Does anyone know wat happened to Palestine after WW1?

Question

please help me..homework is due tomorrow!

Answer 1

After WW1 Britain was given the mandate by the League of Nations to administer Palestine which had previously been part of the Turkish Empire.
During WW1 Lord Balfour who was the British Foreign Secretary had written a letter to the leader of the Jewish Zionists in Europe to offer a homeland for the Jews in Palestine after the war if they would support the British war effort.
This was called the Balfour Declaration and insisted that nothing must be done the harm the religious or political rights of the Arabs. Balfour , of course, had no authority from anyone to make this promise.
During the 1920s and 1930s there was some jewish immigration into Palestine which was often opposed by the arabs but the British suppressed these protests.
After WW2 many survivors from Hitler's Holocaust in Europe tried to enter Palestine as illegal immigrants and the British tried to deny them access.
The ones who succeded formed terrorist gangs with some of the jews already there and committed many atrocities against both the Christian and Muslim Arabs and the British authorities.
The most notorious of these was the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem which claimed the lives of over 60 people. They also took hostages and murdered them and invented the letter bomb. Their campaign has been a blueprint for terrorists ever since.
As well as these atrocities they were attacking arab villages and seizing their land The arabs had to flee or be killed.
The British did not have the manpower or the political will to deal with these terrorists and in 1947 handed the problem to the newly formed United Nations Organisation.
In 1948 the UN declared that Palestine would be divided into two parts, one for jews and one for arabs. The arabs were not consulted about this and rejected the proposal.
Just before the end of the British mandate in May 1948 the jews once more attacked the arabs to gain more land. Whole villages were wiped out and the survivors fled to refugee camps where they have been ever since thus creating the start of the "Palestinian Problem".
In May 1948 the victorious jews declared the new state of Israel and the terrorists formed a government.
This is the root cause of much of the present trouble in the Middle East.
Since 1948 Israel has aquired more land from neighboring states and has developed nuclear weapons to make it too costly for those nations to try to regain their territory.

Answer 2

The first answer is misleading at best and incorrect at worst.

After WW1, the British issued the Balfour Declaration, which acknowledged the need for a Jewish homeland in an area, called Palestine, which is now modern day Israel. In 1947, the UN broke up Palestine into an Arab state called Palestine, and a Jewish state called Israel. Jordan was given complete control of Jerusalem. Jordan promised to allow Israeli Jews into into Jerusalem to pray at the Western Wall, which is Judaism's holiest site. However, not one Israeli Jew was ever allowed in the city-- in fact, the Western Wall was used by the Arabs as a garbage dump. When Israel was founded, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt could not stand it. They all declared war on Israel and invaded. There have been 4 major wars fought (1948, 1956, 1967,and 1973) since Israels founding. The result of each of those wars was Israel expanding her borders. So far, only Egypt and Jordan have agreed to peace with Israel in exchange for the land it lost due to Arab agression.

Answer 3

After the War the allied powers took part of Palestine away from the people who lived there, kicked them off their land and gave the land to the Jewish people so they could have a homeland. Aweful nice of them to not have any regard for the people who lived there at the time, and cause all the strife and other isues over the newly formed country of Israel. If you ask me the land should be given back to it's rightful owners, and britain and it's pals should give homes to the Israelis that are displaced on their own soil.

Answer 4

the Jews slowly brought back their homeland from absentee landlords in Turkey and Egypt and Arabia.
before you know it bamm world war II. Holocaust. Prosecution. the whole bit. Jews were tired of being minority and being prosecuted, so now they ain't gonna take Sh it from anyone anymore.
But it really ruin things for the Arabic league to have one of their holiest city getting run by Israel. war war and then more war. But don't fcuk with Israel as long as you know who has their back.