The State of Israel appeared on the map of the Middle East on May 14, 1948. By decision of the UN General Assembly, the Jewish state was allocated 13 thousand square meters. km Palestine, on the part of which Israel arose, from 1922 net 1948 was a mandated territory of England was ruled by the English High Commissioner. To strengthen their dominance in Palestine, the English colonialists skillfully used Zionism. As a form of reactionary nationalist ideology of the large Jewish bourgeoisie, closely associated with imperialism, Zionism arose in the 80s of the XIX century. The World Zionist Organization, created in 1897 at a congress in Basel (Switzerland), proclaimed as its goal the resettlement of all Jews, wherever they live, to Palestine.