Is it reasonable for the UN to allocate each religion its own state?

Question

It just puzzles me why the UN thought it practical to allocate Jews their own state. Being a Jew is religious, not nationality or race. If the Jews qualified for land on the basis of belonging to a religion, how come no other religion qualified for land allocation even at that time? Jews are multi-race from black to white, showing clearly that they are a religious group. Why did nobody question this at the time?

Also how come the Jews were allocated in the middle East where they stand out like a sore thumb? The most obvious place would have been the deserts of the Arizona or maybe part of Europe such as Spain/the Balkans etc where the population are already warlike.

Answer 1

Its completely unreasonable. I mean seriously how long can Israel get away with that we are gods chosen people bullshit. America needs Israel where it is to stir up conflict in the middle east between arab nations. Jews dont need their own nation.They need to get over their misguided sense of self importance and realize they are no better than anyone else.They need to realize that they cant fool the world to their ways forever.They are lying terrorist scumbags who do nothing worthwhile.The zionist regime in israel wont be happy until all arabs are wiped.Israel should never have been a nation. They displaced the palestinians and stole their land.Then they pretend like the palestinians had nothing with the land, it wasnt their land and that there is no such thing as a palestinian.

Answer 2

In order of your questions:
All states have a state religion except for some communist states who are atheist. Thus it is reasonable. Although your use of the term 'allocate' is incorrect.
The UN thought it practical because 1. the British were bankrupt after WW2 and wanted to give up the mandate, and 2. there was a majority of Jews living there.
Other religions had been 'allocated' their states earlier such as Jordan in 1922 or India and Pakistan also in 1948.
Jews are a religious group but many also consider them a race because they are mainly descended from the 12 tribes.
The Jews came from the Middle East and particularly from the land of Israel. The Jews have had a constant presence in the land of Israel for 3,000 years. There were very few Arabs in the land before start of the 20th century. Many moved from Trans-Jordan from around 1910 when the Jews started were building up the land. It's a joke to hear the Arabs claim they lived there for generations! Note that 800,000 Jews lived in Arab lands in 1948 and almost all were forced out and had to go to Israel. They certainly did not stand out like a sore thumb.
And finally, I don't know why you say the Jews are warlike. It seems to me that the almost all of the world's conflicts today involve Muslims, from South East Asia to Africa to the Middle East to Europe and to America. That suggests that the Muslims that attack the Jews are the warlike ones.

Answer 3

Check your history before you ask a question

It was not the UN that granted Israel a state the land was owned by a british mandate in the 1930s the balfour declaration was decreed this paved the way for Britain to give the land as a jewish state. When Hitler gained power in 1933 and World war 2 started in 1939 this was thrown into the long grass, after the end of world war 2 when the attrocites of the holocaust was discovered and the fact that the british did very little to free concentration camp prisoners this declaration was brought up again in 1948 after a lot of persuasion by jews world wide politically and by violence in the middle east. Israel became a state, the UN had nothing to do with it, in fact the original idea the balfour declaration was created before the UN was created.

Answer 4

The Jews chose to go to Palestine themselves. The colonizer of Palestine, Great Britain tried to prevent the entry of masses of Jews because it led to lots of unrest between Arabs and Jews. Great Britain left the place when it dissolved its world empire. Jewish terrorists killed many British officials, so the British really wanted to leave Palestine at that time, 1947.

The reason why the UN led it happen in those days had to do with indifference mainly. The UN came up with a plan to split Palestine in two, but didn't bring in any troops to make sure it would be enforced. Both the Jews and the Arabs wanted to fight it out, to destroy the others. The Jews won. It was not the UN who created Israel, but the Jews, on their own.

Answer 5

Israel was the land of the Jewish people in ancient times, but I see your point, Judaism is a religion and not a nationallity and I don't see why they should have been favoured more than other religions, now that we are in the modern world, although I think it was to do with so many Jewish peoples being displaced after the holocaust in world war 2.
Allocating a country for each religion would simply not be practical.

Answer 6

Hang on, this has so many racist possibilities that I wonder why you asked the question. Israel is an essential place to 3 of the world's major religions and certainly the spiritual face of Judaism.

Displacing anyone to make room for someone else is pretty daft however and if not the middle east it would have caused tension all the way around the world wherever it happened.

Answer 7

No way Jose!

I think that you need to go back to your history books & Bible. They may give you a clue as to why the Jews belong in Palestine, as do the Muslims & the Christians.

Funnily enough the Jews of Europe were offered their own territory by the League of Nations. Onl;y problem was it was in Uganda I believe(?). They didnt go there because they didnt belong there. Would you really expect the Palestinians to relocate to Western Australia just because there is lots of 'empty space'?

Answer 8

Friendliest? California, except some little cities and particular cities. Washington, Massachussets, Rhode Island, (in a minimum of one city) and Texas Least pleasant States? Missouri, Arizona, Oregon, (except you know truly heritage about something that occurred in Oregon) Kansas, Kentucky, Alabama, Gerogia, Maryland, Hawaii (except the Hula dancers and some circumstances the young children)

Answer 9

Joshua, a Jew was there before any Palestinian or Arab. They were returned to their homeland. Why don't you question how Syria came to be, maybe Jordon too or would thoughts like that be too much of a stretch. Maybe it had something to do with the Ottoman Empire, maybe your entire premise is wrong, just tossing a few thoughts around for you. Try to catch one.

Answer 10

Jews are from there, silly. It was the Romans that scattered them. The Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70AD. Then, when the Jews rebelled against their oppressors in 135AD, the Romans savagely laid waste to the Jews' lands, burning to the ground nearly 1,000 towns and villages. This was ethnic cleansing on a major scale, and the Jews fled to avoid certain death.