Why were the Jews given land in middle east?

Question

In WW2, Germany messed with the Jews so how come they were taken and placed in Palestine? How come the germans didnt give a part of Germany to them or some other European country?

Answer 1

Why should the Jews be given the Germans' land? Why should they be given anybody's land?

Do you see any other group getting a homeland just for themselves? No, you don't. I don't think the Jews should have gotten one, either.

Answer 2

They weren't placed there; there was a Zionist movement since the 1890's I think, but it attarcted relatively few Jews, even though many wealthy ones began buying land in Palestine independently. After World War II, however, many more Jews became Zionists and the United nations sanctioned the creation of Israel. Germany was considered so hostile to Jews at the time, I don't think that was considered as an option. The Jewish people had historic and religious ties to the land so many began immigrating and the state of Israel basically stated that any Jew anywhere was free to come and make a home there. Unfortunately this caused the mass displacement of many native Palestinians and causes problems to this day.

Answer 3

In 2006 a european non Jew made some comics depicting Muhammad, so Iran decided to make a comic insult to the holocaust competition in return. What does some european non-Jew's comics have to do with JEWS? You can play this game all day, and still get nowhere..

Answer 4

There have been numerous allegations of secret trade-offs between a select few powerful Jews and the British government. One rumor being a scientist giving Britain a poison or means of poisoning for assassination, and another being the selling out of the Nazi's by a few Jews in disguise. It wasn't the Germans who gave the Jews anything, it was Britain. The reason is most likely sectarian build up to help keep the country in check (with Jews and Palestinians fighting for the same land, they both will be less of a threat, and with the Jews having power, would be friendly towards Britain in regards to trade). Britain drew the maps for the Middle East in the past (i.e. Iraq in 1932) and the U.S. did it to Vietnam just to keep trouble abrew, and of course give them money since they would be able to sell arms/weapons.

Answer 5

~First, get you facts straight. The Jewish homeland was created before WWII started.

The region has changed hands throughout history more often than Poland and Sicily. Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Byzantines, the Saracens, various Arabian empires, the Ottomans and the British, among others, have held claim to the region since time immemorial.

The "Palestinians" were non-semitic Greeks who occupied the area for a very short time before being conquered by and then absorbed into Babylon. At the same time, Babylon threw the Jews out but the Persians let them back in when they took over. Since the 5th century BCE, the Palestinians have ceased to exist as a distinct ethnic group. The name of the region (Palestine in one variation or another) carried forward and Arabs and other semitic peoples identified themselves with the region by calling themselves 'Palestinians'.

After WWI, the Ottomans lost Palestine to the British and it became a British Mandate by act of the League of Nations. By 1917, the British had announced plans to create a Jewish homeland within the Mandate. (Everyone was in favor of reducing the Jewish population in Europe) The Jews were to receive a portion of Palestine and Trans-Jordan and they would be denied emigration rights into Trans-Jordan proper. The Arabs in residence would occupy the balance.

After WWII, the British denied Jewish refugees the right to settle in the region and the Irgun and Lehi began their terrorist campaign. British sentiment at home was chiefly to get the troops out - the cost in both money and public opinion was too great for the little benefit received - so the Brits bailed and turned the region over to the UN.

In an effort to pacify the region and mollify the locals, the UN created two independent states in the region, one Arab and one Jewish. Israel was established on May 14, 1948. The British mandate ended on May 15. Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Trans-Jordan, the Holy War Army, the Arab Liberation Army, and local indigenous Arabs immediately attacked Israel when the Brits left, and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War followed. The Israelis, of course, won, and by treaty the borders of Israel were established and the balance of "Palestine" was swallowed up by Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Much like when the US wrested independence from Britain in 1783, Israel was created by force of arms, international treaty and international law.

As to any historical claim to the area by the "Palestinians", there is none. The Palestinians are an extinct people and their historical homeland, if any, is in Mycenaea. Their beef, if any, is with Babylon (Iraq).

By the same token, the Jews who once inhabited the area were conquered and evicted by virtually every significant power that ever held sway in the region. Just as I wouldn't expect to give Germany back to the Angles and Saxons, France to the Celts, or Manhattan to the Lenapi, I wouldn't give the "Palestine" or Israel to any of the former ruling nations, peoples or empires.

The short answer to you question, then, is: To the victor belong the spoils.

Answer 6

how exactly do you define as owning the land how is the jewish claim to the land any more valid. The jews had been kicked out of israel by the Romans and had no claim to the land for 2000 years.. and before that the jews took the land from native inhabitans through violence... please try to be inteligent in you answers.

Answer 7

People like the one on this list who calls herself Venin_noi and is probably severely ugly and filled with hatred of her pathetic life would make such remarks as she has here. The Jewish people are the chosen people and according to the bible they were given the land that rightfully belongs to them and they have built it into a fabulous country. An amazing land with amazing people and wonderful examples to all mankind.

Answer 8

Because, America said so.

Answer 9

Israel has always belonged to the Jewsh people. The Palistinians have never owned that land, they were just squatters. Good thing they were evicted.