Around 1200 BC Jewish established the Kingdom of Israel in the Palestinian region. At that time, this area was not called Palestine, but was called " Canaan ". According to the " Bible ", this land is named after a man named Canaan. The Bible calls this area a promised land of "flowing milk and honey." In 135 AD, the Romans drove out the Jews from the Canaan region and moved non-Jewish residents from other regions. From then on, the Jews began to migrate around the world. The former land of Canaan, where the Jews lived, was renamed Palestine by the Romans.
In the 7th century AD, Islam , who believed in Islam , seized the Palestinian region from Eastern Roman Empire . Since then, the Arabs have lived and reproduced in the land of Palestine for thousands of years. After leaving Palestine, Jews were always regarded as heresy by Christian European countries. Anti-Semitism in European countries at the end of the 19th century stimulated the rise of Zionist thought. The so-called Zionism calls on Jews who are scattered around the world to return to the land of Canaan where their ancestors lived, to rebuild the Jewish state and revive the Jewish nation. 1918 After the end of World War I, Jewish immigrants continued to pour into the Palestinian region.
To World War II broke out, the local Jewish population had risen to 450,000 in 1939. After the outbreak of World War II, the Nazi iron hooves ravaged European countries and caused more and more European Jews to escape from the Nazi clutches. In 1947, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution to establish the state of Jewish Israel and the state of Arabs in the Palestinian region respectively. In this partition plan, Jews, who account for less than one-third of the total population of the Palestinian region, receive about 55% of the land and are mostly rich coastal areas, while Arabs, who account for more than two-thirds of the total population, receive only about 45% of the land and are mostly hilly and barren areas.
Jews followed the resolution of United Nations and formally established the State of Israel on the territory designated by the United Nations on May 14, 1948. But Arab countries flatly rejected the United Nations' partition plan. In the early morning of May 15, 1948, the Arab coalition formed by Egyptian , Jordan , , Iraq , , Syria and Lebanon launched a war on Israel, which had just been founded the day before. Surprisingly, this war will end with the defeat of the Arab coalition, which has the advantage. Since then, a total of 5 Middle East Wars broke out between Israel and Arab countries: Israel has won many battles, and Arab countries have been defeated many battles.
can Israel still fail to change the harsh geographical environment it faces after winning the five Middle East wars. Israel, which lacks strategic depth, has always been surrounded by Arab countries that have absolute advantages in resources, manpower, etc. Israel can defeat the Arab countries countless times, but as long as it loses once, it will be in danger of destruction. Even if the relationship between Israel and Arab countries is not considered, Israel's territory is relatively harsh from a natural environment: more than 60% of Israel's land area is deserts and dry land, so it has become one of the countries with the scarce freshwater resources in the world.
After excluding the desert, the entire Israel only has 6.15 million mu of arable land, and the per capita arable land area is only about 0.7 mu. Israel chose to restore the country in the Middle East from the perspective of both natural and geopolitical environments and then live in death. Of course, choosing to restore the country in the hometown where our ancestors live is indeed more conducive to arousing the self-confidence and cohesion of the Jewish nation. But this kind of behavior of putting it to death is a bit too arrogant, right? In fact, Israel's restoration is not the only option: historically, Jews have tried to establish a country in South America, Northeast China, East Africa and Uganda.
Until the 1870s, Patagonia in South America had no clear ownership. There were only some Indian tribes in the local area that were still in primitive society, but they failed to form a more mature local state regime organization.It is said that these Indian tribes are far less powerful than those of Arab countries, so it seems easier for Israel to build a country here than to restore it in the Middle East. The problem was that at that time, the two South American powers, Argentina and Chile , were fighting Patagonia. After the 1870s, Patagonia was divided by Argentina and Chile. Argentina and Chile naturally would not welcome Jews to come here to establish a country after obtaining this land.
Similarly, Northeast China is not suitable for Jewish nation-building: First of all, China, as the master of this region, naturally would not welcome others to occupy their own territory to build nation-building nation-building. In addition, the two great powers of Japan and Russia, who were eyeing China's Siberian East at that time, would not want the Jews to get a share of the pie. As a niche nation with limited strength, it is impossible for Jews to obtain a piece of land in Northeast China. In comparison, Uganda located in East Africa seems to be much more suitable than Patagonia and Northeast China. Patagonia was in the battle between Argentina and Chile at that time, while the Northeast was China's inherent territory since ancient times.
Ku Uganda was not established independently until October 9, 1962. When the Jews ran for the restoration of the country, Uganda was still a colony of the British. At that time, Ugandans could not make decisions about their own destiny. As long as the Jews could handle the British colonists who ruled Uganda, they could obtain the land needed to establish the country locally, and Britain was the main supporter of Zionism at that time. If the Jews had chosen to establish a country in East Africa and Uganda, at least they would not have to be surrounded by Arab countries that are hostile to themselves as they are now, and the natural resources such as arable land and fresh water in East Africa would be much more than Israel today.
If the Jews founded their country simply for the sake of the founding of the country, then East Africa may be more suitable than the Middle East. But this may not be the case if we look at the future development of the country. Jews are a nation with thousands of years of commercial genes, but in terms of economic benefits, Africa south of the sub-Saharan desert is very low. The center of the international landscape is in Eurasian continent and North American . The United States, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Canada, India and European countries are all located in this area, while South America, Southern Africa and other places are marginalized areas in the international landscape.
Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are neither the center of the world's geographic pattern nor the throat of major world shipping routes. Africa in sub-Saharan Africa does not have an advanced economic circle like Europe, and it is too far away from the center of the world at that time. These are obviously not conducive to the development of commercial nations like Jews here. In contrast, the former land of Canaan, which returned to the lives of our ancestors, had hidden vitality for the Jews. First of all, after more than two thousand years of displaced, the fallen leaves of the Jewish nation can emotionally stimulate the Jewish national self-confidence and cohesion to the greatest extent.
Of course, this is not a matter of love between children, but a major event about the country's destiny. From a rational point of view, it seems not cost-effective to take the risk of being surrounded by people in order to realize such a national emotional appeal. The problem is that a niche nation like the Jews cannot rely solely on its own strength no matter where it is established. The Jews had almost no other way to build their own country than to get the support of great powers. Before World War II, Zionism relied on British support, and after World War II, it relied on American support.
Germany and Japan were completely defeated in World War II, and Britain and France were also seriously weakened in the war, so after the war, the pattern of US-Soviet battle for was Cold War . The United States and the Soviet Union compete to control third-world countries for the position of world hegemony. What the two superpowers fear most is the emergence of , the third world, , which is enough to dominate one side, because this will directly threaten their interests in the region. The Middle East is of great significance to the United States maintaining the hegemony of the US dollar and oil, but the United States is quite geographically distant from the Middle East. Even if the United States is strong, it is not a strong dragon to defeat local snakes after all.
Naturally, the United States does not want to see the integration and rise of the Middle East Arab world to become a powerful force on the international stage. This means that the United States needs to establish a bridgehead in the Middle East to balance the Soviet Union and Arab local forces, and Israel, as an ally of the United States, plays this role. The former land of Canaan (now the Palestine region), where the ancient Kingdom of Israel was located, is precisely the core central region of the entire Arab world. After the Jews returned to the hometown of Canaan where their ancestors lived, they restored their country like a sharp blade to cut off the geographical connection between the Nile basin and the Mesopotamia basin.
It is precisely because of the existence of Israel that Egypt, Libya and other North African Arab countries are completely separated from Saudi , Iraq, Syria and other Western Asian Arab countries. There is an alternative to Israel in the Middle East, which is dominated by Arabs who believe in Islam, which makes the integration and unification of the Arab world impossible to talk about. Israel's choice to restore the country in the Palestinian region is to cater to both the national complex and the interests of the United States. Only when Israel chooses to restore its country here can it get support from the United States, and it is difficult to achieve support from Israel's restoration if it leaves the United States.
