How was Palestine created?

Answer 1

The question as worded is ambiguous since Palestine refers to several different things.

1) Land: The lands commonly referred to by the term "the Mandate of Palestine" came into existence (according to science) hundreds of millions of years (if not billions of years ago) from interactions between the African and Arabian Plates.

2) Mandate of Palestine: The British Mandate of Palestine was created during the Treaty of Versailles negotiations when the British Ambassador drew a line on a map and called it Palestine in 1919. In 1922, the area currently known as Jordan was separated jursidictionally from the Mandate of Palestine, giving the Mandate its present shape.

3) Current Nation of Palestine: The Nation of Palestine was created by the Oslo Accords in 1993. This document created the Palestinian Authority which became the recognized government of the State of Palestine. Palestine has embassies in numerous countries (except most Western States) as a result. (There are also embassies from before this point in countries that did not recognize Israel before the 1960s, but they were more symbolic than representative of an actual governing agency.)

Answer 2

God told his Hebrew people to leave Hebron. They were told to go to the area now known as Israel. A nation grew out of this group of people known as the Israelites and Hebrews. They were still there even during the Roman times. The Romans let them self rule and keep their king. A lot of history went by. Then the Hebrews had to reclaim their land after many other nations kept invading and occupying their land. So it was created thousands of years ago.

Answer 3

Strongly Anti-Palestinian Response

The media and Arabs that were looking for a excuse to kick the Jews out.

Historical View

The issue with Palestine's statehood is expressly this problem. When Israel declared its independence pursuant to U.N. Resolution 181, the Arabs chose not to declare a state at the same time. The idea was that after the Arabs had vanquished the new Jewish State and conquered all of the British Mandate of Palestine, they would declare their state and thus have no territorial disagreements. Palestine would have come into existence with the entirety of the British Mandate of Palestine as accepted borders.

However, Israel's military defeated the Arabs in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, resulting in the armistice of March 1949. Israel assumed all territory controlled by its forces and the armies of Jordan and Egypt assumed all territory controlled by their forces. (Iraq also controlled some areas, but ceded them to Jordan.) All of the Arab States actively moved to prevent Palestine from declaring independence so that they could maintain control of this new territory.

Palestine did not emerge as a geopolitical entity until 1993 when the Oslo Accords gave lands in the Gaza Strip and isolated regions of the West Bank to the new Palestinian Authority government.