Israel is no longer the Jewish safe house.
Population and migration to occupied Palestine are one of the pillars of security for Israel; Rokni, who was affected by internal political-social differences over judicial reforms, received a blow with the events of October 7.
It was mainly categorized into two general views; First, the establishment of a national homeland; and Second, establishing a refuge and shelter for oppressed Jews around the world. Maybe there was a third group who said, why doesn’t Israel achieve both goals at the same time? The national homeland is also a refuge for Jews scattered around the world, to gather in it.
In other words, when “Moses Montefiori”, a British Jewish businessman of Italian origin, traveled to Shammat and Palestine in the 19th century (1827), in a few years, using British support and taking advantage of the unstable economic situation of the Ottoman court, he was able to for the first time He obtained permission to sell land to Jews. Due to internal conflicts as well as conflicts with Russia, the Ottoman government needed economic income and also sought the support of some European countries. Therefore, in 1849, exactly one hundred years before the establishment of Israel, the first decree of the Ottoman court was issued that Jews could buy land in the Holy Land. After that, Montefiori established the first ghetto outside of Jerusalem, and finally, in 1869, that decree became the Alien Acquisition Law.
Montefiore, who believed that Jews need land to cultivate and gain political and economic independence to organize themselves, together with his colleagues, laid the first cornerstones of the occupation of Palestine a hundred years before the establishment of Israel, relying on ” “emigration” and “migration” of Jews, built Another reason for the efforts of the likes of Montefiori was to create a kind of refuge for Jews to be safe from the persecution of others, especially Christians.
Since those days, the idea of “inviting” and “forcing” Jews from all over the world to migrate to Palestine began. Of course, wherever they succeeded, they were invited to migrate; Wherever they failed to attract, they moved. Palestinian thinker, writer, and poet Ms. “Salafa Hajjawi,” says in the book “Soviet Jews” published in 1980, the Zionist movement resorted to fake terrorist incidents to relocate the Jews, such as the events of 1881 in Russia or actions during the war. World War II in Germany and Eastern Europe; What he did in Arab countries such as Iraq, Maghreb, and Yemen to increase Jewish immigration, but in reality it was a forced migration. Some believe that part of the stories and adventures of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany was a joint show to move as many Jews as possible to Palestine.
Therefore, after the establishment of Israel, some Zionist leaders such as “Zeev Vladimir Zybutinsky” (born in Ukraine) believed that “the return of the Jewish nation to its homeland is more important than the establishment.” They interpreted forced migration as a return so that they could encourage more people to immigrate to Palestine.
The importance of migration to Palestine does not end here. David Ben-Gurion (the first prime minister), one of the founders of Israel, who himself is considered to be from the second wave of immigration to Palestine, was in favor of unlimited immigration to Palestine because when the immigration of 625 thousand people from 1940 to 1948, in the early 50s of the 20th century, it increased to one million. And three hundred thousand people arrived, stopping those who said that immigration should be limited; He was also in favor of the large birth of Jewish women; Accordingly, he set a reward of 100 lira for Jewish women who gave birth to 10 live children.