Why were the the jews given the land that is now called Isreal?

Question

Who Originally owned this land? how can this land just be given?How did this all happen?

Answer 1

By the end of WWII, Britain was the colonial power over Palestine, which was a no-man's-land of nomadic tribes, small towns and cities with long histories like Jerusalem. This area had been under the Ottoman Empire and arab rule for many hundreds of years.

The entire Western world was feeling guilty over the Holocaust and the fact that all Western countries had refused to admit Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Hitler's 'Final Solution' of annihilation of European Jews. The thinking was that if the Jews had had a 'homeland' or a place where Jews had to be admitted no matter what, the Holocaust wouldn't have been as far-reaching as more people could have escaped.

So, a bunch of Jewish people were asked where they'd like to settle, and they picked Palestine because there were some historical associations for Jews of Semetic origin (the Jews in question were not Semetic, they were natives of Europe who were of the Jewish faith, but many of the non-Semetic Jews wanted a homeland established in Palestine). Many religious Jews were opposed to this, as they said that Jerusalem and Israel were holy places to be reestablished only by God and not by decree of the UN.

Those objections were ignored and Israel was created by UN decree. The Jews moving there to establish the new country interpreted this decree to mean that they did not have to work with the existing tribes and peoples living there; they routed them out of their homes and workplaces and sent them to refugee camps to create an entirely artificial, new Western-style 'democracy' except that citizens had to prove their Jewish connections to be a part of it.

Since that time, relations between the new country and its neighbors have grown steadily worse, as no assimilation of the original populace has taken place and Israel has focused outside itself by concentrating on obtaining funds and benefits from worldwide Jews (who did not flock to populate the new country as had been predicted) and is now a dependency of the United States. Israel receives $4 billion per year and up to $43 billion in loan guarantees a year in aid from the US, which makes it the largest receiver of funds in the world.

The areas where Israel could work with its neighbors to foster peace in the middle east are:

1) Water conservation techniques. Israel has spent billions of US funds on learning how to convert desert to arable land. Many arab nations probably would like to learn that.

2) Development. Israel has learned lots of good building and architecture techniques suited to its area. This would also be helpful to its neighbors.

3) Environmental considerations. Israel probably knows more about environmental issues in its area than any of the other countries. This, too could be shared.

Finding ways to assimilate the Palestinians and provide useful services to its neighbors as export strategies could make Israel a shining jewel in the middle east. Let's all hope that a government with these goals comes into power soon there.

Answer 2

The land wasn't "given" or "stolen", it was purchased. It wasn't established as a state until 1948 but the land had been slowly being acquired for about 50 years before that by the JNF (a Jewish organization).

One of the big things that got folks riled up was when they became their own nation. This was backed by the UN, but the Jews already owned the majority of the land and worked it to the point of cultivation from what was previously inhospitable dirt, so it isn't like the UN just gave it to them. It only recognized Israel's existence as a sovereign nation and filled in the gaps of land they didn't own.

The reason some Islamic nations have issues with this is because of a part of Sharia law (the concept of Waqf) regarding what constitutes Muslim territory and that interpretations of this mandate that no one has the right to give up Muslim territory and see that Israel becoming a state as an invalid act since it went against this.

Obviously to fully answer your question requires more than that short of a response, but here is a website that analyzes things a little further if you want to look into it.

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html#early

Basically, to answer your question, they have the land because they worked for it. It wasn't just given.

Answer 3

because they stole it fair and square from the cainites and others many years ago. it was an attempt by the world after WWII to do something about the problem of what to do with the jew. America did not want them and neither did anyone else. so they took advantage of the post war confusion and sudden power of the winners of WWII to grant them title to their ancient homeland.
nobody realized how problematic this would be. they should have given them some land in Canada or South America instead of Arabia. how stupid. Lands are often taken or redistributed after a war. that is what war is all about. most titles today have been originally won in war. the winners of the war make the rules that all must abide by. there was no legal authority with teeth in existence that could challenge the authority of the allies to divide up the world any way they wanted. they gave poland and many other nations to USSR. it was all business as usual. they let Japan keep Okinawa, which was unfair and a mistake, but part of the racism that dominated the winning powers. they figured Okinawans are the same as japanese, ( Okinawa will contest this) so let the Japanese just keep this territory they had stolen fifty years earlier as part of their goal to conquer and control asia.
So the world is now living with what is truly the aftermath of the old WWII still. maybe WWIII will settle these old disputes forever.

Answer 4

Because they self appointed themselves god chosen people hundreds of years ago to take that land while they where wondering around look for a place to settle. Some person got a crazy idea and wrote it in a book that said God made them his people and that land was given to them by god as an excuse to take it from the original inhabitants. Now they use that same excuse to kill innocent people.

Answer 5

there became into consistently Jews in Palestine, and distinctive Arab international places. Palestine became into like 60% Muslim 30% Christian 10% Jew consistently Then the zionist Nazi have been given right here, and that they cleanse out each and every of the Muslim and Christian, and that they deliver in ecu Jews to fill the inhabitants so Jewish could be bigger ISRAEL on the instant isn't ISRAEL FROM THE BIBLE JEWS on the instant on the instant at the instant are not JEWS LIKE ABRAHAM And Holy Bible does not say something approximately New Israel, basically approximately new Jerusalem. Jerusalem is Palestinian, Arab, has consistently been.

Answer 6

They purchased land which grew as Israelis "legally" migrated to the region. As the numbers hit the hundreds of thousands, localized militias were formed for protection, as the locals began to despise the flood of Israelis pouring in.

The numbers of Israelis only continued to grow, as did their protection. Many Palestinians still live in the territory that is dominated by Israelis. It is important to note that although there is a religious link to this movement, Israeli's did it legally from the beginning only resorting to fighting in defense. They did not use military power to gain land, and any argument against that can be easily rebuked.

Answer 7

They as a people were there first. God gave it to them.

After WWII the U.N. set aside land for the Jews displaced by pogroms and the Holocaust.

Answer 8

Most Israelis dodge, deny or justify the ethnic cleansing of 700,000 indigenous Palestinians in 1948. David Ben-Gurion, then leader of the Jewish militant group Haganah, forthrightly declared, “After we become a strong force as the result of the creation of the state, we shall abolish, partition and expand to the whole of Palestine.”

Zionists contend Israel was a defenseless nation looking for peace with its Palestinian neighbors. Israeli historian, Benny Morris, proved the contrary, citing extensive examples from declassified Israeli, British and American archives. Morris concludes, “From April 1948, Ben-Gurion is projecting a message of transfer. There is no explicit order of his in writing, there is no orderly comprehensive policy, but there is an atmosphere of [population] transfer. The transfer idea is in the air. The entire leadership understands that this is the idea. The officer corps understands what is required of them. Under Ben-Gurion, a consensus of transfer is created.”

Recognition of Palestinian displacement continues to manifest itself in Israel today. The majority of politicians, including the “dovish” labor party, imbue the teaching that the Palestinians of 1948 left on their own behalf, rather than by forceful displacement or fleeing for safety. The denial of transfer within the Israeli leadership perpetuates the indoctrination of falsities in Israeli society.

The Haganah implemented Plan Dalet in April of 1948. The plan set in motion “the atmosphere of transfer” Morris cites. The massacre of Deir Yassin occurred on April 9, leaving 246 Palestinians dead. Within a month the extrusion of Palestinians from Jaffa, Haifa, Tiberias and Safad occurred. Israeli historian Ilan Pappe describes the directives of Plan Dalet, which consequently adds to Morris’ “consensus of transfer.” He states, “The plan was executed because the soldiers in the battlefield were oriented by a general attitude from above and motivated by remarks made by the Yishuv’s leaders on the need to ‘clean’ the country. These remarks were translated into acts of depopulation by enthusiastic commanders on the ground, who knew that their actions would be justified in retrospect by the political leadership.”

Zionists, infusing heroism into the creation of Israel, portrayed the conflict as an Israeli David versus an Arab Goliath. Pappe debunks the assertion Israeli forces were outmatched by the Arab armies. In Pappe’s book, A History of Modern Palestine he writes, “The Arab governments fielded about 25,000 troops, and as the war went on raised the number to 100,000. Similar numbers were deployed by the Jewish community, including both the Haganah and Irgun.”

Answer 9

God gave it to them 4,000 years ago. And contrary to what you might think, this country used to, and still does to an extent, care somewhat about God's wishes. So we support Israel's claim to that fraction of their original birthright.

Answer 10

This land is originally mine. So they are sitting on Landmine.