History - get yourself educated if not already.

And if you do know these things, why  not go back and refresh?  :)

Martin Gilbert is excellent.

Help others with some thoughts on what must be done. What have you learned?

What I've learned has added to and blessed what I've always known - there is something uniquely special about Israel that separates her from every other country on the planet.  However, being blessed by God cannot make us complacent.  I've learned that we must retain the attitudes and heart of the settlers that made possible what Israel is today.  We must be willing to work hard and make sacrifices.  This may mean having to work in an arena that is far below your academic achievements or volunteering until you can be placed in an appropriate work setting commensurate to your schooling.  You may have to get your hands dirty.  You may have to consider living quarters that don't exactly measure up to what you had in mind - and you may have to share them with more folks that you would like to.  As I read on in the book and I come to the years of 1929-1937, I am especially reminded of why these things are so important today for us as Jews.  Never has the world hated Israel more today than ever before.  We must come together but not just for social entitlement or protests but with hard work, continuing education, and a resolve to never give up what is rightfully ours in regard to land, military force and political influence in Israel and abroad. The early settlers could have given up after what had been lost for so long. But they didn't and neither can we.  We cannot stop learning and appreciating what we have been given: hope and opportunity if we choose.