when did Isreal became a nation?
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1948 is right, The british gave them the land around 1917 and they became a UN recognized state in 1948.\n\nAs a people it began around 4000 BC with Abraham.
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An Arab country was created in Palestine in 1922, now called Jordan. There was never any interest by the Arab world or the Arabs of Palestine in creating a second Arab country within Palestine. \n\nThe world has tried over and over to create this second Arab state. But the Arabs always refuse it, most recenty at Camp David in 2000 when Arafat was offered everything the claim to want. \n\nThe goal has nothing to do about a 2nd state for Palestine Arabs, and everything to do with destroying the only Jewish state.
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He died in 1940. Israel became an independent state in 1948.\n\nZe'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky (alternatively Zhabotinski)  October 18, 1880 - August 4, 1940)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Jabotinsky
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War must be declared upon a country. Israel does not yet accept the Palestinian state as an independent country.
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To the first ignorant poster:  the United Nations, composed of several nations made Israel a nation.  People really need to learn history.  It might also interest the poster to learn that Israel might not have become a state if it weren't for the hatred shown to them after they tried to rightfully claim their very own homes after the Holocaust.\n\nThe British imposed a severe limit on immigration right after the war.  Many nations would not allow the Jews who were fortunate enough to survive to even reside in their very own countries!  There was no choice other than to make Israel a state.\n\nBefore pointing a finger at the Jews, look at the situation surrounding the issue.
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Well, Israel doesn't meet many theoretical criteria for being a state:\n- no actual natives to the land\n- built on occupied land\n- not recognized by its neighbours or a relevant majority of the international community (yes the world powers acknowledge Israel but what about other countries?)\n- furthers borders through invasion\n- the declaration of idependence violates Palestine's mandate (at that time).
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The borders of the West Bank were defined by the 1948 Arab-Israeli War armistice lines after the dissolution of the British mandate of Palestine, when it was captured and annexed by Jordan. From 1948 until 1967 the area was under Jordanian rule, though Jordan did not give up its claim to the area until 1988. The area was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, although with the exception of East Jerusalem, it was not annexed. Prior to 1948 the area was part of the British Mandate created after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Located west and south-west of the Jordan River in the eastern part of the Palestine region in the Middle East, it is bordered by Israel to the west, north, and south, and by Jordan to the east. 40% of the area (including most of the population) is under the limited civilian jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, while Israel maintains overall control (including over Israeli settlements, rural areas, and border regions).
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Israel DOES belong to the Jews!
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The Republic came into being on 1 April 1949, but there was independence from the UK before it became a republic) which is one reason it remained neutral during WW2. Its move to the republic via independence is quite complicated and probably its best to see the Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland for the fill story.
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My best guess would be around the time of the Oslo Accords.\n\nDetails from the following link...\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_accords
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On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181), a plan to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict by partitioning the territory into separate Jewish and Arab states, with the Greater Jerusalem area (encompassing Bethlehem) coming under international control. Jewish leaders (including the Jewish Agency), accepted the plan, while Palestinian Arab leaders rejected it. Neighboring Arab states also rejected the partition plan. As armed skirmishes between Arab and Jewish paramilitary forces in Palestine continued, the British mandate ended on May 15, 1948, the establishment of the State of Israel having been proclaimed the day before (see Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel). The neighboring Arab states immediately attacked Israel following its declaration of independence, and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War ensued. Consequently, the partition plan was never implemented.
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I'm afraid "Buddy" is completely wrong on this.\n\nThe only nation to officially and materially assist the Jewish refugees and insurgents to create the state of Isreal was the Soviet Union. Not only did Stalin send tons of captured Nazi weapons to the Jewish formed army (the first Isreali fighter pilots flew Messerschmitts!), but the Soviet Union was the first nation to recognize the state of Isreal as a legitimate country.\n\nThe United States was attempting to support Britain, which was discouraging the creation of Isreal. Britain and France had far too much to lose with all of their mandates / colonies in the Middle East. When the UN voted on allowing Isreal into the UN, I believe US and UK both abstained, but on that I can't be certain.\n\nAfter all the Soviet Union had done for the state of Isreal Stalin was undertandably upset when the Isrealis jumped ship and sucked up to the US instead. This had a direct effect on the creation of Stalin's delusional "Jewish Doctor's Plot" and other new anti-semitic acts of persecution.
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Israel has its modern history in becoming a state in 1948, the same year the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.  Ever since that time, people have been trying to eradicate the country and the people, much like Hitler's efforts during WW II.  Historically, it is a great shame for the human race that very few people cared a whit about the Jews, barring Poland and Russia on some occasions, until the effects of the holocaust were seen.  Today some even maintain it didn't happen.  Even Christians, so-called, have a bad record at mistreating the Jews.  Maybe we ought to blame that on Augustine, but following things blindly is one's own responsibility.  \nIsrael's early history goes back to the time of Abraham, some 2000 years before the birth of you-know-who. Abraham received the covenant for Israel from God. Israel was named after Jacob, son of Isaac.\nMoses came along around 500 years later and took them out of Egypt, but not from Ramses as the movie says, through 40 years in the desert and up to the Promised Land, although Moses himself was not allowed to go into it.  God left that to Joshua.  \nThe combined kingdom of Israel had three kings.  Its borders were the greatest under Solomon (970-931 BC), son of David (1010-970 BC), the Goliath slayer of fame. Oddly enough, the borders even under Solomon never seem to be as large as what God had promised them.\nAfter Solomon, Israel was split into north and south, the north being called Israel, because it had the majority of the tribes, or Samaria.  Samaria fell in 722 BC because it thought that God wasn't important any more.\nThe southern kingdom, aka, Judah, named by its largest tribe (Benjamin being much smaller) struggled until 586 BC where the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and tore down the temple.  They thought they could get along without God also. Isaiah talks about that.\nJeremiah talks about what happened when the Babylonians came.  Daniel talks about the time in Babylon and what God will do in the end of times.  It's all very exciting, unless, of course you don't believe in God, in which case Israel really doesn't have any rights to the land at all.  Fortunately, God believes in them and, as you might guess, doesn't break covenants. The temple was rebuilt when they returned from Babylon, but many stayed and, over the centuries, moved elsewhere.\nIsrael was almost most effectively destroyed due to the culture wars after Alexander the Great. The people were encouraged to try new things and give up their old ways and embrace new learning and the Hellenistic way of life.  It reminds one a lot of today.  Judas Maccabeus was a big hero around 161 BC.  The temple was desecrated and Hanukah was born, so to speak.  It's a great story and you should read it in detail to understand God.  After all, without Hanukah, we wouldn't have Christmas, but then you-know-who is out of fashion, I guess.\nYou-know-who predicted the second temple being torn down by the Romans and so it was in 70 AD.  AD means "anno domini" which means "in the year of our Lord."  The Romans in their hatred of the Jews, renamed the land Palestine, which comes from Philistine, which is kind of funny because the Philistines didn't live there ever. That land should always be called Israel because that's what God wanted it to be.\nSome 600 years later the Dome of the Rock was built in Jerusalem.  You can read about the Crusades and the Mamluks elsewhere. The Ottoman Turks controlled the area from the early 1500's until WW I, after which the British got control and didn't know what to do with it.  They gave it back in 1948, mostly because the Jews were a thorn in their side. It was a good move, except to Islam, whose ancestor is also Abraham. The conflict between Ishmael, later to find fame in a Melville novel, and and Isaac as well as Esau and Jacob created the whole thing.  Isn't that amazing?You have to wonder if the Bible has any clues t
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First of all, The phony satellite nation calling itself "Israel" has nothing to do with the Biblical people called Israel. Yes! You lazy and worthless Christians who will not study to show thy self approved, Israel is a people, not a nation. The "Jew" is not the Seed of Jacob, but of Esau.\n Well in 1948, the British went in and killed the palestinians and renamed Palistine "Israel" then the British (suffering from a delusion called "British Zionism") and the American Zionists transported thousands of..I call them worthless trailer trash from all parts of the world...you call them what you want..to "Israel" at tax-payer's expense! and they remain today, the Largest Welfare state in the World.\n That is all I owe you.\nThe Scriptures are not for the Swine or the Dogs, but read Rev.2:9 if you are so inclined.\n No apologies to anyone!
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dont you mean Palestine?  If ur talking about Palestine, I can help you out.  According to the United Nations, Isreal does not exist.
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Zionism is a political movement and ideology that supports a homeland for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated over 3200 years ago and where Jewish kingdoms and self-governing states existed at various times in history. While Zionism is based in part upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern movement was originally secular, beginning largely as a response to rampant antisemitism in Europe and the Muslim World during the 19th Century . After a number of advances and setbacks, and after the Holocaust had destroyed Jewish society in Europe, the Zionist movement culminated in the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
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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.