Why on Earth were the Jews given the Muslim holy land as a country after World War II?
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They werent given the "Muslim holy land."  The Muslims had just stollen it.  Look at the Temple Mount.... its the location of the ancient Jewish temple.  It was Jewish land.  It was merely given back to the Jewish people.  I wouldnt give the Pali's a single strip of land.
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Th whole world is sensitive about the holocoust not just Israel. The horrific crimes commited against the Jews by the natzi party was evil and it saddens all..\n\n        A little lesson in history:\n\nIsrael became a nation about 1300 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam. The people of modern day Israel share the same language and culture shaped by the Jewish heritage and religion passed through generations starting with the founding father Abraham. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.\n\nAfter the Romans conquered Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago, Jewish people were expelled and dispersed to the Diaspora, and the Land of Israel was ruled by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire, and by the British Empire.\n\nJews come from Judea, not Palestinians. There is no language known as Palestinian, or any Palestinian culture distinct from that of all the Arabs in the area. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians...\n\n For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem (1948-1967), they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit. \n\nIn the Jewish Bible, Jerusalem is mentioned over 669 times and Zion (which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel) 154 times, or 823 times. The Christian Bible mentions Jerusalem 154 times and Zion 7 times. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. Jerusalem is also not mentioned in the Palestinian Covenant. \n\nKing David established the city of Jerusalem as the capital of the whole Land of Israel. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. \n\n   The Arab nations initiated four wars against Israel:\n\n1948 War of Independence \n1956 Sinai War \n1967 Six Day War \n1973 Yom Kippur War \nIsrael defended itself each time and won. After each war Israeli army withdrew from most of the areas it captured (see maps). (see Camp-David Accords). This is unprecedented in World history and shows Israel's willingness to reach peace even at the risk of fighting for its very existence each time anew.\n\n The Palestinians have made no effort for peace, Still they terrorize with their suicide bombers. They were give more land and it still isnt enough..I have come to the conclusion that they just enjoy violence and they in no way want peace..I look upon the actions of the palestinians with saddness because I think they have the same intentions as Adolph Hilter..
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There was  no connection of islam  with hitler. what hitler did was his personal  act.\n\n Muslims were the best in treating jews but i guess world history never highlight this thing. When Hazrat Omer(islamic Caliph) came to  Israel in 623 AD and conquerd it and took it back from Chriatain who had thrown jews out of that place after Jesus incidence he called jews  back to the place. and In 1150 AD or 1050 AD when Sultan Salahuddin Ayyubi conquered that place he didn't throw them out but allowed to live there according to their wish.but that  were christains who had expelled jews twice from Isreal.this is what i know about this all.
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Don't get me started on this subject. I believe and some historians agree that the only true originals of that area of the world is the Palestinians every Jew is not genetically connect to the original people only religously.\nNotice most of the Jews that came back to "take back their land" came there from European countries. I have no problems with Jews at all but the facts are most Jews of wealth and knowledge were taken away by the Romans in the \ndays of Roman rule  inter-bred wth  the local people and convert some to Judaism.This is over 2000 years!\n The ones that stayed were invaded by others and eventually became Islamic and called themselves Palestinian.\nThe only reason the major countries of the world support Israel is because the Jews control the banking industry of the world.They got the money! I told you not to get me started.
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Britain ruled it since WWI when they won it from Turkey, which was then the Ottoman Empire (i.e. Lawrence of Arabia). Actually Israel never existed in modern times prior to 1947. The area the British held under an imperial system was loosely called Trans-Jordan or Palestine and included present day Israel, Jordan and Iraq. \n\nThe Ottoman Turks dominated it from the locals and Egyptians and Arabs who fought over it with the Crusaders. The Crusaders fought various Islamic powers out of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad for control. The Islamic powers took it from the Byzantine Empire who inherited from the Roman Empire. Prior to that there was finally the most recent Jewish state called Israel.
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There is no ethical reason for Israel to have their own state in the Middle East. Why should they have been allowed to just come in and take land away from the Palestinian people? If every race of people who have lost land in historical wars were allowed to just come back, then California does belong to Mexico; the American Indians own The U.S.; Northern France belongs to England; Greece owns Cyprus, southern Italy, and Bosnia... The difference with this situation is there was no war for land to be won. The Zionists just came in, with some minor support from Europe, and took the land. If the Ottoman Empire had chosen to be against Germany in World War I, Palestine would never have come under British control, and the Zionists could have never pressured Parliament to encourage a Jewish migration. Once the Holocaust happened during World War II, a complete and udder disgrace for all humankind, the Zionists had the upper hand, and with Europe domination in the Middle East, they had no problem setting up Israel as a State. Things could have been alright, but some of Israel's leaders wanted to create an Israeli State that controlled lands owned by Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and of course, Palestine. If they had just stayed within their borders, everything would be a lot less violent. Bottom line is, the land belonged to Palestine before Europe gave it to the Israelis.
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Your question is not clear in its meaning. If you are asking when will the people living next to Israel have their own state, my answer is as follows.\n\nNations controlling the lands now referred to as the Middle East, after the 1st & 2nd World Wars divided lands and placed them under monarchs and autocrats. Following the 2nd World War the requests for restoration of a Jewish state where all Jews would be allowed entry was accepted, mainly in answer to the Holocaust and to many seeking refuge being denied entry into any other nations. The newly formed United Nations formed a plan to provide both a Jewish & a Palestinian state. When implemented, the Jews accepted the plan and the palestinians (mainly natives of Jordan) rejected the plan as did all the arab nations in the region. They immediately declared war upon Israel and pledged her eventual destruction.\n\nWhen the arab nations and their peoples accept Israel's right to exist, securely and in peace, and renounce terrorism as a political means, then they will have their own state.
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Because the Jews in Israel love land way more than peace. It has nothing to do with Religion-it's all about greed, war and intolerance.
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The UN said it was theirs.  If the Palestinians had chosen peace in 1948, they would have a country too.  But they chose to fight, got whipped, and lost whatever rights they had to Israel by right of conquest by a defender.  Suck it up and go live in Jordan.  Or Lebanon.  Or Syria.  Or Egypt.  \n\nIf they will have you.  Otherwise, tough ****
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The Nazis wanted the Jews out of Europe. Three basic reasons.\n I) they were not Christians and Hitler was a good Christian. \n2) they were not Germans and Hitler wanted a Germany for the Germans (master race and all that stuff)\n3) The idea of deportation and the creation of a Jewish homeland fell through. (Hitler and the Nazis pressured England and other countries to create a place for a Jewish State. Those negotiations fell apart at the start of the second world war. Then the need for ships to transport them became an impossible requirement to match. The process of gathering them up and sending them somewhere was already in place and proceeding. Hitler was shipping them East to Poland and the Sudeten Lands, but there really was no place to put them. So they were   "resettled" in the death camps. It was not the first option, it was the final solution.\n\nI would suggest that you find a copy of "Eichman in Israel" by Hanna Arendt. It is an excellent read.
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The answer is partly religious and partly economic.\n\nThe Jews are historically one of the tribes of Israel and the popular belief amongst Christians is that it was the Jews who decided that Jesus (who was himself a Jew) should be put to death by crucifixion. This lead to centuries of dislike of jews by European christians.\n\nAlso from biblical times onwards Jews became prolific traders and merchants throughout Europe and the new worlds, displaying a talent for business, but a reputation for being mean and penny pinching. This is a consequence of any immigrant population becoming succesful in front of the indigineous people. It breeds jealousy.\n\nTherefore as the years rolled on, and jews became more distributed around the world, but simultaenously very succesful in business and politics resentment also built up and they became figures of hate and ridicule in most european countries.\n\nClearly that came very much to a head follwoing the German surrender in the first world war, where many Germans believed that they had been betrayed by Jewish German industrialists, when the German Army hadnt actually been defeated.\n\nThis led to the rise of the Nazi's and the systematic murder of 6 million german jews. Not as often reported but just as horrific was a similar campaign against Jews in Communist Russia. \n\nAfter WW2 the world community decided to give the Jews a homeland, back where they originally came from in a British adminstered area of North Africa called Palestine.\n\nSome of the other Arab tribes, who have now defined themselves as Palestinians took exception to this and have waged a 40 year war against the jews (Israelis). They have been helped in this by just about every other Arab country, but the Israelis have prevailed.\n\nThe sad thing is that Jews and Arabs both have a right to occupy that land as hiostorically thats where they both originated from.
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If Jews accept to live under Palestinian law, just like they lived under Ottoman law and were protected and were never hurt as they were hurt under Christian European law, or later on under Nazi Germany, then the Zionist Jews will be happier people.\n\nIsrael is nothing more than the product of a Radical Jewish ideology that called for the establishment of Jewishistan or Zionistan on the land of Palestine that was part of the ottoman empire just like Egypt was, and Syria was. Much like how Iowa is part of the US right now. There was never an independent state called Iowa, but nevertheless, it has always been part of the United States of America. Just like Palestine has always been a part of Arab territories.\n\nIsrael will not continue by the will of God simply because it is all wrong. If Virginia was occupied by the Jews in 1948 (After claiming that Virginia was thier God-Promised land!) with the assitance of the French, and a Jewish state was declared there, all Americans and freedom lovers in the world will come to its rescue. Virginia would maintain the name of OCCUPIED VIRGINIA and the American's wouldn't call it Jewishistan or Israel.\n\nThat is why Palestine is defending itself from Jewish fundamentalist terrorists who know nothing about justice or fairness.\n\nA thief is a thief.\n\nAll of those settlements will be torn down one day, God willing, and those who claim that the Just Lord has chosen them, will see things otherwise.\n\nThe Creator of the Earths and Heavens is a JUST LORD. The Lord would never "chose" people and "promise" them a land that is not theirs. The Lord would never have his "Chosen" people kill innocent and defensless Palestinian men, women and children. The Lord only grades us according to our deeds, not our BLOODLINES!\n\nOnly arrogant FOOLS! would make themselves believe a LIE that they are CHOSEN!\n\nWe are judged only by our DEEDS. The Zionist Jews have methodologically slaughtered hundreds of thousand of Palestinians in the past 55 years.\n\nThere are the Lord's Cursed people.
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i support zionism.  everybody deserves a home, but where can the jewish people go?  now they have Isreal, so they should keep it.  but that land was arab land, taken from other people.  who has the right to decide who gets what land? well, mabey superpowers :).  i am truely happy for the jewish people that they finally got a place to call home after thousands of years of hardship and opression.  i hope Isreal lives a long and prosperous life as on of the only civilized countries in the Middle East region.
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EXCELLENT POINT!!!\n\nJewish tribes used to inhabit the whole of Saudi Arabia until the ethnic cleansing of the Islamists. Clearly Jews have a claim to the land they were wrongfully stripped and murdered of.\n\nAh yes, but the savage Islamists still scream tha JewJewJewJewrusalem is theirs. Isnt it amazing.
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...But for Jews living in Arab lands, the problems were just beginning. Across North Africa and the Middle East, more than a million Jews, already living as second-class citizens in hostile nations, were driven into exile after 1948, their property confiscated, their futures uncertain... \n\nGood topic. Not many people are aware of the Jewish refugees from Arab lands. Some sites to get you started:\n\nhttp://www.jimena.org/\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/arabjewtoc.html\nhttp://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_independence_refugees_jews_why.php\nhttp://www.americansephardifederation.org/sub/sources/jewish_refugees.asp\nhttp://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/maps/refs.html
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because ISRAEL is the homeland of all jews, and has been jewish land since before arab muslim occupiers came to it. It has been jewish land since before islam ever even exsisted.... Now lets end revisionist history, there was never a country, state, or nation called "palestine" EVER! There is no language, history, culture or people called palestinian. so-called palestinians ARE arabs.. no different in anyway. ARABS were not called "palestinian" until 1963 when egyptian born arafat began to call them that. arabs have 22 nations. jews just one. This is a religious war by islam against the jews of israel. from 48-67 arabs occupied gaza, west bank and 1/2 of jeruslam but a "palestinian" state was never made, even more proof that this has nothing to do with so-called palestinians. There has never been a christian/palestinian sucide bomber.. not one more proof this is a religious war.\nIsrael is just one of 28+ nations under attack by islam currently.
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cause UK and the UN has gave themselves the right to give away to the jews something they dont own,despite the will of the ppl who own it.\nand then the jews wanted also to drive the real owners of the place out!!!\nThats why war btw Muslims & israeli will continue till the jews get out of this land that dont belong to them,or at least accept to live in peace under the control of the palastinians who r the real owners of the land.