Who decided to take Palestinian land to create Israel?

Question

Who made the decision to take land away from the Palestinians to create the State of Israel, and why was there no State of Palestine?

Answer 1

In 1947, following increasing levels of violence together with unsuccessful efforts to reconcile the Jewish and Arab populations, the British government decided to withdraw from the Palestine Mandate. The UN General Assembly approved the 1947 UN Partition Plan dividing the territory into two states, with the Jewish area consisting of roughly 55% of the land, and the Arab area roughly 45%.

Immediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the UN General Assembly on November 29, 1947, David Ben-Gurion tentatively accepted the partition, while the Arab League rejected it. Several Arab attacks on Jewish civilians soon turned into widespread fighting between Arabs and Jews, this civil war being the first "phase" of the 1948 War of Independence.

On May 14, 1948, before the expiry of the British Mandate of Palestine at midnight on May 15, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed.

Answer 2

Will there has always been Jewish people living in Israel or that part of the world until the Romans expelled all the Jewish People from the area of the world. Years of prosecution and hatred with the holocaust of world war 2 being the icing of the cake to all of this force many Jewish people to think if we have our own home land again we would be able to worship our religion and we can have somewhere to go and make a home again; and there would no one prosecuting us. So in 1947 the United Nation started to partition the mid east after years of trying to reconcile differences between Jews and Muslims. The land was divided up into two states one for the Jews people and the other for the Muslim people. The only one that didn't like that idea was the Muslim but at midnight of May 15th, 1948 the Jewish people got a homeland.

Answer 3

The stateless Arabs of Judea/Samaria and Gaza took on the identity of "Palestinian" in the 1960s. In fact, in the early 20th century the Arab world insisted that there was no such thing as Palestine, that it was all "Syria"... since at that time "Palestine" was a concept associated with Jews.

Or, maybe better to just let them explain this themselves ...

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism."

-- PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, 1977

Answer 4

The original owners of that piece of land were the Canaanites. They were defeated by the 12 Tribes. Jews are only one of those 12 tribes. Palestinians are neither Canaanites nor one of the Original 12 tribes of Israel. Therefore they have NO claim on that land. However "Might makes Right" and "History is written by the Victor" so if the Palestinians get off their butts and end terrorism and create a REAL ARMY and defeat the JEWS, THEN they may actually have a claim on that land.

Answer 5

the United Nations general Assembly and Security Council in U.N. resolution 181 in 1947. The same resolution mandated the establishment of a Palestinian State too. here is a link for all of the politics behind it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_UN_Partition_Plan
60 years later and it still has not been enforced on either side.

Answer 6

Ultimately, it was God who made that decision working through the authorities already mentioned in previous answers.

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-- the LORD of hosts is his name: 36 "If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever."

In this rhetorical passage God says that Israel will always be a nation before Him. The Jewish nation is the only people in all of history who have been conquered and over run and scattered who have maintained their identity and been restored to their homeland.

Romans 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Answer 7

The Palistinians were desert nomads who moved from one Oasis to another,never having cities, never being anything but tent dwellers. Nowhere in mans history has a people been able to maintain such an existence, so, After ww2 the british allowed the refugees from Germany to settle on what was thought of as barren land. The Nomads thought they owned it? Sure, everybody wants to own what somebody else has changed into fruitful land. watch the movie 'Hildago' to better understand their culture.

Answer 8

this is via fact Iran has replaced into continually involved in gulfian arab countries, take the United Arab Emirates as an occasion, they nonetheless occupying 3 of their islands, Iran additionally claims that Bahrain belongs to them !! the phobia of Iran is likewise via fact there are some shiite who stay interior the gulf countries are dependable to Iran for non secular reasons, and the Gulf countries are afraid that in the process case that they had a war against Iran those shiite would be on the Irani edge against their very own countries. and likewise why ought to a rustic like kuwait worry israel ?? it already presented helping kuwait whilst iraq invaded it on a similar time as different arabic countries have been against kuwait?!

Answer 9

the UN under US influence. On 70 A.D. the Romans destoyed Jerusalem and spelled the Jews, for political reasons they were never allowed to return, after WWII due to the atrocities made by Hitler a lot of government thought it would be great to give the Jews a homeland.

Answer 10

The U.N. and there never was a State of Palestine. That was land that other countries basically sent their rejects to as they owned it.