question about how israel was founded?
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israel was founded in 1948 along with several other countries in the area including jordan, syria, iraq, lebanon from the area owned by the brittish, which before was the ottoman empire. The land is jewish land, and has been jewish land long before arab/muslim occupiers came to it/ who displaced the roman empire. Israel is for all jews and millons of jews in israel have arab history, 900,000 jews were kicked out of arab countries in 48 and there-after. Your question imples arab/muslim ownership of the land, which is simply not true.
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The Jewish Entity "Known as the State of Israel" is not a Democracy, it's an Aparthied state because it is based on pre-determined preferences and settings and is constructed on occupied Palestinian land. Number one, if you're Jewish, you can immediatly get citizenship and set up shop, and run a more than normal life. But if you're not Jewish, i.e., if you're a Palestinian Christian or Muslim, you would be denied many rights, especialy if you're from the two occupied regions of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they you HAVE no rights over there, the Israeli elected government would shoot you down on suspicion alone.\n\nThis is very similar if not worse than the South African Aparthied.\n\nSo, Zionist politics is designed to serve one purpose and one purpose alone, and that is to protect one of the greatest thefts of all times, the theft of Palestine and to hush hush on it as if it was alright.\n\nI recently asked an Israeli associate, I asked her, If the Arab Israelis want to establish a Majority government, would you allow them to rule Israel? to which she responded: "NEVER! THIS IS A JEWS ONLY STATE"... i guess that sums it up. Israel is not a democracy, it's a theocracy trying to disguise itself as a democarcy, but it fools only those who CAN be fooled, i.e. the uneducated or those who refuse to see the light.\n\nKuLock: Your answer is far away from reality. Every Jew in the world who wants to make money and run away from Poverty immigrated to Occupied Palestine. Those people ran Jewish terrorist Organizations like the Haganah and the Argon, who were horrible in thier crimes, look em up, they would enter Palestinian towns and villages and kill everyone, even the baby in the woman's womb. Palestinians have lived there for thousands of years and it's all documented in Britain, Istanbul and all the old capitals. It's Zionists who claim the pathetic lie that the land was people-less for a stateless people, this is a lie you could have pulled 50 years ago, but everyone knows it's a propaganda lie now, just like Hitler's proclamation that Germans were a super or special race. All lies on top of lies, suit yourself and enjoy those lies demise. :)\n\nShalom.
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Israel didn't exist before the UN created it. In the time immediately before the creation of Israel, it was controlled by Britain, as was the rest of Palestine, and Britain did not particularly care whehter Jews or Arabs lived there.\n\nEdit: Jerusalem was the center of the Crusades. It passed hands between Christians, who were generally lenient when it came to allowing Jews in the city, and Muslims, who were not. At the end of the Crusades, the Turks had control of it, and it was part of the Ottoman Empire until its collapse and the British war for control of the area.
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Since Abraham fathered two sons, half brothers, that went different ways and founded the two nations. More than 2 thousand, closer to 2,500 years ago
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The best way to learn about "Israel" is to check the following website "http://www.intifada.com/"\n\nYou will be introduced to how "Israel" occupies an entire Arab country called Palestine and how it likes to treat the people it occupies. \n\nYou be the judge.\n\nP.S. To the person who responded after me. It seams you've been indoctrinated by Zionist ideology, to say that Arabs occupied Gaza and the West bank is like saying the Jews Killed Hitler, that's such a racist remark i can't believe you said it. Ofcourse the Palestinians have been there for thousands of years Even Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister is Polish and not Israeli, he came as an immigrant from polland and so did many other Israeli Prime Ministers and leaders. It's not a religious war, Muslims and Christians are both fighting the Jewish Fundamentalist Terrorists for thier country's Independence, the Independence of Palestine, Two days ago, a Jewish Terrorist and His Terrorist wife tried to blow up a Church in Nazareth, don't try to hide that away from us, we get the news. Ever heard of www.pacifica.org ? Well check out it, you will thank me for showing you the light of truth for once in this short decietful life. Shame on you for defaming the Palestinians like that, it's a true shame that you would deny a people from thier country and give it to some people who think they were "Chosen" and given a "Promised Land" I mean, for God's sake, that's blasphemy. God would never promise a land to people who go around bombing the original inhabitants. God is just and full of light, he is not a Zionist god, He is the All-Just Creator of the Earth and Heavens, the King, the Owner, The Lord, The Just, the All Capable, and the Mericful, the God of All Creation.
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Hello:  Noting your question correction regarding the 12 tribes of Israel.   The history of Israel, as recorded in the Tanack, (OT version of the Original Text) indicates that shortly after the invasion of the Assyrian armies, the ten northern Israel tribes were dispersed north to Assyria, and scattered among that nation in assimulation.  The two tribes remaining of the Southern area of Israel, were Judah and Benjamin, along with some of the remnants of several of the northern tribes who fled at the time of the invasion south into Judahs area, notables of that were Levites.  As the survivors were living in the tribal area of Judah, all that lived there became known as Judahites, and that was later shortened to Jews... the majority of Judahites or Jews were later scattered with the additional invasion of the Babylonian conquest, where a strong community grew for the seventy years of captivity, then approximately 20 percent returned to Jerusalem when the Persian king, Cyrus, allowed the Jews to return to rebuild Jerusalem.    The Arab nations that surrounded the area of Israel were not Palestinians, nor were they Phillistines, as the Phillistines inhabited the southern coastal area and were eventually killed or died during their final years in the Philistia area after King Solomons reign.    It was shortly before WWII that England occupied the Israel area, and renamed it Palestinia,  hence the name of all sojourners there became known as Palestinians....which had nothing to do with the previous area of Philistia or Phillistines...Todays present Palestinians are Arab,refugees from the various Arab nations that rejected them from the Arab states of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.   Sincerly
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The history return back to 5000 years ago (the Jewish Time)\nthen Christians growing up in this land and spread on all of the world.\nthen at early Muslim pray on Beit-Al Moghadas (Beite al lahem) then Mohammad ask them to turn to Mecca to pray because Beit al Moghadas is belong to Jewish. then on time of Byzantine there was a war between Muslims and Christians (crusade) then they occupied the land by Sallah Al Din Ayobi. After that Palestine Established and now Jewish wants to comeback to their holy land that god promise them.\n\nThey bought this land from Palestinian and after they sold they find out neither have money and land then they start to fighting.\n Better to ref fer old testaments
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most of the biblical events were centered around the Middle East.  I don't know why it was a biblical hotspot, ask God (lol).  Most likely it was because it was near the "cradle of civilization" where Adam and Eve were created.
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Tel-Aviv isn't the Israeli capital although many embassies are located there due to sensitivity over Jerusalem's status.\n\nTel-Aviv was established in 1909. Jerusalem is the holiest centre of Judaism. King David wanted the temple built there in ancient times. On the Ninth of Av, Jews mourn the loss of the temples when the Babylonians destroyed the temples. In the Passover and Yom Kippur, the services conclude with "Next Year in Jerusalem". Jews would regard Jerusalem as the logical place to rebuild the temples.
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It depends on what you mean by the origins.  There is the religious perspective (based on belief) and the would-be factual perspective (except there's also no actual proof).\n\nAccording to the Jewish and Christian Bibles (some of this is similar in the Koran), Jews began as a people with Abraham, whose son Isaac and grandson Jacob continued the tradition that eventually led to the Jewish people.  Jacob had 12 sons who became the 12 tribes.  Moses was the primary prophet, who led them out of slavery in Egypt to eventually settle the land of Israel.\n\nSome archeologists believe that there is evidence that a number of (possibly 12) different social groups combined to form the Jewish people and that the Biblical record is man-made.\n\nChristianity was founded by followers of a then-prominent Jew about 2000 years ago named Jesus.  There is some scientific evidence of his actually having lived, but it is not definitive; again, it is a belief.  Christians believe that their religion exists to replace and complete Judaism.\n\nIslam grew out of the teachings of the Moslem prophet Mohammed (different spellings exist).  His writings, inspired by God, became the Koran (ditto).  Moslems believe that theirs is the final religion, the culmination of the religions that came before it (Judaism and Christianity).
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Israel is a country in the middle east that was created by an UN declaration in 1947, and which declared its independence in 1948.\n\nThere has never been a country called Palestine- the omans renamed the province of Judah to Palestina after the Bar Kochba revolt to punish the Jews- since they knew from Jewish history that the philistines had been a foe of the Jews.  The are passed through various hands- sometimes retaining the name, at other times being renamed.  During the time of the Ottoman Empire it was acually divided into numerous administrative districts and had no single name.  \n\nAfter the British displaced the Ottomans- the area was known as the Trans-Jordan and ruled by a British mandate.  The area of Transjordan included Syria, Lebonon and Jordan, as well as the are then xcalled British Palestine.\n\nThe UN mandate divided the area into two states- one for the Jews, the other for the native Arabs who had taken the label "Palestinians" around 1920 or so.  Unfortunately- when Israel was declared five Arab armies invaded Israel- and when unsuccesful in destroying Israel occupied the land set aside for the Palestinians and turned them into refugees.\n\nIn the modern era Israel has active Peace Treaties with Egypt and Jordan- and the active conflict in the region is between Israel and the Palestinian Authority that has been given limited control over the Gaza and Westbak, and which will be the government of a future Palestinians state.
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The former was their name before the State of Israel was established. The latter is their name now that Israel exists as a State, rather than a nation.
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Some  person says no palestine until israel was created.Not true before the creation of israel there was a land called palestine In fact israel was carved out of palesstine Since israels' inception she  has confiscated land from everyone of her neighbours Israel should be forced to adhere to the united nations who created her.The 1948 perameters of her borders should be strickly enforced
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Israel is a very small piece of land. God promised this to Abraham, Isaac, and (Jacob later called Israel). God said I will bless them that bless you and I will curse them that curse you. If God was not on Israel's side it would be owned by the Palestinians by now.
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An amusing little question.  It could be said that god demanded the six million as down payment for allowing the State of Israel to be (re)created.  After all, when he first gave the land to the Jews he demanded that they exterminate the native population.
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Here's the deal:\nAccording to the Bible, the Jews were ordered by God to take over that land, which was then called Canaan. The Jews did conquer it but were forcibly removed by the Romans in 70 and 135 AD from the land after their revolts were crushed.\nThe Jews returned to that land in 1948 after Israel was re-established as a nation by the UN, so don't let anyone tell you Israel is a rogue nation. Israel has the right to exist; it came into being legitimately. The Palestinians claim to have ownership of that land, but this is not true.\nThey claim that the Canaanites were Arabs, when they were not. According to the Bible, Noah had three sons, one of whom was Shem, the ancestor of the Jews and Arabs. The Canaanites came from the line of Ham, Noah's other son. So the Canaanites were not Semites, therefore they were not Arabs. The Canaanites are gone and so are their descendants, so there is no one left to rightfully fight the Jews for that land.\nThe main problem is misdirected nationalism. The Palestinians didn't even call themselves Palestinians until AFTER 1948. The Palestinian people are merely a ploy being used by the Muslim nations to regain land that was lost to the Jews. After all, according to Islam, any land that is conquered in the name of Allah can never again come under non-Muslim rule, or a Jihad, or Holy War, must be declared in order to regain that land.\nThere are elements in the media that affect this conflict. The Palestinian media greatly brainwashes the youth of Palestine into believing a warped view of history.\nSo in short, religion has everything to do with this conflict, nothing else really matters. It's Judeo-Christianity vs. Islam.
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Complex problems usually don't have simple answers (like 'they tried to throw the Palestinians out).\n\nFor over 3,000 years, Jews have held the Land of Israel to be their homeland, both as a Holy Land and as a Promised Land. The Land of Israel holds a special place in Jewish religious obligations, encompassing Judaism's most important sites — including the remains of the First and Second Temple, as well as the rites concerning those temples. [2] Starting around 1200 BCE, a series of Jewish kingdoms and states existed intermittently in the region for over a millennium. Recent archeological evidence suggests that the kingdoms of King David and King Solomon may have existed. [3]\n\nUnder Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and (briefly) Sassanian rule, Jewish presence in the province dwindled due to mass expulsions. In particular, the failure of the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Roman Empire resulted in widescale expulsion of Jews. It was during this time that the Romans gave the name Syria Palaestina to the geographic area, in an attempt to erase Jewish ties to the land. The Mishnah and Jerusalem Talmud, two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were composed in the region during this period. The Arabs conquered the land from the Eastern Roman Empire in 638 CE. The area was ruled by various Arab states (interrupted by the rule of the Crusaders) before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517.\n\nThroughout the centuries, the size of the Jewish population in the land fluctuated widely. Circa 1881, in the region approximating present-day Israel, the Jewish population numbered approximately 20–25,000 of a total population of 470,000.[citation needed] Since 1844, in Jerusalem the Jews have constituted the largest of several ethno-religious groups.[citation needed] By 1896, they were an absolute majority of the population\n\n\nThe rise of Nazism in 1933 led to a fifth wave of Aliyah. The Jews in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by 1940. The subsequent Holocaust in Europe led to additional immigration from other parts of Europe. By the end of World War II, the number of Jews in Palestine was approximately 600,000.\n\nIn 1939, the British abandoned the idea of a Jewish national home, and abandoned partition and negotiations in favour of the White Paper of 1939, which limited Jewish immigration and restricted purchase of land by Jews. Its other stated policy was to establish a system under which both Jews and Arabs were to share one government. The plan was never fully implemented because of a combination of resistance from the Jews and Arabs and Britain's pre-occupation with Europe and World War II. However, the White Paper guided British policy until the end of the term of their Mandate. As a result, many Jews fleeing to Palestine to avoid Nazi persecution and the holocaust were intercepted and returned to Europe. Two specific examples of this policy involved the ships Struma and Exodus[4]. These attempts by Jews to circumvent the blockade and flee Europe became known as Aliya Beth.\n\nIn 1947, following increasing levels of violence by militant groups together with unsuccessful efforts to reconcile the Jewish and Arab populations, the British government decided to withdraw from the Palestine Mandate. The UN General Assembly approved the 1947 UN Partition Plan dividing the territory into two states, Jewish and Arab, giving about half the land area to each state. Jerusalem was planned to be an international region administered by the UN to avoid conflict over its status.\n\n\nImmediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the UN General Assembly (on November 29, 1947), the Arab leadership rejected the plan and launched a guerilla war that included attacks on Jewish civilians. The Irgun Tsvai Leumi retaliated with attacks on Arabs, including Arab civilians.\n\nOn May 14, 1948, before the expiry of the British Mandate of Palestine at midnight of May 15, 1948,