Is it Israel or Palestine?????

Question

Should we call it Israel or Palestine?
I am really not criticizing any body but I am history reader…
Because I check in all the history books, I find out the just 55 years ago there was nothing called Israel???
Not only this… 100 years back there was not a single Jew living in Palestine?
Not only this… I read the history of the Israeli leaders I find out none of them even porn in Palestine???
So why should we call it Israel….

Answer 1

It is not Israel, it is occupied Palestine. Take a look at your history books. The Zionists, with the help of the US and Britain, stole the land of Palestine by forcing people from their homes at gunpoint and massacring thousands. True Jews do not agree with or support Zionism. It is, and has always been, Palestine.

Answer 2

Think about this ...The tract of land Israel occupies was paid for - not stolen from anyone, what they turned that infertile wasteland into, was nothing short of a miracle! Israel as a nation , unfortunately drew the short straw insofaras geographic homeland, as a nation all borders are predominantly arab - they have every reason to watch their backs and YES Israel should and will exist as a nation with or without US backing! Agree with the comment about posting site,(travel) as for the serve given to jewish girl - she could well be an Israeli, living the life!

Simplified just how many of these answerers have spent their entire life in a war-zone? ISRAELI citizens do every day - Honestly I'd feel safer living in Israel than America!
Yes I have "been" there!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way the typo porn instead of born lightened up the whole debate!

Answer 3

Okay

If you have checked all the history books you will know that there has never, in the history of this planet, been a country called Palestine.

This is a fact that a lot of people can't believe, but it's true - check it out.

The area now occupied by Israel (which is only 240 miles long and between 8 and 40 miles wide - and half of that is desert) was mostly called Trans-Jordan - the rest of it being Syria and Egypt.

There has never, in the history of this planet - until fairly recently, been a nation of people who called themselves Palestinians.

Another fact that may interest you.
The Jews started making their way back to the area at the end of the 1800s.

When they arrived in this area they didn't 'steal' land or homes.
They paid hard cash for them.

They didn't force anyone to sell land or homes. They bought places that were up for sale.

By the time of independance in 1948 they already owned most of the place.

The Arabs were more than happy with this situation.
When the Jews started moving in they cleaned the place up, opened schools, hospitals etc which the Arabs were welcome to use, and still are.

The Arabs still living in this area will tell you that their standard of living is excellent. Many have taken the opportunity to become business people, and all Arabs have exactly the same rights as anyone else in the country.

Every now and again you hear the 'terrible' news that the Israelis have bulldozed more Arab homes.
What you don't hear is that they bulldozed them because they were slums - and built them new homes to live in.

Unfortunately the media is always very one sided.
If any newspaper anywhere in the world tries to tell the true and whole story they are dismissed as being "run by Jews".

Everybody loves an underdog - it's just that the Arabs in this area are not underdogs. The Israelis treat them as equals.

Answer 4

After WW2 and all the useless Jews that HItler massacred, the international determined that the Jews needed a native land. SO particularly of giving them an section in Germany, they determined "whats up why not provide them Palestine?" who cares if there are a set of brown-skinned human beings already residing there? regrettably, not like the close by those who had an same component take position to them, The Palestinians did not go away. to placed issues in perspective, because the 1940's a lot less then 3000 Israeli's were killed by technique of Palestinians, three hundred Palestinians were killed by technique of Israel contained in the ultimate week

Answer 5

Let's face the fact of TODAY. Part of the land is Israel and part is Palestine.

Since the Exodus, there have always been Jews in Israel--------even with the Babylonian exile, only some of them were taken to Babylon. And, as long as there was Jews there, it belongs to the children of Israel.

Answer 6

YOU ARE WRONG!

now that i have that out of the way i will tell you why.
In 1948 the UN made Israel and independent country.
55 years ago Israel was three years old, so of course there would be nothing in the history books.
yes there were jews living in israel 100 years ago there have been jews living in israel since the 2nd beis hamikdash (holy temple)
and none of the early leaders could be born in israel because israel wasnt a state. Israel is still a very young country and there is no law you have to be born there to become prime minster, unlike here in the us.

It is Israel, you are just wrong.

Answer 7

What has this question to do with Travel???? Why don't you
post it in a forum that deals with political issues concerning Israel and the Palestinians? Are you afraid to get replies that do not suit you?

Answer 8

First of all, there was no Israel 56 years ago because the UN did not give the Jews a homeland until 1948.

Let's think about something logically for a moment. When the United States became a country, it's first leaders came from England. Before it was a country, it belonged to the Native Americans for a long time. I don't hear anyone questioning whether or not the US is a country, so logically, Israel is a country too as of now.

That basically covers the your point about leaders being foreign and the country not always existing. Now for the idea that there were no Jews in the Holy Land before Israel became a country.

The area partitioned to Israel had a population that was 60% Jewish. (I got that stat from the first chapter of "The Case from Israel." I do not remember the name of the author of the book.) I don't know where you got the idea that there were no Jews there 100 years, but it simply isn't true. I can't say for sure whether your source was innaccurate or biased.

Lastly, you said "55 years ago." Israel was founded in 1948, 56 years ago. I hope that that was just a typo.

Answer 9

JewishGirl got it right.
I am not sure what history books your reading as you will not find "ancient Palestine". The name was given to try to distance Israel from its true idenity by yet more people trying to destroy her.

Until recently--the Arabs considered being called Palestinian an insult.
After all they were Jordanians or no-mads and didnt really want to be "named" by there rulers the "British".

The history books tell us Israel was under Muslim rule (the Turks) prior to the British mandate and the place was a waste land except for a few areas populated by Jews and no-mad Arabs who, by the way, got along very well.

It never ceases to amaze me that if the place was so important and Holy to Palestinians how it was allowed to go to seed under Muslim rule?

Not until Jewish immigration began in earnest in the 1800s and after WW2 did surrounding Arab countrys IE: Jordan, Eygpt, Syria and Iraq begin to flood the area with "Palestinians" due in part to the fact of the Jewish population bringing the country back to life and prosperity.

As this is a travel Q&A--a visit to Israel is a huge history lesson that exposes the truth.
Go--you will be blessed.

Answer 10

i have answered this question but the biased people at yahoo has deleted my answer(this is not the first time), so they must stop this question and answer bull **** if they cannot tolerate mentioning true facts