jc456
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dude, it's the oldest area of the world. And it remains complicated. the fact is it has been Isreal for as long back as one can go. It just isn't that simple.They were there before WW1 as well. if you look it up, they have been there thousands of years. Funny eh? How about Palestine, when did that begin as a country?Isreal was a country before WW2 and Jerusalem was their captiol
Really? Where were they during the WWI? Who's side did they fight on?
That's funny, when I look at a map from 1919, where Israel should be, it says Palestine?
How far back do you need to go? Right after they conquered it from the Canaanites?
From Wikipedia:
"19th century was the timing for regional migrations of Druze, Circassians and Bedouin tribes and also the spike of Jewish immigration and the revival of the Hebrew language. Increasing Jewish immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries added considerably to the Jewish communities in Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias and Jaffa.[8]
During World War I the British government issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917, stating that the British Government favors the establishment of national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. The British captured Jerusalem a month later. The League of Nations formally awarded Britain a mandate over Palestine in 1922. The land west of the Jordan River was under direct British administration until 1948, while the land east of the Jordan was a semi-autonomous region known as Transjordan Emirate, under the rule of the Hashemite family from the Hijaz, and gained independence in 1946."
The declaration said nothing about establishing a Jewish Nation state in Palestine did it. It also said " it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine,"
Furthermore why didn't they call it the mandate for Israel?
there is this map as well found in Wikipedia:
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) - Wikipedia
![800px-Kingdom_of_Israel_1020_map.svg.png](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Kingdom_of_Israel_1020_map.svg/800px-Kingdom_of_Israel_1020_map.svg.png)