Answer 1
Israel was created where Palestine used to be.
Answer 2
In 1917, Lord Balfour described the future British Mandate for Palestine as a possible Jewish National Homeland.
In the 1850s the Jews did not have a homeland of their own. Most regarded the country where they lived as their homeland.
In 1917, Lord Balfour described the future British Mandate for Palestine as a possible Jewish National Homeland.
Jewish homeland in 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).
Zionists
The document in question is the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
Balfour Declaration of 1917.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was a letter that eventually led to the creation of a homeland of people of Jewish descent. It was initiated by Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary.
The Balfour Declaration of November 1917 promised to establish a Jewish home (not homeland) in Palestine.
The homeland of Jewish Faith is Israel.
The document in question is the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
The first offer that the British made to the Zionists was to create a Jewish National Homeland in UGANDA. The Zionists considered this, but ultimately felt that they should pursue the creation of a Jewish homeland in their historic land, not some random location in Africa.
The zionist movement was the national movement of Jewish culture that supported creating a homeland. This homeland is now called Israel and has caused a lot of controversy that continues on to today.
Jerusalem is the center of the modern Jewish and ancient homeland.