After the Ottomans Defeat in the World War, Who Lived in the Land Now Known as Israel?

Question

I Mean During the War and Right After the Defeat. Before Declaring Israel.

Answer 1

It was ruled by the British until the Balfour Declaration, but many nationalities lived there. The Palestinians had a difficult time finding any country willing to take them in, including all those border countries that now express desire to help them. There are many good books on the confused politics and national struggle between the two world wars, and it is not easy to summarize all the events in a paragraph. After the holocaust of WW2, huge numbers of Jews starting going to there, and ended up starting the nation of Israel.

Answer 2

There were always Jews living in that area; they've had a continuous presence there for close on four thousand years.

The term 'Palestinian' referred to everyone who lived in the area, regardless of religion. Most of the Palestinians were Jews. As 19th century travellers who visited that area reported, apart from Jews, there were just a few 'wandering nomads' living there (Mark Twain said this).

It was when the Jews began to turn the area from desert into something more vibrant that many Arabs from surrounding countries arrived: Egyptians, Syrians, Lebanese.

The people we now call ' Palestinian', the Muslims, were from these Arab countries.

In 1948, the British had the mandate and they suggested partition; the Muslims got most of the land and the Jews got some also, which was to be the country 'Israel'. The Jews happily accepted the plan - the Arab world went beserk and declared war. Sure enough, the neighbouring Arab countries attacked Israel within 12 hours of her declaring independence.

The 'Palestinian people' as we know them today did not become a distinct entity until 1969, some two decades AFTER the revival of Israel. Prior to that, they were referred to, both by themselves and others, simply as Arabs.

Answer 3

From the 1920s to the 1940s, pretty much the same people who lived in the region from the 1940s to the 1960s. About 30% of the population moved in during the 1920s and 1930s.

The area was under British control after then end of WW1, until control was transferred to the United Nations when the UN purchased the land now called Israel, and split off the rest to form Jordan and Palestine.

Answer 4

Asking who lived in that area before Israel existed is like asking what nationality makes up L.A. This area has passed through so many hands over the last five thousand years that I am pretty sure the term Middle East is Swahili for 'Rent to Own'. There were British and French nationals all over the place until post-World War II. Of course there were many variations of the Semitic races, both Jew and Muslim.

The really ironic thing is that until shortly before the formation of Israel, the people being referred to as 'Palestinians' now were living in an area controlled today by Syria, hundreds of miles away.

Answer 5

Prior to the creation of the State of Israel, by fiat of the British, who held that land at the end of WW II, the place was called Palestine for 2,000 years. The people who lived there were called Palestinians. Interestingly enough I have a Jewish friend who was born in Palestine in 1934 and we have spoken much about this topic. His birthplace was Palestine and he considers himself a Palestinian, even though he is Jewish. Palestine was a very cosmopolitan sort of place at that time and my friend learned to speak Hebrew, Farsi, French, English, and German from birth.

Israel, as well as several other Middle Eastern countries were created at the end of WW II by the British literally taking a pen, drawing the boundaries on a map, and dividing their holdings into those countries. The creation of the State of Israel was done by the British in fulfillment of a promise made decades before, in exchange for financial aid during WW I.

Answer 6

It was a desert then. The jews have always maintained a presence, however, along with roaming nomads. It wasn't until the Iraelis started building cities there that it became a popular place for palastinian refugees to settle, most from Jordan or Lebanon.

Answer 7

Arab Palestinians ( Muslims & Christians ) ,Oriantal Jews & the British
Mandate by the United Nations.

Answer 8

Jews and Arabs mostly and about evenly split though Jews were the majority in some areas.

Answer 9

A people known as war.
A people who want war.
War to the people.
The heat of the moment.

Answer 10

the palastinians lived there until the usa backed the jewish terror war and invasion. the palastinians were forced into concentration camps and ghettos where they've lived for the last three generations. they're a little pissed about it, some to the extent they're so hopeless they're willing to blow themselves up. maybe you've heard about it on the news over the last 50 years.