You will recall that the adjoining Arab neighbors did not accept the decision of the United Nations. and as a result. hostile armies from the surrounding countries invaded Israel. At the same time. In its own limited way. Israel prepared for this struggle for its very survival. It always knew that its primary responsibility was to keep the gates of Israel open to all Jews who tried to come to their own Jewish land. either of their own free will. or because they were forced to seek exile from persecution. It was a motley group that immigrated there. There were the hundreds of thousands of uprooted Jews in Europe. These were the survivors of Nazi terror. concentration camps. and the gas chambers.
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