HaMedinat Yisrael
18-01-2008, 06:31
OOC: There is actually some good historic information here as I did use the real 1948 text (and added my own edits to bring it up to date.) My Apologies go to David Ben Gurion and the great men who founded the State of Israel. I mean them no disrespect with my additions to their great document.
This is stemming from an ongoing RP. You can find it here: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=547177
IC:
Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv
The lights of the El Al 747-400 were shut off as the aircraft came in for a landing at David Ben Gurion airport. Off loading stairs were quickly rolled out to the aircraft. The door opened as soon as the 747 shut off its engines. Out stepped an 84 year old Polish born Jew who had spent the last three and a half years in New York City. He had come out of exile and had returned to fulfill an important role. He was to be the David Ben Gurion of the second Israeli State. The man did not need to have such a title given to him. He was already a world respected leader and a Nobel Laureate.
The man was taken into an armored limo which darted out of the airport as soon as he was strapped in. The limo raced northwest on Highway 1. It then got off at the Netivei Ayalon exit and continued north a few miles until it brought him to the Azrieli Insurance Center. He was whisked to the multilever underground bunker and was greeted with cheers by the men in the center. Shimon Peres had returned home.
Ehud Shamir had talked with Peres a few days before and pitched the idea of declaring independence earlier than expected. No time had been set, but Peres was sold on the idea and was to take his fourth non-consecutive stint as Prime Minister. Shamir wanted to use the Dizengoff House, but it was unreasonable since it was too risky to go to such a landmark during the war. A room in the bunker was made up for the event though.
During the long 10 hour flight from JFK to Ben Gurion, Peres and his entourage of Israeli officials in exile had created a Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was largely based off the 1948 Declaration read by Ben Gurion, but it was brought up to times. Live cameras were set up as the speech went over the world.
Unfortunately for Shamir’s military advisors, they had to return to their duties and not witness the historic event. Each man added his signature to the Declaration before departing though. They signed a document which would soon hang in the Knesset for all to see.
The TV producer who was handling the single feed for dozens of news channels positioned Peres, Shamir, and the group of delegates into good lighting for the camera. “We are on in 10 seconds,” he called to his reporter. “5, 4, 3, 2, 1,!” He made a hand signal for his reporter to go.
“We are broadcasting live from an undisclosed location where a surprise historic announcement is being made by Nobel Laureate and three time Prime Minister of the State of Israel Shimon Peres. Shimon Peres spent the last three years in exile and has now returned to the Land of Israel where he is now going to take office as the First Prime Minister of the Second State of Israel.”
The camera shifted to Peres as he read from the document:
ERETZ-ISRAEL [(Hebrew) - the Land of Israel, Palestine] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.
After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom.
We did return to the land and made a great state here for sixty years. That ended as an invading Arab army threw us out of our land and forced us to become nomads of the world or slaves once more. We are once again seeking to be an autonomous people in our rightful homeland.
Impelled by this historic and traditional attachment, Jews strove in every successive generation to re-establish themselves in their ancient homeland. In recent decades they returned in their masses. Pioneers, ma'pilim [(Hebrew) - immigrants coming to Eretz-Israel in defiance of restrictive legislation] and defenders, they made deserts bloom, revived the Hebrew language, built villages and towns, and created a thriving community controlling its own economy and culture, loving peace but knowing how to defend itself, bringing the blessings of progress to all the country's inhabitants, and aspiring towards independent nationhood.
In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodore Herzl, the First Zionist Congress convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own country.
This right was recognized in the Balfour Declaration of the 2nd November, 1917, and re-affirmed in the Mandate of the League of Nations which, in particular, gave international sanction to the historic connection between the Jewish people and Eretz-Israel and to the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National Home.
The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people - the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe - was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the comity of nations.
Survivors of the Nazi holocaust in Europe, as well as Jews from other parts of the world, continued to migrate to Eretz-Israel, undaunted by difficulties, restrictions and dangers, and never ceased to assert their right to a life of dignity, freedom and honest toil in their national homeland.
In the Second World War, the Jewish community of this country contributed its full share to the struggle of the freedom- and peace-loving nations against the forces of Nazi wickedness and, by the blood of its soldiers and its war effort, gained the right to be reckoned among the peoples who founded the United Nations.
On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable.
For nearly sixty years, The State of Israel existed as a beacon of hope and light in what had been a regressive part of the world. The State of Israel was a land of equal opportunities for women and gays. People were offered chances which they would not have been afforded in any of our neighboring nations. It is our hope to return to those times with the legal establishment of our State.
This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.
ACCORDINGLY WE, MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISRAEL AND OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, ARE HERE ASSEMBLED ON THE DAY OF MOURNING AFTER THE MASSACRE OF OUR PEOPLE, HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-ISRAEL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
WE DECLARE that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 12th Sh’vat, 5788 (18th January, 2008), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 2008, the People's Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People's Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called "Israel".
THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
WE APPEAL to the United Nations to assist the Jewish people in the building-up of its State and to receive the State of Israel into the comity of nations.
WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.
WE EXTEND our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.
WE APPEAL to the Jewish people throughout the Diaspora to rally round the Jews of Eretz-Israel in the tasks of immigration and upbuilding and to stand by them in the great struggle for the realization of the age-old dream - the redemption of Israel.
PLACING OUR TRUST IN THE "ROCK OF ISRAEL", WE AFFIX OUR SIGNATURES TO THIS PROCLAMATION AT THIS SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE, ON THE SOIL OF THE HOMELAND, IN THE CITY OF TEL-AVIV, ON THIS SABBATH EVE, THE 10TH DAY OF SH’VAT, 5768 (17th JANUARY,2008).
Shimon Peres had a few tears streaming down his face as he finished reading the signed document. The State of Israel had been reformed. Granted it was not the full state, but Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and their surrounding areas were a sovereign state once more.
The cameras were still running as the assembled crowd began to sing Hatikva, “Kol od baleiva, penima! Nefesh Yehudi homiya…” There was not a dry eye in the room as the group sang their anthem with a renewed sense of pride.
Ehud Shamir stood in the back. He knew he had just delivered the greatest morale booster a commander could ever deliver to his troops and his people. There was no amount of bombing or shelling which would break his people’s back now. They had a four thousand year mission to fulfill.
This is stemming from an ongoing RP. You can find it here: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=547177
IC:
Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv
The lights of the El Al 747-400 were shut off as the aircraft came in for a landing at David Ben Gurion airport. Off loading stairs were quickly rolled out to the aircraft. The door opened as soon as the 747 shut off its engines. Out stepped an 84 year old Polish born Jew who had spent the last three and a half years in New York City. He had come out of exile and had returned to fulfill an important role. He was to be the David Ben Gurion of the second Israeli State. The man did not need to have such a title given to him. He was already a world respected leader and a Nobel Laureate.
The man was taken into an armored limo which darted out of the airport as soon as he was strapped in. The limo raced northwest on Highway 1. It then got off at the Netivei Ayalon exit and continued north a few miles until it brought him to the Azrieli Insurance Center. He was whisked to the multilever underground bunker and was greeted with cheers by the men in the center. Shimon Peres had returned home.
Ehud Shamir had talked with Peres a few days before and pitched the idea of declaring independence earlier than expected. No time had been set, but Peres was sold on the idea and was to take his fourth non-consecutive stint as Prime Minister. Shamir wanted to use the Dizengoff House, but it was unreasonable since it was too risky to go to such a landmark during the war. A room in the bunker was made up for the event though.
During the long 10 hour flight from JFK to Ben Gurion, Peres and his entourage of Israeli officials in exile had created a Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was largely based off the 1948 Declaration read by Ben Gurion, but it was brought up to times. Live cameras were set up as the speech went over the world.
Unfortunately for Shamir’s military advisors, they had to return to their duties and not witness the historic event. Each man added his signature to the Declaration before departing though. They signed a document which would soon hang in the Knesset for all to see.
The TV producer who was handling the single feed for dozens of news channels positioned Peres, Shamir, and the group of delegates into good lighting for the camera. “We are on in 10 seconds,” he called to his reporter. “5, 4, 3, 2, 1,!” He made a hand signal for his reporter to go.
“We are broadcasting live from an undisclosed location where a surprise historic announcement is being made by Nobel Laureate and three time Prime Minister of the State of Israel Shimon Peres. Shimon Peres spent the last three years in exile and has now returned to the Land of Israel where he is now going to take office as the First Prime Minister of the Second State of Israel.”
The camera shifted to Peres as he read from the document:
ERETZ-ISRAEL [(Hebrew) - the Land of Israel, Palestine] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.
After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom.
We did return to the land and made a great state here for sixty years. That ended as an invading Arab army threw us out of our land and forced us to become nomads of the world or slaves once more. We are once again seeking to be an autonomous people in our rightful homeland.
Impelled by this historic and traditional attachment, Jews strove in every successive generation to re-establish themselves in their ancient homeland. In recent decades they returned in their masses. Pioneers, ma'pilim [(Hebrew) - immigrants coming to Eretz-Israel in defiance of restrictive legislation] and defenders, they made deserts bloom, revived the Hebrew language, built villages and towns, and created a thriving community controlling its own economy and culture, loving peace but knowing how to defend itself, bringing the blessings of progress to all the country's inhabitants, and aspiring towards independent nationhood.
In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodore Herzl, the First Zionist Congress convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own country.
This right was recognized in the Balfour Declaration of the 2nd November, 1917, and re-affirmed in the Mandate of the League of Nations which, in particular, gave international sanction to the historic connection between the Jewish people and Eretz-Israel and to the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National Home.
The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people - the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe - was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the comity of nations.
Survivors of the Nazi holocaust in Europe, as well as Jews from other parts of the world, continued to migrate to Eretz-Israel, undaunted by difficulties, restrictions and dangers, and never ceased to assert their right to a life of dignity, freedom and honest toil in their national homeland.
In the Second World War, the Jewish community of this country contributed its full share to the struggle of the freedom- and peace-loving nations against the forces of Nazi wickedness and, by the blood of its soldiers and its war effort, gained the right to be reckoned among the peoples who founded the United Nations.
On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable.
For nearly sixty years, The State of Israel existed as a beacon of hope and light in what had been a regressive part of the world. The State of Israel was a land of equal opportunities for women and gays. People were offered chances which they would not have been afforded in any of our neighboring nations. It is our hope to return to those times with the legal establishment of our State.
This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.
ACCORDINGLY WE, MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISRAEL AND OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, ARE HERE ASSEMBLED ON THE DAY OF MOURNING AFTER THE MASSACRE OF OUR PEOPLE, HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-ISRAEL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
WE DECLARE that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 12th Sh’vat, 5788 (18th January, 2008), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 2008, the People's Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People's Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called "Israel".
THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
WE APPEAL to the United Nations to assist the Jewish people in the building-up of its State and to receive the State of Israel into the comity of nations.
WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.
WE EXTEND our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.
WE APPEAL to the Jewish people throughout the Diaspora to rally round the Jews of Eretz-Israel in the tasks of immigration and upbuilding and to stand by them in the great struggle for the realization of the age-old dream - the redemption of Israel.
PLACING OUR TRUST IN THE "ROCK OF ISRAEL", WE AFFIX OUR SIGNATURES TO THIS PROCLAMATION AT THIS SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE, ON THE SOIL OF THE HOMELAND, IN THE CITY OF TEL-AVIV, ON THIS SABBATH EVE, THE 10TH DAY OF SH’VAT, 5768 (17th JANUARY,2008).
Shimon Peres had a few tears streaming down his face as he finished reading the signed document. The State of Israel had been reformed. Granted it was not the full state, but Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and their surrounding areas were a sovereign state once more.
The cameras were still running as the assembled crowd began to sing Hatikva, “Kol od baleiva, penima! Nefesh Yehudi homiya…” There was not a dry eye in the room as the group sang their anthem with a renewed sense of pride.
Ehud Shamir stood in the back. He knew he had just delivered the greatest morale booster a commander could ever deliver to his troops and his people. There was no amount of bombing or shelling which would break his people’s back now. They had a four thousand year mission to fulfill.