Is Israel in Palestine

Answer 1

Answer 1

Palestine was the name given by Greek seafarers to the Levant, around the middle of the first millennium BCE, because of the Philistines they found along the southern maritime region between modern Tel Aviv and Egypt. They simply assumed that the Philistines occupied the entire region, and were unaware that there were Judahites and Israelites living in the mountainous hinterland. At the time, we could say that Israel was in Palestine.

Answer 2

Throughout most of its history, certainly since Roman times, Palestine has never known independence, but the regional name continued in use, with Britain being granted a mandate to govern Palestine after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire. In 1947, the United Nations divided a portion of the British mandate between Jewish and Arab administration. Upon the departure of the British in 1948, the residents of the Jewish-administered partition declared the sovereignty of the modern state of Israel. Neither the Arab-administered partition nor its residents were ever absorbed by the surrounding Arab nations, and neither those residents nor most of those nations accept the existence of the Jewish state.

Answer 3

Basically, the answer to this question is that Israel is Palestine. Israel is the portion of Palestine that the Palestinian people decided to give to the Jews after the Second World War when they had nowhere to go. The Jews decided to call this portion of the land Israel and so initially Israel is in Palestine, it is a part of Palestine, not the other way around as most people would have you believe.

Answer 4

Yes and No. Palestine has two different definitions and Israel has two definitions.

Palestine 1: All of the lands of the former British Mandate of Palestine.

Palestine 2: All of the lands not under Israeli control in 1950 that serve as the basis for any current two-state proposal for the State of Palestine.

Israel 1: All of the lands under Israeli control in 1950.

Israel 2: All of the lands under Israeli control, both military and civil as of 2012.

Now for the spatial relationships.

Israel 1 is entirely within the borders of Palestine 1, but smaller (78%)

Israel 1 (78%) + Palestine 2 (22%) = Palestine 1

Israel 2 and Palestine 2 overlap in much of the West Bank Territories. Israel 2 and Israel 1 overlap in all of Israel 1's territories. Israel 2 does not control the Gaza Strip territories which are part of Palestine 1 and Palestine 2. Israel 2 also controls some Syrian territory not in either Palestine.

Additional Note:

While Answer 3 is correct in asserting that the State of Israel is smaller than the British Mandate of Palestine (Israel 1 < Palestine 1), it is incorrect in asserting that the Palestinian People "decided to give the Jews" anything. The Palestinian Arabs were actually quite adamant about not giving the Jews any land or space as soon as it became clear in the late 1920s that the Jews intended and would soon realize their own state apparatus. They attacked the Jewish settlement in Hebron in 1929, scalping and beating many Jewish inhabitants. They organized militias to attack other Jewish settlements, they petitioned the British government to prevent Jewish immigration (resulting in the White Papers of 1939 which banned Jewish immigration during the entire Holocaust when a place of refuge was most necessary), and consistently fought against Jewish Militias who were targeting the British colonizers instead of uniting to overthrow the British before trying to decide a resolution. The Palestinian Arabs did not support a two-state solution prior to 1967 and did not accede to the idea of a two-state solution until the Oslo Accords of 1993. Still to this day, the idea of a two-state solution (as a final solution) is relatively unpopular in Palestinian circles. The reason that Israel exists as a country is because of UN Resolution 181 and the Zionist Jews who used that resolution as the basis upon which to declare a country and defend it from military onslaught.

Answer 2

Yes and No. Palestine has two different definitions and Israel has two definitions.

Palestine 1: All of the lands of the former British Mandate of Palestine.

Palestine 2: All of the lands not under Israeli control in 1950 that serve as the basis for any current two-state proposal for the State of Palestine.

Israel 1: All of the lands under Israeli control in 1950.

Israel 2: All of the lands under Israeli control, both military and civil as of 2012.

Now for the spatial relationships.

Israel 1 is entirely within the borders of Palestine 1, but smaller (78%)

Israel 1 (78%) + Palestine 2 (22%) = Palestine 1

Israel 2 and Palestine 2 overlap in much of the West Bank Territories. Israel 2 and Israel 1 overlap in all of Israel 1's territories. Israel 2 does not control the Gaza Strip territories which are part of Palestine 1 and Palestine 2. Israel 2 also controls some Syrian territory not in either Palestine.