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Israel's war against Palestine started around the time that the British landed with the Balfour Declaration in its pocket. The war did not "start" in 1948.
Israel did not exist until may 1948, so anything before this time was the arab's obeying the commands in the Koran that tell them to wipe out the Jews
The whole face of the map changed after WWI and WWII.
People through out time have been redrawing the map. Every country was created at some time in the past. There was no middle east, with a few autonomous zones.
No palestine, no arabia, UEA, no syria, no iraq.
You can't have the ottoman empire back, so get used to the fact that the region was carved and and now states do exist, if they would stop trying to kill each other.
Neither arabs nor turks care to give the arabs a palestinian state.
Syria started off as five states. They throw off kings and pretend to have elections for dictators and despots.
Tribal/clan fighting have gone on centuries. Last century they were marking their land by who owns which well. Now they have countries to govern.
The formation of Israel was well known. Palestine (region) was under developed, under populated and cost more to govern than it could bring in with taxes.
Jews that lived in the region or jews that were scatted are still tied to Jerusalem. I is the one thing the most identify with. It is the what has kept them united and strong. They care for it, they love it, they will nurture it. Sadly the palestinians just want to spill blood on it, as if salting the land so nothing but hate can grow.
Israel has as much right to exist as any other in the world. Arabs, christians, druze, whatever, they have learned to united as one people. The only thing apartheid is the palestinians refusal to recognize Israel.
Neither arabs nor turks care to give the arabs a palestinian state.
That may be true or not but either way it is irrelevant. Palestine was created by post war treaties like all of the other countries in the region.
Those treaties defined Palestine's international borders.
All of the people (Muslims, Christians, Jews, etc.) whose normal residence was inside those defined borders at that time became the distinct nationality of Palestinian.
All of these people were citizens of Palestine.
The mandate was assigned to Palestine. The mandate called Palestine a country many times.