Jewish people is not anything new, back in the 15th century they were expelled from the majority of European countries ,like Spain, in which they got thrown out right after they financed Cristobel Columbus's trip to discover America, of course they never got their money back. Even during the Holocaust the Nazis tried to send part of the Jews they had in their power to other countries, as it was a cheaper solution for them, but none of the countries they asked accepted them. The Jewish people were a culture with no nation, until they founded the state of Israel on 1948, a place for all cultures and religions to live together, and for all the Jews in the world to unite and have a motherland, which wasn't of course appreciated by the Islamic fundamentalist countries.

Since the foundation of the Israeli state there have been wars, terrorism, and genocide in the land of the Jews, and that will not ever end, or so it seems, as new fundamentalist leaders arise among the Islamic countries, such as Hamas, a terrorist organization leading such a problematic place as Palestine, or Ahmadinejad a follower of Khomeini leading a country filled with Islamic extremism as Iran.

When will this story of death and suffering end for the Jewish people, not soon it seems, at least not if the occidental countries don’t help them. Because we must have in mind that while Israel is a democracy based on tolerance, liberty and justice, the Islamic fundamentalists countries have a democracy in which tolerance is a word that doesn't fit in, and if that doesn't change peace will never arise in the land of Israel.

 
Luis Muñoz is a college student in Spain, and currently studying law.