The Jewish State (Israel): Origin of the Term and Its Impact on the Palestinian Cause

Abstract

The issue of Israel, which has been raised by the Israeli leaders in recent

times as a Jewish state is considered as the most serious issue in the Middle

East; because it threatens the fate of the Palestinian issue, and will completely

demolish it especially if the Israelis implement it on the ground and make it

real, without doing anything to face the Arab official regimes.

In fact, speaking about the (Jewish State), was not initiated only in these

statements, but was preceded by what has been declared in modern history

by Zionist leaders' statements particularly in the second half of the nineteenth

century. This was also what the British politicians issued during the first half

of the twentieth century, as in the Balfour Declaration in 1917, and the report

of the Royal Commission (Peel commission report) in 1937, and finally the

UN Security Council Resolution 181, issued by the General Assembly of the

United Nations in 1947.

In our view, the seriousness of the statements of the Israeli leaders

regarding the Jewish State will cause a great harm to the whole Palestinian

issue and all its files, and will empty it of all its content, and will make the

Palestinians and their expected state a minor issue that has no value in the

Middle East.