When did Palestine take over Israel?

Answer 1

Israel did not invade Palestine per se. There were Jewish communities living in the land of Historic Palestine before the creation of the state of Israel. The mistake they did was to create a state exclusively for them and they denied the right of other groups (Muslims and Christians) to live on the land; the same groups who were their neighbors for hundreds of years.

Answer 2

Answer 1

Never did.

The Palestinians and Arabs attacked the state of Israel in November 1947 after the UN partition resolution.

Answer 2

Always did. After the WW2 the UN made a policy that no country should invade and take lands (imperial rule) of other countries under any circumstances. However in 1947 the lands of Jerusalem were taken from the the Arab occupied lands and was made Israel, making it the first invasion but not cause by Israel but by the UN. For a time relations were cold with the Arab world but no real treat of war, (note total 1948 amnesia) however in 1967 all war broke out with Israel launching surprise bombing raids against Egyptian airfields after a period of high tension that included an Israeli raid into the Jordanian-controlled West Bank (also including Nasser's expulsion of UN peacekeepers, almost as if he was planning something), ensuing the 6 day war between Israel and the Arab armies of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The war lasted 6 days and Israel was victorious taking lands from Egypt (which served as a defensive buffer until it was returned to Egypt under the treaty of 1979). Palestine was originally from Egypt but was taken after 1967, sense then Israel and Palestine have engage in minor border conflicts between the IDF (Israels Defence Forces) and Hamas that was created by Iran and Palestinians.

Hamas is portrayed as a terrorist organization but all they do is retaliate against Israels attack (including rocketing all of the civilian neighborhoods that have attacked them). Israel has made of Palestine a living prison with the worst living conditions on Earth, most people don't have water nor electricity (except for the electricity supplied to Gaza by Israel), unemployment is over 60% (one of the main reasons why Palestinians felt obliged to trash the productive infrastructure left behind when Israel withdrew its settlers from Gaza in 2006) and the only way that most Palestinians get to survive is by smuggling or stealing from Israel's Forces. As of today the tensions are high and it seems Israel its gonna have all out war on Palestine and mass murder the population (notice how almost 100 Palestinians have been mass-murdered by more than 1,200 Israeli air strikes so far) as they had intended in 70's. Israel has also taken lands and claimed they are theirs, breaking again the UN pact and receiving AID from the US 3billions each year as Israel suffers no damage no casualties from Hamas random attacks.

(Can you believe how cold and callous those Jews are, refusing to die in sufficient numbers or even to suffer enough damage during 11 random months of random rocket attacks!) (And still, in spite of all its misery, Gaza still will not try the one simple step that could let them sleep peacefully at night, free from fear of the evil Jews next door: Just stop the rockets. That's it.) Out of 1970 till 2012 Israel has only had 400 casualties as Palestine has received over 100,000+ between them women and children that Israel targets. (Israel does not target women and children. Those with rocket launchers constructed behind them are complaining in the wrong direction.) Israel has raped, murder and arson their way into Palestinian land. (Unfounded slander.) Heinous Israel wants to destroy and take Palestine for their own selfish lands, (as if Israel could not have had Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, and Amman by now if they had wanted them), as Palestine wants to be independent and free from Israels rule. But every time Palestine sets the table for peace talks Israelis ignore them and claims they don't deal with terrorist, when is Israel the real terrorist.

Answer 3

The answer to this depends entirely on which war you are referring to since the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has numerous wars. Israelis and Palestinians have clashed on several engagements. The one that is most commonly seen as an aggressive Israeli attack is the 2008-2009 Gazan War, which took place from December of 2008 to January of 2009. That one, exactly like the one in November 2012, began after months of rocket attacks from Gaza on civilian population centers in Israel.

However, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has its origins in the confrontation between immigrant Zionist Jews in the Mandate of Palestine and their interaction with the indigenous Arabs in the 1920s and 1930s. Before that point, the Immigration into the land had been a small trickle and Arabs were not terribly concerned. However, the Jewish immigration in the 1920s was quite large and disruptive. By the mid 1930s, both sides had developed militias which they used both to attack British colonial institutions and each other. In 1947, as UN Resolution 181 was being debated, a full-scale war erupted between the Jewish militias and the Arab militias. When Israel declared its independence in 1948, the Arab States joined in the War which caused it to be internationally recognized and called the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9. As the fighting progressed, Israel was able to repel the invaders and claim about 78% of British Mandate of Palestine as the grounds of their new state. The War is considered by most to be an Israeli Victory.

Throughout the fighting (from 1947-1949) numerous Palestinians were forced from their homes inside what would become Israeli territory. Other Palestinians left in fear that they too could be attacked and forced to leave. This climate of fear and and desire to leave was increased by Arab leaders who encouraged such activities claiming that it would get civilians out of the way while the fighting occurred. After the War and the elimination of Israel, the Palestinians would return without issue. This did not happen as Israel was victorious. Palestinians call this event (the overall war and removal from their homes) the Nakba or Great Catastrophe. Israel has refused the Right of Return for Palestinians claiming that if it did so, it would no longer have a Jewish majority, putting the entire purpose of a Jewish State in jeopardy.

Answer 3

Israel became independent in 1948.

However, it did not "take over" Palestine since Palestine was a Mandate or provisional colonial authority. Similarly, the the USA did not "take over" the 13 colonies. Similar to the US case, the names Palestine and Israel are different which would lead a person to believe that one entity conquered the other, however, this is not the case. The Palestine Mandatory Authority withdrew just prior to Israel's Declaration of Independence. What is also confusing is that those Palestinians (mostly Arabs) who chose not to identify with the newly independent Israeli State chose to keep the name "Palestinian" as a description of their ethnic identity (as opposed to its former regional designation). Prior to 1948, Zionist Jews also identified as Palestinians because the term Palestinian refered to anyone in Mandatory Palestine. Of course, the Jews immediately identified as Israelis when Israel became independent, but that does not change the historical designation.

Answer 4

If you accept the Biblical narrative, Jews invaded Canaan and established a nation that would eventually be called "Israel" around 1270 BCE (roughly 3,280 years ago), while led led by the Prophet Joshua. If you accept Archaeology, Jews were an endemic Canaanite people who came from the hill-country and developed a distinct culture in the hills of Judea and Samaria.

The Jews were exiled from Israel several times (Babylonians, Romans, Crusaders) and sizable portions of them returned to Israel on several distinct occassions (Persians, Sabbateans, Zionists). The most recent time was in the 1920s to the Present during the creation of the modern Jewish State of Israel.

Answer 5

It depends on how you read the question:

Recent History

In recent history, it is the other way around: Israel took over Palestine over the coure of the 20th century. It basically happened in three stages.

- Since the 20th century and before 1948, Jewish settlers and organizations had been regularly buying up big pieces of land from Arab/Palestine landlords, who were often living far away, saw the transactions only from a financial viewpoint and did not bother to protect the rights of the Arab tenant farmers living on their lands. The result was that Arab tenants were almost always evicted and Jewish settlers took over.

- In 1947, United Nations gave the Jews the right to declare an independent state in Mandatory Palestine that would encompass 56% of the British Mandate of Palestine and the Arabs the right to declare a state in Mandatory Palestine that would encompass 44% of the land. The Jews exercised this right in 1948, but the Arabs did not, arguing that exercising the right would legitimize what they considered (rightly or wrongly) bare-faced land grabbing. This led to a conflict between the Jews on one side and the Palestinians and their Arab allies on the other side. This war went in the Jews' favor, and Israel was composed of 78% of the former British Mandate of Palestine.

- in 1967 after the Six Day War in which Israel defeated the Arab nations, Israel came to occupy the remaining 22% of Mandatory Palestine. Some has subsequently been returned to the Palestinians, but the majority remains under Israeli Occupation.

Elsewhere in Answers.com you can find a shipload of opinion justifying the claims of either the Israelis or the Palestines to the land. But since you ask "when" and not "why", I restrict myself to the dates.

Ancient History

If the question refers to the change from over 2000 years ago from Ancient Israel to modern Palestine, the last time the region was called Israel prior to 1948 was in the 700s BCE when the Northern Kingdom of Israel was defeated by Assyria. The region was subsequently identified as Judea after the Southern Kingdom of Judah and retained that title even when under the sovereignty of other empires until 70 CE. As a result of the Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire, which was crushed, the Romans decided to rename Judea as Syria-Palaestina after the Jews' historic enemies, the Syrians (Arameans) and the Philistines. The region has been called Palestine for more or less the last 2000 years because of the Romans. When the British took the territory from the Ottomans, they created the first governmental unit that used the name "Palestine" (as opposed to the region just being called Palestine), the Mandate of Palestine.

Answer 6

The Israelis took over Mandatory Palestine from the British in 1948. This is similar to how the United States annexing Texas is not construed as taking over Mexican land. Texas and the United States were states separate from the Mexican population of Texas even though the majority of Texans at the time of annexation were Mexicans. Israelis fought the British for the control of a region of land. That land just happens to be called Palestine because of the way the map was drawn.

Palestine, prior to 1949, was never used in the context of describing an actual nation or state. It was a regional term that came from the Roman Province Syria-Palaestina. from the 1500s-1919, Palestine was part of several different Ottoman governates like the Vilayet of Beirut, the Vilayet of Damascus and the Mutasaffirat of Jerusalem. The British Mandate of Palestine was the way that the British merely decided to redraw the lines. While there is certainly a legitimate Arab nationalist aspiration to create a Palestinian Arab State, there never was such a state in the past.

Answer 7

Israel has never invaded Iraq. The one Israeli mission that took place in Iraq (the bombing of the Osirak nuclear reactor) took place in 1981.

Answer 8

Israel never invaded Palestine. The region known as Palestine was a province in the Ottoman Empire. The Turks were driven out by the British in World War 1. At the time there Jews, Muslims and Christians living on the land. After the war the League of Nations mandated the British to establish 2 states in the territory. The Arab world including the inhabitants of the land generally rejected any non-Muslim state in the area. Eventually, following the Holocaust, the British decided to abandon their mandate and withdraw their forces. The Jewish residents declared then to declare the establishment of the State of Israel on the land allotted it by the UN 1947 partition resolution. The local Arabs together with invading Arab armies attacked and tried to destroy the Jewish towns. After a bloody conflict the Israeli prevailed and the Arabs never accepted their democratic state. In Israel Jews, Muslims and Christians enjoy equal rights and a better lifestyle than all other Arab countries. Israel strives for peace with all its neighbours, even those still reject Israel's right to reside on the land.