Historically, nation-states have often been created following disasters. The State of Israel, for example, emerged not only from Zionism’s internal motivation but also from the international response to the greatest crime committed in the twentieth century, and possibly in history: the Holocaust. Nazi Germany’s mass killing of European and North African Jews shifted global awareness, leading to the 1947 UN Partition Plan and ultimately Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948. This sequence of events raises a compelling question: could the deliberate attempt to suppress a people or movement paradoxically boost their political legitimacy and perhaps hasten the establishment of a sovereign state?

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