Conversation with Bard What's a Zionist and wasn't Israel given to Jewish people by Russia and the US after ww2 A Zionist is a person who believes in the establishment and maintenance of a Jewish state in Israel. The term "Zionist" comes from the Hebrew word "Tzion," which means "Jerusalem." The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, which was adopted in 1947, called for the division of Palestine into two states: one Jewish and one Arab. The plan was rejected by the Arab states, but it was accepted by the Jewish Agency, which was the de facto government of the Jewish community in Palestine. On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, declared the establishment of the State of Israel. The next day, five Arab states—Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria—invaded Israel. The war lasted for nearly a year and ended with an armistice agreement that gave Israel control over more territory than...
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