Zionism is a 150-year-old modern political movement founded on the values of a 3,000-year-old national and religious tradition that connects the Jewish people to the land of Israel. It successfully advocated the Jewish people’s rights to the land of Israel and founded a Jewish state in the homeland of the Jewish people.

Zionism also argued that just as any other nation deserved to determine its own future, the Jewish people deserved that right as well. After 2,000 years of exile and persecution, it was time that the Jewish people were given the opportunity to establish a state that they governed and which allowed them self-determination. Since its founding, the government of Israel has strongly guarded its right to self-determination.

Israel’s Declaration of Independence included the ide

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