Early History of the Zionist Movement

Gunpowder smoke billowing high into the air Gaza. Blood continued to spill. As if this unbelievable land described in the story of the prophets. Historian, published in the journal in 2009, Ritchie Ovendale explain the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Former professor of international politics University of Wales, England, is declared, the anti-Semitism as a term that emerged in Europe in 1860 became the forerunners of the movement of the Jews.
In Russia, anti-Semitic attitudes are called pogroms. Dreyfus period marks the European Jewish immigration, then settled in Canada, Britain, Australia, and South Africa.
Some had immigrated to the Ottoman Empire, namely the Palestinians. Landed its biggest amount in the U.S.. The idea of 'homeland' for Jews hooped the first time by Leon Pinsker in 1882 through the book Auto-Emancipation. Its meaning is understood as a 're-establishment' Jewish homeland in Palestine, or Eretz-Israel.
The first used the word Zionists Nathan Birnbaum in an article in 1886. Politically, adopted Zionism Theodore Herzl in his writings, Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), published in Vienna, Austria, in 1896.
Herzl had two choices homeland locations, namely Argentina or Palestine. Argentina, according to Herzl, had a rich natural conditions, large areas, small population, and weather. But, the choice then fell to the Palestinians, relying on the Old Testament as the promised land (The Promised Land).
The first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 followed by Max Nordau tactical maneuvers to change the terms of this homeland into heimmstatte, which was adopted as a synonym for state. After that, came the World Zionist Organisation, the flag state, Hatiqva as the national anthem, and the Jewish National Fund. Herzl last breath in 1904.
He was like a glorified myth that respectable supporting Zionism. At the end of the conference in Basel, he noted in diarinya that in Basel, he managed to establish a Jewish state. Half a century later, people realize the ambitions into reality.