Instead of having created the state of Israel, couldn't the Jews live with the Palestinians?

Question

In the British Mandate of Palestine, with much of the land now known as Israel, the British could have instead created a huge housing project, whereby people could have constructed houses side by side along with the Palestinians. They would have no reason to fight for the land because they would both live in it. Do you think this idea would have prevented the long struggle between these two groups?

Answer 1

probably not.

Answer 2

Ha! Like that would happen. What happened before the state was established? What is happening now? What can't the palestinians live anywhere else in the world and join the rest of the arabs. No they have to be squatters on an ancient homeland that religiously worthless to them except propaganda. If it were important why isn't it in the quran? The Arabs killed Israeli Jews before the state was ever thought of. Don't be neive and think a two state solution would be so peaceful for longer than a week. Then it will become: your state is bigger, we want equal states then this, that and the other thing.

Here's a proposition. Let the U.S. handover Texas to the arabs or Israelis. No? So why should Israel handover its country. Because some of their ancestors abandoned their land (not kicked out) when the state was established? The Jews had israel before and after (i.e. now) the arabs. They have no claim.

Arabs even live better under the Jews than their own.

A merged state would turn into a war. And the arabs never asked for a state then anyhow, it was the jews. we asked, we got.

Answer 3

The British actually did it. See the Balfour Declaration. The idea of Palestine being a jewish homeland is largely a myth that has grown out of misreading of the Bible. There is a vast difference between Biblical mythology and historical fact. Jerusalem, throughout most of its history, has been predominately Arab. By the time of the late 1880s to 1900, there were perhaps a total of 100 orthodox jews in Jerusalem. Over the past 1,000 years the jewish population was never more than 10% of the total. Most of the jews currently in the region are not native to Palestine but immigrated from Russia and Eastern Europe around 100 or so years ago. In a 1-year period in 1948-1948 these jews destroyed 435 Arab villages and towns, killing the inhabitants or driving of their land, and taking over some towns for jewish use.

Answer 4

Learn some history& current events:
1) Britain gave more than 3/4 of mandatory Palestine to the Hashemites from the Arabian Peninsula as a consolation prize for getting their butts kicked by the Saudis.
2) When the UN split the remaining land, The Jews accepted, the Arabs rejected the decision. The Early Israeli leaders begged the Arabs to remain & build a country.
3) The Moslem Arabs beleive that Allah wants them to rule all land that was ever ruled by Moslems (look out Spain!).
4) there are no consessions that anyone can make that would satisfy Muslims short of surrendering & converting to Islam.

The question isn't if Jews could live with Arabs, they are. There are more than 1,000,000 Arab citizens in Israel, many of whom are hostile to Israel. The question is "Are Moslims willing to live in peace with anyone?".

Answer 5

The Zionists wouldn't have ever accepted it...They wanted a state for the Jew ever since around 1900...and they couldn't care less where it would have been...The first choice was Argentina,than some country in Africa and when Palestine was under the British mandate they saw it as a great opportunity for creating a Jewish state...

Answer 6

The result would have been CI-VIL war. Read about Lebanon 1976-1991, and what Christians, Sunnis, Shiites, and Druze did to each other in the same country. Something similar would probably have happened farther south, too.

Answer 7

Palestinians have always been nomad, they had no country. Israel is one of the oldest countrys in the Middle East, formerly called Judea. Why do the Palestinians need a country?