Just three years after the massacre of a third of the Jewish people HolocaustThousands of survivors celebrated the end of their suffering. at the gate of the museum Tel Aviva sunny afternoon May 1948was delivered to the enthusiasm of a Jewish crowd. He was born then State of Israel. Considered its first president, “The establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz Israel”, david ben gurion, using the name of the land of the Israelites in biblical texts. Shared shouts and laughter inaugurated a new nation under one claim. Now, 75 years laterthe same streets are the scene of new fuss divide the country in two.
While Jewish intellectuals were developing theories on this subject, Zionism In the late 19th century, the first seed of the forest that would become Israel, kibbutz. There, the first Jewish settlers settled in a system that had nothing to do with the existing illegal settlements that were breaking up the area’s land. Palestine date. Strategically located in what is now Israel’s borders, these autonomous formations provided their members with everything in return for maintaining the commune through hard work. This socialist ideology dried sweat and justified hours in the sun by working underground. He was the first in Israel, left utopia seemed like a near reality.
40 years of Labor hegemony
“Since the early 1930s, hegemony in the Zionist movement has always been in the hands of the Labor Party, of which the kibbutz was a part,” he recalls. Itamar Rabinovicthe late Yitzhak Rabin’s ambassador to the United States and head of the negotiation team with Syria in the 1990s. 1942 still english Jerusalemhas been a privileged witness to the birth and growth of his country. ” labor superiority “It took more than 40 years,” he told EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA of the Prensa Ibérica group. Thanks to the evolution of these exceptional structures, political and social history from Israel. Now, the population of these communes, more private and individualIt represents only 1.29% of the approximately 10 million inhabitants of the Hebrew State.
HE Israel an open country today capitalistand with a society Rights. Before the elections last November, 62% of the population considered RightsCompared to 49% three years ago, according to polls by the Israel Democracy Institute. And this is reflected in his current government, right-wing in history. “Israel’s story is a success story with a plethora of core issues, and ironically, on this 75th anniversary, many have surfaced, intensified and exacerbated by the current government’s plan to destroy Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu“They call it judicial reform, but we and many Israelis in civil society define it like this: court coup“, complain to this newspaper.
It was precisely this initiative that brought it about. crowds into the streets. Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrate every Saturday against the Netanyahu government’s attempts to weaken the judiciary. This lack of a written constitution once again jeopardizing the hitherto strong Israeli democracy. in the first general elections in January. 1949The resulting Constituent Assembly published authority to design her Big Card. But Israel was busy with important business, as it has been at that time and throughout its history. territorial wars Shaping the spirit of Israel.
Israel triad
“Zionist dream, Failure to find a solution to the Palestinian problem“, insists Rabinovich. The former ambassador is returning. 1967 Six-Day War like a nailed thorn that leaves no scar. Since then, Israeli authorities have military occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem territories, where they control and oppress millions of Palestinians. As more land came under its control in 1967, Israel began to live in one territory. trilogy can’t get out of there. On its 75th anniversary, the current reality shows that cannot be simultaneously a Jewish state is democratic in character and now exercises control over all the lands and populations it controls.
while Palestinians related to Loop another regret NaqbaAnother disaster that resulted in the deaths of more than thirty people in Israeli air strikes, the Jewish community is trying to recover from this disaster. trauma feeling hundreds of rockets flying overhead for days. History in that piece of land is cyclical. But there is less and less empathy between the parties. HE Israel Today’s people live violently entrenched as their leaders try to consolidate a utopia that is a utopia. exclusively Jewish state. This demographyOn the other hand, it continues to oppose it, with the Palestinian and ultra-Orthodox population leading birth rates. This polarization It exists on the same streets that were home to just hugs 75 years ago.