Who owned the land Israel was on before it became Israel?
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It has changed occupants many times over the centuries and has been part of many empires and kingdoms. That's what makes the claims of all the regions' factions about ownership so ridiculous.
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Israel DOES belong to the Jews!
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Isreal use to be Palestine. It was given back to the Jewish people after WWII because the Allies felt they should do something for them since so many were killed by Germany.
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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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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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Israel :D\n\nWhat about you?
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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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Palestine and Israeli \nWhy? Not only Israeli land but also Palestinian land is also called a Holyland
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israel and israel lite?
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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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The history of the Jewish people begins with Abraham, and the story of Abraham begins when G-d tells him to leave his homeland, promising Abraham and his descendants a new home in the land of Canaan. \n\nTHIS IS THE LAND NOW KNOWN AS ISREAL NAMED AFTER ABRAHAM's GRANDSON, whose descendants are the Jewish people. \n\nThe land is often referred to as the Promised Land because of G-d's repeated promise to give the land to the descendants of Abraham. \n\nThe land is described repeatedly in the Torah.(In its broadest sense, Torah is the entire body of Jewish teachings.) \n\nTODAY,approximately five million Jews, more than a third of the world's Jewish population, live in the land of Israel. Jews make up more than 80% of the population of the land, and Jews are in political control of the land. \n\nThere are approximately 13-14 million Jews in the world. For details and links to population resources, see the Jewish Population page
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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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The people began with Abraham. Then Isaac, then Jacob who had 12 children who then became the 12 tribes. They were in bondage for 700 year until God, through Moses, delivered them. After wandering in the wilderness due to unebelief, they came in to the land that God promised to them. King David captured the city that later became Jerusalem.\nAncient Israel ended when Babylon came and conquored it and brought all of the Israelites to their city.\nThat's not the end of the story, of course. But that is the answer to your question specifically.
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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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Plenty of things about Israel are amazing. One amazing thing is the way over only about 150 years, the Jews brought the land back to life.
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It belongs to Israel, as it should.\nWhen Jerusalem was in Arab hands, no non-Muslims had access to the holy sites, and the Western Wall was turned into a dump site and covered by garbage.\nSince Jerusalem has been in Israeli hands, EVERYBODY's holy sites have been refurbished, and EVERYONE has access to them, as they should!
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Palestinan and Israel conflict.  Jews moved on their land during WW11.  Divided over who gets Jeruselem and holy areas.  Just an idea.