What could be more oppressive than Islamic governments. Israel is not a colony or then would be sending resources back to their home Country. –Israel is an independent State, the United Nations Partition Resolution of 1947; declaration of Israeli Statehood in 1948; Israel’s admission to the UN in 1949; the recognition of Israel by over 180 Countries; and, most of all, the society created by Israel’s people in decades of thriving, dynamic national existence.