Didn't the British seeze control of Israel and gave it to the Jews because the Brit conquered it some time ago

Question

so the Palestinian never really owned the land, because the Brits took it from them

Answer 1

Before the Brits took control of Palestine after WWII, the region was controlled by the ottoman turks for several centuries. Before 1948, the population of the region was extraordinarily sparse as most of the land was swamp or rock hard and not arable. The total arab population of the region was less than 500,000, about the same as the Jewish population. When the Zionists began to arrive in numbers in the late 19th century, they turned the wasteland into farmland.
Also, when they came, they purchased the land from the ottomans and arabs, often for exhorbitant prices. In fact, much of the land they bought is now in the west bank....yes, it is the arabs who are squatting on Jewish owned land...and the Jews have the deeds to prove it.

In the Balfour declaration, the Brits were to give all of palestine to the Jews for a Jewish state....that is all of what is now Israel, west bank, gaza AND Jordan. Later, as a reward to the Hashemites who helped the brits in WWI, Jordan was split off when the Hashemites were driven out of Arabia by the Sauds.....thus reducing the promised Jewish state by over 70% of land area. The UN partition took another 55% of what was left....and even then, the Arabs rejected it and armies from 6 arab nations attack the nascent state. At the same time that some 450,000 Arabs left their homes at the request of the advancing arab armies, almost 700,000 Jews living in arab lands for generations were forced to leave with little more than the clothes on their backs....their entire fortunes seized.

After a few years, all those Jews were resettled and integrated into societies around the world, including Israel (about 300,000)...meanwhile, the children and grandchildren of the arabs who fled are still in refugee camps in ARAB countries as well as in the occupied territories. For 20 years, nothing was done to help these people, and nothing's been done for them anywhere except in Israel, where Israel spends 100s of millions of dollars a year supporting them, even as they fire rockets and send suicide bombers.

The palestinian arabs have proven they are not worthy of their own country as is witnessed in the chaos of the Gaza Strip since Israel unilaterally left. It is a great tragedy that the brethren of the palestinian arabs have used as political pawns. The real truth is that the palestinian arabs are so hated in the Arab world that if Israel were to be destroyed, God forbid, that the 3.5-5million palestinian arabs would follow close behind.

Answer 2

You really should post this in the Israel forum, in 'Travel' because this question has nothing to do with religion. You would get good answers from both Muslims and Jews in the Israel section; we debate this topic all the time!

I can give you a more detailed answer there; but the short version is: yes, the British promised the land to both Jews and Arabs.

Palestine was then divided between the two. The Jews celebrated. The Arabs rejected partition and declared war on the new state of Israel, within 12 hours of it declaring independence. All the surrounding Arab nations - far larger and much wealthier - simultaneously attacked Israel.

Only the fact that the Arab armies were disorganised, and also perhaps a bit of a miracle! enabled Israel to hold her own.

Since then Israel has been attacked on two more occasions and she is also on constant red alert due to terrorism.

Jews have lived in Palestine - known as Judea before the Romans renamed it - for four thousand years continuously.

The 'Palestinians' are in fact Arabs from the neighbouring states who migrated to Palestine when they saw the Jews turning it from desert into a beautiful homeland.

EDIT - MZJAKES gives an excellent and factually correct answer - objective, verifiable FACT.

Answer 3

The Palestinians left to fight with the Arabs against the Jews. No one else on earth is asked to return land won in war. The Arabs who remained in Israel are now Israeli citizens and all prefer to live in Israel than in any of the surrounding Arab lands. An Arab is a member of the current government.

Try the Israel or political categories for better answers.
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Answer 4

Seized control of the land from whom? You say the British took it from the Palestinians but if there wasn't an independent state of Palestine before Britain took over, then they did not take it from them. In fact, the land before then was part of the Ottoman Empire, which became defunct at that time.

Answer 5

Does that mean that since the US seized control of Iraq from Saddam that the Iraqis never really owned the land? You might want to pass this legal advice on to Bush. It's right up his logic alley.

Answer 6

Hi Tony, you are not far from the truth here, the British government of the time was actually under the control of the Jewish bankers, Rothschild etc, read the Balfour declaration for more info, type this in your search.
Britain later tried to distance themselves from this by issuing a white paper denying the fact but this was simply a subterfuge to keep their options open in Palestine.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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