This question seems to be fishing for "the Gaza Strip and West Bank". However,
neither of these territories is "in" Israel, and Israel is not fighting to acquire either
of them. The Gaza Strip is completely administrated by Hamas, and the West Bank
is under partial Israeli Military Occupation, but is a foreign territory.
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The only "piece of land" that one could accurately describe as "being fought over in
Israel" is Israel itself. The government and general population of Israel are determined
that their nation shall survive as a sovereign and autonomous entity, while a large group
of other nations, both neighboring and worldwide, are equally determined, to the point of
periiodic military and terrorist action, that it shall not.
The Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
In 1944, Israel/Palestine was under British sovereignty as the British Mandate for Palestine.
Israel is the homeland of the Jews, and Palestine is the homeland of the Palestinians. (However, there are people on both sides who disagree with this statement.)
The Balfour Declaration of November 1917 promised to establish a Jewish home (not homeland) in Palestine.
It didn't. The Mandate of Palestine (which was a British quasi-colonial territory) became partially independent as Israel and was partially occupied by neighbors Jordan and Egypt. In 1956, this status quo remained. Only in 1967 did Israel conquer the remaining parts of former Mandatory Palestine from the Jordanians and the Egyptians.
A number of countries support this view, not the least of which is Israel itself, the "Jewish Homeland in Palestine". Israel is also supported primarily by the United States and other Western countries. However, tacit support, by way of recognition, has been given to Israel by all non-Islamic UN countries except North Korea and by several Islamic countries.
Israel was created for the Jews so they could have a homeland after the Holocaust. Palestine was under mandate by the British who encouraged the creation of the homeland to be carved out of Palestinian land. This area had been occupied by the Jews in ancient times.
Israel
In 1944, Israel/Palestine was under British sovereignty as the British Mandate for Palestine.
Israel is considered the national homeland for the Jewish people and inherited this title from the Mandate for Palestine (which stated in Article 6 that the land was a Jewish National Homeland).
Israel is the homeland of the Jews, and Palestine is the homeland of the Palestinians. (However, there are people on both sides who disagree with this statement.)
The Balfour Declaration of November 1917 promised to establish a Jewish home (not homeland) in Palestine.
Israel is the Jewish homeland, but it is not new. It was given to the Israelites well over three thousand years ago by God (Genesis ch.28, Deuteronomy ch.1). See also:Where_did_Jews_live_in_more_than_anywhere_else
No country was occupied in full as a result of the Six Day War. The Egyptian Sinai was occupied by Israel, the Syrian Golan is still occupied by Israel, and areas previously controlled by Jordan and Egypt were also under Israeli occupation. These areas have been retroactively called Palestine, but as Palestine was not a country prior to the war, it cannot be considered an occupied country. (Those who consider the State of Palestine as the West Bank and Gaza, and believe that Israel is illegally occupying those areas militarily, still call Palestine a "disputed territory" since there was no Palestinian governmental apparatus in 1967.)
The development of the concept of the Southwest Levant as the Jewish Homeland was a result of the Conference of San Remo (1920) and the Mandate for Palestine (1922). In the latter document, the British Mandate of Palestine was specifically designed to be the "Jewish National Homeland". When Israel declared independence in 1948, Israeli leaders argued that the creation of the Jewish State was in continuance of this previously determined concept.
This is a very complex question. But basically Israel was established in 1948, prior to this it was Palestine. The British Mandate in Palestine along with the Balfour Declaration gave the "right" for the Jewish people of a "homeland" in Palestine. Also during the late 19th century the Zionist Movement had played it's part in this. This is the root to the hostilities towards Israel as this country has been established at the expense of another people and their homeland.
gaza is one of the cities in historical palestine which is all occupied by the bloody terrorists of israel's army .. however people of gaza and all palestine are gonna win the freedom soon or later .. they will ..
It didn't. The Mandate of Palestine (which was a British quasi-colonial territory) became partially independent as Israel and was partially occupied by neighbors Jordan and Egypt. In 1956, this status quo remained. Only in 1967 did Israel conquer the remaining parts of former Mandatory Palestine from the Jordanians and the Egyptians.