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Guilty before proven innocent
In 1948 the country of Israel was founded on an unusual idea, that a certain ethnic and religious group could maintain a majority to preserve their political system.
From the outset it had the support of key world powers, including the United States and the United Kingdom, who had seen the Nazi attempt to eradicate the Jews from the world and reacted with a strong mandate to do something to help protect the Jewish people. In the days prior to the second war and during the war many Jews died because not enough had been done by the Western powers. At times the doors had been shut for Jewish refugees, resulting in more deaths under Hitler's oppressive "Final Solution."
The days following the fall of the Third Reich and its axis brought no small upheaval for mass populations when the political landscape rapidly changed. Stalin took advantage of the tumultuous situation by extending the influence and control of the Soviet Union deep into the heart of central Europe, threatening the Germans with a split republic and setting the stage for the cold war that would endure until early 1990's. The mass movement of populations across the world would include a re-gathering of the Jewish Diaspora to the ancient homelands of Palestine. With the support of the United Nations, the Jewish state of Israel came into being, only to be attacked immediately by several Arab neighbors who rejected its legitimacy.
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