Why did the British give Israel to the Jews?

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Annt HuZan

The UN Partition which created the state of Israel also proposed an Arab state from the other half of the area. The Jews accepted, the League of Arab Nations refused -- not the people living there, mind you, but the governments of the existing Arab Nations.

That was actually to be the second Arab nation from the former Ottoman territory that the UK named the Mandate of Palestine. The first, with 7/8ths of the territory, was Jordan.

Yes, you've read that correctly, TWO Arab nations from the territory. With 1/16th to be Jewish.

Why is that too much to ask for?
There was NO Palestinian identity before WW1. There were Arabs and Jews living throughout the region.

And the invasion was of Israel, the day after it was declared a state, by the armies of five Arab countries.

Had it been any country other than Israel, you might have gotten your facts a wee bit more accurate.

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jas

The same reason it gave the transJordan to the Hashemites.

EU Citizen

Paperback what Palestinians jews? You mean the immigrants from Europe gooing back to just 1882? Those "Palestinian" jews?

In reality the real Palestinian jews are the small jewish minority who pre date the ashekanazies . Pre 1882 that is.

BTW Yes i can see Israel on a map...Get your eye sight checked.

"Paperback" Yes i mentioned the Palestinian jews. the ones who pre date the ashekanazies I was however talking about the ashekanazies and i did give mention to the small palestinian jew population who have been living there before the Ashekanazies decided to rock on in.

Nikki

They didn't. All they agreed to was the establishment of a small jewish state within Palestine. On the day their mandate ended the jewish Agency declared itself the government of all of Palestine. The U.N. recognized their newly-formed government but only under terms of partition.

mark

101 of anything will tel you" to divide the Arab world forever."
And they used the poor Jews to do it.

kiwidood3

To establish a foothold in the middle east. (Oil and capitalist corporations).

Zeno

Bribery from the Baron James Rothschild. Plus,Bernard baruch bailed out Churchill when the stock market crash ruined him; after that Churchill became a rabid zionist. Even when the Haganah murdered one his closest friends,Lord Moyne,in Egypt in 1944. Money,plain and simple.

HopelessZ00

The British officially left because the Israelis blew up the King David Hotel as well as other assassinations. Basically the British couldn't take it anymore. Peace!

The King David Hotel bombing (July 22, 1946) was a bomb attack against the British Mandate government of Palestine and its armed forces by members of the Irgun, a militant Zionist organization, which was led at the time by Menachem Begin, a future Prime Minister of Israel.

Members of the Irgun, commanded by Yosef Avni and Yisrael Levi [1] and dressed as Arabs and as the Hotel's distinctive Sudanese waiters, planted a bomb in the basement of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, part of which was being used as the base for the Mandate Secretariat, the British military headquarters and a branch of the police Criminal Investigation Division. 91 people were killed, most of them staff of the secretariat and the hotel: 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 other. Around 45 people were injured.

The attack on the hotel was the deadliest attack against the British in the history of the Mandate and is often credited as being a major factor in the British decision to relinquish the Mandate. If classed as terrorism, the attack was the most deadly one of that kind anywhere until the 1980s, when the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up over Lockerbie in Scotland, occurred.

Troy B

They couldn't stand to watch their officers get killed 1 by 1.

DlCK Chenney

British was fool with few tricks like holocaust and eistein

bgood26

Same reason it gave the rest of Palestine to the Hashemites: because they could.

And to the rest of you, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 "view[ed] with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."

BMCR

The British did not "give Israel" to the Jews. (Glad to see you actually called it Israel. Was that a Freudian slip?)
In fact, when one studies the history of the area from the time the British took over from the Ottoman Empire until the founding of Israel (1919 - 1948) they were largely unsympathetic to the Jews living there (with few exceptions) and tended to take the Arab side in many things.
People who study the history of 1948 will notice that there was actually an attempt to solve the issue peacefully by advocating a two state solution. This wasn't a British idea, but a multinational one. When proposed, the Jews accepted it but the Arabs rejected it.
Hence, the history that followed.

DB-T- DH Smith #1 Fan

The British had no choice or say on the matter after the UN voted the State of Israel to become in existance as a Jewish state.

Mr. X

the jews got israel and the arabs got jordan, which made up over 60% of palestine. that was fine for the jews, but the arabs apparently couldn't deal.
jews and arabs originally lived everywhere, and that was okay with the jews, but the arabs didn't want to live with them. so palestine was split into 2 states, jordan for the arabs and israel for the jews. india and pakistan followed the same model.

Jonathan s

Israel was established in 1948 despite British policy at the time, which was certainly not pro-Zionist. In 1939 the British adopted the White Paper which severely curtailed Jewish immigration and continued to implement that policy despite of the Holocaust. They also arrested the Jewish leadership and outlawed Jewish paramilitary groups. At the UN vote on partition the British abstained. So they didn't "give Israel to the Jews". The Jews had to fight a long, hard war to establish their state.

spReez

The British?! God gave Israel to the Jews!

subxerorock

They didn't. The United Nations did.
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Hatikvah JPA

When the Ottoman Empire was split up among the nations, the British were given that portion in order to protect the Jews. There were many mistakes made in that era that continue to haunt us. What would YOU have done to protect the Jews from the horrors of Europe? What are YOU doing today to protect the Sudanese from the horrors of Darfur?
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jdriven

Because God said the Diaspora is over. I will rebuild my people. On the land I gave them.

amfound2

God gave Israel to the Jews silly!
The British gave Jordon to the Arabs, but greedy as always and for ever wanting more, they now want the whole of Israel.
Not that the land was ever the Brits to give away, all Israel has berlonged to the Jews for thousands of years. The Jews NEVER gave their land up they were driven out by ethnic cleansing by the Roman Empire.

Jules_is_ _meshugana!

We deserve it!

sparrow (Mediterranean Sparrow)

The modern state of Israel has its roots in the Land of Israel, a concept central to Judaism for over three thousand years. After World War I, the League of Nations approved the British Mandate of Palestine with the intent of creating a "national home for the Jewish people".[7] In 1947, the United Nations approved the partition of the Mandate of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.[8] The Arab League rejected the plan, but on May 14, 1948, Israel declared its independence. The new country's victory in the subsequent Arab-Israeli War expanded the borders of the Jewish state beyond those in the UN Partition Plan. Since then, Israel has been in conflict with many of the neighboring Arab countries, resulting in several major wars and decades of violence. Since its foundation, Israel's boundaries and even the State's very right to exist have been subject to dispute, although Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, and efforts are being made to reach a permanent accord with the Palestinians.

!truth!

To keep Palestine in line?

Nice Guy

It was the UN that gave it to the Jews.The British gave it up reluctantly.Get over it, you're not the first or last people to be wronged.The smart ones can turn it around and get on with life.In fact most of us are successful because our ancestors did it.

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