“Where is Israel and Palestine?”
“Where did the Jews come from?”
“What happened after that?”
Where is Israel and Palestine?
The land is in the Middleeast. Yes, the area which we
know primarily as the world’s
petrol bunk. The combined
land of Israel and Palestine is
surrounded by Arab countries,
namely Lebanon, Jordan,
Syria, Iraq and Egypt and has
the Mediterranean Sea to its
west.
Now for Palestine and Israel.
According to UN partition
plan, 1940s, Palestine consists
of the famous “west bank” of
river Jordan and the entire
Gaza strip. This is smaller than
the Israeli state because of the
prevailing Jewish population.
Historically speaking there was
always a Jewish state in the
place now called Palestine. The
Biblical first Kingdom existed
between 1000-586 BC. The
second
Kingdom
existed
between 538-63 BC. After that,
the area was predominantly
controlled by Turkish invaders
and became a Muslim state.
Jews had spread over around
Europe.
But during the reign of Adolf
Hitler, there was a massive
genocide in Europe. Millions
of Jews were killed. The Jews
were forced to move towards a
new place. And where did they
go? Palestine. The country was
under British occupation at the
Where did these Jews come time so they were given refugee
from?
under the Palestinian state.
During the end of the British
rule, problems had already
alleviated and UN proposed a
solution dividing Palestine into
Israel and Palestine. A Jewish
state and a Palestinian state.
What happened after that?
British rule on both countries
were officially ended on May
15, 1948. Immediately after
that, the very next day, the
armies of four surrounding
Arab
countries
(or
all
surrounding countries for that
fact), Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and
Egypt attacked one day old
Israel. Surprisingly, the Jewish
state did survive.
In 1967, it happened again
when Egyptian dictator, Gamal
Abdel Nasser, announced his
mission “to DESTROY Israel”
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