How Did the Jews End Up in Israel Again

Did Jews accept Israel away from Palestinians?

QUESTION:

The Palestinians were in Israel outset, then it was flooded with European Jews from the Holocaust.  I have sympathy for someone fleeing the Holocaust, but they shouldn't be able to just take over someone else'southward land, should they?

ANSWER:

The statement and question posed above may be something you hear from those who believe the Jews cosmos of the Country of Israel constituted an act of colonialism – an act of taking political command over another country, occupying it with settlers, displacing its indigenous people, and exploiting it economically.

Consider the historic inaccuracies in the argument and question above:

• It is inaccurate to say Arab Palestinians lived in that location first.
• Jews take lived on the country of Israel continuously for well-nigh 4,000 years.
• The land of Israel is the birthplace of the Jewish people.  Approximately 4,000 years agone, Abraham moved to the land of Israel where he lived with his family, raised his children and purchased state to bury his wife and himself.
• Subsequently Abraham came Isaac and Jacob.  Jacob, who was named State of israel past God, had twelve sons whose families became the 12 Tribes of Israel.
• Approximately iii,000 years ago, the Jews established a monarchy in the land that includes Israel, Gaza, the West Bank (Judaea and Samaria), the Golan Heights, parts of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.  (See the map beneath)

The map above shows the lands occupied past
the 12 Tribes at the fourth dimension of the unification past King Saul.

• King Saul united the 12 Tribes as a Jewish nation.
• Nether Rex David (who ruled start from Hebron – today role of the W Bank), Jerusalem was established as the capital letter of the Jewish nation.  Male monarch David purchased Mountain Moriah for 50 shekels of silver.
• Rex Solomon congenital the holy Temple in Jerusalem, known as the Get-go Temple.
• The Babylonians conquered Israel about 2600 years ago (586 BCE) and destroyed the First Temple.  Most of the Jewish population was exiled to Babylon, but some Jews remained.
• Most 150 years after (539 BCE), the Persians conquered Babylon and permitted the Jews in exile to return to State of israel and authorized the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem.
• 200 years later Alexander the Not bad and Greeks conquered the Persians and the Jews continued to live in Jerusalem and Israel under Greek rule.
• The Romans occupied Jerusalem and Israel in the starting time century BCE.  The Jews revolted against Roman Rule near 130 years afterwards during what became known as the Outset Jewish Defection.  In response, the Romans destroyed the 2d Temple (seventy CE).  Many Jews were slaughtered by the Romans and most left the country, only some Jews remained.  The Romans renamed Judea "Palaestina" in an endeavour to minimize Jewish identification with the state.  It was from that point forwards land became known equally Palestine.
• It was non until 622 CE that the Muslim organized religion was established by Mohammed in Mecca in what is today Kingdom of saudi arabia.
• Caliph Umar was a contemporary of Mohammed and began conquering not-Arabian lands, including Palestine, around 636 CE.  Jews were permitted to reenter Jerusalem and settled around the Western Wall. However, over the next 400+ years, Jews suffered under Caliphate rule.
• Christian Crusaders conquered Palestine in 1099, slaughtering both Jews and Muslims.
• After 200 years nether Christian dominion where not-Christians, including Jews and Muslims suffered, the Mamluks began dominion of the area.  During the Mamluk era at that place was a decline of towns and commerce and of Jewish communities.
• In 1517 the Ottomans took over control of Palestine and there was a further refuse of the state, but an increasing Jewish population.
• During World War I, in 1917, the British took over command of Palestine and the British Mandate for Palestine (discussed further below) was established in 1922.
• Maps from the 19^thursday and early on 20^th century of "Palestine" demonstrate Palestine was seen historically connected to Jews.  ThisVIDEO shows various maps through fourth dimension recognizing that the term Palestine applies to the Jewish nature of Palestine from well before the Ottoman Empire.

From the timeline above, it is clear that Jews preceded both Arabs and Muslims in Palestine by 2600 years if measured from the time of Abraham or past at least 1600 years if measured from the establishment of Kingdom of State of israel.

• It is inaccurate to say Jews are interlopers into the Middle East and that they only came to the land later on the Holocaust. While Jews were dispersed from the Middle East at diverse times, Jews have lived continuously in the Land of Israel, including through Babylonian, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, Muslim and Crusader rule.
• Big Jewish populations were established in Jerusalem and Tiberias by the ninth century BCE and in other cities throughout Palestine by the eleventh century.
• Crusaders massacred Jews in the 12^th century and the Jewish population rebounded over the side by side ii centuries.
• By the fourteenth century when Israel savage under Muslim rule, at that place were Jewish communities in at least thirty cities, including Haifa, Hebron, Gaza, Jerusalem and Safed.
• At the time of the Ottoman conquest in the early sixteenth century, 200 years afterwards, Jews lived in Jerusalem, Nablus, Hebron, Safed and in many Galilean villages.
• Jews in the Diaspora began to return to Israel in 1770 from Eastern Europe.  Many Jews, also, left Eastern Europe in the late 18th and early on 19th centuries in order to pray and die in the four sacred cities of the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias and Hebron.
• According to a British census in 1864, Jews constituted a majority of the population of Jerusalem.  In 1875, an Ottoman census of Jerusalem confirmed the Jewish majority in Jerusalem and another in 1905 showed Jews represented 2-thirds of the Jerusalem population.

• Over 800,000 Jews were forced to leave Arab and Muslim countries between 1948 and 1972 and many had their holding confiscated.  Approximately 600,000 of those Jews emigrated to State of israel and Israel received no compensation for their resettlement.
• Immediately after Earth War Ii, nether the British Mandate, Jewish refugees from the Holocaust were limited to 18,000 per year.  Thus, afterward the terminate of the war and prior to the institution of the State of State of israel, very few Holocaust survivors were able to enter State of israel.
• Today there are approximately 135,000 Ethiopian Jews living in State of israel, with near 86,000 of those Jews emigrating to Israel.  None would be considered Holocaust survivors.
• A small-scale percentage of the Israeli population both at the fourth dimension of the establishment of Israel and currently are Holocaust survivors.
• It is inaccurate to say the State of israel only came into existence because of the Holocaust.
• The Beginning Zionist Congress, convened in 1897, chosen for the cosmos of a Jewish Land in the land of Israel secured past international law.
• On Nov 2, 1917, the British Foreign Office issued a statement declaring the British Government's position favoring the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.  Written by Lord Balfour, the document became known equally the Balfour Annunciation.
• A contempo commodity by Ayman Ashour in Egyptian Streets, Egyptian Support for Balfour Proclamation, outlines historic Egyptian support for the Balfour declaration.
• The map below reflects the geographic makeup of the land that would make up the Jewish Homeland under the Balfour Declaration.

• In April 1920, the mail-World War I Centrolineal Supreme Quango adamant the mandates for the administration of the three undefined Ottoman Territories in the Middle Eastward – Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia.  For Palestine, the assistants was entrusted to the British government with the accuse of implementing the Balfour Annunciation and establishing a national home for the Jewish people.
• In 1922, the League of Nations formally gave Slap-up Britain the responsibleness of the Mandate for Palestine and for implementation of the Balfour Declaration.  At the time of the formal creation of the Mandate, the territory for the Jewish Homeland was reduced past 77% from the original Mandate.  (Encounter map beneath)

• In 1936, the British government established a Imperial Committee, known as The Peel Commission, to investigate the unrest between Arabs and Jews in Palestine.  A report was issued in 1937 that recommended a division of the land between Arabs and Jews with an international zone running from Jerusalem to Jaffa to be continued as a British Mandate (See Map below).  The Report, after being accustomed by the British Government, was rejected by the Arabs.  In 1938, the British Regime rejected the plan as unimplementable.

• When the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945, Commodity lxxx of the Charter maintained the rights to a Jewish homeland under the Mandate.
• In 1947, the United Nations General Associates adopted a resolution recommending the partition of Palestine into to ii states, i Jewish and one Arab with Jerusalem to be governed by an international regime.  (See map beneath)

• While the Un partition plan reduced the Jewish Homeland fifty-fifty further, it was accepted past the Jewish side, but not past the Arabs.  The Arabs immediately launched a war of annihilation against the Jewish state.
• Every bit the General Assembly Resolution for the Partition of Palestine was never accepted by both parties, it never became bounden nether international law.
• The program for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine was created long before the starting time of the Holocaust.
• It is inaccurate to say the British Mandate of Palestine did not consider Jews to exist Palestinians.
• Jewish organizations acquiring country for the Jewish people included the Palestinian Jewish Colonization Association and the Palestinian Land Development Company.
• During the British Mandate, the Jerusalem Postal service was chosen the Palestine Post.  The name was not changed until 1950.
• The flag of Palestine under the Mandate had a Star of David, the currency had Hebrew on it and Jews were identified equally Palestinians.

• Even the Arabs considered the Jews to be Palestinians.  See, for example, Resolution 16 of the Arab League adopted every bit office of their boycott of the Jews it began in 1945:

"Products of Palestinian Jews are to be considered undesirable in Arab countries. They should be prohibited and refused as long as their production in Palestine might lead to the realization of Zionist political aims."

• Information technology is inaccurate to say the Jews just took over or stole Arab state. In add-on to land endemic past Jews already living in Palestine, at that place were substantial land purchases made by the Jewish National Fund, the Palestine State Development Company and the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association between the late 1880s and 1930s.  Most of the land purchases were made in the Jezreel Valley, Jordan Valley and Galilee where the Arab population was sparse, and soil was poor.  At the time of the UN partition vote in 1947 most of the land not already owned by Jews was public land, not privately-owned land.  Very lilliputian of the land was privately owned by Arabs.  Meet the chart below which outlines land purchases from 1880 until 1935 by the Palestine Land Development Visitor and the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association.  Purchases past the JNF also occurred betwixt 1936 and 1947.
• Jewish Country Purchases 1880 –1935 in Dunams [i]

Organization	Total Land Acquired	Authorities Concessions	From Private Owners	Large Tracts
Palestinian Jewish Colonization Assoc.	469,407	39,520	429,887	293,545
Palestinian Country Development Co.	579,492	66,513	512,979	455,169
Jewish Nat'l Fund	836,396
Until 1930		270,084	239,170	90%
1931-1947		566,312		50%
Private Jews	432,100		432,100	l%
Total	2,317,392

• To the extent small Arab landholders in Palestine "lost" their state to Jews, it was the result of wealthy Arab families in Middle Eastern cities similar Beirut and Damascus acquiring large tracts of land in Palestine and subsequently selling lands to Jews.
• The early Zionist pioneers saw the Arab population as small-scale, apolitical, and without a nationalist element and they therefore believed that in that location would exist no friction between the 2 communities. They also thought development of the land would benefit both peoples and they would thus secure Arab support and cooperation. Indeed, many Arabs attracted by new employment opportunities, higher wages and amend living atmospheric condition migrated to Palestine from other countries in the wake of economic growth stimulated by Jewish immigration.
• It is inaccurate to say Palestine defines a nationality.  Palestine just describes a geographic expanse.
• The people referred to today as Palestinians are not ethnic to the land.  Jews, on the other manus can claim they are indigenous.
• In 1937, a local Arab leader stated:  "At that place is no such state every bit Palestine.  'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. . . . Our state was for centuries part of Syrian arab republic.  'Palestine' is conflicting to u.s.a..  It is the Zionists who introduced it."
• The term Palestinian equally used to refer to Arabs was not used until 1964 when the Russian KGB helped Arab republic of egypt'south President, Abdul Nasser, create the Palestine Liberation Organization.  "Palestinian" was part of disinformation created past the Russians.
• The Quran itself recognizes the right of Israelites to the Holy State – a Kuwaiti writer makes the case on an Arab television prove:

Kuwati Author Asserts Israel Is a Legitimate State, non an occupier and that there is no Palestine

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SUMMARY

• The statement and question raised are historically inaccurate.
• Palestine defines a geographic region, not a nationality.
• "Palestinians" were non there showtime – Jews have continuously been on the land for over 3 chiliad years.
• There was an influx of European Jews starting in the 1770's.  It did non start with the Holocaust.
• There are more Palestinian, Arab and North African Jews than the number of Jews arriving from DP camps after the Holocaust.
• Equally Jews developed the lands, more Arabs moved into Palestine.
• There was never a Palestinian State nor an Arab Palestinian people.  The term "Palestinian" was used to describe all people living in Palestine, Jews, equally well every bit Arabs.
• Palestine ("Palaestina") was the name given to the area when the Romans conquered the area.
• Jews didn't just take over the land – they purchased it, they developed it, they grew the land.
• Britain, post-Earth War I allies, the League of Nations and the United Nations all intended that a Jewish homeland would exist established in the British Mandate known as Palestine.
• The term Palestinian as used today was an invented term that was not used until the 1960'southward and was invented by Russia.

Mark Twain famously noted
"The Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Persians rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, and so faded to dream-stuff and faded away; the Greeks and Romans followed and made a vast noise, and they were gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time but it burned out . . .  . The Jew saw them all, survived them all. . . ." September 1897 (Quoted in The National Jewish Post & Observer, June vi, 1984)

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[1] A dunam is equal to slightly more than than iv acres.

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