What were the culmination of events that brought the state of Israel to be formed after WWll?

Question

This is not satire. I am trying to discover. What was the reason that the UN decided to create this state. It would be idael if someone who was alive back then or someone who is more of a history buff than me could answer. WHY were they just not allowed to live among the rest of the Europeans like everyone else?

Answer 1

They needed somewhere to put the European Jews after the war.

Answer 2

readers digest version.
the land called palestine was under a british mandate.
a two state solution was being kicked around in the 1880's
the land was inhabited by arabs muslims and jews.
during ww1 britian told the "palestinians" (this term did not exist at this time) that they could carve a state out, if they fought the turks.(pretty sure)
no borders were drawn,as ww2 was right around the corner--and as we all are learning-diplomacy takes time.
at the end of ww2 israel had demanded a state as well.
britain got pretty tired of terror attacks (from both sides, but as i understand it, this was mostly jewish aggression.)
the un gave the state to israel, israel read their declaration of independance. britians mandate ended the next day.

pretty f'ed up and there's way, way more to it.
i encourage you to use any encyclopedia, newspapers, wikipedia, whatever info you can devour.
not enough people fully understand. i'm on a trek for knowledge on this and a few other "hobbies", it's just mindnumbing.

Answer 3

Britan had owned the land that is now Israel for many years. After WWII, all the displaced Jewish people needed a place to go. Britan set the land aside for these people. Not because it was "the holy land" but because it was convinient and easy. Naturally the bordering countries also had people on this land, so they interbred, fought, and generally did not get along. And that is that.

Answer 4

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. Perhaps it's time to reduce or eliminate aid to Israel. Let's all hope that a government with these goals comes into power soon there.

Answer 5

After the Holocaust there were many displaced European Jews who had no desire to return to countries where they were killed and persecuted. The Zionist movement (Jews returning to the homeland) was around long before WWII, but it finally happened after the war.

Answer 6

I am not sure why, but I remember a wonderful movie "Exodus" with Paul Newman, that tells the story or the creation of Israel (in fictional reference, of course) but might provide a clue somewhere.

Good Luck

Answer 7

Western core in the rich Middle East....throught time West has always offended the east throught almost the generations...and at that time...the Middle east was in pieces and corruption ran throught it's land...nations were seperated which was the optimum chance for them to make the move...

Answer 8

The thinking was that after the Holocaust, there needed to be a defined, autonomous Jewish state.

Answer 9

don't you mean, what were the events? the culmination was the formation of israel.