when israel was made in 1948 was the land empty or was somebody already living there?

Question

im confused,please educate me.Cause if somebody was there then we have a big problem.

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

Answer 2

The land certainly had hundreds of thousands of people, even possibly over a million living there. This is the issue that many fail to understand. The state of Israel was created on land that was property of other people. With a very few exceptions, these people were never paid any compensation for the land lost or appropriated. A repayment for the expropriated land (with interests and also compensation for lost income) would go a long way to contribute to peace. This problem is not very different from the coming of the Hebrews from Egypt to the promised land. At that time, one could understand (or accept) to take something by war and force. But not today. So, even people that favor the existence of Israel realizes that the Palestinians must be properly and substantially compensated for their losses.
Look at any standard history of the region. Even those that are biased towards one side or another will give you an idea about people leaving there.

Answer 3

Yes, there were some peoples there !!!!

So much peopaganda on tv......and education system....

They are the Illuminatis, and they own you,
This is the New World Order, and it is your future if the world don't wake up :

And this is what Bush’s minions had to say in 2000;-
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor"
Project for the New American Century (2000)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

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Hermann Göring(Nazi) 1946 Nuremberg Trials

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
David Rockefeller: Statement to the Untied Nations Business Council in September 1994

"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with other around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." David Rockefellers memoirs (2002)

Answer 4

In 1948 the area known as Israel was populated by arabs.or aka Palastine. President Truman in his infinite wisdom recognized that territory at a U.N meeting to be soverign to the displaced Jews as their homeland , because the United States was the superpower on the U.Nsecurity Council as a result of his acknowledgement and recognition of the israeli government..the country of Israel was formed........unfortunately he didn't take the Arabs in that region into consideration, The world was still reeling from the Nazi concentration camps and extermination of 6 million jews. So while he had the right intentions his actions destablized the area . Historically the United States has been staunch allies to Israel.

Answer 5

Israel is the holy land important for christians, muslims and jews alike so of course it has always been heavily populated- you think they would just abandon Jerusalem? Crusades were fought over the same land for centuries - God Bless religion for giving us so much murder and death.

The British drew the map of the World, well not really but mots of countries you see today were made/ drawn/ decided on by the British, other European countries and the Americans (who drew the map of their country?) when they got powerful enough.

Israel was drawn up by Brits and Yanks so although there were people living there was there a country there? All of the countries in the middle east were drawn up at more or less the same time, by the same foreigners...

Answer 6

There were relatively fewer people than what you see in today's Israel population.

This is what I heard from a reliable source:
Before 1948, there were very few people living in that land because of obvious reasons - the land was not fertile and not productive. The land was mostly parched and bare. No agricultural activities could be decently carried out there. A very huge number of the Jews were already scattered in all the world since the first destruction of their temple in Judah.

The Jews have always believed that they were scattered in all parts of the world as a punishment of their sin - because they forsook their Jehovah God and pursued worship after other heathen gods. But, the Jews also believed that God would restore the land back to them and they would return to their homeland one day. That day was marked officially in 14th May, 1948.

What happened then, was that most Jews from many other countries returned to Israel for good. They started their families there and contributed much to the economic of Israel (You see, the Jews have been known all these while to make loads of money wherever they go. They are also known to be very advanced in their "homegrown" technologies - a very intelligent group of people indeed). So, the parched lands no longer look like what they were before the year 1948. Advanced agricultural development has been implemented successfully (despite the fact that it was once parched and bare) in Israel today. Of course, the Jews there are obviously advanced in other systems as well - military, IT, media-related, biological technologies and in phsycology areas.

Here's an excerpt from the Internet source:
"The story of modern-day Israel does not begin in 1948 with the declaration of independence: It goes back 2500 years to the destruction of the 1st temple of Judah in 586 BC, and the subsequent scattering of the Jewish people called The Diaspora; the Jewish people were left with no country to call their own.

Since the Diaspora, there have been many attempts to re-establish a homeland for the Jewish people. In the 1880's, the desire for the rebirth of Jerusalem became an actual movement called Zionism. Jews from all over the world began to immigrate to the Holy Land, then occupied by the British Government. After World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, a worldwide outcry led Great Britain and the U.N to partition the country into Arab and Jewish States on May 14th, 1948. The Israelis, under the leadership of leader David Ben-Gurion declared independence and the creation of the new Jewish state."

And more additional information from the same Internet source:
"Within hours, the Jewish state was attacked by the League of Arab States, a coalition of Arab countries consisting of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, in addition to the native Palestinians. Zionists had been stockpiling arms secretly after World War II, and managed to stop the advance of the Arab armies. After a U.N sponsored truce from June 11 to July 8th, the war began again, with Israel in a much stronger position. Israel pushed back Syrian and Egyptian forces, leaving the Israelites with a much greater amount of land than before. A truce was finally signed on the January 24th between Egypt and Israel, with the other nations soon following.

700,000 Palestinian refugees were forced to leave their homeland immediately before, during, and after the war; the lucky moving to different Arabic countries, the rest interned in camps. This only has bred more conflict, resulting in 2 more wars, multiple actions and intifadas (holy wars). Peace in Israel, long looked for, is hard to find."

Answer 7

Israel was a nation 1000s of years ago. The Jews were dispersed all over the world, and in 1948 they returned to their homeland. Yes, there were some people living in what is now Israel in 1948, but I don't think it was well developed and populated.
Why do you say "we have a big problem"?

Answer 8

Before Israel came along, the land was called Palestine and was inhabited by Jews, Muslims and Christians. Following terrorist action by Zionist groups, most of the Christians and Muslims left for refugee camps in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. Perhaps that gives you some insight into the present problem - and why you're not going to be able to take your iPod on planes any more.

Answer 9

Arabs had lived there for centuries. Some are still upset and feel that the land was expropriated from them by the UN decree in 1948. It was taken, whether this was right is a separate question.

Many are upset that lands have been taken more recently. It seems that Israel is doing this again in Lebanon, but we will see.

Answer 10

Yes, there is a big problem. Many millions of Palestinians lived there in an appropriately named state (protectorate) of Palestine. The Zionists undertook an organized campaign of genocide, conducting massacres of entire villages, and forced evacuation of Palestinians across the borders.
The current Israeli violence in Lebanon is nothing more than the latest in a series of aggressions to repel attempts of Palestinians to regain their homes in the same region.

Answer 11

There were a few thousand arabs, and a few tens of thousand palestinians (who were originally the Jews).
Most of the Arabs left when their brothers told them that their advancng army would push the Jews into the sea.

I have had family members living in Israel since about the year 750 AD

There is no big problem. The Arabs should start taking care of their own.